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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-373, September 2026.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 375-392, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

A Pragmatic Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies in Selected English Political Caricatures

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
The study investigates the pragmatic use of Culpeper’s (1996) impoliteness strategies in the selected English political caricatures. Although caricatures deliver political messages, the expressions of impoliteness can differ between cultures. Therefore,
Mohammed Ali Mala Hassan   +1 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonisation Versus “Balkanisation”: Radical and Diasporic Geographies of PAI (Parti Africain de l'Indépendance) in Paris

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the activities of PAI (Parti Africain de l'Indépendance) from 1957 to 1963 in Paris and more broadly in France, where PAI was one of the most radical groups fighting for decolonisation, initially taking the form of a transnational and diasporic federation.
Federico Ferretti
wiley   +1 more source

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