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Core and Peripheral Civilizations: Voltaire's Tragic Vision and Historical Thinking in L'Orphelin de la Chine (1755) 核心文明与边缘文明:伏尔泰在《中国孤儿》(1755)中的悲剧视野与历史思考

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-11-17 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2020.0009

D. Fourny

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Women Wanderers and Disruptive Forces 女性流浪者和破坏性力量

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-11-17 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2020.0002

J. Pascoe

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Sovereign Debt Default and Restoration Literature: Dryden's Exclusion Crisis Poems, Goldsmiths, and the Stop of the Exchequer of 1672 主权债务违约与复辟文学:德莱顿的排斥危机、诗歌、金匠和1672年财政停息

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-11-17 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2020.0000

S. Moore

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Knowledge, science, and literature in early modern Germany 近代早期德国的知识、科学和文学

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.2307/2543666

Gerhild Scholz Williams, Stephan K. Schindler

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The Government of the Natural in the Qing Dynasty 清代的自然政府

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2019.0027

Q. Tong, Liu Chen

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The Aesthetics of Botany and Empire 植物学美学与帝国

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2019.0026

Melissa Bailes

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Unaccountable Form: Queer Failure and Jane Barker’s Patchwork Method 不可解释的形式:奇怪的失败和简·巴克的拼凑方法

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2019.0028

A. McGrath

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Protheatricality Protheatricality

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2019.0033

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(To Make) Truth Material: Rajani Sudan’s The Alchemy of Empire and the Persistent Sublimity of Colonial Knowing (制作)真相材料:拉贾尼·苏丹的《帝国的炼金术和殖民知识的持久崇高》

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2019.0031

Olivera Jokić

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Transnational Articulations in James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian and The History and Management of the East-India Company 詹姆斯·麦克弗森《奥西安诗》中的跨国发音与东印度公司的历史与管理

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2019.0025

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