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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2010
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Grafts at Work in Late Eighteenth-Century
French Discourse and Practice
Giulia Pacini
College of William & Mary
“What don’t we make grafting do?” (“Que ne fait-on pas faire à la greffe
exclaimed the naturalist Antoine...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 105–113.
Published: 01 September 2010
...: Routledge, 2007). Pp. viii + 378. $160 Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay
New Work on Money, Finance,
and Thought in the Eighteenth Century
Alexander Dick
University of British Columbia
Ian...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 57–80.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Paddy Bullard This article develops recent work by literary historians on miscellany publication, and on the printed miscellanies that were so important and popular for the early eighteenth-century book trade. It offers a history of the form, illustrated by comments made by the Duke of Buckingham...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Devoney Looser This essay considers Frances Burney’s last published work, Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832), for its sustained attention to gender, aging, and authorship. When the Memoirs is read from cover to cover, significant and previously unnoticed patterns emerge that offer new insights...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 102–125.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of Johnson's imaginative writing and criticism, undertaken in tandem by editors and professional critics, was to bear much fruit, notably, in the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson (1955–2019) and the Yale Boswell Editions, officially launched in 1949. The impressive body of scholarship that has...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 15–37.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., although by no means exclusively female. The family trade is set in the context of women’s involvement in the luxury trades of eighteenth-century London, as both owners and employees. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 women work fans London trade...
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in Enlightened “Museums of Images” or Decorative Displays? Elizabeth Seymour Percy and the Eighteenth-Century Print Room
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Interior of Castletown House print room, County Kildare, Ireland. Courtesy of Castletown House and Parklands, Office of Public Works/Davison and Associates.
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in The Enlightenment's Dark Spaces: Library as Heterotopia in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 2. Francis Hayman, illustration to book 1 of the Dunciad in Four Books , vol. 5: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. (1751). Courtesy of Professor David Vander Meulen.
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 1a and 1b. Closeup (left); and full-size image of “Proposal, for Republishing by Subscription, POEMS, By PHILLIS WHEATLEY. To which will be added , (Never before published) Her POSTHUMOUS WORKS,” 7 July 1791, Thomas's Massachusetts Spy; Or, the Worcester Gazette (7 July 1791), page 3
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 1a and 1b. Closeup (left); and full-size image of “Proposal, for Republishing by Subscription, POEMS, By PHILLIS WHEATLEY. To which will be added , (Never before published) Her POSTHUMOUS WORKS,” 7 July 1791, Thomas's Massachusetts Spy; Or, the Worcester Gazette (7 July 1791), page 3
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Lorna Clark The recovery of the works of early English women writers is an ongoing project, and should include those of Sarah Harriet Burney (1772–1839). One of her novels has recently appeared in a scholarly edition and the rest will soon follow. Common themes and motifs can be found in her work...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 38–57.
Published: 01 April 2019
...). In one case, the 1963 Lancer edition of the “suppressed sequel to Fanny Hill,” Memoirs of a Coxcomb , the work in question was certainly Cleland’s. But in two other cases, mildly racy eighteenth-century “memoirs” were blazoned on their covers as “by the Author of Fanny Hill,” despite the absence of any...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Ashley Marshall The “Defoe” to be found in the major modern biographies and the criticism of the last four decades is a radically different person and writer from earlier Defoes. Although the notion of a “constructed” author is by now an over-worked cliché, Defoe represents an especially...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... material form in an illustrated manuscript book he produced in the first decades of the eighteenth century. As a work and an object, the Chronicles stages a series of conversations between print and manuscript. In exploring this unique case study, we expose how the mixed medium of the manuscript book could...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 56–75.
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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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 37–64.
Published: 01 September 2009
... three editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-71, 1777-84, 1788-97). In these five works, I have located 121 articles in which Johnson is mentioned or quoted as an authority; by giving a sense of the character of his presence, the essay traces the evolution of his reputation. The essay also draws...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Yael Shapira This essay considers the limited presence of the dead body in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto . The near absence of gory death from the novella is striking, given both its intensive borrowing from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its status as the founding work of the Gothic tradition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Carol Stewart Signs of Eliza Haywood’s Jacobite sympathies are scattered throughout her work, becoming pronounced in The Fortunate Foundlings (1744), a novel written on the eve of the ’45 Rebellion. There is a positive representation of the Stuart court in exile, an emphasis on loyalty, and unusual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 13–45.
Published: 01 April 2023
... work of nautical reference until the end of the sailing ship. Largely forgotten through the 20th century, Falconer's work is now being recognised as a significant and unique contribution to our understanding of the literature, and indeed the world view, of the eighteenth century. This essay traces his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the tragic-sentimental mode that characterizes a large number of these illustrations. The illustrations will not be discussed in isolation but will be related to how artists at various exhibitions in that period engaged with Falconer's work and made present various aspects of it. In its comprehensive...
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