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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
wiley   +1 more source

La Notion de qualité télévisuelle dans la production fictionnelle britannique

open access: yesCinéma & Cie, 2012
This essay explores the notion of Quality TV, as it has been applied to British TV fiction. The quality of British TV fiction has often been associated with teleplays, adaptations and the movement of social realism. Through a study of TV productions, of
Stéfany Boisvert
doaj  

Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Molar incisor hypomineralisation: current knowledge and practice

open access: yesInternational Dental Journal, EarlyView., 2020
Background Molar incisor hypomineralisation (MIH) is a common developmental dental condition that presents in childhood. Areas of poorly formed enamel affect one or more first permanent molars and can cause opacities on the anterior teeth. MIH presents a variety of challenges for the dental team as well as functional and social impacts for affected ...
Helen D. Rodd   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Crisis, Local Mysteries: Transcultural Echoes in the Contemporary Detective Narrative

open access: yesBaltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
The research examines the episode A Climate of Death from the British crime drama series Midsomer Murders (aired in December 2023), exploring how contemporary detective narratives integrate transcultural influences and ecological concerns.
Evita Badina
doaj   +1 more source

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

Australia and the Path Not Taken: The Declining Independence and Influence of Middle Powers

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian foreign policy has famously been distinguished by the search for ‘great and powerful friends’. However, Australia's relationship with its current notional protector and key ally—the United States—has generally had more costs than benefits and, I argue, has consequently not been in Australia's much‐invoked ‘national interest ...
Mark Beeson
wiley   +1 more source

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