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The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade
A Social Biography of a Costume
Av Meghan Kobza
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. Constructing the object biography of the domino through material, visual, and written sources will bring together various …
Secret Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Theories and Practices of Cryptology
Häftad, 2022
347 kr
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Cryptology of the long eighteenth century became an explicit discipline of secrecy. Theorized in pedagogical texts that reached wide audiences, multimodal methods of secret writing during the period in England promoted algorithmic literacy, introducing reading practices like discernment, …
Labour of the Stitch
The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress
Av Serena Dyer
Häftad, 2024
284 kr
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The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print …
Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century
The Hardwicke Circle and the Royal Society, 1740-1766
Häftad, 2023
347 kr
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Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century studies the reading habits of a group of historians and science administrators known as the Hardwicke Circle. The research is based on an analysis of the reading recorded in the 'Weekly Letter', an unpublished private correspondence written from 1741 to …
Philosophical Connections
Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism
Häftad, 2022
347 kr
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Neoclassical and Romantic verse cultures are often assumed to sit in an oppositional relationship to one another, with the latter amounting to a hostile reaction against the former. But there are in fact a good deal of continuities between the two movements, ones that strike at the heart of the …
Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne
Häftad, 2025
318 kr
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Criticism and creativity characterised literary reception in eighteenth-century Britain. The press - periodicals, newspapers, and magazines - harboured the reviewing cultures belonging to the emerging professionalisation of literary criticism. It also provided highly fertile ground for creativity, …
Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660-1700
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of …
Making Boswell's Life of Johnson
An Author-Publisher and His Support Network
Häftad, 2023
431 kr
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This Element throws new light on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by investigating its early publication history. Despite precarious psychological and financial circumstances and other limitations, Boswell was both author and publisher of the two-volume quarto edition that appeared in 1791. …
A Performance History of The Fair Penitent
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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Theatre is the most ephemeral of art forms. It is a truism that the ephemeral performance text is divorced from the static published play text. This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation of print and performance and models how …
Reading with the Burneys
Patronage, Paratext, and Performance
Häftad, 2024
318 kr
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This Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century Britain. The case study is the Aberdeen student and disgraced thief Charles Burney's treatment of Evelina (1778), the debut novel of his sister Frances Burney. Coulombeau uses Charles's …
Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660-1700
Inbunden, 2024
1025 kr
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This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of …
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Recovering the Digital Archive
Häftad, 2026
274 kr
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The Foundling Hospital was established in London in 1739 to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. The Hospital, which also housed an art collection, concert series, and fashionable park, became …
The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity
Recovering the Digital Archive
Inbunden, 2026
867 kr
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The Foundling Hospital was established in London in 1739 to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. The Hospital, which also housed an art collection, concert series, and fashionable park, became …
The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade
A Social Biography of a Costume
Av Meghan Kobza
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. Constructing the object biography of the domino through material, visual, and written sources will bring together various …
A Performance History of The Fair Penitent
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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Theatre is the most ephemeral of art forms. It is a truism that the ephemeral performance text is divorced from the static published play text. This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation of print and performance and models how …
The Art of the Actress
Fashioning Identities
Av Laura Engel
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It considers how visual materials across genres, such as prints, portraits, sculpture, costumes, and accessories, contribute to the understanding of the nuances of female celebrity, fame, notoriety, and scandal. The 'art' of …
Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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Using the lens of early modern social authorship and contemporary social media, this Element explores a new print genre popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the periodical. Traditionally, literary history has focused on only one aspect, the periodical …
Labour of the Stitch
The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress
Av Serena Dyer
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print …
Reading with the Burneys
Patronage, Paratext, and Performance
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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This Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century Britain. The case study is the Aberdeen student and disgraced thief Charles Burney's treatment of Evelina (1778), the debut novel of his sister Frances Burney. Coulombeau uses Charles's …
Unveiling Lady Scott
Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections
Inbunden, 2025
967 kr
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This Element sheds new light on Walter Scott's work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier, later Lady Scott, through her transcultural upbringing and international connections. Much of the limited information about her is tainted by misconceptions from …
Unveiling Lady Scott
Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections
Häftad, 2025
300 kr
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This Element sheds new light on Walter Scott's work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier, later Lady Scott, through her transcultural upbringing and international connections. Much of the limited information about her is tainted by misconceptions from …
On Wonder
Literature and Science in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Tita Chico
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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This is an Element about wonder − as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking in both literary and scientific texts of the long eighteenth century. Wonder is at the heart of natural philosophical inquiry in the long eighteenth century, its inaugural provocation, …
Restoration Acting and Other Business
The Lives of Henry Harris
Häftad, 2026
293 kr
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How did actors of the late seventeenth century supplement their earnings? And what were the relationships between their other business and their acting? This Element focuses on the diverse career of Henry Harris, a leading member of the Duke's Company between 1661 and 1682, and co-manager of the …
Restoration Acting and Other Business
The Lives of Henry Harris
Inbunden, 2026
967 kr
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How did actors of the late seventeenth century supplement their earnings? And what were the relationships between their other business and their acting? This Element focuses on the diverse career of Henry Harris, a leading member of the Duke's Company between 1661 and 1682, and co-manager of the …
Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1830
Av Leith Davis
Inbunden, 2025
1025 kr
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This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also to multi-lingual productions of the Jacobites themselves, including works in Irish Gaelic, …
The Poet-Physician
George Crabbe and Medicine
Av Yimon Lo
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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This Element offers the first comprehensive study of George Crabbe's engagement with medical thought and practice in his poetry. Drawing on his interest in illness, care, and healing as a trained physician, surgeon, apothecary, and obstetrician, it addresses how his medical expertise and awareness …
The Poet-Physician
George Crabbe and Medicine
Av Yimon Lo
Inbunden, 2026
1039 kr
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This Element offers the first comprehensive study of George Crabbe's engagement with medical thought and practice in his poetry. Drawing on his interest in illness, care, and healing as a trained physician, surgeon, apothecary, and obstetrician, it addresses how his medical expertise and awareness …
The Epistemologies of Progress
Häftad, 2025
267 kr
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The Epistemologies of Progress brings together two recent critical trends to offer a new understanding of Scottish-Enlightenment narratives of progress. The first trend is the new consideration of the ambiguities inherent in eighteenth-century thought on this subject. The second is the fast-growing …
The Epistemologies of Progress
Inbunden, 2025
829 kr
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The Epistemologies of Progress brings together two recent critical trends to offer a new understanding of Scottish-Enlightenment narratives of progress. The first trend is the new consideration of the ambiguities inherent in eighteenth-century thought on this subject. The second is the fast-growing …
William Sancho and the Possibilities of Black British Lives in Late Georgian Britain
Av Oliver Ayers, Liberty Collard
Inbunden, 2026
918 kr
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William Sancho was the son of Ignatius Sancho, one of the eighteenth century's most important Black Britons. In contrast to his father, however, William's life has never been fully explored. This Element builds a new evidential trail to uncover a multifaceted career that saw the younger Sancho …
