... requirements. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 R Ancient Ethics and Modern Happiness: A Study of  Three Treatises in Enlightenment Britain Brian Michael Norton California State...

... Recognizing Earth’s Antiquity—and That a Reliable Geohistory Could Be Developed through Study of Rocks and Fossils Jason A. Lillegraven University of Wyoming Martin J. S. Rudwick. Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of...

... Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay Sterne Studies at the Tercentenary Brian Michael Norton California State University, Fullerton W. B. Gerard, ed. Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne...

...Michael Gavin Underwood Ted . Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies . ( Stanford : Stanford Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. viii + 199 . $35 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay...

...Mona Scheuermann The College of William & Mary 2000 — Review Essay — Gender Studies of English Fiction Isobel Grundy. Lady Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 680...

...: 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...

... almost to indifference. 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...

...Ashley Marshall Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay The State of Swift Studies 2010 Ashley Marshall Pennsylvania State University English...

... ). Pp xv + 348. 34 ills. $45 Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Review Essay Studies in British and American Epistolary Culture Eve Tavor Bannet University...

... Outliving Three Centuries? A View of Johnson Studies at the Tercentenary of His Birth Christopher Vilmar Salisbury University Clingham, Greg, and Philip Smallwood, eds. Samuel Johnson after 300 Years...

...Nicholas Hudson The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26207-95-huds.q4 5/28/02 2:23 PM Page 83 Review Essay Challenging Eisenstein: Recent Studies in Print Culture...

... archival evidence about sexual relations between noblemen and workingmen in eighteenth-century Paris. Nobles who sought and had sex with men, more often in private than in public spaces, have not been studied as a group. As this case study demonstrates, their rank both sheltered then from arrest and...

... main source for this study is the online database London lives, 1690-1800... Old Bailey Proceedings. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 • Cheese, Stolen Paper, and the London Book Trade, 1750–99...

...Nigel Aston The ascent of John Fitzmaurice is a study in the processes of Anglo-Irish integration and socialization in aristocratic circles in eighteenth-century London, a subject area that awaits systematic investigation: his is less a story of rags to riches than of a resourceful Irishman from a...

...David O’Shaughnessy The Whig pamphleteer Dennis O’Bryen is one of a number of Irish playwrights in eighteenth-century London whose cultural and political contribution to the city has been overlooked. This essay offers the early career of O’Bryen as a case study in how the theater might be used to...

... identity shaped Johnson’s choices, and, in turn, how those choices shaped his identity, this study raises questions about how we approach and understand the meanings of Irish identity for middle-class migrants more generally. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Middle-class migrants...

...Temma Berg While there have been many reception studies of verbal texts, it is only recently that we have begun to explore the historical and cultural contexts of interpretations of eighteenth-century visual print culture. Given that Thomas Rowlandson's 1784 watercolor Vauxhall Gardens has become...

... article also reflect, as literary-scholars-turned-curators, on what they learned about how material culture produces and records celebrity when the objects of study range beyond standard printed artifacts. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Shakespeare Austen curating celebrity...

... could moral philosophy or physics, Dennis's essays can also teach us about eighteenth-century proto-disciplinary organization. Recent work in cognitive cultural studies has shown that the concept of motion is of vital importance to understanding the way the brain comprehends and structures language...

... a wider critique of some dominant methodologies employed in assessing popularity in bibliographical study. Reissues are often discounted by bibliographers taking quantitative approaches to popularity, because they are not taken to be signs of expected demand, as new editions are. This article argues...