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The blind African slave, or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffery Brace
Published 2004“…Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffery Brace…”
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The little everyman stature and masculinity in eighteenth-century English literature /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…A visual prehistory -- The dwarfing of little-man Pope -- The little man: microscope in Brobdingnag -- The labor of little men -- The little man of feeling -- Josef Boruwl Aski's memoirs -- Of the celebrated dwarf.…”
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Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Ives (1792) and Hermsprong (1796) -- Female suffering and witnessing subjects in Hays's The victim of prejudice (1799) -- Subjects of property and The memoirs of Bryan Perdue (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin re-visions and relational subjects in Edmund Oliver (1798) and Adeline Mowbray (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin parody and the reformist continuum: Memoirs of modern philosophers (1805) -- Conclusion: revolutionary subjectivities and rights discourse.…”
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Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.…”
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The not so blank "blank page" the politics of narrative and the woman narrator in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novel /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Locating the female voice : the politics of narrative and the question of "the blank page" -- Concerning leave to speak : Moll Flanders' suit -- Speaking of chastity, virtue, honor : the life of Harriot Stuart written by herself -- The entangled "I" : memoirs of Emma Courtney -- Meaning on the margin : the third-story frame in Jane Eyre -- There's a ghost in it : Esther's Portion of Bleak House -- Babel deferred?.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /
Published 2016Table 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 /
Published 2016Table 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 /
Published 2016Table 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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Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Anna Seward and the end of the eighteenth century
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.…”
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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.…”
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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.…”
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