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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Crèvecœur's book weighed in to promote the North American colonies. In the collection of manuscript essays Crèvecœur presented to London publisher Davis and Davies in 1781, some described plagues ruining crops, or swarms biting colonists, but these texts were passed over, and not published until the 1920s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 4: T. Stothard, “[Palemon Dying],” engraved by J. Neagle, The Shipwreck (London: Cadell and Davies, 1796). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection. More
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 8: J. Thurston, “[Palemon taking his farewell from Anna],” engraved by L. Clennell, The Shipwreck (London: Cadell and Davies, 1808). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection. More
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 20–45.
Published: 01 September 2004
... University of Colorado In the “Preface” to The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, com- monly called Mother Ross (740), the anonymous author reports that Chris- tian Davies, a woman who purportedly passed as a male foot soldier and dragoon during the War of the Spanish Succession, “died...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 65–75.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Ashley Marshall The Unpublished Letters of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke , ed. Lashmore-Davies Adrian , advisory ed. Goldie Mark , 5 vols . ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2013 ). ; Vol. 1 : Pp. lxx + 379 . Vol. 2 : Pp. 429 . Vol. 3 : Pp. 397 . Vol. 4 : Pp...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 90–95.
Published: 01 January 2008
... in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005). Pp. 284. 2 ills. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3891-5; Kate Davies. Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2005). £53. Pp. 331. 25 ills. ISBN 0-19...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 137–144.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Beatrice Fink Spary E. C. . Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760 . ( Chicago : Univ. of Chicago , 2012 ). Pp. 366 . 20 ills. $ 40.50 Davis Jennifer J. . Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Figure 4: T. Stothard, “[Palemon Dying],” engraved by J. Neagle, The Shipwreck (London: Cadell and Davies, 1796). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 January 2021
... are commonplace in fiction of the eighteenth century, lending those works credibility as the experience of a real person rather than imaginary accounts. Why should fiction invoke recovered manuscripts to indicate realism, while supposedly factual travel writing demands the presence of an author? Evan Davis s 2004...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 120–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Trumpener, the four-nations approach became synonymous with research on cultural resistance to the English metro- pole, in texts like Leith Davis’s Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Nego- tiation of the British Nation, 1707–1830 (1998), Janet Sorensen’s The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
... commodities through language permeated by moral geography. While theologian David Davies was not against the tea habit of the poor, he commented on the incongruity of the practice: “It appears a very strange thing, that the common people of any European nation should be obliged to use, as part of their daily...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
...: indeed, Davis suggests that this was a de facto prerequisite for promotion from mate to master, which brought higher reward, including better opportunities for private trading (84–86, 126–30). However, in the second and third editions, Falconer suggests that Albert is not a shareholder and has...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 37–43.
Published: 01 January 2009
... is that had the Pretender renounced his faith and undertaken “merely to protect papists from savage discrimination” (116), Pope would have welcomed him. Developing the work of Douglas Brooks-Davies, whose Pope’s “Dunciad” and the Queen of the Night (Manchester: Manchester Univ., 1985) gave currency...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 83–105.
Published: 01 April 2010
... here, and in what directions are we moving  —  and should we  —  now be moving? Works and Life Goldgar and Gadd’s volume is the first to appear of the eagerly anticipated, eighteen-volume Cambridge edition of Swift’s writings, which will replace the Herbert Davis sixteen-volume edition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 January 2013
... proposal, Proposal for Badges. Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces, 1733– ­1742, ed. Herbert Davis, vol. 13 of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, ed. Davis (1959; Oxford: Blackwell, 1973), 131  –  ­40, henceforth Prose Works. 2. All three pieces were written in 1726...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 1.
Published: 01 January 2009
... C. Lashmore- Davies (32.3). This means we’ve had two consecutive numbers without any book reviews. Meanwhile, thanks to our diligent book-review editor, Adam Potkay, and to the many scholars who have generously devoted time and effort to writing reviews, the reviews have been piling up...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 92–98.
Published: 01 January 2006
.... 247. $44.95. ISBN 0-8262-1557-2 Davis, William C. The Pirates Laffi te: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf (New York: Harcourt, 2005). Pp. 752. $28. ISBN 0-15-100403-x Dobson, David. Scottish Immigration to Colonial America, 1607  1785 (Athens: Univ. of Georgia...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2015
... 119 120   Eighteenth-Century Life Bolingbroke, First Viscount, Henry St. John. The Unpublished Letters, ed. Adrian Lashmore-Davies, advisory ed. Mark Goldie (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013). Vol. 1: Pp. lxx + 379. Vol. 2: Pp. 429. Vol. 3: Pp. 397. Vol. 4: Pp. 438. Vol. 5: Pp...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 70–94.
Published: 01 January 2002
... such as Christian Davies, daughter of an Irish maltster, had “too much mer- cury” in her for a sedentary life, loved ploughing, raking, and exercise as a girl, rode bareback, and once entertained the Earl of Chesterfield by rolling with her friends down a hill head-over-heel to show...