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Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Susan Bruce
Eschewing the symbolic in favour of commitment to the unmediated replication of exactly that which is actually observed, Hunter's attitude to the images in his Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus embraces a juridical ideal of scientific representation: images should tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Contemporary scholars have questioned this appeal to objectivity, maintaining
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Coffeehouse Curiosities: Materiality and Musealization Strategies in The Athenian Mercury Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jaroslaw Jasenowski
Based on the epistolary interaction with readers, John Dunton's Athenian Mercury (1691–97) provided a platform for the discussion and dissemination of knowledge drawn from diverse fields. Plagued by doubts about its reliability, the periodical constantly had to (re‐)assert its credibility. One of the strategies the Mercury employed was to emphasize the physicality of objects via text, practising a
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06
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Introduction: Restoration Epistolarity Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jaroslaw Jasenowski, Gerd Bayer
The early modern age witnessed a number of revolutionary changes in the ways people communicated with each other. Within the shifting balances between oral and print cultures following upon Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, epistolarity played a crucial role in how written language was perceived as a source of reliable information. The highly dynamic cultural environment of Restoration England
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The Letter‐Writing Manual and the Epistolary Novel Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Joe Bray
The relationship between real and fictional letters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has been the source of much critical debate. Disagreement surrounds the extent to which the increasingly popular genre of the epistolary novel drew on the practices and techniques of actual correspondence. On the one hand are those who see epistolary fiction as developing out of real‐life letters
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All the News That Is Fit to Steal: Charles Gildon, Ferrante Pallavicino, and the Geopolitics of Rifled Mailbag Fiction Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Thomas O. Beebee
Charles Gildon (1665–1724) is known today as the ultimate hack writer of Restoration England. Nonetheless, his two fiction collections in the ‘rifled mailbag’ genre — The Post‐Boy Rob'd of His Mail (1692) and The Post‐Man Robb'd of His Mail (1719) — contain insights concerning the structures and practices of information gathering in early modern Europe. This essay places these fictions by Gildon in
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The Bishop of Exeter Versus Benjamin Hoadly: Pamphlets, Controversy, and the Uses of Epistolarity in Restoration England Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Gerd Bayer
This essay discusses the use of epistolarity in a pamphlet controversy that played out over a published sermon by the Bishop of Exeter and a critical response by Benjamin Hoadly. While the political, religious, and social aspects of the resulting pamphlet war are substantial, the present article discusses how the form of the letter was employed by the various authors who contributed to this controversy
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Sidereal Messages: Print Letters in Restoration Astronomical Writing Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Florian Klaeger
Astronomy, a paradigmatic observational discipline of early modern ‘science’, relied on epistolary communication for coordinating practitioners across the world, publishing discoveries and theories, and seeking their confirmation from other virtuosi. Epistolary form ‘travelled’ from an individual exchange between scholars, via the print publication of such letters for the benefit of a wider readership
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Democracy's Fatal Flaw: Anonymity and the Normalization of Offence in John Dunton's Epistolary Periodicals Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Helen Berry
Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values. Written at a time of socio‐political upheaval, John Dunton's serial publications relied upon anonymous authorship
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Anna Letitia Barbauld's Insect Poetics Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Rosalind Powell
This article reads Anna Letitia Barbauld's affective encounter in ‘The Caterpillar’ (1825) in the light of her broader entomological writing for both adults and children. It investigates the recommendations for attention to the small and the particular in her didactic work alongside the narratives of insect subjectivity and insect metamorphosis in her occasional and lyric verse to assess the poet's
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-21
No abstract is available for this article.
