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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Janine Barchas; Kristina Straub “Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity , opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., Ireland. Researchers on the Ballitore Project have applied the computational methods of network analysis and topic modeling to the collection while considering how its history of collection and curation affect our interpretation of the materials. Just as the documents in the Ballitore Collection have been...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of the instability of the printed book and viewed knowledge as shaped through curation of content rather than permanence of form. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 note‐taking editorial adaptation social use...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... examines the multimedia nature of the items that Forbes collected, noting his own focus on the materiality of the texts he copied out. The third section considers Forbes's use of the manuscript genre for the storage, curation, and retrieval of information. I conclude by examining how Forbes's project...
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View articletitled, “A Piece of History the Most Remarkable & Interesting That Ever Happened in Any Age or Country”: “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 January 2019
...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...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
Published: 01 January 2024
... 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...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 January 2023
... The family also lent their copy of the 1751 album in which Lee's portrait was bound along with his fellow Bunmu official Cho Hyeonmyeong's description of how the portrait-recreation project was carried out, information that enabled the curators to identify the date of the drafts in their collection...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 64–91.
Published: 01 April 2009
... the inferior clergy of the established church, especially curates
whose incomes were often inadequate. The salience of this debate reflects
the fact, demonstrated earlier, that many of the contributors were clergy.
Were all clergymen, including poor curates, gentlemen? Here was a dis-
puted boundary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 120–137.
Published: 01 April 2008
... was curator of experiments to the Royal Society and
was, as J. A. Bennet explains, “a link between the natural philosophers and
the instrument makers.”13 As an employee of the Society, he did not occupy
the same social level as the other members. “In some respects,” Bennet says,
“we can regard Hooke...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
... appears also in his refusal to collect the income from his
living while hiring a curate to perform his clerical duties. Nonresident clergy
were seen as a disgrace to the church, and Edmund will not be an “absent sig-
nifier,” not even to win the smiles of Mary Crawford.
Scheuermann observes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 January 2018
... primary goal is to redress an incomplete understanding of Pira-
nesi’s body of work by considering him as an author as well as an artist. Schol-
ars, connoisseurs, curators, and dealers have long treated his striking prints
as self-sufficient images. Left out of the equation are the copious texts...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 3–8.
Published: 01 April 2017
...:
Collections for Pacific Studies illustrated the wealth of Sydney’s heritage
holdings, including early printed books, maps and charts, works of natural
history and fiction, and artifacts from the Macleay Museum. The second
exhibition, Great Novels of 1814, was curated by Jacqui Grainger to cele
brate...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... that appeared after the 1715
Jacobite Rebellion, countering the Whig revision attributed, probably inac-
curately, to Dryden and Davenant, which had celebrated Brutus’s love for
liberty and his patriotism.28 Cross-checking the DMI against performance
records reveals that the first publication...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the eighteenth century, the genre had evolved into a location for distinct types of enlightenment, sometimes challenging the reader's tastes, sometimes reaffirming them. These are not the opportunistic or hasty reprintings of fugitive pieces, but meticulously curated collections with strong literary and cultural...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
... to be pointing toward the doorway.
The textual notation remarks, “Whatever the original intent, the British
Institution’s curators hung her portrait as if to momentarily redirect the
gaze of visitors in the Middle Room, through the central archway, back
to the portrait of the King on the starting wall...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 122–129.
Published: 01 April 2010
.... 269. £60. $99. ISBN 978-1-851-96915-0
Droth, Martina, curator and introduction. Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the
Decorative Arts (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008). Pp. 222. 88 b/w
+ 115 color ills. 40. ISBN 978-0-892-36963-8
Duncan, Kathryn, ed. Religion in the Age...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2021
... was one of preservation and recovery. Yet, as Horgan argues, each treats the miscellany form as a “virtual textual space” for the curation, exhibition, and engagement of different modes of literary enlightenment. For Dodsley, the miscellany was a container for poetry that reflected a polished, polite...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... they are no longer needed for readers understanding and consump- tion of the printed codex, which unlike the ephemeral media announc- ing its publication is curated and preserved in the space of a library. By contrast, ephemera disappear, having lost their inscription of cultural capi- 4 Eighteenth-Century Life...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 25–55.
Published: 01 January 2006
... tried to put them in
order — Matthew Montagu, Emily Climenson, Reginald Blunt, and the curators at
the Huntington — and some letters are still clearly displaced. In this case, the curator
dated the letter 1756, which is possible, because Montagu read French and the
Memoirs were fi rst...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...). After all,
Pamela’s brother, Joseph Andrews, a comically chaste manservant, is not
Joseph Andrews’s central character in the way that Pamela is Pamela’s central
character. Instead, the Reverend Abraham Adams—a poor curate—is the
narrative’s primary focus. Not for nothing is he the only character...
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