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Annotation, Nation, and Canon Formation 注释，国家和正典形成

IF 0.1 3区文学

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1215/00982601-7993688

B. Keegan

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Tristram Shandy and War Representation 崔斯特瑞姆·珊迪与战争再现

IF 0.1 3区文学

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1215/00982601-7993633

J. Richardson

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Surf Writers of the Resolution and Discovery: Texts, Waves, Politics, and Death at Kealakekua Bay 冲浪作家的决议和发现:文本，海浪，政治和死亡在卡阿拉凯夸湾

IF 0.1 3区文学

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1215/00982601-7993622

L. Bertelsen

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Silent No Longer 不再沉默

IF 0.1 3区文学

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1215/00982601-7993699

K. Wandschneider

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Second Nature and the Sonic Sublime 第二自然和声音的崇高

IF 0.1 3区文学

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2019-10-13 DOI: 10.1215/00982601-9273041

Miranda Stanyon

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The Rise of the Novel, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since 小说的兴起，或《六十年后》

IF 0.1 3区文学

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00982601-7725793

David H. Richter

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"That Friendship Which Is Yet Dearer to Me than Any Other Earthly Good": Female Intimacy in Eliza Haywood's Epistles for the Ladies “对我来说，友谊比任何世间的美好都要珍贵”:伊丽莎·海伍德《致女士书信》中的女性亲密关系

IF 0.1 3区文学

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/00982601-7725738

Anna K. Sagal

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Memorializing Sorrow in Frances Burney's "Consolatory Extracts" 弗朗西丝·伯尼的“慰问性摘录”悼念悲伤