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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Sandro Jung Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 2, April 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8218580 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 1 Literary Ephemera: Understanding the Media of Literacy and Culture Formation Sandro Jung Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Literary historians...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 111–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a monument of taste.” In its monumentalizing aims and dimensions, extra-illustration could be considered an antidote against ephemera, yet transience is inherent in its attempt to document the text with reproductions that might be dispersed. The concept runs the gamut, from Walpole’s paratexts—his title...
View articletitled, Extra-Illustration and <span class="search-highlight">Ephemera</span>: Altered Books and the Alternative Forms of the Fugitive Page
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by Duke University Press 2020 memorial effigy broadsheet history portraits ephemera Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 2, April 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8218635 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 1 3 6 Lively Effigies: Memorial Ephemera Margaret J. M. Ezell Texas A&M University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Dianne Dugaw This essay considers our response to printed ephemera, analyzing British examples of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, specifically elegies, broadside ballads, and the life story and advertised theatrical performing of the eighteenth-century female soldier Hannah Snell, using...
View articletitled, Transcendent <span class="search-highlight">Ephemera</span>: Performing Deep Structure in Elegies, Ballads, and Other Occasional Forms
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 78–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... their value as objects worth being preserved.2 Beyond their period of 7 9 utility, they became ephemera for later users to whom these objects carried different cultural meanings that did not encourage users to preserve these volumes. This, according to Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O Driscoll, is the material...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., politics, and advertising that typifies the innovative print culture of this period. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 prospectus ephemera advertising book trade French Revolution debate Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 2, April 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8218602...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... once widely known and familiar to those
who could afford them, their absence from historical narratives of late eigh-
teenth- and early nineteenth-century print culture, the history of the book,
and publishing represents a significant gap in accounts of the consumption
of printed ephemera.2...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., essay-based paper dominated the periodical market in
England during the first half of the eighteenth century. Collected into bound
volumes, the most popular transcended their status as ephemera to achieve
standing in a developing canon of modern polite English letters. On manners
and morals...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
... include among the painted let-
ters key periodical publications of the period, principally The London Gazette
and the royal proclamations of William and Mary, and of Queen Anne. The
opening chapters of the book focus on the details of these sorts of painted
ephemera to demonstrate Collier’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 100–105.
Published: 01 April 2024
... scholarship revealing a true joy in her work. Her discussions are offset with beautiful reproductions of some of theater's “ephemera,” and her own archival discoveries—such as her analyses of Tate Wilkinson's playbills and of the way he used them to reflect upon dramatic property rights—prove a version of her...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2023
... weakness of an academic approach is that it tends to overlook or underplay ephemera, although I acknowledge the inclusion of the fascinating account of molly-houses in eighteenth-century London, and of the television spin-offs. Hogarth's pictures also inspired the design of ceramics, silverware, fashion...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 74–82.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in the book—like Alexander Pettit’s, for example—make
Haywood matter. In “The Pickering and Chatto Female Spectator: Nearly Four
Pounds of Ephemera Enshrined,” Pettit uses his experience editing the Picker-
ing and Chatto Female Spectator to discuss the perplexities of critical editions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and other ephemera, a famous “it-
novel,” popular prints and portraits, miscellanies, and scandal sheets. Some
of this material expands the current scholarly inventory of Austen’s vora-
cious reading and further adds to the lists of texts that she put to use in her
own writing. Because traces...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 188–207.
Published: 01 January 2011
... on (among other things) the aftermath of the political storm and
legal travesty known as the Popish Plot (1678 – 80). This is a subject on
which we know Luttrell dwelt for a considerable time, being a keen col-
lector of Popish Plot ephemera, which, some might argue, constituted a
considerable part...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Delarivière Manley, but numerous writers and printers of broadsheets
and other forms of political ephemera—Elinor James, Anne Docwra, Joan
Whitrowe, and many others. If these women of Grub Street are generally
unknown even to feminist historians, McDowell contends...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 January 2018
... hanging alongside Hogarth’s portraits of his
servants and sisters. Were these slips painted by an apprentice? Perhaps by
a friend, Mrs. Hoadly? (Mary Lewis?) Why would Jane have retained such
ephemera unless they were in some sense “family”? How gullible were Nichols
and Samuel Ireland when...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 3–18.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of view, other features of his work do the
same. For instance, Dryden’s immersion in the ephemera of late Stuart
politics confines most future readers to the most generalized understand-
ing of him, allowing many to perceive little more than an ironic tension...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 18–38.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., and Related
Ephemera, ed. Cathy Lynn Preston and Michael J. Preston (New York: Garland,
1995), 19 – 73, especially 26.
19. Some editions include the coda in which Friday and Crusoe shoot wolves in
Pampeluna, and others end with Crusoe’s “vision of the angelick world” excerpted
from Daniel Defoe...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 36–59.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., it is extrinsic factors,
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how texts circulate and with what names attached, that determine whether
a text disappears as ephemera, or is preserved, detached from its material
form, in the literary imagination.
Notes
The research and writing of this essay were made possible...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 92–112.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of hair, and printed ephemera), the modern researcher is likely to notice the appearance of sameness, of pages of typically short verses, some transcribed from printed sources, some original, in one or more hands. But the belief in sameness dissipates as one goes through more and more albums. Each album...
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