... for his initial championing of Burns and the origins of the song-collecting project over which they eventually collaborated while drawing attention to how Blacklock’s own somewhat ambivalent, yet active engagement with the vernacular poetic tradition had been largely hidden at the behest of his own...

...Anne M. Thell Published in collaboration with the Royal Society of London in 1697, William Dampier’s A New Voyage Round the World was the most popular and influential travel account of the first half of the eighteenth century. Yet despite the astonishing success of New Voyage within commercial...

... of letters. Despite Johnson’s own lack of interest in music, he was willing to aid his friend with his magnum opus: a history of music that would eventually extend to four volumes. And that assistance included ghostwriting: enlisting Johnson as his uncredited collaborator was the ultimate proof of Burney’s...

... and labor. Crusoe’s adventures as a shipwright allow Defoe to explore and complicate the boundaries between civilized and “savage” in his novel, and to imagine the possibilities of a new colonial dispensation of labor marked by collaboration between indigenous and European workers. Defoe Crusoe canoe...

... University Press 2023 John Boyle collaboration professional network commercial market instrumental In the front matter of Charlotte Lennox's 1759 translation of The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy from the French, the following paragraph appears on a page by itself under the title...

... Havens's Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel is the first extensive study of the collaborative nature of authorship and the practice of revision in mid-to-late eighteenth-century through early nineteenth-century English novels. While scholars have often envisioned the “novelist as a powerful, singular...

... collaborations and conversations about the bard. Sounding Imperial’s main concern is to analyze a set of “experimental” poems that represent “the poetics of printed voice.” The book follows the lead of studies of oral-to-print media shifts by Celeste Langan, Maureen McLane, Paula McDowell...

..., such as house painters and decorators. He speculates that these works were collaborations, products of training sessions in which Collier imparted his trompe l’oeil techniques and, simultaneously, drew working painters into the artistic fold. These collaborative works reveal a form of early modern arti...

..., as Jody Greene has commented, a “liberal, masculinist, individualist” history 100 Eighteenth-Century Life of authorship that bestows upon the author a sense of originary genius, ignoring the role of collaborators (often female) and workers in the printing and publishing trades...

... and sociability: she examines how the binaries of collaboration vs. autonomy, plagiarism vs. originality, evolution vs. degeneration, and radicalism vs. con- servatism inform and inflect these authors participation in both the scientific and literary communities. Bailes argues that by negotiating these tensions...

... and Beckford s difficult relationship with his editor Samuel Henley, author of its notes, who published an English version of Beckford s text (originally written in French) without its author s approval. There is much to say not only about Beckford s collaboration with Henley, but also about their very...

... over Eighteenth-Century Life. His first move was to carve out the journal’s ecological niche among other eighteenth-century journals. Most signifi- cantly, he vaulted the journal’s reputation through a series of special is- sues supported financially by collaborating...

... that are associated with the text’s two protagonists, such as society’s migration towards Piccadilly and Hyde Park Corner, the addition of shops to showrooms, the expansion of contracting and collaboration, the influence of Duquesnoy — can be seen in operation as early as the 1690s. John Nost I, who...

... and clergyman Bene- detto Stay for the third edition (1797) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1771), he ended up concluding that the only way of arranging for one was to have his Italian- educated collaborator John Geddes write to a correspondent in Rome, where Stay was living. If Gleig and Geddes had been...

... historical purchase on its ostensible sub- ject of study. Print-­culture studies have made this dynamic more concrete, so much so that one may now say that the Romantic ideology inverted the mate- rial facts of life, moving the collaborative labor that produced literature from its proper place...

... and one volume of essays, and is presently collaborating on the oeuvres complètes edition of Benjamin Constant. Anne Barbeau Gardiner is Professor Emerita of John Jay College, C.U.N.Y. Recent publications include Ancient Faith and Modern Freedom in John Dryden’s...

... the Odyssey, as in those upon the Iliad; considering Homer chiefly as a Poet, endeavouring to make his beauties understood, and not to praise without a reason given.”14 Pope’s “Observations” on Homer — mainly, in fact, written by collaborators and only revised by Pope — are grouped at the back of each...

... reliance on orality as a method of collaboration between women. Ingrassia connects Haywood’s novels to her periodical in several interesting ways, noting that many of her early novels are presented as “told stories” that are a “straddling of oral and written cultural forms” (144). And her letters...

... obscures potential clues to Thelwall’s motivation, plots, and characterizations. Dryden’s collaboration with William Davenant in revamping Shakespeare’s Tempest, for instance, introduced Caliban’s huge, amorous sister Sycorax to the stage (a comic figure generally represented by a male actor...

... that Piranesi penned, sometimes with collaborators, to complement those images. Minor argues that this state of affairs has left our conception of Piranesi’s larger project both denatured and impoverishedÐ that his words and images were intended to be mutually reinforcing and reciprocally informativeÐ so...