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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Philip Woodfine Duke University Press 2006 Debtors, Prisons, and Petitions in Eighteenth-Century England Philip Woodfi ne University of Huddersfi eld Drawing on manuscript sources...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 48–73.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Celestina Wroth Duke University Press 2006 “To Root the Old Woman out of Our Minds”: Women Educationists and Plebeian Culture in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain Celestina Wroth Indiana...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 107–134.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Deirdre Coleman Duke University Press 2006 Entertaining Entomology: Insects and Insect Performers in the Eighteenth Century Deirdre Coleman University of Sydney...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 56–82.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Susan B. Iwanisziw Duke University Press 2007 Intermarriage in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Currents in Assimilation and Exclusion Susan B. Iwanisziw Philadelphia...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 62–80.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Margarette Lincoln Duke University Press 2007 Mutinous Behavior on Voyages to the South Seas and Its Impact on Eighteenth-Century Civil Society Margarette Lincoln National Maritime...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2007
...John J. Burke, Jr. Howard D. Weinbrot, Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2005). Pp. 375. $60. ISBN 0-8018-8210-9 Howard D. Weinbrot, Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics (Newark...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Refashioning the Epic for Eighteenth-Century Consumers in Henry Fielding’s Novels Nancy A. Mace U.S. Naval Academy Henry Power. Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature (Oxford...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2018
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Darryl P. Domingo Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Harrow Sharon , ed. British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2015 ). Pp. 232. $107 ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 76–80.
Published: 01 September 2018
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 95–109.
Published: 01 September 2018
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2019
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 99–124.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Marcus Tomalin Recent revisionist historiographical and organological studies have shown that, contrary to the traditional narrative, western lutes continued to be made and played throughout the long eighteenth century. Much more is known now about the luthiers who created them, the professional...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 162–187.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Simon Stern This essay discusses John Cleland’s novel The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49), better known as Fanny Hill ), in the context of eighteenth-century obscenity law and the law of search and seizure. To explain why obscenity could have been treated as a criminal offense at all...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 143–147.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Nicholas Hudson R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725815 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 4 3 Handwriting, the Self, and Society in the Eighteenth Century Nicholas Hudson University of British Columbia Aileen Douglas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Andrew Rudd In this article, I examine how notions of charity shaped eighteenth-century literature. I begin by examining Horace Walpole’s philanthropy, which I argue belied his posthumous reputation for miserliness, and proceed to trace the theme of charity in Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 January 2021
... by Duke University Press 2021 travel writing authenticity realism reader response shipwreck accounts Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793923 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2 1 Presenting Truth in Early Eighteenth- Century Travel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Amanda Lahikainen Trévien Claire . Satire, Prints, and Theatricality in the French Revolution ( Oxford : Voltaire Foundation , 2016 ). Pp. xix + 254 . $82 Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Eve Tavor Bannet This essay outlines the comprehensive theory of “modern” eighteenth-century biography that was articulated throughout the century in the often lengthy prefaces to collections of lives, disseminated in periodical essays, and applied in reviews to stand-alone lives. This theory...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 74–81.
Published: 01 April 2021
...D. Christopher Gabbard Chris Mounsey . Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain ( Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia , 2019 ). Pp. 340 . $79.50 cloth. $39.50 paper. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth...