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“The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... study, his work challenges expectations of gender and class in eighteenth‐century manuscript studies and reveals how the affordances of the pen might reflect the burgeoning print culture of the period. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press...
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The Prospectus War of the 1790s: Literary Advertising in an Age of Revolution
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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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“Genius Thus Munificently Employed!!!”: Philanthropy and Celebrity in the Theaters of Garrick and Siddons
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Danielle Spratt The essay argues that David Garrick and Sarah Siddons—two of the most financially successful celebrities of their time—cultivated their parental public images in print and portrait culture by capitalizing on the level of their participation in benefits for actors and in the Drury...
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Ireland and Books
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 67–70.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., such as Tony Barnard’s essay on print culture, a model of schol-
arly critique, which wonders about how readers’ imaginations leapt on reading
books on the captivity of the Jews, the exploits of the Milesians, or the Battle
of Aughrim. The colonial condition of Ireland was experienced, in this sense...
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The First Information Age: Women and the Making of the English Literary Canon
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 121–126.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., both morally and intellectually, as well as personal fame for their writing. This chapter reveals how Chapone, Carter, and Catherine Talbot put their cultural resources into action (67) to support the print trade, especially the rapidly expanding periodical, and specifically Samuel Johnson s Rambler...
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Introduction: The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2024
... considered culturally residual after the advent of printing in the fifteenth century, interesting to scholars of later periods primarily because of the light they shed on print. 3 With few exceptions, the big story of media for the eighteenth century was largely concerned with the expansion...
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Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections, and Noble Friends: Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Female Authorship in Early Eighteenth-Century England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
... (1728) was
phenomenally popular and established her as a literary figure of national
renown. Yet, as the above quotation demonstrates, Rowe lived most of her
life apart from the center of print culture and instead lived and worked in
the provincial town of Frome...
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Old New Media: Print, Paint, and the Early Eighteenth-Century Media Revolution
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
... employs a straightforward narrative style and short chapters
to make the work accessible to a range of audiences, from art historians and
scholars of print culture, to those with a special interest in 1690s London,
and to Defoe enthusiasts (he sees Defoe and Collier as kindred spirits...
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Challenging Eisenstein: Recent Studies in Print Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2002
... for authors than
some have assumed (pp. 109–11). He notes in passing that the period 1730–
1760, often regarded as the final triumph of print over manuscript culture,
actually witnessed a decline in new book titles. In short, the momentum of The
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Afterword
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
Published: 01 January 2024
... arguing too strenuously for seeing manuscript culture as an important medium in later periods “after print.” From my perspective, late seventeenth-century manuscript books were a poor fit for twentieth-century publication practices and existing genres. Often the multiplicity of owners, writers...
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Selling Celebrity: Actors’ Portraits in Bell’s Shakespeare and Bell’s British Theatre
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
... culture of theatrical celebrity. While paintings and engraved prints of actors mostly peddled a mode of celebrity that was sustained by audience applause within the theater walls, Bell’s illustrations created a parallel visibility for the performers outside the theater, which was only tenuously...
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“The Fragments, Scraps, the Bits and Greasy Relics”: Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
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4. Critics have been attuned to the importance of printed miscellanies,
anthologies, and commonplace books in the cultivation of period reading habits. See
Barbara Benedict, Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern
Literary Anthologies (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 1996...
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The Hesitant Modernity of John Dunton
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 119–135.
Published: 01 April 2016
... for Women,” Modern Philology 28 (1930): 45–59. Kathryn Shevelow, in
chapter 3 of Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early
Periodical (London: Routledge, 1989), discusses at length the insistent presence of
women in the Mercury; in particular, she argues that Dunton’s...
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“Where Are Your Books?”: William Wordsworth's Commonplaces
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 217–235.
Published: 01 January 2024
... that at the dawn of the nineteenth century, the same conditions of print culture that produced anxiety about reception and authorship may also, at least in part, have contributed to a conceptual blurring and extension of the category of book—what counts as a book, that is. Upon one telling, the long history...
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Handwriting, the Self, and Society in the Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 143–147.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., and, before her, Walter Ong and Marshall McLuhan, have tended to obscure the contin- ued importance of writing and scribal arts, along with the abiding fertility of oral culture, which lay behind the printed material that dominates our concep- tion of the period. Print culture was in fact a relatively small...
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Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
... unlike some other orders, the Poor Clares in this earlier period did not regularly mark their volumes with a convent of origin. 17 A brief survey of the printed works that have survived from the Poor Clares’ libraries reveals an eclectic textual culture that tended to customize materials to suit...
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Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... that spanned a period of great cultural change, which saw
the introduction of significant technological innovations to the printing
trade. In November 1781, the London Courant and Westminster Chronicle
announced the publication of the second annual volume of William Pea-
cock’s upmarket, illustrated...
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“Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
... a work's author even if it did matter to them. But periodical culture would also encourage the view that such identification was unnecessary, perhaps even undesirable. Poems circulated in manuscript might theoretically be attributable given their provenance from within the compiler's own network...
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The Rise of the Novel, or ’Tis Sixty Years Since
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 127–137.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690 1730 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 2017). Pp. viii + 336. $45 Thomas Keymer, ed. Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750. Volume 1 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2017). Pp. xxxiv + 637...
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Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth-Century French Print Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Amanda Lahikainen R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793967 Copyright 2021 by Amanda Lahikainen 1 0 1 Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth- Century French Print Culture Amanda Lahikainen Aquinas College...
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