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...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...

... 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...

..., 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...

...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...

... for “unpublished things,” the term “anecdote” entered English in the late seventeenth century by way of a translated secret history and quickly became a byword for all manner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...

...: 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 • As a historian...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Jonathan Lamb Duke University Press 2006 Review Essay Cook and the Question of Naval History Jonathan Lamb Vanderbilt University Inga Clendinnen...

...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...

... 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...

...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 The Secret History of Almost...

...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...

... 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...