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Un philosophe des Lumières entre Naples et Paris: Ferdinando Galiani (1728—1787). By AzzurraMauro. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2021. 286 p. $80 (pb). ISBN 978‐1‐80085‐916‐6 Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Barbara Ann Naddeo
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From Voltaire's Quakers to John Boyle's Methodists: Religious Dispute, Bardolatry, and ‘Patriot Enthusiasm’ Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Jonathan P.A. Sell
Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling bardolatry. Further, as one strand within ‘patriot enthusiasm’
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14
No abstract is available for this article.
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Enlightenment All the Way to Heaven: Emanuel Swedenborg in the Context of Eighteenth‐Century Theology and Philosophy. By FriedemannStengel. Swedenborg Studies 24. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation. 2023. 922 p. £46.22 (hb). ISBN 978‐0‐87785‐355‐8. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 David Dunér
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Charles Fleetwood, the 1744 Drury Lane Riots, and Pricing Practices in Eighteenth‐Century British Theatre Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Leo Shipp
In November 1744, a series of riots broke out at Drury Lane theatre, forcing its proprietor, Charles Fleetwood, to sell his majority share of the theatrical patent. Theatre scholarship has long held that the riots were caused by Fleetwood's attempt to raise admission prices for old pantomimes, yet also, somewhat contradictorily, has maintained that admission prices definitively increased at London's
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Scottish Trade With Spain in the 1770s: The Progress of Carron Company and the Growth of Spanish Naval Power Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Mónica Amenedo‐Costa
The establishment of a Royal Naval Dockyard in Ferrol (Spain) favoured engagement in international activities and hence the development of useful connections with other European cities and towns. This article examines trade links between Scotland and Spain through the port of Ferrol during the 1770s, with particular emphasis on the British press and on Scottish customs accounts. Both data sources were
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Johann Daniel Metzger and Kant's So‐Called Human Races Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Joris van Gorkom
Around 1788, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach compiled a list of notable contributions to the discussion on Kant's concept of race. This list included references to Kant's second and third essays on race, Georg Forster's 1786 response, and two essays by Johann Daniel Metzger. Blumenbach's compilation stands in stark contrast to contemporary discussions of Kant's racial theories. Despite the increasing interest
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The Christian and the Philosopher: Defoe's The Storm Between Empiricism and Narrative Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Alessio Mattana
This article examines the scientific background of Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704). This work is a collection of letters on the Great Storm, a tempest which battered the south of England on 26–27 November 1703 causing casualties in the thousands and extensive damage. Like other extreme natural phenomena, the Great Storm was interpreted by many as divine warning. This article argues that, differently
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Against Reason: Juan Pablo Forner and the Enlightenment of Sentiment and Sensibility Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Elsa Costa
This article explores Spain's positioning in the shifting currents of the later Enlightenment through the polemic works of lawyer and satirist Juan Pablo Forner. Forner's attempts to prove the existence of an autochthonous tradition of Spanish pragmatism and empiricism form an index of the penetration of intra‐Enlightenment debates into Spanish thought in the late eighteenth century. Forner, profoundly
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Issue Information Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16
No abstract is available for this article.
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Georgian Literary Needlework Pictures, Realization, and Iconic Meaning‐Making Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Sandro Jung
This article examines a group of Georgian needlework pictures based on late eighteenth‐century cabinet prints of literary works. Focusing on how these needlework productions were realized, including which decisions regarding the colour of silk thread and chromatic patterns, as well as visual revision, were made by the female silkworker, the article seeks to introduce these pictures as meaningful remediations
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Jane Austen's Wardrobe. By HilaryDavidson. London: Yale University Press. 2023. 239 p. £25.00 (hb). ISBN: 978‐0‐300‐263602. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Hannah Wilson
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In Search of the Romans: Sir Richard Colt Hoare in Wales Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 David B. Stacey
The eighteenth century saw antiquaries taking an increased interest in evidence arising from the Roman occupation of Britain. Sir Richard Colt Hoare explored Wales. From 1793 to 1804, his tours follow in the footsteps of Giraldus de Barri. His journals describing the Welsh tours are known, except for the year 1804. These have recently been uncovered at Stourhead. The 1804 tour was taken ‘[…] with a
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The Eighteenth‐Century Mentor Book Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Laura Blunsden
The modern definition and associations of the word ‘mentor’ — a guide or adviser to a less experienced person — can be traced back to François Fénelon's didactic novel, Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse (1699). The novel was one of the most widely read works of the eighteenth century, but its influence on British didactic literature has received little critical attention. This article explores
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A Poetic Community: Colonel David Humphreys' Model Industrial Village Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 John R. Mullin, Zenia Kotval
This is the story of David Humphreys' efforts to plan and develop America's first sustained and successful woollen textile mill and village in the United States beginning in 1806. Informed by the debates over the future economic direction of the new nation, his efforts represented a coalescence of the pro‐agricultural thoughts and ideas commonly espoused by the Democratic‐Republican Party and the pro‐manufacturing
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The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic: 1688–1783. By SamuelFisher. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 320 p. £36.00 (hb). ISBN 978‐0‐197‐55584‐2. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ioannes P. Chountis
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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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
No abstract is available for this article.
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Introduction: Restoration Epistolarity Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-23
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Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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 (IF 0.2) 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