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Rereading the History of the Book
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 105–109.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Jennie Batchelor R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793978 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 1 0 5 Rereading the History of the Book Jennie Batchelor University of Kent Abigail Williams. The Social Life of Books: Reading...
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When History Caught Up with Historians: Biographies of Contemporaries in Encyclopedias, 1674 to 1750
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 47–74.
Published: 01 January 2021
... regarding contemporary biographies evolved. Finally, I consider some of the broader social and cultural changes, both internal and external to the history of encyclopedia-making, that are reflected in encyclopedias’ growing coverage of the living and the recently deceased. Eighteenth- Century Life Volume...
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Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books: Quaker Correspondence and the History of Its Reconstruction
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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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“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 (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Leith Davis This chapter presents a book‐history analysis of a 2,148‐page manuscript book known as “The Lyon in Mourning.” Compiled after the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden (1746), the work consists of pro‐Jacobite materials copied out by Episcopalian minister Robert Forbes...
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Trivial Pursuit: The Anecdote as Evidence in Theater History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 147–152.
Published: 01 January 2025
... for “unpublished things,” the term “anecdote” entered English in the late seventeenth century by way of a translated secret history and quickly became a byword for all manner of literary commodities. Like secret history itself, published anecdotes often operated at the slippery boundary of fact and fiction...
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Liars by Profession: The Poetry of History and Autobiography
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 108–114.
Published: 01 September 2016
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The Poetry of History and Autobiography
Timothy M. Costelloe
College of William & Mary
James A. Harris. Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.,
2015). Pp. xiii + 621. $55
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As a historian...
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Historical Criticism, the Reclamation of Codes, and Repairs to Literary History: The Examples of Fielding and Richardson
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 September 2017
... knowledge and, thereby, modern pleasure. I here try to reclaim lost classical allusions, and use lexicography, textual variants, rape and marriage laws, and social and dynastic history to illumine Tom Jones, Pamela in her Exalted Condition , and Clarissa. The historical critic thus is empirical, inductive...
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Prints after John Collet: Their Publishing History and a Chronological Checklist
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 136–146.
Published: 01 January 2002
...David Alexander The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26108-146-alex.q4 5/24/02 3:13 PM Page 136
Prints after John Collet:
Their Publishing History...
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Revelation of Character in Eighteenth-Century Historiography and William Robertson's History of the Reign of Charles V
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2003
...Neil Hargraves The College of William & Mary 2003
Revelation of Character in Eighteenth-Century
Historiography and William Robertson’s
History of the Reign of Charles V
Neil Hargraves...
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The History and Theory of Risk
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 71–75.
Published: 01 September 2018
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Sharp Visions and Political Realities: Gaelic Poetry and the History of Irish Popular Disaffection
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 89–94.
Published: 01 September 2018
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Swift, Secret History, and War
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Melinda Alliker Rabb “Swift, Secret History, and War” argues that the relationship between Swift’s writing, reading, and his abiding interest in the English Civil Wars produced a distinctive contribution to the discourses that arose after the reestablishment of monarchy, called “secret histories...
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Hume's “Supplement to Gulliver ”: The Medieval Volumes of The History of England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Adam Potkay The College of William & Mary 2001 Hume’s “Supplement to Gulliver”:
The Medieval Volumes of
The History of England
Difference in Opinions hath cost many Million of Lives...
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Ingenious Pain : Fiction, History, Biography, and the Miraculous Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 47–62.
Published: 01 April 2001
...G. S. Rousseau The College of William & Mary 2001 Ingenious Pain: Fiction, History,
Biography, and the Miraculous
Eighteenth Century
“And Diderot, feeling he’d found a soulmate, promptly decided...
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Cook and the Question of Naval History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 98–115.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Jonathan Lamb Duke University Press 2006 Review Essay
Cook and the
Question of Naval History
Jonathan Lamb
Vanderbilt University
Inga Clendinnen...
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J. G. A. Pocock and the History of British Political Thought: Assessing the State of the Art
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 83–96.
Published: 01 January 2009
...William Walker David Armitage, ed. British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 326. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-87041-0 D. N. DeLuna, ed. The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J. G. A. Pocock (Baltimore...
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Local History from Below
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 125–131.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in England and Wales, 1700-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 541. $110. ISBN 0-521-86292-2 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
Local History from Below
Kathrin Levitan
College of William & Mary...
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The Secret History of Almost Everything
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 132–137.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Erin Mackie Michael McKeon. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006). Pp. 904. $30. ISBN 0-8018-7873-x Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
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The Evolution of the Plagiarist: Natural History in Anna Seward's Order of Poetics
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 105–126.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Melissa Bailes This essay explains Anna Seward's famous, vitriolic attacks on the poetic plagiarisms of Charlotte Smith by examining them within the framework of natural history. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the vocabularies and methodologies of natural history overlapped...
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Exquemelin's Buccaneers : Violence, Authority, and the Word in Early Caribbean History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 56–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... History
Richard Frohock
Oklahoma State University
First published in Dutch in 1678, Alexander Exquemelin’s slim volume Buc-
caneers of America (Americaensche Zee-Rovers) presented European readers
with a novel and shockingly candid portrait...
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