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Long Eighteenth Century (long + eighteenth_century)

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Selected Abstracts

Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations before and during the Long Eighteenth Century

JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 2 2010
JOHN GASH
Abstract This introduction sketches some of the key factors and moments in Anglo-Italian contact from the Roman occupation of Britain to the emergence of the Grand Tour in the seventeenth century as a channel for cultural interchange. It then indicates some of the changes that occurred in the nature of that interchange during the eighteenth century. These are explored in the ensuing essays, whose subjects range from the impact in Italy of the writings of Hobbes, through the motivations and prejudices of British travellers to the peninsula, to the reciprocal journeys to England of Italian painters and art dealers. [source]

The Changing View of Rome in the Long Eighteenth Century

JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 2 2010
ROSEMARY SWEET
Abstract This article surveys the responses of British travellers to Rome in the long eighteenth century, as expressed in topographical literature, correspondence and diaries, and considers how these were shaped by changing domestic preoccupations. British depictions of the city in its ancient and modern state are compared with the accounts that they would have encountered in the topographical literature and prints available in Rome and in the information offered to them by the local ciceroni. This comparison highlights revealing differences between the Rome that the Romans sought to project and the one the British wished to see. [source]

The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1840 , By W. M. Jacob

JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 2 2009
D. J. Cummins
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,Brainomania': Brain, Mind and Soul in the Long Eighteenth Century

JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 2 2007
George Rousseau
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The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680,1840 , By W. M. Jacob

JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 1 2010
Ryan K. Frace
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The Historiography of the English State during ,the Long Eighteenth Century': Part I , Decentralized Perspectives

HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2009
Simon Devereaux
This article reviews the four most prominent themes in the historiography of the modern English state during the last six decades, with a particular focus on ,the long eighteenth century' (1660,1837). The first is the vision of an expansive and centralized administrative state in Victorian England most famously set forth in the work of the late Oliver MacDonagh. Second is the notion of the state as an information-gathering entity that has recently been forcefully stated by Edward Higgs. Third is the vision of an unexpectedly powerful, substantially centralized ,fiscal-military' state during the eighteenth century, powerfully evoked in the work of John Brewer. Finally, a brief overview is given of the prodigious historical literature that has arisen in recent years surrounding the notion of the state as abstract entity capable of commanding the loyalties of those people over whom it rules. The article concludes by suggesting how a more fully integrated vision of the English state in history might be achieved through a deeper, more dynamic interrelation of changing political-administrative structures and shifting social-cultural forces. [source]

The wholesale and retail markets of London, 1660,1840

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2002
Colin Smith
Markets and marketing are perennial themes in English economic and social history. Yet they remain largely unexplored in relation to London during a period of remarkable growth and change, the long eighteenth century. This article begins to fill that void, by surveying over 70 London produce markets that existed during the period, and identifying patterns in their collective development. It concludes that the physical market place, though ancient in origin, evolved through the ,commercial revolution' as a highly dynamic and diverse institution that played a significant role in London's distribution. [source]

The culture of judgement: art and anti-Catholicism in England, c.1660,c.1760*

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 202 2005
Clare Haynes
Art produced in Italy and France was highly prized in England during the long eighteenth century even though much of it was Catholic in subject matter. A number of strategies of mediation were developed to manage this problem that allowed the prestige of this culture to accrue to the English élite. At the same time, the role of visual culture in the Church of England was being contested between those who were confident that the Reformation had been effected and those who believed it to be still incomplete. Central to both these phenomena was the idea that popish pictures and art in churches could be acceptable if, and only if, the spectator could be trusted to look ,properly'. [source]

The Changing View of Rome in the Long Eighteenth Century

Honour and duty at sea, 1660,1815

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 190 2002
N. A. M. Rodger
This article looks at the changing meaning of the concepts of honour and duty among sea officers over the ,long eighteenth century'. As gentlemen and as fighting men, sea officers felt particularly close to the concept of honour; but as members of a skilled, semi,bourgeois profession which was substantially open to talent, they were seen by others as being on the margins of gentility. The rise of the middle,class virtues of duty and service in public esteem at the end of the century, benefited the sea officers by making their long,standing combination of honour and duty fashionable. [source]

The Historiography of the English State during ,the Long Eighteenth Century': Part I , Decentralized Perspectives

Writing Eighteenth-Century Women's Literary History, 1986 to 2006

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 6 2007
Betty A. Schellenberg
Under the influence of feminist theory and criticism, the late 1980s saw a flowering of literary histories of eighteenth-century women writers. This work was very influential in assuming the existence of a distinct women's literary history conditioned by an increasingly rigid gender ideology of the time, in focusing on the novel genre, and in creating appreciation for the more recognizably feminist writers of the early and latter portions of the ,long eighteenth century'. Subsequent work questioned the dependence of these histories on the ,separate spheres' model of gender, on a limited group of genres associated with women and with the literary, and on notions of feminism congenial to the late-twentieth-century critic. More broadly, feminist generalizations of women's experience were challenged by the rise of class, race and sexuality studies, while the very enterprise of historiography was placed under suspicion by postmodernist criticism of master narratives and of claims to objective interpretation of evidence. In response, studies of eighteenth-century women's writing began to attend to a broader range of genres and spheres of action within the larger field of print culture, as well as to produce more nuanced studies of individual writers and the conditions within which they wrote. However, general literary studies remained dependent on the models of the 1980s, while writers seemed reluctant to write new literary histories. Only recently are there indications of a return to large-scale women's literary histories. This return revises the pioneering work of the 1980s by attending to new, detailed studies of numerous individual writers, expanding generic coverage, incorporating electronic resources, experimenting with inclusive studies of male and female writers, and reconsidering questions of literary value. [source]