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Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making / by Engel, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Sarah Siddons's diva celebrity -- Mary Robinson's gothic celebrity -- Mary Wells's notorious celebrity -- Epilogue. …”
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Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making / by Engel, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Sarah Siddons's diva celebrity -- Mary Robinson's gothic celebrity -- Mary Wells's notorious celebrity -- Epilogue. …”
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Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall -- The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis -- Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry -- Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo -- The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering -- A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. …”
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Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall -- The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis -- Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry -- Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo -- The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering -- A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. …”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack -- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick -- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth -- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig -- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. …”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack -- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick -- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth -- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig -- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. …”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 / by Johns, Alessa

Table of Contents: “…Translation following Clarissa: Georg Forster and Meta Forkel, Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Johnson -- 3. Representing Vesuvius: Northern European tourists and the Napoleonic culture of war -- 4. …”
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Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 / by Johns, Alessa

Table of Contents: “…Translation following Clarissa: Georg Forster and Meta Forkel, Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Johnson -- 3. Representing Vesuvius: Northern European tourists and the Napoleonic culture of war -- 4. …”
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