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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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The Space in Between: Affect, the Archive, and Writing Women's Lives 《中间的空间:情感、档案和书写女性生活》

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0026

Andrew O. Winckles

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Gunpowder and Creek Diplomacy in the Pre-Revolutionary Native South 革命前南方本土的火药和希腊外交

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0015

J. McCutchen

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Rebuilding Eighteenth-Century Studies as a Relational Ecology 重建十八世纪的关系生态学研究

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0003

K. Alves

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Introduction: The Female Wunderkind in the Eighteenth Century 导言:十八世纪的女神童

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0019

J. Overhoff

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Using the Miller-Kamuf Test to Evaluate the Role of Biography in Scholarship on Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing 用米勒-卡穆夫测验评价传记在18世纪女性写作学术研究中的作用

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2023.0024

Rebecca Crisafulli

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Fragile Communities in the Crusoe Trilogy 克鲁索三部曲中的脆弱社区

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-29 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2022.0001

L. Peh

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Between Geographic and Conceptual Fields: Mapping Microhistories in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire 在地理和概念领域之间：绘制18世纪奥斯曼帝国的微观历史

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-29 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2022.0014

K. Calvin

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Novel Paintings: Learning to Read Art through Joseph Highmore's Adventures of Pamela 小说绘画:通过约瑟夫·海莫尔的《帕梅拉历险记》学习阅读艺术

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-29 DOI: 10.1353/sec.2022.0020

Aaron Gabriel Montalvo

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