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  • The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on Western culture from 1660 to 1830. The...
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    of Romance". In Downie, James Alan (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Oxford University Press. pp. 471–488. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747...
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    of the eighteenth century, characterized by the discussion of the epistemological, ethical, and political issues of the Enlightenment thought of the eighteenth...
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    of the Eighteenth Century, 9 volumes (Second edition, 1812–1816): All Volumes at Hathi Trust, open. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth...
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    majority can be found in ladies' fashion magazines which began to appear during the last decades of the eighteenth century. Used figuratively, as is often the...
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  • the rivalry to a similar sniping between certain publications in the eighteenth-century British press, such as the Analytical Review and its self-styled...
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    near the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist Samuel "Maggotty" Johnson. His ghost is reputed to haunt...
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    was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later...
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    Almirante or Admiral's Tower which dates from the 14th century. In the eighteenth century La Almiranta Battery was near the tower and its role was to defend...
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  • taffrail of the ship by a long line. Taffrail logs were developed in the eighteenth century and became a practical device in the nineteenth century. Taffrail...
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    Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should receive a rational education. She...
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    (previously SVEC, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), a monograph series devoted to the eighteenth century, and the correspondences (letters) of...
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    A magazine is an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. The word is taken originally from the Arabic word makhāzin...
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  • Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (category Works originally published in Polemic (magazine))
    fame was due to propaganda by German professors towards the end of the eighteenth century. Tolstoy claimed that Shakespeare was still admired only because...
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  • Day (1896) Lyra Frivola (1899) Second Strings (1902) Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (1908) The Casual Ward (1912) Reliquiae A. D. Godley (1926) He also...
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  • Catherine (Thackeray novel) (category Works originally published in Fraser's Magazine)
    Jack Sheppard portrayed a real-life prison breaker and thief from the eighteenth century in flattering terms. In contrast, Thackeray sought out a real-life...
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    Thomson problem, and the representation of color order systems by the eighteenth century. Like other bipyramids, the triangular bipyramid can be constructed...
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    The Tatler (1709 journal) (category Fashion magazines published in the United Kingdom)
    essayists of the eighteenth century. London: J. Clarke. p. 72. Marr, George Simpson (1923). The periodical essayists of the eighteenth century. London: J...
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    English Short Title Catalogue (category Literary magazine stubs)
    includes limited post-1700 ESTC entries. The ESTC began life as the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, with the same abbreviation, covering only...
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    production with full sets and costumes. It was an invention of the eighteenth century. Most romantic and classical ballets of the 19th century were narrative...
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