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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"long eighteenth-century"”.
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Illegitimate Celebrity in the British Long Eighteenth Century
… and even celebrated figures. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, however, actors and actresses who challenged acceptable strategies for celebrity behavior were often punished by exile, debt, disgrace, and humiliation. Some performers even faced a veritable textual and …
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The invention of Scottish literature during the long eighteenth century
"The invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century" examines the limited place in the canon traditionally allowed to creative writing in Scotland during this period and the overarching reading of creative impediment applied to it in the light of Scotland's fraught and not …
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The Irish in Jamaica during the long eighteenth century (1698-1836)
… period, starting as far back as the sixteenth century and concluding with the abolition of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century. This was a groundbreaking work in many respects and was described as ‘an invaluable platform for future studies of Ireland and the black Atlantic’. For the …
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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
… the economic accountability of women in eighteenth-century England, particularly within the informal credit market. In the past few decades, substantial scholarship has demonstrated women’s regular involvement in active income generation. At all levels of the economy – from servants to …
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A Treasury of Comfort: A Study of Elite Comfort in the Long Eighteenth Century
… significance of comfort in elite lives in the long eighteenth century. With a focus on the correspondence of six gentry families from the East Midlands and the aspects of their lives which were most frequently discussed within it, this thesis argues that comfort was an integral feature of the …
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La fête des femmes : the feminine republic of letters in the long eighteenth century
… of women’s literary engagements during the long eighteenth century. It relates this literary output to the established and recognised body of works by men and women which have come to be known collectively as the querelle des femmes. However, it argues that a distinct trend of women …
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The magistrate and the community: summary proceedings in rural England during the long eighteenth century
… men and women who experienced the law during the long eighteenth century would have done so at summary level. Although some work has been carried out on summary proceedings, this has also tended to focus either on metropolitan records, a small number of sources, or on a specific, limited, number …
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Visionary Nonconformity: Miltonic Resonances and the Poetics of Religious Dissent in the Long Eighteenth Century
… Miltonic presence, particularly within much eighteenth-century visionary verse. This dissertation applies and at times refocuses Wittreich to achieve a clearer picture of how visionary poetry developed in Britain after Milton, accounting for key poetic visions by several women poets who wrote …
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Centrepieces: Compositions for the adornment of the European formal table in the long eighteenth century
Throughout eighteenth-century Europe, elaborate indoor and outdoor food presentations and displays were staged at the residences of the royal houses, the nobility, and the emerging upper bourgeoisie. Alongside the orderly display of the service à-la-française and the highly artistic vessels laden …
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An historical analysis of the voidability of contracts in the long eighteenth century : control vs. protection
The thesis has a period of focus of the ‘long eighteenth century’. This phrase is coined from that in use by historians when discussing the period from 1688-1832 and has been chosen given the number of key contractual developments which took place in this era. The primary purpose of this research …
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Literary Landscapes: Mapping Emergent American Identity in Transatlantic Narratives of Women's Travel of the Long Eighteenth Century
… and American narratives of women’s travel of the long eighteenth century. Early European and American maps that depict the Americas analyzed as parallel “texts” to canonical and lesser-known women’s narratives ranging from 1688 to 1801 reveal further insights into both maps and these narratives …
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Descending caves : descent narratives and the subterranean science and literature of the long eighteenth century, 1680 - 1830
… in both scientific and literary writing in the long eighteenth century and function as a crucial part in the transformation of the perception of wild mountain landscapes. Despite this, the role of caves has been critically neglected. This thesis re-examines the writing of this period to uncover …
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“Eminent Spirituality and Eminent Usefulness”: Andrew Fuller’s Contribution to the Revitalization of the Particular Baptists in the Long Eighteenth Century
… of renewal in Particular Baptist life in the long eighteenth century. Chapter 2 outlines the decline experienced by Particular Baptist churches in England in the eighteenth century and Fuller’s assessment of the reasons for this decline. Chapter 3 explores Fuller’s instrumental role in the …
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Brandy Nan and Farmer George: Public Perceptions of Royal Health and the Demystification of English Monarchy During the Long Eighteenth Century
… the English monarchy was demystified during the long eighteenth century. Additionally, this work shows how the topic of monarchical health went from being an illicit subject, to one associated with a popular claim that English citizens had a right to know the full details of their monarch's …
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"What a Poor, Passive Machine": The Psychosomatic Heroine from Richardson to Austen
… character type I observe emerging throughout the long eighteenth-century who responds to social, domestic, and personal pressures and stressors with mental and emotional preoccupations that lead to physiological symptoms. I demonstrate through close textual analysis that the psychosomatic heroine …
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Portraits of patients and sufferers in Britain, c. 1660-c. 1850
Portraits of sufferers and patients in the long eighteenth century have been understudied – especially by comparison with portraits of doctors and other visual imagery that supposedly illuminates long eighteenth-century medical history. Yet these portraits – and the art historical methods used to …
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"An Engine of Destruction": Andrew Fuller's Response to Antinomianism
… of the most important theological figures of the Long Eighteenth–Century. While his written responses to High Calvinism, Socinianism, Sandemanianism, and Deism are well known, Fuller’s response to Antinomianism has not received as much attention. Thus, this thesis will argue that the “engine of …
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English Bankrupts 1732-1831: A Social Account
During the long eighteenth century in England many thousands of men and women became bankrupts, but little is known today about what they experienced as bankrupts. This study seeks to redress this imbalance by giving an account of the social experience of a wide and varied sample of English …
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The Man-Midwife'S Tale: Re-Reading Male-Authored Midwifery Guides In Britain and America, 1750-1820
… "modern, liberal self" in seventeenth century embryology through the close-reading of a wide array of texts invested in articulating embryological theories. In doing so, she points out "the value of reading [medical texts] not a straightforward registers of historical practice but …
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Women writers, religious rhetoric, and the origins of sensibility in England, 1660-1754
… the feminist arguments of women writers of the long eighteenth century and the impact these women writers had on the mid-century sentimental novel. By analyzing the complex relationships between religion and feminism, this dissertation traces a tradition of female-authored theological discourse …
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