Tag Archives: eighteenth-century literature
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For centuries, scholars have characterized eighteenth-century literary satire as an aggressive and specifically masculine practice and genre. This perception is clearly apparent in twentieth-century...
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Political astrology is one of those idiosyncratic 18th century genres that seem bizarre to the modern sensibility.[1] Despite this unfamiliarity, I would suggest that a close analogue of political astrology...
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Arguably, Daniel Defoe’s Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26) is the single most comprehensive, detailed and insightful guide we have to the state of the nation as it moved into...
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Back in the 1700s, the first performance of an actor in the patent theatres would often be under some anonymous title like ‘A Gentleman (who never appear’d on any stage)’. Sometimes, actors even...
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Some reasons for writing a book are
obvious from the start, but others emerge more slowly. With Swift in Print:
Published Texts in Dublin and London, 1691-1765, I knew from the outset that
I wanted to...
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Long before I decided to work on a scholarly edition of Anne Finch’s work, I was drawn to her distinctive voice. I first heard it as an undergraduate student in the 1980s, but in the least propitious...
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For centuries, scholars have characterized eighteenth-century literary satire as...
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Political astrology is one of those idiosyncratic 18th century genres that seem...
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Arguably, Daniel Defoe’s Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26)...
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Back in the 1700s, the first performance of an actor in the patent theatres would...
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Some reasons for writing a book are
obvious from the start, but others emerge more...
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Long before I decided to work on a scholarly edition of Anne Finch’s work, I was...
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