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Published in association with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, this series presents the best current multidisciplinary research on the global eighteenth century.<br><br>The eighteenth century was an age of instability, conflict, revolution and war, which saw profound political, economic, social and cultural change. It was an era that sparked a variety of 'isms': liberalism, capitalism, socialism, feminism, cosmopolitanism, conservatism, romanticism, colonialism and racism. Furthermore, it was an age in which today’s disciplinary and topographical borders were emerging but not yet fixed. With these ideas of flux at the forefront of its rationale, this series promotes fruitful dialogue between the different disciplines involved in all aspects of the study of the long eighteenth century (c.1660-1820).

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10 results in Studies in the Eighteenth Century

Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Michèle Cohen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    06 June 2023
  • Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution to the study of education in eighteenth-century England.

Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England
  • Sociability, Politics and Collecting
  • Tim Somers
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 December 2023
    Print publication:
    01 October 2021
  • 'Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in seventeenth-century society - ubiquitous and disposable. Toward the end of the century, however, individuals began to preserve, arrange and display articles of cheap print within carefully curated collections. What motivated this sudden urge to preserve the ephemeral? This book answers that question by analysing the social, political and intellectual factors behind the formation of cheap print collections, how these collections were used by their owners, and what this activity can tell us about 'print culture' in the early modern period.

    The book's central collector is John Bagford (1650-1715), a shoemaker who became a dealer of prints and other 'curiosities' to important collectors of the time such as Samuel Pepys, Hans Sloane and Robert Harley. Bagford's own rich and largely unstudied collection is a fascinating study in its own right and his position at the centre of commercial and intellectual networks opens up a whole world of collecting. This world encompasses later Stuart partisan political culture, when modern parties and the 'public sphere' first emerged; the 'New Science' and 'virtuoso culture' with its milieu of natural philosophers, antiquaries and artisans; the aural and visual landscape of marketplaces, streets and alehouses; and developing practices of record-keeping, life-writing and historical writing during the long eighteenth century.

The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
  • Phil Dodds
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 July 2022
    Print publication:
    20 May 2022
  • This book explores the processes by which the people of Edinburgh came to understand and order their world and establish those scales of judgement through the acquisition of geographic knowledge.

Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain
  • 1770–1823
  • Ruth Scobie
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 April 2021
    Print publication:
    17 May 2019
  • An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century.

Political Journalism in London, 1695–1720
  • Defoe, Swift, Steele and their Contemporaries
  • Ashley Marshall
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 October 2020
    Print publication:
    21 August 2020
  • A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.

Fictions of Presence
  • Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Ros Ballaster
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 September 2020
    Print publication:
    16 October 2020
  • An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of presence "in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century."

British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age
  • 1670–1714
  • Volume 6
  • Giada Pizzoni
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    17 January 2020
  • A rich picture of commercial life among the British Catholic merchants operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at the end of the Stuart era.

Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France
  • From Grand Tour to School Trips
  • Gábor Gelléri
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    17 April 2020
  • A study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who should travel and for what purpose provided an occasion for wider debate about the social status quo.

Material Enlightenment
  • Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770–1830
  • Volume 1
  • Joanna Wharton
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 October 2019
    Print publication:
    21 October 2018
  • A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighteenth century.

British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Challenging the Anglo-French Connection
  • Volume 3
  • Edited by Valérie Capdeville, Alain Kerhervé
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 September 2019
    Print publication:
    21 June 2019
  • This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of Europe.