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Volume 9 (2012)

Volume 8 (2011)

Ecocriticism and Eighteenth-Century English Studies (pages 227–239)
Erin Drew and John Sitter
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Bluestocking Studies: the State of the Field – and into the Future (pages 154–163)
Deborah Heller
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Disability Studies and the British Long Eighteenth Century (pages 80–94)
Dwight Christopher Gabbard

Volume 7 (2010)

Sentimentalism and 1790s Radical Novels (pages 990–998)

Eliza O’Brien

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Theories of Metaphor in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy (p 610–625)

Stefan Forrester

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Surveying the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Indian Canon (p 597–609)

Norbert Schürer

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‘The Della Cruscans: A Survey of the Criticism and Resources, 1956–2009’ (p 577–585)

Alex Broadhead

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Towards an Epistolary Discourse: Receiving the Eighteenth-Century Letter (p 508-518)

Claudine van Hensbergen

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The Reintroduction of Ethics to Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies (p 519-530)

Elizabeth Kraft

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Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women Writers (p 145-159)

Laura Runge

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Accounting for the Unaccountable: Lesbianism and the History of Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain (p 1-15)

Katherine Binhammer

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Volume 6 (2009)

Diet Studies in the Romantic Period (p 989-996)

Samantha Webb

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Breaking through the Mode: Celia Fiennes and the Exercise of Curiosity (p 291-313)

Joanna Picciotto

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Greece or Rome?: The Uses of Antiquity in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Literature (p 314-331)

Jonathan Sachs

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Sentimental Visions of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Studies (p 23-55)

Lynn Festa

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Volume 5 (2008)

British Garden Literature: Historiography and Idiomatic Change (p 894-905)

Rachel Crawford

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New Directions in British Art History of the Eighteenth Century (p 906-917)

Douglas Fordham

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The Quest for Utopia in the Eighteenth Century (p 685-706)

Nicole Pohl

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Religion and Eighteenth-Century Literature (p 707-720)

Jennifer Snead

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‘No Vain Speculation’: Samuel Johnson’s Rambler and Eighteenth-Century Attitudes to Orality (p 461-471)

Laura Davies

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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama: New Directions in the Field (p 174-194)

Laura J. Rosenthal

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Volume 4 (2007)

Writing Eighteenth-Century Women’s Literary History, 1986 to 2006 (p 1538-1560)

Betty A. Schellenberg

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Gender Studies and Eighteenth-Century British Literature (p 935-966)

Toni Bowers

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Who’s Afraid of Eliza Haywood? (p 967-980)

Margaret Case Croskery

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Eighteenth-Century Cartographic Studies: A Brief Survey (p 981-1002)

Adam Sills

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‘Where Sydney Cove Her Lucid Bosom Swells’: The Songs of an Imagined ‘Nation’, 1786–1789 (p 599-609)

Nathan Garvey

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‘So Common-Hackneyed in the Eyes of Men’: Banal Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (p 610-621)

Kate Rumbold

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Coincidence Studies: Developing a Field of Research (p 622-637)

Brean Hammond

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Gothic and the Generation of Ideas (p 48-65)

Donna Heiland

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Volume 3 (2006)

Defoe as a Biographical Subject (p 1218-1234)

Max Novak

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‘[A] Place Among the Hindu Poets’: Orientalism and the Poetry of Sir William Jones (1746–1794) (p 1235-1252)

Nandini Das

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Materializing the Eighteenth Century: Dress History, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Study (p 967-972)

Chloe Wigston Smith

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Saying Things: Collecting Conflicts in Eighteenth-Century Object Literatures (p 689-719)

Barbara M. Benedict

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The Contemporary Study of Eighteenth-Century Poetry (p 720-735)

Adam Rounce

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Towards an Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Critical Race Theory* (p 53-64)

Ruth Hill

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Writing About Defoe: What is a Critical Biography? (p 65-79)

John Richetti

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Volume 2 (2005)

Constructing Caribbean Literary History (p **-**)

Thomas W. Krise

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Volume 1 (2004)

Mr. Spectator on Readers and the Conspicuous Consumption of Literature (p **-**)

Margaret J. M. Ezell

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Authors and other Criminals: Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Britain (p **-**)

Kathryn Temple

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The ESTC and Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies (p **-**)

George Justice

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How useful to eighteenth-century English studies is the paradigm of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’? (p **-**)

J. A. Downie

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Becoming an E-Bookworm (p **-**)

Kristin H. Jensen

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The It-Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Animals and Objects in Circulation (p **-**)

Mark Blackwell

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The Rise of Grubstreet (p **-**)

Janine Barchas

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Globalizing the Eighteenth Century (p **-**)

Urmi Bhowmik

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Eastern Others on Western Pages: Eighteenth-Century Literary Orientalism (p **-**)

Adrienne Ward

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Citing Robinson Crusoe: Narrative Revision and Literary History (p **-**)

Ann Marie Fallon

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Nationalism and Eighteenth-Century British Literature (p **-**)

Alok Yadav

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The Future of the Scholarly Edition (p **-**)

Linda Bree

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In and Out of Hegemony: Academic Conferences and the ‘Public Sphere’ (p **-**)

Nicholas Hudson

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