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“A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal

Michelle Levy

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951386

Published: 01 January 2024

...Michelle Levy This essay revisits the history of Phillis Wheatley Peters's “volume of manuscript poems &&.,” a collection of handwritten poems, which her husband, John Peters, advertised for its return in late 1784, just days after her death. Since no second volume of poems was published...

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Hume's “Supplement to Gulliver ”: The Medieval Volumes of The History of England

Adam Potkay

Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-25-2-32

Published: 01 April 2001

...Adam Potkay The College of William & Mary 2001 Hume’s “Supplement to Gulliver”: The Medieval Volumes of The History of England Difference in Opinions hath cost many Million of Lives...

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“Living Proof”: Frances Burney’s Court Journals and Letters , Volumes 1 and 2

Susan K. Howard

Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 115–120.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2380070

Published: 01 January 2014

... University Press 2013 Review Essay “Living Proof ”: Frances Burney’s Court Journals and Letters, Volumes 1 and 2 Susan K. Howard Duquesne University Frances...

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Providence and Religion in the Crusoe Trilogy

Leah Orr

Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 1–27.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2645918

Published: 01 April 2014

...Leah Orr Critics have long discussed the conversion narrative in the first Crusoe volume as being a paradigm of an individual’s journey from sin to salvation. In the latter two volumes, however, Crusoe questions his initial conversion and eventually rejects his peaceful conclusions from volume 1...

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Unlocking The Cabinet of Love : Rochester, Reputation, and the Eighteenth-Century Miscellany

Claudine van Hensbergen

Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 56–75.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3695936

Published: 01 January 2017

...Claudine van Hensbergen The Works of the Earls of Rochester and Roscommon was one of the most popular poetic miscellanies of the eighteenth century, with more than twenty editions published. Rochester's verse filled the entire first volume, a prominence that proclaimed his importance...

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The Dynamics of Authorial Forgetting: The Case of James Robertson

Robert G. Walker

Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 84–109.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11523704

Published: 01 January 2025

...Robert G. Walker Abstract James Robertson (1713 – 95) was born in Dublin but spent most of his life in England. By profession a comic actor associated for two decades with the York Theatre, in 1770 he published anonymously a relatively large volume of poetry (239 pages), with the title Poems...

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Old & New Foundling Hospitals for Wit in the Age of the Digital Miscellanies Index

Donald W. Nichol

Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 116–141.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3695963

Published: 01 January 2017

...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...

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Writing Himself into a Profession: Knowledge, Skills, and Community in John Martin's “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind”

Bénédicte Miyamoto, Faith D. Acker

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 6–27.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951302

Published: 01 January 2024

..., editorial agency, and even authorship over this bound 350‐page volume, forcing us to reconsider the value of manuscripts in an age of print. This essay reconstructs the transactional nature of the manuscript as the artisan shaped his knowledge through adaptation of theoretical content. As a reader, Martin...

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“The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon

Abigail Williams, Anna Marar

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951290

Published: 01 January 2024

... present different and mutually supportive forms of authority. In this case, print is referred to through citation, graphic imitation, and paratextual format, whilst at the same time, the virtuoso scribal acts of transcribing and refining within the volume operate as an alternative index of textual...

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“A Piece of History the Most Remarkable & Interesting That Ever Happened in Any Age or Country”: “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes

Leith Davis

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951374

Published: 01 January 2024

... in Mourning” remained unpublished in Forbes's lifetime, the Scottish Historical Society published a three‐volume printed version in 1895–96. The printed version succeeded in generating knowledge about the work, but it also fundamentally changed how the manuscript was perceived. In an effort to shine new light...

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Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

Ashley Cataldo

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951362

Published: 01 January 2024

... oblong blank books in the context of their wider blank book offerings; the publishers and booksellers who used the oblong format for printed books and who accounted for manuscript use by those who purchased the volumes; and the everyday practice of the musicians, business owners, and students who used...

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Big Books, Big Data, and Reading Literary Histories

Margaret J. M. Ezell

Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 3–19.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4130753

Published: 01 September 2017

...Margaret J. M. Ezell This essay examines the ways in which the single-authored, period literary history has been challenged since the original Oxford History of English Literature series appeared in the mid twentieth century. The volumes in the new Oxford English Literary History appearing...

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“The March of Intimacy”: Dr. Burney and Dr. Johnson

Peter Sabor

Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 38–55.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4384527

Published: 01 April 2018

... of letters. Despite Johnson’s own lack of interest in music, he was willing to aid his friend with his magnum opus: a history of music that would eventually extend to four volumes. And that assistance included ghostwriting: enlisting Johnson as his uncredited collaborator was the ultimate proof of Burney’s...

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Surf Writers of the Resolution and Discovery : Texts, Waves, Politics, and Death at Kealakekua Bay

Lance Bertelsen

Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-7993622

Published: 01 January 2020

... in the third volume of the oﬃcial history, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean . This skewed chronology has led to some disorientation among historians of surfing, while historians of Cook’s voyages, for the most part, have neglected the surfing episodes altogether. In this essay, I address the descriptions in four...

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Revolutionary Sympathy on Cook’s Resolution : The Transatlantic Education of Lieutenant James King, 1766-76

Lance Bertelsen

Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/000982601-2773975

Published: 01 September 2014

.... King, with strong familial and political ties to Edmund Burke, would become one of Cook’s most trusted aides, commander of HMS Discovery on the voyage home, and author of volume three of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784), the official history of the voyage, a publication that has put him...

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