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...Michael Edson Reading, like sailing, is a durational experience: reading takes place in time and, if a poem is lengthy enough, reading can thwart absorption and make one notice time passing. Reading time therefore offered William Falconer in The Shipwreck (1762) an overlooked resource for tactfully...

...Antoinette Sol The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26205-68-sol.q4 5/28/02 2:22 PM Page 53 The Second Time Around: Marriage and Remarriage in Riccoboni and La Guesnerie...

...Christian Thorne Soni Vivasvan . Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity ( Ithaca : Cornell Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. ix + 552 . $49.95 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay The Time without Happiness...

...Sabine Baltes-Ellermann R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902744 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 1 0 1 An Adamant Patriot in Changing Times: Jonathan Swift s Later Political Pamphlets Sabine Baltes- Ellermann Huerth...

...-24321-4 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay Pious Times and Priestcraft Begin Again: The Upright Sexuality of the Enlightenment Kevin L. Cope Louisiana State University Sophie Carter. Purchasing...

...Ileana Baird Drawing on Michel Foucault's seminal essay, “Of Other Spaces,” I will explore Colley Cibber's library as a “heterotopia of indefinitely accumulating time,” a space that symbolically represents, in Pope's imaginative world, the dangers posed by a modernity gone wild to the values...

...Donald W. Nichol Literary miscellanies have long been popular. Richard Tottel's 1557 collection, Songes and Sonettes , gathered the works of various Tudor poets. In 1684, Jacob Tonson and John Dryden launched a miscellany that reached six volumes by 1709. By 1743, the time was ripe for a satirical...

..., the essay discusses prosecutions against writers and actors from the later seventeenth century through Cleland’s time, showing how the criminality of the offense was taken for granted (ca. 1670–1700), then rejected (in 1708), and then rationalized (in 1727). Cleland’s novel, notable for resorting...

...Danielle Spratt The essay argues that David Garrick and Sarah Siddons—two of the most financially successful celebrities of their time—cultivated their parental public images in print and portrait culture by capitalizing on the level of their participation in benefits for actors and in the Drury...

...Yoojung Choi Abstract Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's legacy as a celebrated female traveler offers a compelling case study for understanding how critics and readers sought to make sense of a woman's exceptional mobility. Her letters, written during her time in Turkey and Italy, were highly sought...

...” since the Reformation; and second, how to represent people who had been celebrated in their own time, but not in the biographer's later generation. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 celebrity impartiality national worth biography secret history Eighteenth- Century Life Volume...

... that comes second in time, whether as a refined Eve in relation to a rudimentary Adam, or as the revisionary woman poet in relation to the originary masculine classic author. Taken together, their rewritings of Original Sin, human origins, English poetry, and Britain's progress transformed the discourse...

... of the principal members, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, and Hester Chapone, underwent a complete transformation by the time she published her father's biography, Memoirs of Dr. Burney (1832), which contains glowing tributes to the group and its members. This essay seeks to explain the radical change...

...Susan Kubica Howard Writing in the popular nineteenth‐century genre of queens’ lives, Charlotte Papendiek's memoirs, published under the title Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte , chronicle both the life of the queen as well as that of Papendiek. Papendiek establishes her agency...

...Peggy Thompson Jane Austen uses “habit” and its variants four times as often in Mansfield Park as she does in her previous novel, Pride and Prejudice . In what seems, then, to be a deliberate exploration of habit, the novel repeatedly recalls Aristotle's views on habit, which could well have been...

... conventional imperial attributes that characterized Napoleonic imagery at the time. On one level, the portrait can be understood according to Christian iconography or as an allegory of the new French order according to ancient Roman mythology. I argue, however, that Prud'hon subscribed to early nineteenth...

...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...

... national questions regarding Anglo‐Irish relations in the early nineteenth century. Is it time for a poetics of the album as a distinct form, that recognizes the possibility of the interrelation of transcribers’ entries, and the many stories that may be written between the lines? glynis.ridley...

... outlines of the “bookscape” of the Poor Clare convents founded in the seventeenth century on the Continent to allow young English women to pursue a religious vocation that was proscribed at home. Typical of the broader book culture of continental English convents at the time, the libraries of the Poor...