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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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'Weighty Celebrity': Corpulency, Monstrosity, and Freakery in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019
Obesity seems to have become prevalent in English society in the eighteenth century, likely as a result of changes in the country's diet such as an increasing consumption of sugar.
Whitney Dirks
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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An Investigation of Socio-Economic Incentives and Implications of Matrimony on Women’s Lives in Jane Austen’s Novels

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018
This article makes a thorough investigation of the prominent novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)’s novels, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Emma, to shed light onto the socio-economic incentives and implications of
Filiz BARIN AKMAN
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Will the Oxford English Dictionary Be More 'European' After its First Comprehensive Revision since its First Edition of 1884-1928?

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2004
This paper asks a puzzling question in its title, and then looks at various aspects of the current revision of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED; Third Edition, 2000-) in search of answers.
John Simpson
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Hasan Javadi. Persian Literary Influence on English Literature: With Special Reference to the Nineteenth Century. Costa Mesa, Mazda Publishers, 2005, xiii + 254 p. (Bibliotheca Iranica, Literature Series, 8) [PDF]

, 2007
Franklin Lewis
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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H02: Causes of admission and mortality in a nineteenth‐century English workhouse infirmary, with a focus on dermatological conditions [PDF]

, 2022

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