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The Enlightenment's Linguistic Dimension, or, How We Came to be Socially Constructed 启蒙运动的语言维度，或者，我们是如何被社会建构的

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2021.0016

B. Joseph

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Bees, Women, Goths, and Mirrors: How the Future Once Looked, and How Our Field Might Look 蜜蜂、女人、哥特人和镜子:未来曾经是什么样子，以及我们的领域可能是什么样子

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2021.0017

M. Doody

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Introduction: The Future World of Eighteenth-Century Studies 引言:18世纪研究的未来世界

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2021.0011

Manushag N. Powell, Carole Fabricant, L. Brown, Bridget Orr, Roxann Wheeler, B. Joseph, M. Doody

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How the Freemasons Invented Domestic Tragedy 共济会如何制造家庭悲剧

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2021.0014

Bridget Orr

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The Long Life of Orra's Songs: The Legacy of Charles Dibdin's The Islanders and West Indian Stage Pidgin 奥拉歌曲的漫长生命:查尔斯·迪布丁的《岛民》和西印度舞台洋泾浜语的遗产

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2021.0015

Roxann Wheeler

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Back to the Future: Felicity Nussbaum and the World of Eighteenth-Century Studies 回到未来:费利西蒂·努斯鲍姆和十八世纪研究的世界

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2021.0012

Carole Fabricant

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Other-than-Humans in Specie and Species 《物种与物种》中的“非人类”

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2021.0013

L. Brown

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Jeremy Bentham and the Aesthetics of Sexual Difference 边沁与性别差异美学

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-05-12 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2020.0023

Carrie D. Shanafelt

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Speaking Across: Literary Form and Speech in Obi; or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack 言语跨越:欧比语的文学形式与言语或者《三指杰克的历史

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-05-12 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2020.0021

Katherine G. Charles

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How to Read by Numbers: Plague, Political Arithmetic, and the Production of History 如何通过数字来阅读:瘟疫、政治算术和历史的产生

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2021-05-12 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2020.0026

R. Sheldon

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