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The Pad, the ‘Fat’ Belly, and the Politics of Female Appetite Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Charlotte Goodge
1793 saw the emergence, vogue, and decline of ‘the pad’, a fashionable false belly worn by women under their outer garments. At the time, the pad was most explicitly condemned as a disguise for illegitimate pregnancy and as a distorter of the ‘natural’ female shape — the slender waist. However, as this article will uncover, underpinning these more common critiques of the pad was the suspicion that
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Against Melancholy: Robert Blakeway and the Anglican Definition of an Orthodox Sorrow in Early Eighteenth-Century England Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Andrés Gattinoni
Scholars have long recognized the significance of the concept of ‘enthusiasm’ in eighteenth-century British culture. Its association with melancholy made it a powerful tool for dealing with religious and political dissent by dismissing enthusiasts' claims to divine inspiration as the delusions of their troubled minds. However, the medicalization of enthusiasm also meant that many Christians felt the
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The Forms of Error in Defoe's Tour: Culpable and Venial Mistakes Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Pat Rogers
The article explores forms that error may take in a historical work, here Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' Britain. An introduction attempts to place the book in relation to the production of knowledge, as compared with books in allied genres. The first main section considers the nature and causes of error, divided into categories of culpable and venial mistakes. The second looks at the way in which the Tour
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A Methodist Opera? The Troublers of Israel (1767) as Response to the Anti-Methodist Critique Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Brett C. McInelly
Abstract: This essay examines the The Troublers of Israel in the context of Methodism's uneasy, and seemingly contradictory, relationship with the theatre and argues that its anonymous author purposefully adapted the operatic form to achieve his rhetorical, and religious, aims. Even though this tactic has confused bibliographers who have miscategorized the piece as an anti-Methodist work since the
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-04
No abstract is available for this article.
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‘The Ruins of the Face’: The Aesthetics of Ruin in Austen's Persuasion Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Lisa Kraege
This article investigates Jane Austen's network of bodily metaphors in Persuasion, re-examining ‘bloom’ in the context of its pair, ‘ruin’. While the novel is traditionally understood as a progress narrative that moves from Anne's self-description as being ‘in ruins’ to the restoration of her ‘bloom’, the article examines the inconsistency around Anne's appearance and ‘bloom’ throughout the novel,
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Knowledge and the Picturesque: Encountering Syria in the Eighteenth Century Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Alexis Tadié
This essay looks at the West's engagement with Syria in the eighteenth century, through the writings of travellers and through the history of the publications they brought back from their travels. It argues that these publications provoked a rethinking of various tropes in the description of the Levant, helping to define attitudes to ruins as well as providing a model for thinking about the customs
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Living Holy, Dying Holy: The Theological Influence of Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying (1656) on Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady (1748) Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Rebekah Andrew
This article investigates some of the parallels between Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying (1656), a work long acknowledged as intertextually influential over Richardson's fiction. Focussing on the religious and theological influence of Taylor's practical theological writing over both Clarissa's life and death, this article
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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(Re-)Packaging Knowledge and The Business of Format: Benjamin Martin's The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64) Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Helga Schwalm
Benjamin Martin was an itinerant lecturer, instrument maker, and the author of a substantial number of textbooks mainly in the sciences. His biggest project, however, was The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64), dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge to a broad audience. Rather than study Martin's works with regard to the history of science, this article examines his publications in
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Courage, Honour, and Phlegm: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Military Writers' Descriptions of Soldiers' Combat Emotions and Motivation Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Samuel Dodson
This article will aim to cover military writers' comments upon the psychological, emotional, and motivational aspects of soldiers in the eighteenth century. In recent years, there has been a positive re-evaluation of the Ancien Régime soldier compared with that of the later citizen soldier of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This article seeks to add to this re-appraisal by introducing
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Enabling Politeness: Perfumers and Male Self-Fashioning in Britain, c. 1750–1800 Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Alun Withey
Perfumers have long been associated with the manufacture and sale of cosmetic products for women in the eighteenth century. This article argues, however, that the place of perfumers as retailers of goods for men has been overlooked and that they were, in fact, key enablers in the construction of polite masculinity. In so doing, it also raises broader questions about the gendering both of particular
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23
No abstract is available for this article.
