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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820

History, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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A focus on getting along: respect, caring and diversity [PDF]

, 2016
Drawing inspiration om Joseph T. O’Connell’s work on socio‐cultural integration, this pa‐ per connects the notion of ‘deep equality’ with two broad lessons that can be taken om O’Connell’s approach that pertain to the study of religious diversity in ...
Beaman, Lori G.
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Exploring Orientalism and Moral Ambiguity in William Beckford’s Vathek

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
William Beckford's Vathek (1786) is a significant piece in the Orientalist literary genre. It combines beautiful Eastern art with deep questions about morality and the mind.
Abbas Jaafar Mutar
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Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
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Some Notes On The Tragedy In William Faulkner\u27s The Sound And The Fury [PDF]

, 1958
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Whatever else it may be, and it has run the gamut of critical evaluation, the novel The Sound and the Fury is a tragedy. Whether or not it is a tragedy.
Bond, James
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“Lost in Flowers & Foolery”: A Gendered Reading of the 9th Earl of Devon’s Flower Watercolors

Arts
William Courtenay, 3rd Viscount Courtenay and 9th Earl of Devon (1768–1835), has been most remembered for his romantic relationship with author and slave owner, William Beckford (1760–1844), which scandalized London society in 1784. However, the 9th Earl’
James Thomas Stewart
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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 561-575, July 2025.
Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
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PART I: THE STORY

, 2022
Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue S1, Page 1-163, October 2022.
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BUSM Alumni Association Annual Report [PDF]

, 1952
Annual Report of the activities of the Boston University School of Medicine Alumni ...
Boston University School of Medicine Alumni Association
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