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Music and Narrative in the Eighteenth Century: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide as Dramatic Tableau

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2019
This article puts forward a new theory for discussing eighteenth-century music as narrative by combining literary theories of narrative with an analytical and historical exploration of the eighteenth-century opera overture. Through a consideration of how
Kieran Fenby-Hulse
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Aspecte ale paradigmei culturale a secolului al XVIII-lea: interdicția întru surparea superstiției norodului [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2016
The paper proposes a gradual presentation of main forms of superstitions of the Middle Age. It was taken into account the statements expressed by the representatives of the church (official, semiofficial and personal) on the one hand and on the other ...
Laura Bădescu
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From «misero avanzo di sorci» to «tesoro»: The Arezzo Cathedral Chapter Archives between the 18th and 20th centuries

open access: yesBibliothecae.it, 2023
Between Eighteenth and Twentieth century the archive of Arezzo Cathedral’s Chapter is object of many operations of documents’ tidying up by the canons themselves.
Riccardo Neri
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Luxury and the diversity of the Age of Enlightenment

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2011
Economic thought of the eighteenth century has often been interpreted as a unitary whole, which set down the foundations of modern economics.In this essay, Pietilä discusses how the economic thinking of the era was fragmentary and more diverse than ...
Niklas Pietilä
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Snaking into the Gothic: Serpentine Sensuousness in Lewis and Coleridge

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
This essay charts the ways late-eighteenth-century Gothic authors repurpose natural histories of snakes to explore how reptile-human encounters are harbingers of queer formations of gender, sexuality, and empire. By looking to M.G. Lewis’s novel The Monk
Jeremy Chow
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The search for happiness in the eighteenth century and today

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2011
The changing world of the eighteenth century and the preceding centuries challenged the traditional view of happiness and good life. Thinkers of the eighteenth century pursued happiness through their texts in various ways.
Hanna Talikka
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The Spirit of Hoddesdon in Strasbourg

open access: yesВивліоѳика
Review of: Rodolphe Baudin, Alexeï Evstratov, Paul Keenan and Vladislav Rjéoutski, eds. Russia, Europe, and the World in the Long Eighteenth-Century: Proceedings of the Xth International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia ...
John Randolph
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Coromuel and Pichilingue

open access: yesNames, 1992
Coromuel and Pichilingue, established as minor placenames near La Paz, Baja California, derive from English and Dutch pirates and privateers who careened their ships in coves on the uninhabited peninsula in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ...
Homer Aschmann
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Literacy in Eighteenth Century Spain

open access: yesHistoria de la Educación, 2013
This study is the result of a team research program elaborated from 1979 to 93 in 28 different Spanish cities, and bearing on the analysis of the signatures of some 49.000 men and women at various stages of the century.
Jacques SOUBEYROUX
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Canhestro e deteriorado: as realidades do realismo

open access: yesLiteratura e Sociedade, 2010
Watt pronunciou esta palestra em uma sessão plenária durante o quarto encontro anual da Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, da University of Alabama, em Tuscaloosa, em 12 de março de 1978. Foi publicada em conjunto pela Stanford
Ian Watt
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