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Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Ashleigh Blackwood, Helen Williams
This introduction to the special issue ‘Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century’ explores the various types of literary and visual creativity enacted by medical practitioners as they sought new ways of communicating and engaging with the public. Focusing on the shift from Latin to vernacular publishing in elite medical circles, we examine the proliferation of new opportunities
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‘Make the Medick Art my Whole Concern’: Poetry as Women's Literary Medical Practice Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Ashleigh Blackwood
The act of writing has long been acknowledged as integral to eighteenth-century medical practice, with medical practitioners relying on their ability to communicate via the written word for professional success. Partly as a result of their literary activities, the achievements of male physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries are frequently well-documented, yet the same cannot be said of women engaging
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‘Meanders of [the] Purple Flood’: Blood and Bloodletting in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Medicine Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Heather Meek
This essay considers understandings and representations of blood and bloodletting in a range of eighteenth-century medical and literary texts. Reflecting a historical moment of complex and uneven transition, these texts present models of blood that are variously orthodox, idiosyncratic, and imaginative. Representations of bloodletting, in particular, show doctors and laypeople, including women, contesting
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Discussing Patients in Private and in Print: The Records of an Eighteenth-Century Dispensary Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Daisy Cunynghame
This essay studies the variation between the ways in which physicians wrote about their patients in private and their presentation of these case histories to the wider world in print. Focusing particularly on the case of Andrew Duncan, who founded the Edinburgh Public Dispensary in 1776, this paper will investigate the differences detailed in Duncan's handwritten case notes with the ways in which he
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Writing Doctors, Body Work, and Body Texts in the French Revolution Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Susan Broomhall
This paper explores the construction of the identities of Philippe Curtius and his protégé Marie Grosholtz, known as Madame Tussaud, as providers of medical and health services, body workers, and entrepreneurs in key works that charted their experiences during the volatile period of the French Revolution. As purveyors of entertainment that derived its attraction from perceived close rendering of the
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Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth-Century Pocketbook Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Helen Williams
Eighteenth-century medical literature recommended that women record their menstrual cycles to identify dates of conception, measure gestation, and predict delivery. Women's pocketbooks were natural repositories of such pregnancy-related data. This article charts the history of women's pocketbooks providing printed affordances for menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. Throughout the eighteenth century
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Medicating Georgia: Writing Doctors in the Old South Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Allan Ingram
This essay looks at two medical families in Georgia between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Kollocks from Savannah and the Fort family from Milledgeville. Lemuel Kollock (1766–1823) moved there in 1792 from Connecticut to set up a medical practice. He married and had two sons and a daughter (Phineas, 1804–1872; Mary, 1806–1885; and George, 1810–1894). Phineas became a doctor and returned
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John Pechey (1654–1718) and the Popularization of Learned Medicine Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Giulia Rovelli
This essay offers a corpus-based linguistic analysis of the paratexts of the works of John Pechey (1654–1718), a licentiate physician and prolific medical author and popularizer, whose ideas and practice brought him into conflict with the Royal College of Physicians. Following the methodology of corpus-assisted discourse analysis, historical discourse analysis, and historical sociopragmatics, the essay
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‘The Doctor and Devil’: The Literary Writing of Slave-Ship Surgeons Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Michelle Faubert
In the annals of writing by physicians from the long eighteenth century, there exists a neglected subset that demands greater attention: the writing of slave-ship surgeons. Such physicians existed on many slave ships, and they were required to attend the crew and kidnapped Africans during the Middle Passage to the colonies. They were also required to keep meticulous records, which became the basis
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Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850. By Mark Knights. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 512 pp. £35. ISBN: 978-0-19879-624-4. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Paul Kosmetatos
British public institutions during the period 1600 to 1850 may not have necessarily been more prone to corruption than their present-day counterparts, nor were the country's office holders especially venal by nature. Every student of the period is still familiar with examples that, for us, appear too forward in their self-serving attitude: purchased army commissions, parliamentary seats secured by
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François-Jean de Chastellux (1734-1788): Un soldat-philosophe dans le monde atlantique à l'époque des Lumières. By Iris de Rode. Paris: Honoré Champion. 2022. 738 pp. €95. ISBN 978-2-7453-5684-0. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Julia Osman
When studying the eighteenth century, most historians revisit sources that have been available to researchers for decades, renewing and re-interpreting the same evidence. In contrast, historian Iris de Rode, who earned her PhD at the Université de Paris 8 and currently teaches American History at Sciences Po, has consulted previously inaccessible papers for François-Jean de Chastellux (1734-1788):
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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Correction to “Forgetting Oneself: Epigraphs and Escapism in Ann Radcliffe's Novels” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-16
Yem, E. J. (2022) Forgetting Oneself: Epigraphs and Escapism in Ann Radcliffe's Novels. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45: 305– 321. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12813 In notes 12 and 34, Corrina Readioff's name was corrected. Furthermore, ‘page 189’ was changed to ‘page 198’ in note 34. Notes 12 and 34 should appear as follows: 12. For other examples, see Corrina Readioff, ‘Paratext
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Notation, Performance, and the Significance of Print in the Music of Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780)1 Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Rebecca Cypess
