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Undertaker of the Mind John Monro and Mad Doctoring in Eighteenth Century England

Undertaker of the Mind John Monro and Mad Doctoring in Eighteenth Century England

... practitioners of the mad-trade, closely reading his career through the broader lens of contemporary medical practice and culture’. (p. xiii) That lens is constituted by ‘an astonishing array of sources’ (p. xii), and ...

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Men of parts: masculine embodiment and the male leg in eighteenth-century England

Men of parts: masculine embodiment and the male leg in eighteenth-century England

... 92 Yet whilst some historians see the intimate role of clothing in defining the self as declining in the early modern period, others suggest instead that the dressed body now became more[r] ...

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Luxury and labour : ideas of labouring class consumption in eighteenth century England

Luxury and labour : ideas of labouring class consumption in eighteenth century England

... 0 Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before its Triumph Princeton, 1977; Joyce Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in SeventeenthCentury Eng[r] ...

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Speaking relatively: a history of incest and the family in eighteenth century England

Speaking relatively: a history of incest and the family in eighteenth century England

... In a period of hotly contested understandings of authority such a story invested double incest tale the was with a variety of meanings about the nature as being familial interaction with[r] ...

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Hair, wigs and wig wearing in eighteenth century England

Hair, wigs and wig wearing in eighteenth century England

... of eighteenth-century discourses on the concept of beauty uses novels and philosophical texts to understand debates on the nature of taste and beauty, and focuses on the critical way it was applied to ...

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"Give us our eleven days!: calendar reform in eighteenth century England

"Give us our eleven days!: calendar reform in eighteenth century England

... Fairs, as we have seen, were specifically exempted from the calendar reform; that is, they were to change their nominal date to retain the same place in the season, thus in effect observ[r] ...

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The Treatment of Whooping Cough in Eighteenth Century England

The Treatment of Whooping Cough in Eighteenth Century England

... Although Armstrong was attacked for his experiments in the use of hemlock, it was Butter who first attempted to use hemlock and stated that his use of it was experimental. Armstrong followed Butter’s experiments, ...

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Models and Multiples – Eighteenth-century European Porcelain Sculpture

Models and Multiples – Eighteenth-century European Porcelain Sculpture

... The very distinct appearances of each example from this series of porcelain Pietà groups, allied with their powerfully Catholic devotional imagery, suggests that these works were not speculative productions by the ...

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A Checklist of Eighteenth-Century British Literature Published in Eighteenth-Century America

A Checklist of Eighteenth-Century British Literature Published in Eighteenth-Century America

... 1 • The Wonderful Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York.. The Art of Preaching, in Imitation of Horace.[r] ...

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Cultural, scientific and religious influences in eighteenth-century erotica, c.1680 - c.1830

Cultural, scientific and religious influences in eighteenth-century erotica, c.1680 - c.1830

... the century, not necessarily as ‘helpmeets’ to their husbands but as joint operators o f their ...the eighteenth century, two o f them being women, Abigail Baldwin ...

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Between friends : representations of female sociability in French genre painting and portraiture, 1770-1830

Between friends : representations of female sociability in French genre painting and portraiture, 1770-1830

... The topic of female friendship has been discussed in numerous scholarly publications on English literature and history, but studies on the history of friendship in early modern France number far fewer. Some of the major ...

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Authorship in the eighteenth century

Authorship in the eighteenth century

... the century progressed there was a demarcation, with novelists either striving to remove as much evidence of authorship from their pages as possible, or indulging in the sort of self-conscious awareness of their ...

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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics  Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre Industrial Europe, c 1650   c 1800

Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre Industrial Europe, c 1650 c 1800

... This resulted in losses for the state and, all other things equal, resulted in a lower gross domestic product. Holidays also drove up the price of labour and thus hampered export. Finally, and this element was ...

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The funeral in England in the long Eighteenth Century

The funeral in England in the long Eighteenth Century

... The average income of different groups in the revised social table does not match with the total material wealth recorded in the accounts. For example, the gentlemen, who according to King had a higher income than ...

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Cricket in the Eighteenth Century

Cricket in the Eighteenth Century

... But there was far more behind the increasing aristocratic interest in cricket than its value as a healthy form of recreation. The patronage of popular sport and entertainment played an important role in reinforcing ...

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Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740 1850

Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740 1850

... The historical background of a set of six vernacular workshop dwellings along Back Turner Street (nos. 36-38 Back Turner Street and nos. 1-5 Kelvin Street) dating from 1755 to 1800 was studied by the Manchester Early ...

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Singing with spirit and understanding : psalmody as holistic practice in late eighteenth-century New England

Singing with spirit and understanding : psalmody as holistic practice in late eighteenth-century New England

... late eighteenth-century writings on psalmody, its study requires a consideration of how sound was embodied in this ...late eighteenth-century American religious leaders viewed the voice as a ...

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Better Defining a Character Genius

Better Defining a Character Genius

... Beasley, Jerry c. "Politics and Character in the Eighteenth Century: Glances at Some Rhetorical Types." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture,v. The Mozart Handbook. Westport[r] ...

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“All Men Would be Tyrants if They Could”:  Three New England Women’s Perspectives on Political and Domestic Tyranny during the Revolutionary Era

“All Men Would be Tyrants if They Could”: Three New England Women’s Perspectives on Political and Domestic Tyranny during the Revolutionary Era

... limitations clearly placed women in a subservient position to men within marriage. Rosemarie Zagarri compares the Revolutionary period and the early nineteenth century, arguing that the immediate improvements ...

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Family and familiarity : the domestic sphere in eighteenth century English visual culture

Family and familiarity : the domestic sphere in eighteenth century English visual culture

... Jordanova, 'Conceptualising Childhood in the Eighteenth Century: The Problem of Child Labour', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 10 1987, pp.189-99.. Jordanova, 'The History[r] ...

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