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... through which Francis Noble and his brother John represented the authorial relationship between Defoe, Roxana , and Moll Flanders between 1775 and 1787 and analyzes these attributions within the larger discourses surrounding the Nobles’ circulating libraries. “Attribution and Repetition” provides...

... circulation and commodification. As a mortuary practice, embalming spread beyond royal tradition, infiltrating the burial rites of the wealthy and aristocratic in an effort to preserve social distinction posthumously, demonstrating the increasing preoccupation with mortality and the corpse, and the intense...

... and unevenly associated with their stage celebrity. The performers’ images circulating through Bell’s books realigned the contours of the late eighteenth-century market for theatrical celebrity. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 R Selling...

... uniquely attuned to women’s role in both creating and circulating textual artifacts of the past. In the process, Ballard reveals an appreciation for the extratextual dimensions of women’s lives that significantly predates our own “modern” preoccupation with identifying the diverse cultural practices...

...Helen Burke This essay analyzes the Irish jokes that circulated in London in the 1680s, paying particular attention to those that emanated from the stage and from the two earliest Irish joke books, Bog Witticisms; or, Dear Joy’s Common-Places (1682) and Teagueland Jests, or Bogg-Witticisms (1690...

... as “Enlightenment Orientalism” to engage with questions of foreignness, cultural belonging, and the circulation of information. The Orientalist figure of Noureddin offered Armstrong a usefully oblique angle of approach, granting him more room to maneuver against Wilkes than he might have enjoyed had he written...

... relics realize? And more generally, how does this fit in the wider pattern of Shakespearean fragments that circulated in the period's other poetic miscellanies, and what does this reveal about the construction of “Shakespeare” as an esteemed textual presence on the literary market? Copyright 2017...

... and circulated, these interventions both turn one bibliographical item into something that looks like two, presenting problems for the way they are represented in the Digital Miscellanies Index (DMI) and other bibliographical databases. For, by certain blunt measures of “popularity,” in such databases it may...

... by everyone, circulated in and out of print, and constantly adapted to new audiences and new occasions. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 deformity poems comic poetry verse tales Matthew Prior epigram disability women readers • Deformity Poems...

...Rachel Mann Through the figures of Jane Barker, a gentlewoman who lived from 1652 to 1732, and whose work was both circulated in manuscripts as well as print, and Robert Hooke, curator to the Royal Society, this essay shows that experimental science and manuscript culture were premised...

... after and widely circulated among the British reading public in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The reception history of Montagu's travel letters reveals an underlying anxiety in British society concerning the expanding range of female mobility, as the meaning of her travels...

... forms that were long marginalized, trivialized, or taken as documentary evidence rather than as cultural artifacts. Collectively, the essays in this collection raise important questions about the formal features, social functions, and circulation of theatrical anecdotes, as well as about...

..., although her boast of impartiality is tinged with the irony for which she was known. Lady Mary was an experienced essayist, having written anonymously for The Spectator and for her own short-lived periodical, the Nonsense of Common-Sense. She had circulated her poetry in manuscript since she...

... Peters archive studies manuscript circulation print and periodical culture textual recovery Just over two months after Phillis Wheatley Peters's death on 5 December 1784, her husband, John Peters, advertised in the Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser for the immediate return...

... information in the 1790s, and, as Leask notes, such a distinction is useful in analyzing the function of the telegraph. Klancher borrows terms from Arthur Young’s Travels in France (1792) to distinguish between “circula- tion” and “dissemination.” “Circulation” describes the flow of information within...

... in this section include the essays published earlier, Flint’s “Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-­Century Prose Fiction,” and Douglas’s “Britannia’s Rule and the It-­Narrator.” The latter presents a lucid and comprehensive argument about the commodity narrative as a vehicle...

...- sive array of evidence that women had an unquestionably vital influence on the wider circulation of manuscript and print texts, and that they published an extraordinary diversity of important and original ideas at the dawn of the first information age. Not only women s networking, which included...

... resembled “books,” to play a part in its history other than as a preliminary stage of the print process. Speaking only for myself, even though I worked with both circulated sheets and curated manuscript volumes from the late seventeenth century into the first decades of the eighteenth, I was cautious about...

... stream of printed materials circulating throughout the British and transatlantic worlds in the commodity forms of newspapers, magazines, and print miscellanies. The demotic and popular nature of this source material has led scholars of manuscript studies to dismiss the eighteenth-century manuscript verse...

... was circulated, focusing instead on how it has been read and interpreted. This article examines the representation of Rochester’s poetry in one of the most popular miscellanies of the eighteenth century, The Works of the Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, in order to reconstruct one impor- tant mode...