The posthumously published correspondence of the Black British writer, butler, musician, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780) has received extensive critical attention in recent decades, especially because it contributed to opening a space for Black authorship in the Atlantic world. Absent from discussions of Sancho's negotiation of orality, writing, and print have been Sancho's books of musical
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Authorship, Image-Making, and Excess: William Hunter's Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata (1774) Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Alicia Hughes
In 1774, the physician-anatomist William Hunter (1718–1783) published Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata/The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, Exhibited in Figures (1774). Issued as an elephant folio, the book is the culmination of twenty-four years of work and includes thirty-four plates with life-size hyper-naturalistic engravings by artists such as Robert Strange after drawings by
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Politics, Religion and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie. Edited by Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris, and John Marshall. Martlesham: Boydell and Brewer. 2019. xviii + 345pp. $95/£65 (hb). ISBN 978-1-78327-450-5. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Xiang Wei
Few historians' works could bear the weight of this festschrift's title, covering the interconnected ‘politics, religion and ideas’ of not just England but also Scotland in both the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. This catch-all scope seems fitting — and, indeed, just about broad enough — when the honouree is Mark Goldie, whose output over many decades (as documented in the fifteen-page bibliography
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Voltaire, Lettres sur les Anglais. Edited by Nicholas Cronk. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2022. 703 pp. (Vol. 6A) + 611 pp. (6B) + 328 pp. (6C). £350. ISBN 978-0-7294-1234-6. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Caio Moraes Ferreira
It would be no exaggeration to say that Voltaire's Lettres sur les Anglais remains one of the most emblematic-yet-perplexing texts of the French Enlightenment. For starters, the work was given a plethora of different names (often by Voltaire himself) over its history, a fact that the current edition acknowledges by choosing to gather the first three variants of the text under an umbrella title that
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Pictures in Time: Temporality and Architecture in Picturesque Theory Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Jake William Bransgrove
This article investigates the relationship between time and architecture in the writings of early theorists of the Picturesque movement in Britain. In doing so, it details how William Gilpin (1724–1804), Sir Uvedale Price (1747–1829), and Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824) engaged with processes of decay, accumulation, and historical reflection in their deliberations over how Picturesque scenes were
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Rétif de la Bretonne, Correspondance. Edited by Pierre Testud. Paris: Honoré Champion. 2021. 772 pp. €68. ISBN 978-2-7453-5507-2. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Kate Tunstall
This volume contains an introduction, three useful indexes (one of names, one of titles, and one of subjects), and 749 items of correspondence, all of which are of interest, though their precise status and the editor's logic of inclusion require some inspection. Of the 749 items, only 450 or so are pieces of correspondence. The others consist in what are only mentions of letters, some made in sources
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From Silence to Sound. Beethoven's Beginnings. By Jeremy Yudkin. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2020. xx + 424pp. $95/£65 (hb). ISBN 978-1-78327-479-6. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Michael Fend
Jeremy Yudkin's new book carries a most intriguing title. Indeed, what kind of techniques did Beethoven use when starting a composition? Dampening our expectations, Yudkin omits the ‘silence’ aspect of his title, and with it a discussion of the resonating extended pauses (as in Op. 110, 111, or the ‘Grosse Fuge’) or the sounding silence in the quartet ‘Mir ist so wunderbar’ of Fidelio. Judging from
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John Eccles. Incidental Music. Part 2 Plays H–P. Edited by Estelle Murphy. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions. 2021. xxiii + 449 pp. $430 (pb). ISBN 978-1-9872-0626-5. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Bryan White
After Henry Purcell's death in November 1695, John Eccles (1670–1735) assumed the mantle of London's leading theatre composer. His first known theatrical music dates from 1690, a setting of a lyric by William Congreve performed in Elkanah Settle's Distressed Innocence. Working for the United Company, Eccles contributed music to several plays along with Purcell before emerging from the latter's shadow
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Souvenirs of a Scandal: Commemorating the Margaret Nicholson Affair Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Anna Jamieson
This article explores a selection of visual and material commemorations of the Margaret Nicholson affair of 1786. Contextualizing the response to the affair within a broader story of spectacle and sensibility, it demonstrates that the cultural power and profusion of Nicholson, the would-be assassin of King George III, were driven by her contravention of expectations surrounding gender, class, and madness
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‘No objection to go abroad’: Servants' Travel Advertisements in The Morning Post, London, 1815 Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Sophie Dunn
This article focuses on newspaper advertisements posted by, or on behalf of, servants who were offering their services to travellers to the European continent at the end of the long eighteenth century. Advertising their travel-related skills, such as languages or knowledge of the roads, travelling servants positioned themselves as ideal travel companions who anticipated their employers' needs and used
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The Textual Construction of North American Indigenous Peoples in the Account of Cook's Third Voyage Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Giulia Iannuzzi
By foregrounding the stratification of cultural agencies underlying the text, this article analyses the conceptualization of human otherness in the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in 1784. The close reading focuses on the case study of indigenous people encountered during Cook's journey up the west coast of North America. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean is an excellent vantage
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Of False Hair, Spanish Wool, and Witchcraft: The Act of Parliament That Never Was Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Alison Daniell
The wording of the so-called Hoops and Heels Act of 1770 ostensibly permitted the husbands of women who had used beauty aids to ‘betray [them] into matrimony’ to declare their marriages null and void, and for those wives to be punished as witches. A set form of words, this supposed Act of Parliament has been quoted and re-quoted across the globe since the late eighteenth century, even though its provisions
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17
No abstract is available for this article.
