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...Margarette Lincoln Duke University Press 2007 Mutinous Behavior on Voyages to the South Seas and Its Impact on Eighteenth-Century Civil Society Margarette Lincoln National Maritime...

.... Duke University Press 2009 R The Thirtieth of  January Sermon: Swift, Johnson, Sterne, and the Evolution of Culture The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies James L. Clifford Lecture, 2008...

...Alison E. Martin Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, eds. Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2009). Pp. 283. 10 b/w + 267 color ills. £40 Duke University Press 2011 Review Essay Society, Creativity, and Science: Mrs...

... Raising the Wind: Society Hostesses and Social Networks David Hill Radcliffe Virginia Tech Susanne Schmid. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Pp. ix...

...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...

...Nicholas Hudson R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725815 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 4 3 Handwriting, the Self, and Society in the Eighteenth Century Nicholas Hudson University of British Columbia Aileen Douglas...

...Valerie Rumbold The relationship between the Spalding Gentlemen's Society (founded 1710) and Richard Steele's Tatler (1709–11) achieved its most influential commemoration in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (1812). While there were indeed shared ideals and anxieties that aligned this celebrated example...

...Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace The College of William & Mary 2000 The Needs of Strangers: Friendly Societies and Insurance Societies in Late Eighteenth-Century England In “Tintern Abbey” (1798), Wordsworth’s poetic...

...Sandra J. Burr The College of William & Mary 2000 111 — Review Essay — Inspiring Lunatics: Biographical Portraits of the Lunar Society’s Erasmus Darwin...

...Stephen H. Gregg The College of William & Mary 2001 “A Truly Christian Hero”: Religion, Effeminacy, and Nation in the Writings of the Societies for Reformation of Manners In the critical discussion concerning manliness...

... a scientific explanation for this unusual phenomenon, he cites articles from the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions and offers alternate theories on the atmospheric conditions giving rise to waterspouts. In defining “winds,” Falconer starts with the basics—“A stream or current of air which may...

... in the American colonies were oblong, and Revere himself engraved the music for several music books in addition to the Psalm-Singer . 2 Figure 1. William Billings, The New-England Psalm Singer (1770). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. Figure 1. William Billings, The New-England Psalm...