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The Ephemeral Eighteenth-Century
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Authors: Gillian Russell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.
The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: David Lemmings
Categories: History
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New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of huge importance in the govern
Brilliant Women
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Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century
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Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and Willia