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... Jill Marie Bradbury National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology Genre theory cannot be divorced from the history of genres, from the understanding of genres in history. —Michael...

... sentimental tales about hunchbacks in love. Both professionals and amateurs seem to have used them as technical exercises—as a way of amusing themselves and showing off their skill at mimetic versification. As such, deformity poems illustrate the everyday uses of verse in this culture: they were written...

...Luisa Calè In “A Friendly Gathering: The Social Politics of Presentation Books and their Extra-Illustration in Horace Walpole’s Circle,” Lucy Peltz plays with the technical and metaphorical senses of “gathering” to reflect on the materiality and sociability of altered books in the Strawberry Hill...

... of a theoretical text is followed by rearranged extracts from technical treatises, while many verso leaves are covered in recipes relevant to the trades of painters and plasterers, largely reorganized by ingredient, and following artisanal pathways. On the title‐page, John Martin established his ownership...

... to the character assumed in the Title-Page than of his reputation as a poet,” that character being “A Sailor,” the first two editions’ only indication of authorship. 2 The advertisement stakes that sailor's status on the poem's language, on the “technical terms,” what Falconer elsewhere calls “marine language...

... us if we had read a little Poem called the Shipwrek [ sic ]? neither of us had even heard of it. He said it was somewhat too long, & somewhat too technical, but that it contained many beautiful passages. . . . The passages he selected [to read aloud] were really beautiful; they were chiefly...

... dictionaries include Elisha Coles's An English Dictionary (1676), Glossographia Anglicana Nova (1707), and John Kersey's Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708). 24. Michael Rand Hoare, “Scientific and Technical Dictionaries,” Oxford History of English Lexicography , ed. Cowie, 2:47–93. 25...

.... Material common across all the works includes descriptions of the harsh working conditions, depictions of shipboard routines and sailor culture; a focus on maritime technology, technical language, and terms of art; voyages of discovery and adventure; and, finally, autobiographical elements. Although only...

... according to maritime temporality and the record-keeping style of the logbook. Finally, Falconer's influence with respect to the use of technical terms (with or without annotation or explanation) predominates, such that even those who do not name Falconer as a forebear nevertheless are indirectly indebted...

... a single interpretation, on connoisseurship over academic authority. For the twenty- first-century interpreter, this approach requires knowledge of the cultural and social contexts of the wider public, but also sensitivity to technical and artis- tic concerns of the artist and of his most...

... between the emphasis on technical expertise that supports didac- ticism and critics expectations for stylistic decorum. In addition, they investigate the distinction between authorial and editorial annotations in shaping how literary history would define the georgic. While their chap- ter offers a broad...

... The Shipwreck —for a sense of his literary education. We know that by 1750–51, Falconer had developed his reading and writing to the point of composing a technically competent elegiac poem, which reveals that he had read one of the most popular poems of the period: James Thomson's Winter . He had demonstrably...

... the secularization of science and nature; her work avoids the technical language of scientific specialization used by her literary predecessors, marking a trend that would have nineteenth- century women writers focusing more explicitly on the domestic and more overtly eschewing participation in scientific discourses...

... of legal procedures and technical fabulations. This makes for a very different history of the novel, in which, she writes, “The hallmarks of realism later associated with the development of the novel are notably absent”; DeGooyer recovers instead what she calls “the naturalization imaginary —the slapdash...

... trials. Perhaps it is due in large part to the intimidating, dry, and technical nature of the material: four hefty volumes of the State Trials, plus the learned eighteenth-century commentaries, the reports and correspondence of central government, documents seized...

... Piranesi’s verbal accompaniments came to be severed from his images, the former fading into obscurity even as the latter came to be increasingly celebrated for their magnetic visual appeal and technical prowess. Minor’s book goes far to rectify this imbalance, in the process giving us new insight...

... a formula, for convey- ing the essentials about a person s life and character in a less detailed, less prolix, more consistent, and more memorable form. The essentials of what the Lady s Monthly Museum called the usual technicalities of biography, and John Aikin labeled the biographical matter, were...

... dictionaries after 1718.13 To a large extent, this fascination with gardening and the mechanics of grafting coin- cided with a recent increase in the amount of information available to the general public thanks to the work of eighteenth-century agronomists and the proliferation of technical manuals.14...

... prints and theater in the early years of the French Revolution share songs, characters, overt and covert references, technical vocabulary, a dis- trust of showmanship, and, of course, political context. By giving a history of the ways that theater influenced French Revolutionary print culture, especially...

... and the Sentimental Novel ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2020 ). Pp. x + 242. $34.95 . Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Two new books argue that fictional depictions of loss reveal how eighteenth-century Britons conceived personhood, agency, and wealth. Technically intricate yet...