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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 107–129.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Matthew Simpson The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27107-Simpson.q4.jw 4/14/03 10:56 AM Page 107
“Hame Content”: Globalization and a
Scottish Poet of the Eighteenth Century...
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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 (2005) 29 (2): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Liam McIlvanney Duke University Press 2005
Hugh Blair, Robert Burns,
and the Invention of Scottish Literature
Liam McIlvanney
University of Aberdeen
On 4 May 1787, the day before...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 125–130.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Janet Sorensen Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 McClean Ralph Young Ronnie Simpson Kennish , eds. The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2016 ). Pp. xiii + 299 . $95 ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2007
...David S. Shields Corey Andrews. Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry . Studies in British Literature, no. 82 (Lewiston: Edward Mellen Press, 2004). Pp. 378. $119.95. ISBN 0-7734-6463-8 Duke University Press 2007 Review...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 54–60.
Published: 01 January 2009
...: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. 252. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3791-7 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
Highlandisms:
The Expanding Scope of Eighteenth-Century
Scottish Studies
Juliet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 61–66.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Roger L. Emerson Richard B. Sher. The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 815. 61 ills. $40.00. ISBN 0-226-75252-6 Duke University Press 2008...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 21–50.
Published: 01 January 2013
...David E. Shuttleton The Scottish poet Dr. Thomas Blacklock (1720-90) is often cited as the first professional man of letters to recognize the poetic achievements of Robert Burns. As Burns later recalled to John Moore, it was a letter from Blacklock in late 1786 praising the “Kilmarnock Poems...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 20–43.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Adam Rounce Duke University Press 2005
“Stuarts without End”: Wilkes, Churchill,
and Anti-Scottishness
Adam Rounce
Keele University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 60–80.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Leith Davis As the first published anthology of Scottish poetry, the Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems has long been regarded as a milestone in Scottish literary history. But acknowledgments of the Choice Collection 's importance have historically been coupled with criticisms about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... in Mourning” remained unpublished in Forbes's lifetime, the Scottish Historical Society published a three‐volume printed version in 1895–96. The printed version succeeded in generating knowledge about the work, but it also fundamentally changed how the manuscript was perceived. In an effort to shine new light...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Andreas Mueller This article argues that Richard Hurd was more directly engaged than previously appreciated with the Anglo-Scottish cultural wars of the early 1760s over the nature of and center of gravity of an emergent British literary tradition. It establishes the ways Hurd’s Moral and Political...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 45–63.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Nathaniel Wolloch This article examines the anti-anthropocentric views of the eighteenth-century Scottish natural philosopher William Smellie, in particular in comparison with the predominant anthropocentric ethic of the human mastery of nature more common during the Enlightenment. Smellie's views...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Juliet Shields Swenson Rivka . Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2016 ). Pp. xviii + 329 . 16 ills. $100 Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Review Essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2015
... on the man Scots historians usually refer
to simply as Ilay and on the central role he played in the political and cultural
life of Scotland in the early Scottish Enlightenment. Ilay, who, in 1743, at the
age of sixty-three, succeeded his elder brother to become the third Duke of
Argyll and Chief...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., the former
as the locus classicus of folk music, and the latter of its high-art equivalent,
and it was largely Scottish and German scholars who articulated the key argu-
ments. A final strand was added about the middle of the nineteenth century,
when the binary opposition of art and folk became...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 81–97.
Published: 01 April 2008
...
“A great many Scottish ballads . . . were re-made in the eighteenth century, not
instinctively and unconsciously, but as intelligently and artistically as might be.”
— Bertrand Bronson, “Habits of the Ballad as Song”
Eighteenth-century Scotland was a nation of ballad singers and ballad lov-
ers.1...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 109–113.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Arianne Chernock Silvia Sebastiani . The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress , trans. Jeremy Carden ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 ). Pp. xiv + 255. $85 . Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 2006
... revisionism as he was back in the second half of the eighteenth
century. On the one hand he has been portrayed as a perfi dious Scottish
chance, an “insolent pretender” and “sensual bully” (in the words of Hugh
Trevor-Roper) who “forged” a Scottish past in order to make up for Scot-
land’s complete...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 1–50.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... That he does not appear to
have liked them very much is itself an aspect, albeit negative, of Venice’s
artistic impact on his Scottish contemporaries.
The women of my title is the word that needs the most careful and
tactful explanation. Perhaps signifi cantly it is the one idea that the Edin...
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