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5
May
2022

Was satire a literary boys’ club in the 18th...

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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2
Mar
2022

Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century...

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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11
Jan
2022

The Shortest Way into Eighteenth Century Britain

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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30
Apr
2021

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the...

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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19
Jun
2020

Swift in Print

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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8
Jan
2020

Anne Finch and the “publick view”

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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