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Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 3. Frederick Magnus Piper, Study Map of Stourhead (1779), reproduced from Steffen Nijhu's “GIS-Based Landscape Design Research: Stourhead Landscape Garden as a Case Study,” in Architecture and the Built Environment 15 (2015): 115.
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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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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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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Peter Wagner This essay reflects on the way my research on eighteenth-century erotica in general, and Fanny Hill in particular, affected my career as an academic in Europe from the 1970s to the 1990s. Still far from being generally accepted subjects of serious academic work, erotica and pornography...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Melanie Bigold This article reconsiders the importance of antiquarian interests and research methods in the making of George Ballard’s encyclopedic biography of learned women, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 89–95.
Published: 01 September 2017
... research shows that controversial pamphlets contemporaneous with Richardson's novel discussed the refusal of Quakers to pay tithes by using the same phrase, an intriguing circumstance as Pamela attends a masquerade dressed as a Quaker. Professor Hume's paper details how little we know about many aspects...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of the discoveries and theories that Darwin drew on in developing his work on evolution came about in the late eighteenth century. We are accustomed to reading Victorian literature in a Darwinian context, but research into the impact of geological and paleontological discoveries on the literature of the romantic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 113–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... claims regarding the overlooked richness of Minerva novels, and demonstrates the need to round out our historical understanding of neglected women writers through combined textual and biographical research. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Isabella Kelly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.
Published: 01 January 2024
... them. Ultimately, this article suggests that studying book format requires not only the skills of traditional bibliography, but also research into the practical use of books. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 In the frontispiece of the 1770 edition of The New...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., represented particularly by the Society of Dilettanti, which researched the sacramental character of sexuality in the pagan world. I argue, however, that such work more often perpetuated an ideology of sexual restraint than of freedom. The antiquarians discerned two different myths of Eros: that of the divine...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
... on it now. There
was a day, not too long ago, when most of the important historical critical
research in our field was undertaken by scholars at major research universi-
ties, who had access to extensive libraries, and the support, both in terms of
time and money, to travel to special collections...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 3–8.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and distinguished history in Austra-
lia and New Zealand, a tradition celebrated and fostered through the tradi-
tion of the David Nichol Smith Seminar. This conference commemorates
the important foundation for future research that the National Library of
Australia established in the 1960s by acquiring...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 150–153.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the eighteenth century.
Costello combines archival and secondary research in Black Salt to sur-
vey the roles people of sub-Saharan African descent played in both the Brit-
ish Royal Navy and merchant marine from 1547 to the present. Approximately
half of the book’s 215 pages of text is devoted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 111–115.
Published: 01 April 2015
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Reservations about the “filter” method aside, Rousseau’s provocative state-
ments also leave readers wanting more. Rousseau, for example, shows how
little we know about the route into eighteenth-century apprenticeships (11); he
indicates that we require more fruitful research to determine who first linked...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 120–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
... years after the publication of Katie Trumpener’s Bardic Nation-
alism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire in 1997, its thesis, despite
its enduring influence, faces revision from new research. By the late 1990s,
recent work on Scotland had begun to question anew the categories “English...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2024
... to consider his developing poetics of the commonplace and its uneasy relation to the often-exclusionary world of the printed book. And finally, the research collaborators working on the Ballitore Collection now housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, investigate their archive's history...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
... month. Barchas had been
working with a team of programmers and student research assistants at the
University of Texas to create an interactive “walk-through” website that
reproduces the experience of visiting a three-room exhibition of 141 paint-
ings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, an exhibit...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 92–112.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., / Of which their plain Grandmothers nothing did know.” 1 Modern researchers have added nuance to Lamb's generalization, demonstrating what he surely knew but chose to ignore in constructing his couplet: that the creation of albums was not an early nineteenth-century innovation, nor was it practiced solely...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the content of the letters,
but, rather, their wrappers with addresses and government postmarks.
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Indeed, Wahrman uses these painted postal items to perform one of his
most impressive investigative feats. In the course of his research, Wahrman—
who first stumbled...
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