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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Raymond Stephanson Duke University Press 2007
Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope
and the Curious Case of Modern Scholarship
and the Vanishing Text
Raymond Stephanson
University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 68–80.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Clive Probyn Duke University Press 2008 R
Blindness and Insight:
The World, the Text (of Jonathan Swift),
and the Criticism of Edward Said
Clive Probyn
Monash University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 57–80.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-century texts. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 R
Digital Editing and the Eighteenth-Century Text:
Works, Archives, and Miscellanies
Paddy Bullard
University of Kent, Canterbury
During the last...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., 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...
View articletitled, Surf Writers of the Resolution and Discovery : <span class="search-highlight">Texts</span>, Waves, Politics, and Death at Kealakekua Bay
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 22–38.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Hal Gladfelder Duke University Press 2007
In Search of Lost Texts:
Thomas Cannon’s Ancient and Modern Pederasty
Investigated and Exemplify’d
Hal Gladfelder
University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Bénédicte Miyamoto; Faith D. Acker John Martin wrote “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind” (1690–96) mainly by copying out printed texts at a time when he was successfully converting from plasterer to the more upwardly mobile profession of painter. In his manuscript, a near‐complete fair copy...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Christopher Salamone This article seeks to add nuance to the story of Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, a story that has hitherto neglected the part played by the period's poetic miscellanies. Are there patterns in the form, quantity, and selection of Shakespearean texts within...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 179–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
... readers might value the texts that they encountered. In examining the numerous recital collections of this period, we can see not only the close connection between miscellany publication and the contemporary social vogue for reading aloud, but also the ways in which miscellany texts mediated a whole range...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
... often offensive in content, eighteenth-century verse tales remain quick and colloquial, still leaping off the page after 250 years. Their easy tetrameter couplets and plain diction remind us that neoclassical strictures only stretched so far. Part 2 introduces a stranger and less-appealing set of texts...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 29–37.
Published: 01 April 2019
... by editing a text that was both the author’s first literary work and one that he subsequently repudiated. Our edition argues for the continuity of this early text with some of the concerns that become evident in Cleland’s later life and writings. In particular, we explore some of the novel’s many references...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 78–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... included in a disposable, annual pocket diary, were significantly more ephemeral than illustrations issued as part of an edition, I shall investigate how Stothard mediates the text by providing textual excerpts and how these one-line cues evoke a particular allusive experience of the text that affects...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 111–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... valuable body of our arts.” Specimens collected and collated with the text anchor, document, and illustrate the words on the page. As a result, an identical multiple in a print run was turned into a unique object. Through the art of extraillustration, the extra-illustrator Richard Bull “erected for himself...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... in zeitgeist, alter their consumption and reading practices of the text, but they also interpreted the poem by translating it into a range of different media such as furniture prints, porcelain designs, sculpture, and book illustrations. I shall examine different responses to Thomson's poem by discussing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 18–38.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Andrew O'Malley In this essay, the author argues that chapbook editions of Robinson Crusoe should be viewed not simply as impoverished abridgments of Defoe's novel, but as striking examples of the popular “appropriation” of an elite text by plebeian readers. The ruthless editorial decisions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 18–62.
Published: 01 January 2014
... engaged in their own interpretations of Smollett. Their images often criticize the texts they illustrate, and the readings they generate are alternative interpretive possibilities that the illustrators presumably deemed valid. While some of the passages chosen for illustration contribute to Smollett’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
... through an interplay of voices. Mr. Spectator’s evolving first-person perspective, animated by the loose, ad hoc structures of the justice’s work, where determining the beginning and ending of a legal action is often difficult, clarifies Sir Roger’s exemplary functions in the text. This essay argues...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that habit dulls or removes sensation. This is a prominent idea in Félix Ravaisson's landmark De l'habitude (1838), a text currently enjoying renewed attention, and one that apparently stems from Enlightenment attempts to explain sensation, consciousness, and freedom. Similar concerns inform the eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to be the primary or originary field for creating an Enlightenment disposition. More particularly, interactions with Pacific people were the means by which some Europeans apprehended what their “philosophical betters” typically discovered via texts. Pacific spaces prompted Enlightenment practices in ordinary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... bladder stones. In an apparent disjunction with the preceding philosophical essay, “My Case” brings deformity into a medicalized, rather than humanized, register, crediting Joanna Stephens's controversial domestic remedy—and Hay's subsequent adjustment of it—with allowing him to write the text...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Crèvecœur's book weighed in to promote the North American colonies. In the collection of manuscript essays Crèvecœur presented to London publisher Davis and Davies in 1781, some described plagues ruining crops, or swarms biting colonists, but these texts were passed over, and not published until the 1920s...
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