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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906907

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Masculinity and Gatekeeping in Depictions of the Restoration Coffeehouse 复辟时期咖啡馆描写中的男子气概和守门人

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906892

Erin Keating

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Speaking Freely, Writing Poetically: Law and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Free Speech Debates 畅所欲言，诗情画意:18世纪言论自由辩论中的法律与文学

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906895

Rachael Scarborough King

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Feeling Profit at the Cusp of Modern Capitalism 在现代资本主义的风口浪尖感受利润

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906897

Amit S. Yahav

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"Laying Medicine More Open to Mankind": Public Health and Accessibility “让医学对人类更开放”:公共卫生与可及性

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906906

Travis Chi Wing Lau

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"A Posture ridiculous"; or, Aphra Behn and the Politics of Pratfalls 《可笑的姿势》;或者《阿芙拉·贝恩和普拉特福尔斯的政治

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906890

Charles Michael Pawluk

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Introduction: Scholarship in a Time of Crisis 导言:危机时期的奖学金

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906901

Kathleen Tamayo Alves

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Variant Rebellions: Psychic Compromise in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack 变种反抗:奥比的心灵妥协或者，三指杰克

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906886

Yasser Shams Khan

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From Writing Lives to Scaling Lives in Joseph Priestley's Chart of Biography 约瑟夫·普里斯特利的传记图表:从书写生命到衡量生命

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906887

Aaron R. Hanlon

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Eliza Haywood and the Epistemological Frustrations of Embodiment 伊莉莎·海伍德与化身的认识论挫折

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a906893

Collin Cook

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