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...Anthony W. Lee Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Michael Nicholson Mary Leapor, Mary Scott, Joanna Southcott, Lucy Aikin, and their peers collectively articulate what I call women's “superior secondariness.” To counter an eighteenth-century culture that represented man as “primary” (universal and originary) and woman as “secondary” (derivative...

...Figure 3. Plate I depicting “naval architecture” in Falconer's Universal Dictionary of the Marine (London: T. Cadell, 1769), sig.B6r–v. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. ...

...Chip Badley; Sydney Coleman; Deena Al-halabieh; Lacey Johnson; Rachael Scarborough King; Jaucqir LaFond; John Henry Merritt In this essay, the authors use an archival collection housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Library Special Research Collections to examine how the concept...

... on Forbes's project and to generate new research on Jacobitism in general, Simon Fraser University's Research Centre for Scottish Studies and the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab are partnering with the National Library of Scotland to create a Digital Humanities project focused on “The Lyon in Mourning...

... a postdoctoral degree and rejected by search committees at so-called “elite universities.” The price I had to pay for my academic work on erotica, which proved pioneering in the long run, was considerable and also entailed financial disadvantages. If research on pornography and erotica is no problem today...

... methods from folklore, musicology, and literary study. The formats of the ephemera, and their performative modes seemingly identify these expressions as impermanent; at the same time, examining them collectively, we recognize an ironic gesture for lasting universal human sentiment and meaning...

...Adam Komisaruk Critics from the eighteenth century to the present have largely agreed in portraying Erasmus Darwin as an apostle of sexual liberation. One of Darwin’s career-long themes, that erotic love unifies the visible universe and the invisible, reaches its apotheosis in The Botanic Garden...

... be identified with either. Instead, Macartney adopts a skeptical, self-conscious position with regard to his diplomatic and intellectual limitations in dealing with the Qing. Critical analysis of his narrative’s literary qualities, as well as manuscripts in the Charles W. Wason Collection at Cornell University...

... especially wide-reaching implications for scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature because it was during this period that writers began to codify connections between universal laws of nature, beauty, and human cognition. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Dennis motion...