Long eighteenth-century
Poetry and the Common Weal: Conceiving Civic Utility in British Poetics of the Long Eighteenth Century
... seventeenth century, temporarily subverted by a republican experiment, reasserted more tentatively at the Restoration, and then realigned again in the 1688-89 ...the long eighteenth century ...
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Of marriageable age : rethinking approaches to father daughter incest narratives in the long eighteenth century
... FRAMING INCEST AS THE MARRIAGE EXCHANGE GONE WRONG In the long eighteenth century, definitions of incest are about marriage rather than child sexual abuse.. 2 The definitions are drawn f[r] ...
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The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century
... this century, and it is not without significance that the case studies Hempton uses are of individuals who themselves travelled vast distances across continents and cultures, and had their own religious odysseys, ...
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Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth century: the Bentinck family, 1710 1830s
... Whilst Williams was mostly concerned with the ‘Atlantic’ first British empire, historians of the ‘Eastern’ second empire have often taken a more cultural turn. 6 This has included life and/or family biographies, such as ...
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Explanations for death by suicide in northern Britain during the long eighteenth century
... been long in a deranged state, and had arisen during the night unobserved by her husband, and committed the desperate act’ (The Edinburgh Weekly Journal, 2(67): ...
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The organisation of work and wages in the London building trades in the long eighteenth century
... In 1709 there was a major investigation into fraud at the Bridge. Thomas Veasey, a house labourer, alleged that Jeremy Bower, Land Carpenter only attended twelve tides a year whilst taking 20s. a week salary. Veasey also ...
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Descending caves:descent narratives and the subterranean science and literature of the long eighteenth century, 1680 1830
... 10 atmosphere, and more from the vegetation and soil cover, as it runs across impermeable rock onto the permeable limestone. Water percolates through the rock dissolving the calcium carbonate as it does so, releasing it ...
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Horse racing and British society in the long eighteenth century
... in Eighteenth-Century England: Incomes, Prices, Buying Power – and Some Problems in Cultural Economics’, Huntington Library Quarterly 77, 4 (2015), 373–416; Grahame Allen, ‘Inlation: he Value of the Pound ...
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The funeral in England in the long Eighteenth Century
... The funerals of the nobility and the aristocrats in the eighteenth century were evidently cheaper under the undertaker’s management. However, it has to be noted that the costs exclude the mourning clothes ...
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Strategies and boundaries : subcontracting and the London trades in the long eighteenth century
... eighteenth-century London's luxury goods market. From the perspective of the London seller, timing was of the essence in keeping consumers happy and shops in full stock. Even in the case of bespoke ...
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The boot and shoe trades in London and Paris in the long eighteenth century
... I would like to thank in particular the Print Section of the Guildhall library and its efficient keepers, the Northampton Library, the Northampton Shoe Museum, the London Metropolitan Ar[r] ...
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Introduction : Latour and eighteenth century literary studies
... and eighteenth-century Europe strangely present. The long eighteenth century has a special significance for this project, for it was then, in Latour’s account, that modernity’s ...
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Smallpox at the Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth Century
... It is not possible to dismiss the effects of' the 1713 epidemie so sommarilj The disease certainly crossed the Cape flats and ravaged the country districts of the Colony. It is known tha[r] ...
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Towards a corpus of eighteenth-century English phonology
... in eighteenth-century English is unclear: it could either be analysed as a consonant cluster /hw/ or a single voiceless labial- velar fricative or approximant ...
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Bending the bars: the opportunities of the eighteenth century salonnière
... female power really was great and to what extent it was born out of fear from a patriarchal society is an important question to keep in mind, but in the context of the salons two things[r] ...
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Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century
... latter especially after calomel) characterized mercury as an évacuant medicine, which expelled the "venereal poison" or other morbific matter. It thus fitted the still prevailing humoral theory, but also ...
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John Clare, William Cowper and the eighteenth century
... the eighteenth century has become, in some ways, an established part of the narrative of his career, from the sentimental anecdote (the inspirational discovery of Thomson’s Seasons) to more recent critical ...
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Book collecting and literature in eighteenth century Britain
... Indeed eighteenth-century Britons were subjected to a positive barrage of explicit advice and instruction on book-selection which inevitably had implications for their decisions as ...
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The discreet charm of eighteenth-century vitalism and its avatars
... Vitalism ‘rotates’ here through substantival, functional (organizational, animal-economic) and perhaps existential or projective forms. Only in the first form is it a doctrine in which “living matter is ontologically ...
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The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London.
... late eighteenth and early nineteenth ...the eighteenth century, accounting for 6- 10 per cent of all ...late eighteenth century (before vaccination), and that changes in smallpox ...
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