... in the Enlightenment—also shaped the 2020 David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, hosted by Flinders University and the University of Adelaide. Conceived as a face-to-face conference to be held on Kaurna land, never ceded by the original inhabitants to the colonizing Europeans bringing the supposed...

... and distinguished history in Austra- lia and New Zealand, a tradition celebrated and fostered through the tradi- tion of the David Nichol Smith Seminar. This conference commemorates the important foundation for future research that the National Library of Australia established in the 1960s by acquiring...

...–1962), Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, whose books constitute a significant part of the Australian National Library’s rare book collection. The Library, together with the other host universities, sponsors the Semi- nar. The first of these international conferences was held...

... the Eighteenth-­Century Letter,” a two-­day international conference, was held at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 11 and 12 September 2008. It was a one-­off event to celebrate much that is currently being done in the field of eighteenth-­century letters. This special issue of Eighteenth-­Century Life has...

... J A conference held at the Yale Center for British Art in October 2004, marking the 250th anniversary of Henry Fielding’s death, featured eleven of the thir- teen scholars whose essays make up this volume; since the 300th anniversary of Fielding’s birth fell in 2007, the volume celebrates...

... account for the overwhelmingly positive response to our call for papers for the Eleventh David Nichol Smith Conference on 26–28 March 2001, hosted jointly by the Humanities Research Centre and the National Library of Australia. The theme of “The Exotic During the Long Eigh...

... and deprecated body of Whig literature. That effort came to fruition with the interdisciplinary “Cul- tures of  Whiggism” conference at Jesus College, Oxford (2001), organized by Womersley, Paddy Bullard, and Abigail Williams; the conference proceedings volume (2005), for which Williams served as both...

... in England in the 1470s to Dorothy Wordsworth keeping notebooks—has become an international topic of discussion for book historians. 5 Recently, Rachael Scarborough King's collection, After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures (2020), which was derived from a 2015 conference, clearly...

...- ington, D.C. Since then, that Center has made a rich contribution to the disci- pline by organizing and hosting conferences and sponsoring the publication of a wide range of scholarly books and articles of the highest quality. Its twentieth anniversary was marked by a major conference, “British...

... expect the unexpected. In keeping with his own materialist thought, Sade is forever being recycled. Part institution and part happening, spectacular (à la lettre) and ever more tentacular, Sade currently enjoys high visibility. Biographies, monographs, es- says, dissertations, conferences, special...

... to be more fully explored and exploited in the New World. The CRLV came into being in 984 and plans to celebrate its twenti- eth anniversary with a conference to be held, not inappropriately, down under (Sydney, February 2005). Its two prime movers are François Moureau, the director, and Sophie...

... and vigorous picture of the London Irish across the eighteenth century. Notes The essays in this collection evolved from papers first presented at a conference held at the University of Warwick, 13–14 April 2012. I am grateful to all who attended and contributed to this event. I owe a large debt...

... of the Atlantic, appearing in titles, as conference themes, and pictorially displayed in some major exhibits.11 It is to Spary’s credit, given her inclination to link the physical and the philosophi- cal, that she does not fall into a common trap, namely, drawing a sharp divide between taste as gustatory...

... contributed both articles and reviews to Eighteenth-Century Life, has frequently served as a referee, and has even acted occasionally as unofficial scout looking for, and sometimes finding, conference papers that eventually became Eighteenth-Century Life articles...

... note in their acknowledgments, this collection springs from a series of conferences held “across two continents”: in Santa Barbara, Califor- nia; in Sheffield, England; in Trondheim, Norway; in Stirling, Scotland; and in New York (xi). After the introduction, there are twenty essays by contribu...

... standards of politeness, Goring also shows how culture gets embodied and the body gets acculturated. Given the number of articles, books, conference papers, and class lectures devoted to the topic of sensibility—G. J. Barker-Benfield’s The Culture of Sen- sibility (1992) and Adela Pinch’s Strange...

...-10000 Zagreb / Croatia, Hrvatska <neven. [email protected]> [Papers in Croation from a 1999 conference on Lomnièki.] Terrasse, Jean. Le Temps et l’espace dans les romans de Diderot. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 379 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999). £45. Pp. xii...

..., to remain “Widow,” and to retain the rights that title confers. Manly, The Plain Dealer’s misanthropic hero, also must confront his own crisis of identity as a result of his self-­imposed dispossession. Hav- ing sunk his ship with all his goods on board, and having left his remain- ing fortune...

..., the imagery of minting, with its connotations of authority, points, if ambivalently, to a sense in which it is London that confers the stamp of authority, despite Steele’s critique of its neologisms. 8    Eighteenth-Century Life More substantial in its claims for rural life, and suggestively...

..., but they also, by association, confer richness to the poet s art. His annotational practices set a high bar, providing a model for the level of scrutiny required by the future scholarly edition, even if his mate- rials proved to be distinctly miscellaneous; the result, in an odd way, is a mighty maze...