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"Sweet was the sound": The Acoustic World of Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village “甜美的声音”：奥利弗·戈德史密斯的《荒村》的声学世界

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0033

Joshua C. Wright

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Reading Between the Silences in the Correspondence of Esther Edwards Burr and Sarah Prince 阅读埃斯特·爱德华兹·伯尔与萨拉·普林斯书信中的沉默之间

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0027

Kaitlin Tonti

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"Eternal Sunshine": Intertextuality as Environmental History in Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village “永恒的阳光”:奥利弗·戈德史密斯《荒村》中作为环境史的互文性

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0034

Denys Van Renen

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Metawney of Coweta, Muscogee Women, and Historical Erasure in the Eighteenth-Century Past and Our Present Coweta的Metawney、Muscogee女性与18世纪过去和现在的历史抹去

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0014

Bryan C. Rindfleisch

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Traveling Together as a Couple: Gender, Diplomacy, and Cultural Mediation in the Life of the Countess of Fernán Núñez, Spanish Ambassadress in Lisbon and Paris (1778–91) 作为一对夫妇一起旅行:Fernán Núñez伯爵夫人生活中的性别、外交和文化调解，西班牙驻里斯本和巴黎大使(1778-91)

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0017

Carolina Blutrach

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Deviations from Nature's Rule: The Naturalization and Denormalization of the Female Wunderkind in the Eighteenth Century 偏离自然规律:18世纪女性神童的归化与非正规化

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0020

Tim Zumhof, Nicole Balzer

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Inviting Conflict: Slavery and Charlotte Smith's Biographical Aesthetic 引发冲突：奴隶制与夏洛特·史密斯的传记美学

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0025

Lise Gaston

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From Manual to Digital: Women's Hands and the Work of Eighteenth-Century Studies 从手工到数字化：女性之手与十八世纪研究工作

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0036

Mattie Burkert

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Matriarchal Economies: Women Inheriting from Women in Eighteenth-Century Wills, Courts, and Fiction 母系经济:18世纪遗嘱、法庭和小说中的女性继承

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0018

Jolene Zigarovich

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The Origins and Coalescence of the Creek (Muscogee) Confederacy: A New Synthesis 克里克(Muscogee)邦联的起源和合并:一个新的综合

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0012

R. Ethridge

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