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The eighteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter has three sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry. Section 1 is by Eliza O’Brien; section 2 is by Elles Smallegoor and Sandro Jung; section 3 is by David E ...
Jung, S.   +3 more
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Recentring Peripheral Queerness and Marginal Art in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
This essay examines the ways in which Céline Sciamma’s 2019 film Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) looks to centralise onscreen homosexual experience through engagement with, and queering of, eighteenth-century art practices ...
Madeleine Pelling
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Of British Representational Practices in the Age of Capitalism/Territorialism (1743-1776)

open access: yesPamiętnik Teatralny, 2021
The issue addressed in this essay is how the notion of history was altered by the embedding of commerce into the discursive field of eighteenth-century Britain.
Michal Kobialka
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XIThe Eighteenth Century

open access: yesThe Year's Work in English Studies, 2023
AbstractThis chapter has four sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Joseph Turner; section 2 is by Fiona Milne; section 3 is by Dylan Carver; section 4 is by Ashley Bender.
Turner, J   +3 more
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XIThe Eighteenth Century

open access: yesThe Year's Work in English Studies, 2022
AbstractThis chapter has four sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Michelle Lyons-McFarland; section 2 is by Fiona Milne; section 3 is by Dylan Carver; section 4 is by Kristin M. Distel.
Lyons-Mcfarland, M   +3 more
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Squaring the Triangle: Queer Futures in Centlivre’s The Wonder

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
Susanna Centlivre’s The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) presents a model of female relations invested in queer futurity and queer temporality, disrupting the patriarchal geometry of courtship in order to provide the play’s heroines access to an ...
Ziona Kocher
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Eighteenth-Century Camp Introduction

open access: yesABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2019
A blend of the silly and the extravagant that puts the serious into conversation with the ridiculous, camp today is often signified by elements of eighteenth-century Europe with its elaborate hairstyles, exaggerated silhouettes, affected courtiers, and a
Ula Lukszo Klein, Emily MN Kugler
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Introducing Life to “the Young, the Ignorant, and the Idle”: Eliza Haywood and Daniel Defoe as Popular Novelists

open access: yesAnuario de Letras Modernas, 2020
The remarkable commercial success of the novels of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood in the first few decades of the eighteenth century testifies to a series of cultural phenomena that merit close critical attention.
Anaclara Castro Santana
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THE TRIUMPHS OF AFFECTIONS: CRÉBILLON FILS, TRANSLATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NARRATIVES OF MOTION AND EMOTION [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023
The French influence on eighteenth-century English sentimental writing has been a rich topic for criticism ever since translations of French novels were imported into England as early as the first decades of the eighteenth century.
Elena BUTOESCU
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Blue in Eighteenth-Century England: Pigments and Usages

open access: yesXVII-XVIII, 2018
This paper seeks to explore the materiality of the colour blue in eighteenth-century England, with a focus on indigo and Prussian blue – pigments that dominated the eighteenth-century blue colourant market either qualitatively, quantitatively, or both ...
Zoriana Lotut
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