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... in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the news-papers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. —Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth...

..., Samwell described Hawaiians surfing six- to seven-foot “alaias” on the “great swell rolling into the Bay,” and in March 1779, King recorded his version of the same event, but neither text was published until 1967. In 1784, King published a significantly revised and expanded version of the scene...

..., they remained rare and controversial in the alphabetical ancestors of the modern encyclopedia. In this article, I explain why, and show how encyclopedists’ practices evolved in the period in which the historical dictionary and other alphabetical proto-encyclopedias burst onto the European literary scene...

...) included a scene in which a widowed woman novelist asks for the help of a senior East India official and is rudely rebuffed. Was Kelly writing about her real-life exchange with Hastings, and if so, what might she have been hoping to achieve? The essay attempts to answer these questions in a speculative...

... he did not change librettists). Handel's operas comprise, structurally, a series of mostly static scenes in which intense feelings (ambition, lust, hope, fear, doubt, pain, remorse, etc.) are expressed. The happy‐ending convention in opera seria renders plot resolution secondary. Handel's operas...

...Gordon M. Sayre J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur's Letters from an American Farmer includes memorable scenes in which the farmer revives bees he has rescued from the craw of a king bird, and welcomes a hornet's nest inside his house. As I will argue, the book represented insects in a sentimental...

...Sandro Jung This article offers an account of all illustrated editions of William Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762), including anthologies such as John Roach's Beauties , that were produced up to the end of the handpress period. It examines both the illustrations of specific scenes or moments from...

... and cultural corruption inevitably results in subpar productions and debasement of taste. Within the larger argument of the poem, Pope's radical rewriting of Theobald's monologue and immolation scene from the Variorum to fit the new hero better delivers the poem's message of the intertwining of writing...

... and imagined costumes for self-promotion, and to assert expertise, fashionability, and cosmopolitanism. Celebrations of James Burney’s adventures in Oceania, however, were disturbed by his recollections of violent scenes in New Zealand, which were so traumatic that he could only mention them in whispers...

... the insertion of newly written, explicit sexual scenes in keeping with late twentieth-century tastes. It then offers close readings of both works, to assess the impact of Cleland’s pioneering novel-memoirs on the later history of erotic literature in the eighteenth century. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University...

... required to reduce a 400-page novel to a 24-page chapbook with woodcut illustrations may appear haphazard at times, omitting such vital scenes as Crusoe's discovery of the footprint, for instance, but actually express the preferences, interests, and reading practices of common readers. Popular reading...

... as a scapegoat for the deeply flawed institution of marriage itself. The courtship narrative rewrites several aspects of conventional clandestine marriage plots, such as stock male characters, lengthy debates between love and duty, climactic wedding scenes, and punitive conclusions. The economic plot, featuring...

... grumpy attack upon humankind, many other kinds of scenes, such as sentimental or gently humorous ones, were also illustrated. In this article, I propose that paying attention to what these illustrators thought important will open up new ways of approaching these texts. Copyright 2013 by Duke University...

..., the likeness of the artist who faces the crowd and sketches the scene captured in Vauxhall Gardens , in other words, Rowlandson himself. An endless of hall of mirrors in which we can gaze at ourselves gazing at others gazing at us, Rowlandson's Vauxhall Gardens is indeed a print with many lives. Copyright...

...Sara Landreth This article examines early eighteenth-century attempts to explain how poetic descriptions of physical motion generated vivid scenes in the imagination. Motion was central to neo-Augustan theories of representation because, for much of this period, writers understood motion...

...: that pornography can be, and in fact was, a site of social protest; that its hybridity, especially in the eighteenth century, worked against the simpleminded narrative pleasures it was evolving toward; and that historians need to read the texts in question, specifically their sex scenes, with a focus...

... of  James Thomson’s long poem The Seasons (1730) and the poem’s descriptiveness were routinely remarked upon by its earli- est readers. Dr. Johnson noted: “His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of  Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful...

... to be the evil agents of seduction and ruin, why and how did women persist in reading and writing them? This essay attempts to answer the question by examining scenes of novel-reading in two novels written by women: Mary Hays’ fem- inist Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and Elizabeth Hamilton’s satiric...

...), Rakewell eagerly pursues an aristocratic life of luxury and pleasure, starting with the aspirational levee presented in scene two (figure 2), where he is sur- rounded by all sorts of sycophants and fashionable characters of the time.1 Eighteenth-Century Life...

..., the eyes of the crowd turn to him in a query, and the text itself seems caught in a moment of hesitation: what is the focus of this spectacle? Is it the object that com- mands the scene’s center, the massive and peculiar helmet, or the broken body under its rim? The answer, implied by the huge size...