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.... of Virginia , 2014 ). Pp. xi + 203 . $65 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay Rethinking British Fictions of Cultural Contact and Colonial Encounter Adam R. Beach Ball State...

...Andreas Mueller This article argues that Richard Hurd was more directly engaged than previously appreciated with the Anglo-Scottish cultural wars of the early 1760s over the nature of and center of gravity of an emergent British literary tradition. It establishes the ways Hurd’s Moral and Political...

... to Cultural History Kim Wheatley College of William & Mary Janine Barchas. Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2012). Pp. xiii + 317. $45 • A reader...

... of Great Britain to the Emperor of China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794 (1807)—and its imaginative engagement with Chinese culture. While Macartney’s narrative partakes of formal and aesthetic qualities associated with travel writing from the Grand Tour and with scientific exploration, it cannot wholly...

... Majesty and the Arts: Queen Anne’s Cultural Revolution Philip Smallwood University of Bristol James Anderson Winn. Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts (New York: Oxford Univ., 2014). Pp. xxi + 792. 35 b/w ills., 18 color inserts, 28...

...Denise Amy Baxter Duke University Press 2006 Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the Visual Culture of the French Revolution Denise Amy Baxter University of North Texas Je tenais les...

...David S. Shields The College of William & Mary 2001 The World I Ate: The Prophets of Global Consumption Culture How can one explain the transformation of values in the West at the end of the eighteenth century, when...

...Amanda Lahikainen R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793967 Copyright 2021 by Amanda Lahikainen 1 0 1 Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth- Century French Print Culture Amanda Lahikainen Aquinas College...

...Amelia Rauser John Bonehill and Geoff Guilley, eds. Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c. 1700-1830 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). Pp 231. 49 ills. ISBN 0-7546-0575-2 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay The Consuming...

...Rictor Norton Clare A. Lyons. Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, for The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2006). Pp. 420. 21 ills. $22.50 paper. ISBN 0...

... that in Tristram Shandy `s dash-laden pages, gives us a conversational and casual tone for a once ominous topic. The thirtieth of January sermons become markers in the evolution of culture. The sermon and the culture have evolved from rage, to rational and psychological discourse, and then almost to indifference...

...: Ottoman Architectural Culture in the Eighteenth Century Sibel Zandi-­Sayek College of William and Mary Shirine Hamadeh. The City’s Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (Seattle: Univ. of Washington, 2008). Pp. xiv + 350. 105...

...Eve Tavor Bannet Berg Temma . The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance ( Aldershot : Ashgate , 2006 ). Pp. 306 . 20 ills. $99.95 Brant Clare , Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2006...

...Maeve McCusker Christopher L. Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke Univ., 2008). Pp. xvi + 571. 17 ills. $27.95 paper Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay Troubling Amnesia...

...Robert Leventhal Michael C. Carhart. The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2007). Pp. xii + 360. 9 ills. 4 maps. $49.50 Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay The Emergence of a Science of Culture...

... to imagine and promote an idea of civil society governed by norms of a benevolent “politeness.” One function of the new culture of politeness was to reconcile readers to the massive increase in military activity. This essay will explore the process of reconciliation in the two most influential periodicals...

... a narrative of cultural literacy, and the increasingly—in the course of the nineteenth century—gender-specific marketing of the titles. While introducing a number of different pocket diaries issued from 1779 to the mid nineteenth century, the essay will discuss the earliest diaries ( The Royal Engagement...

...Timothy M. Costelloe The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27104-Costello.q4.jw 4/14/03 10:56 AM Page 52 The Theater of Morals: Culture and Community in Rousseau’s Lettre à M. d’Alembert...

...Nicholas Hudson The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26207-95-huds.q4 5/28/02 2:23 PM Page 83 Review Essay Challenging Eisenstein: Recent Studies in Print Culture...

...John Patrick Greene The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26314-Greene.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:38 PM Page 225 French Encounters with Material Culture of the South Pacific...