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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
...Sarah Prescott The College of William & Mary 2001 Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections,
and Noble Friends: Elizabeth Singer Rowe
and Female Authorship in Early
Eighteenth-Century England
’Twas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2003
...David Allan The College of William & Mary 2003
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Politics
of Provincial Culture: The Perth Literary
and Antiquarian Society, ca. 1784–1790
David Allan...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... print and manuscript appear throughout both the genre and content of the Chronicles . Although Cannon's account is a rare example of an early eighteenth-century laboring-class memoir, full of provincial detail and what reads like authentic local color, it is also partly shaped by the generic norms...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2018
... was to reinforce national traditions through her arts and stir pride for them in her plays. Simultaneously, her themes and characters demonstrate that England’s future strength as a center of empire depended upon the talents of those formerly marginalized—in particular, provincials and women artists. This essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
... that the new lodge also attracted English Masons. Its rapid growth in London and provincial England was seeded by the bigotry and condescension with which many in England viewed the Irish, but was more a function of the Antients’ social inclusivity and its commitment to mutual support. This resonated not only...
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in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 2. Portrait of Oh Myeonghang, King Yeongjo's minister of military affairs in 1728, Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), ink and colors on silk, Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Hyeju Oh Family Collection. Photograph © Gyeonggi Provincial Museum. Oh was the highest ranked among the fifteen Bunmu
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
Published: 01 January 2024
... to print, were relegated to the realm of amateur authors, often imagined as females or provincial writers, and thus marginal to the story book history told about the new age of developing copyright and commercial publication, with London as the center not only of printing and bookselling but also...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2005
... perspective, Burns is the epitome
of native rootedness. A provincial dialect poet; a writer of ethnographic
“manners-painting” works; a collector and restorer of the national song tra-
ditions; a dabbler in antiquarianism: he is a key exemplar of “bardic nation-
alism,” that movement of resistance...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 97–100.
Published: 01 September 2015
... circles of the religious establishment or state bureaucracy,
which had long generated the literary output of the Middle East. They com-
prised a new set of voices, propelled upwards by a “new social order” expressed
by the power and affluence of the provincial notablesa` ( yan), who were com-
ing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 14–40.
Published: 01 January 2015
... a conduit through which news and informa-
tion could flow to provincial Ireland. In turn, the position of the Perce
vals in English—and London—society offered a point of entry to others
from Ireland with whom they were connected. The Southwells, too, were
seen in much the same guise, especially...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., Nancy,
Rennes, and Bordeaux, but also many designs for provincial capitals that only a
handful of specialists in France will recognize.
The book is divided into two halves, the first comprised of an introduction, six
chapters, and an epilogue devoted to exploring thematic aspects of the place...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 2. Portrait of Oh Myeonghang, King Yeongjo's minister of military affairs in 1728, Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), ink and colors on silk, Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Hyeju Oh Family Collection. Photograph © Gyeonggi Provincial Museum. Oh was the highest ranked among the fifteen Bunmu...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 115–119.
Published: 01 April 2014
... to “provincialize Europe” and brings to bear new historiography
placing China and Japan at the center of the world economy during the sev-
enteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Specifically, Markley illustrates
how an array of English writers compensated for their nation’s status as glob-
ally...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 20–42.
Published: 01 September 2001
... territory. The provincial courts of justice only rarely intervened.9
In the course of an extensive search through the records of all courts with
full criminal competence in the provinces of Holland, Brabant, and
Zealand—which account for about two thirds of the total population...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... inta-
glio engraving plates from France, and the increasing number of paper
mills in Britain enabled booksellers and printers to experiment with ways
of printing that cut out some of the costs that importing continental print-
ing materials entailed. As a result of an increasing provincial...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2017
... made clear to Us that a
provincial authority is wholly incompetent to treat the question of foreign
estates in the territories of Milan in any hereditary situation and in
whatever effects [may be] involved, for such questions have necessarily too
weighty connections with all...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 67–70.
Published: 01 January 2009
... the Irish experience onto the trades of
provincial England, Wales, Scotland, and colonial North America. His essay
is rich with gems, accounts of booksellers making their money as sellers of
patent medicines, descriptions of itinerants hawking ballads and stories in the
city streets, the story...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 130–133.
Published: 01 September 2016
... as a monument to Johnson’s vanity originating in his own poetic failures,
and, according to Rounce, her criticism was “a Whiggish narrative of literary
history that depended on her own taste” (145) and prevented her from being
receptive to other views. Rounce acknowledges her significance as a provincial...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 114–117.
Published: 01 September 2015
... for tightly commercial
reasons. Importantly, this section also draws examples from beyond London.
Not only is Grand Tour transnationalism foregrounded as an important source
of objects and inspiration, but the exhibition also takes provincial culture seri-
ously, and prevents London from acting...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 April 2001
... in kitchen
soups.17 Various savants vied with one another in France’s provincial acad-
emies in attempts to come up with some form of potato bread. Above all,
in a country plagued with periodic and dire wheat shortages that tended
to degenerate into riots...
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