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Revolution, History, and the Failure of Romantic Prophecy 革命、历史与浪漫预言的失败

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0008

Orianne Smith

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Of Calendars and Graphs: Transformations of the Succession Concept in British Moral Philosophy 日历与图表:英国道德哲学中继承观念的转变

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0003

Collin Jennings

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Narrative, Bodies, and the Performance of Citizenship 叙事、身体和公民的表现

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0001

J. Golightly

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A Reluctantly Rebellious Jonathan Swift 勉强叛逆的乔纳森·斯威夫特

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0005

R. Mahony

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Mimicry, Property, and the Reproduction of Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century England 18世纪英国的模仿、财产和名人的再现

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0009

Jane Wessel

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Revivifying Colley Cibber 振兴科利·西伯

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0000

Lisa A. Freeman

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Experiments on the Stage 舞台上的实验

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0002

J. Golinski

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Above the Power of Human Nature: Defoe, Necessity, and Natural Law 凌驾于人性之上:笛福、必然性和自然法

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0007

Nathan Peterson

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The Eighteenth-Century Review Journal as Allegory: Smollett's Critical Review and the Work of Criticism 作为寓言的《十八世纪评论杂志》:斯莫利特的评论与批评工作

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0004

Richard J. Jones

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Saved by God's "Grease": The Pathology of Political Bodies in Smollett's Humphry Clinker 被上帝的“油脂”所拯救:斯莫列特的《汉弗莱·克林克》中政治体的病理

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1353/ECY.2019.0010

P. Williams

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