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L’‘Histoire de ma littérature’ de Mme d’Arconville (1720-1805): Ecriture de soi et généalogie d’une personnalité intellectuelle Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Marc André Bernier
Mme d’Arconville stands out amongst eighteenth-century women of letters because she combined the practice of literature with the more unexpected study of science. When at the end of a very long life she returns to what she calls the ‘story of her head’, the anecdotes she recounts constitute a genealogy of her thought stemming from her childhood’s encyclopaedic curiosity. This essay examines this intellectual
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Creole Identity in the Enlightenment Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Deirdre Coleman
Susanna Gale (1749-1823) was born in St Andrew, Jamaica, a member of the spectacularly wealthy Gale clan which at one point owned in excess of 1000 enslaved people on the island. This article takes Joshua Reynolds's portrait of her as a so-called ‘English rose’ as the starting point for an examination of the discourses surrounding White West Indian creole identity in the Enlightenment. More images
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L’identité du dormeur en question: De l’expérience du sensible à la représentation du cauchemar Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Florence Fesneau
How does one depict a man or woman asleep while preserving their identity? If the official portraits displayed in the salons of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture have no answer to this question, the representation of anonymous sleepers, both male and female, their senses tantalised by smell, sound and touch, echoes sensualist philosophy’s enquiry into how the feeling of existence is constructed
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Ecriture et identité féminines. Giustiniana Wynne Orsini v. Rosenberg: Economie relationnelle et formation d’identité de femme auteur dans ses correspondances Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Rotraud von Kulessa
The Anglo-Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters. Attached to her homeland, the Republic of Venice, and also a cosmopolitan, she took advantage of her personal network to develop an authorial
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‘This Mighty Fabric’: Allan Ramsay, British Union, and the Body of the King Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Robert Paulett
Allan Ramsay's 1760-1761 portrait of the young King George III in his coronation robes depicted the new king as both a metaphoric and a literal embodiment of England, its constitution and its people. A member of the Edinburgh Enlightenment, Ramsay's portrait emphasised the idea of union as a moral correction to the problem of faction, echoing the rhetoric and ideas of his more famous acquaintances
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Identity and Anonymity in Lady Mount Cashell's 1798 Rebellion Broadside Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Alexis Wolf
This article attributes a republican broadside of the 1798 Irish Rebellion to Anglo-Irish aristocrat Margaret Moore, Lady Mount Cashell. I consider ‘The Bard of Erin’ broadside in light of several overlapping factors including Mount Cashell's earlier relationship with her governess Mary Wollstonecraft, participation in women's networks of antiquarian sociability in Dublin and her affinity with the
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Knowledge-Production in a Provincial Network of the 1790s: The Educational Work of Thomas Beddoes, Thomas Wedgwood, Maria Edgeworth, and S. T. Coleridge Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Tim Fulford
I delineate in this article the knowledge-production of a male/female provincial network that did not perpetuate traditional gender roles. Centred on Clifton, Bristol, it involved sociable conversation, correspondence, circulation of manuscript and privately printed material, publication, and practical pedagogy. Committed to social and political reform, it was an expression of middle-class liberal