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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Juliet Feibel The College of William & Mary 2000 1
Vortigern, Rowena, and the Ancient Britons:
Historical Art and the Anglicization
of National Origin
On 2 April 1796...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 43–64.
Published: 01 April 2000
...David Fairer The College of William & Mary 2000 43
Historical Criticism and the English Canon:
A Spenserian Dispute in the 1750s
The recent surge of interest in how a concept of the English...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 68–88.
Published: 01 September 2016
... as to a reconsideration of the economic debate between Whigs and Tories after 1714. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Tories Whigs economics free trade luxury •
Challenging the Historical Paradigm:
Tories, Whigs, and Economic Writing, 1680–1714...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Robert D. Hume This essay asks us to rethink the evidentiary basis for the claims we make in historical scholarship and criticism. How certain can we be of what we think we know? What evidence do we have, and can it be tested or otherwise verified? Many biographical questions cannot be answered...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Howard D. Weinbrot Like other earlier authors, Fielding and Richardson place culturally shared “codes” in their texts and exploit those codes for their readers' instruction and delight. The historical critic uses multiple approaches to reclaim what our ancestors knew and what can enlarge modern...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 89–95.
Published: 01 September 2017
...James A. Winn The essays printed here all make the case for historical criticism in reasonable and persuasive terms. Professor Weinbrot's paper shows how recovering the meaning that classical allusions, formal word order, and particular loaded phrases had for their original audiences makes us...
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 4a and 4b. “To a Gentleman of the Navy,” Royal American Magazine (December 1775): 473 – 74, Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1796 Lib. 24.1.
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 4a and 4b. “To a Gentleman of the Navy,” Royal American Magazine (December 1775): 473 – 74, Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1796 Lib. 24.1.
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 5a and 5b. “Phillis's Reply to the answer in our last by the Gentleman in the Navy,” Royal American Magazine (January 1775): 34 – 35, Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1796 Lib. 24.1.
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Figures 5a and 5b. “Phillis's Reply to the answer in our last by the Gentleman in the Navy,” Royal American Magazine (January 1775): 34 – 35, Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1796 Lib. 24.1.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Freedman’s discussion of Shelley’s novel as proto-science fiction that emerges in the same postwar historical matrix that informed historical novels such as Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814). However, where the historical novel, in Georg Lukács’s reading, describes the wartime poetic awakening of the people...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Facsimile of the handwriting of Phillis Wheatley, “Poem by Phillis Wheatley,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 7 (October 1863): 165 – 67, inserted between pages 166 and 167, online at < http://www.jstor.org/stable/25079311 >.
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When History Caught Up with Historians: Biographies of Contemporaries in Encyclopedias, 1674 to 1750
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 47–74.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., they remained rare and controversial in the alphabetical ancestors of the modern encyclopedia. In this article, I explain why, and show how encyclopedists’ practices evolved in the period in which the historical dictionary and other alphabetical proto-encyclopedias burst onto the European literary scene...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
... addressed the proper selection, presentation, and treatment of both individual and collected “lives.” It gave biography national, historical, commercial, and educational functions; detailed the components of its life-historical narrative and of its critical portions; set standards for what constituted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... in Mourning” remained unpublished in Forbes's lifetime, the Scottish Historical Society published a three‐volume printed version in 1895–96. The printed version succeeded in generating knowledge about the work, but it also fundamentally changed how the manuscript was perceived. In an effort to shine new light...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
...? This essay brings two often disconnected schools of historical inquiry into conversation, through an exploration of the spiritual and material for two devout female Anglicans: Katherine Plymley (1758–1829) and Anna Larpent (1758–1832). It charts the negotiation of material ambivalence and the performance...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... In short, a lively print market for gossip at the turn of the century insured that the infamous name of Dashwood remained synonymous with diabolism, sexual lewdness, and the dubious privileges of wealth. This essay outlines some of the interpretive implications of this ignored historical context...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 60–80.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Leith Davis As the first published anthology of Scottish poetry, the Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems has long been regarded as a milestone in Scottish literary history. But acknowledgments of the Choice Collection 's importance have historically been coupled with criticisms about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Donelle Ruwe Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (1814) is a historical novel by the Irish author Adelaide O’Keeffe that features religious conversions from paganism to Judaism, and from Judaism to Christianity. O’Keeffe stages these conversions within the context of late Enlightenment debates about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
... reasons for such omissions and subsequent adjustments to the historical and visual record. Such findings in turn posit the desirability of an enhanced method for reconstructing parliamentary debates based on the accessibility of the digital Burney newspaper collection. I wish to thank Janine Barchas...
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