...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 in...

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

...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: For...

...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 as the...

...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...

.... 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 at the...

...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 in the...

... 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...

... 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...

... Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902666 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 5 6 Pope Well Noted Philip Smallwood University of Bristol Julian Ferraro and Paul Baines, ed. The Poems of Alexander Pope, vol. 1, Longman Annotated English Poets (London: Routledge, 2019). Pp. xxv + 750...

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...- butions to the study of British neo-Hellenism: in October, Princeton Archi- tectural Press, in association with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, released a reprint of volumes 1 – 3 of James Stuart and Nich- olas Revett’s Antiquities of Athens, with a short but...

...Michael Edson R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 1, January 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-7993677 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 1 0 4 Planned Obsolescence Michael Edson University of Wyoming Jack Lynch, ed. The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660 1800 (New...

... University Press, Yale University Press, or, in the case of Hor- ace Walpole, the two in conjunction.1 Some of these editions, such as the Oxford Frances Burney (now at sixteen volumes) and the Yale Thomas Percy (now at nine), are still in progress.2 Others, such as the five-­volume Oxford Pope and...

... Beasley. The first volume, The Adventures of Fer- dinand Count Fathom, appeared in 1988, edited by Beasley and Brack. Eight Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2014  doi 10.1215/00982601-2646191 Copyright 2014 by Duke...

...Nicholas Allen Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield, eds. The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2006). Pp. 477. 12 ills. $160. ISBN 0-19-924705-6 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay...

... University of Toronto Thomas Keymer & Peter Sabor, eds. The ‘Pamela’ Controversy: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson’s ‘Pamela,’ 1740–1750. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001. Volume 1: pp. lxxi + 260; 2: l + 355; 3: pp. xxx + 349; 4: xliii + 312; 5: 335...

...Katherine A. East R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725782 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 2 0 Anatomy of a Quarrel: Reconciling Ancient and Modern Katherine A. East Newcastle University Paddy Bullard and Alexis Tadié...