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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Ileana Baird Drawing on Michel Foucault's seminal essay, “Of Other Spaces,” I will explore Colley Cibber's library as a “heterotopia of indefinitely accumulating time,” a space that symbolically represents, in Pope's imaginative world, the dangers posed by a modernity gone wild to the values...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 36–59.
Published: 01 April 2012
... through which Francis Noble and his brother John represented the authorial relationship between Defoe, Roxana , and Moll Flanders between 1775 and 1787 and analyzes these attributions within the larger discourses surrounding the Nobles’ circulating libraries. “Attribution and Repetition” provides...
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in Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 5. John Bacon, Medical commonplace book of John Bacon (1775), FEM, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Biomed History and Special Collections Cage Manuscripts, Franklin E. Murphy, M.D. Collection, Ms. Coll. no 618.
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. Paul Troger, Ceiling Fesco, Library, Zwettle Abbey, Lower Austrian (1733). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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in Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. A leaf from Durham University Library, GB-0033-PCD MS 9, showing Sister Cecily Joseph's elegant hand and her use of lineation and ornament as tools to shape the devotional experience. Courtesy of the Durham University Library and Collections. Photograph by the author.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 111–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by Richard Bull: his extra-illustrated copy of Walpole’s Description of Strawberry Hill , now at the Lewis Walpole Library, and his curious compilation of occasional publications bound with the title-page A Collection of the Loose Pieces printed at Strawberry-Hill , and the alternative title Detached Pieces...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 1. A leaf from Durham University Library, GB-0033-PCD MS 9, showing Sister Cecily Joseph's elegant hand and her use of lineation and ornament as tools to shape the devotional experience. Courtesy of the Durham University Library and Collections. Photograph by the author. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Chip Badley; Sydney Coleman; Deena Al-halabieh; Lacey Johnson; Rachael Scarborough King; Jaucqir LaFond; John Henry Merritt In this essay, the authors use an archival collection housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Library Special Research Collections to examine how the concept...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... on Forbes's project and to generate new research on Jacobitism in general, Simon Fraser University's Research Centre for Scottish Studies and the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab are partnering with the National Library of Scotland to create a Digital Humanities project focused on “The Lyon in Mourning...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in portfolios in private libraries. Although they took different forms, print rooms and print albums shared characteristics that marked them as “enlightened” cultural practices: both featured prints arranged in preconceived aesthetic or intellectual schemes that presented elite, pan-European cultural subjects...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Janine Barchas; Kristina Straub “Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity , opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after...
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in “Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Azarias Williams, “A Selection of Modern Poems,” title-page, Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.a.116. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Photograph by the author.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 8. Anon., Charles the Third (16 June 1784), etching on paper, 276 mm × 299 mm, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 784.06.26.01. Courtesy Lewis Walpole Library.
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in “Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1a. Melesinda Munbee and Valentine Munbee, “A Collection of various kinds of Poetry” (1749 – 50). Houghton Library, GEN MS Eng 768, vol. 1. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 3. From George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, and Thomas Birch, Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain (1743–51), engraving, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Folio 49 4647 . Courtesy Lewis Walpole Library.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 4. From George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, and Thomas Birch, Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain (1743–51), engraving, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Folio 49 4647 . Courtesy Lewis Walpole Library.
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in Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. Locke's commonplace book index, printed in Locke, A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books . . . To Which Is added Something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same Subject , trans. from French (London: J. Greenwood, 1706), Huntington Library, RB 470934. Courtesy
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 2. Definition and diagram of “Careen” in Thomas Blanckley's Naval Expositor (London: E. Owen, 1750), 29. Courtesy Newberry Library.
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in Home Is Where the Heart Is: The Rise of Emotional Spaces in the German Late Enlightenment
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2a & 2b. D. N. Chodowiecki, “Das Almosen / L'aumône,” Göttinger Taschen Calender (1794). Courtesy Bielefeld University Library.
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in Home Is Where the Heart Is: The Rise of Emotional Spaces in the German Late Enlightenment
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2a & 2b. D. N. Chodowiecki, “Das Almosen / L'aumône,” Göttinger Taschen Calender (1794). Courtesy Bielefeld University Library.
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