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“The Hollow Deep of Hell”: Infernal landscapes in Richard Crashaw’s “Sospetto d’Herode” and John Milton’s Paradise Lost by Schultz, Fabrice

“…Since Peregrine Philips’s publication of Poetry by Richard Crashaw in 1785, literary critics have acknowledged Milton’s indebtedness to Crashaw’s “Sospetto…”
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Linguistic Colonization through Print and Translation: John Eliot’s Algonquin Bible and Writings on the Algonquin Language by Mills, Dan

“…Puritan missionary John Eliot, translator of the Bible into Algonquin and author of several texts related to the Algonquin language, also wrote texts that…”
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“Written with teares in harts close bleeding book”: Reading the embodied page in Spenser’s poetry by Habinek, Lianne

“…What has reading to do with love? The early modern sonnet sequence would answer that the one has everything to do with the other – or, more precisely, that…”
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‘Walke on in Hope’: George Wither’s A Collection of Emblemes (1635) and the book as an intellectual and spiritual pilgrimage by Le Duff, Pierre

“…Thirty-three years before Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, George Wither had the famous engraver William Marshall produce an intricate “Frontispiece” for his…”
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Shifting Geographies and Literary Space in Pierre d'Avity’s The Estates, Empires, & Principallities of the World (1615) by Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica

“…This essay examines the English translation by Edward Grimestone of Pierre d’Avity’s The Estates, Empires, & Principallities of the World (1615), in relation…”
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Propaganda and Peace: Robert Harley’s Press Strategies About the Peace of Utrecht by García, Manuel Alejandro Castellano

“…Concluding its participation in the War of the Spanish Succession was not easy for the British government. Hampered by internal problems, it also had to face…”
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The English Didactic Novel (1778-1814) and the Paradox of the Genteel Ambassador by Misset, Juliette

“…In the eighteenth century, literary output in general, and novels in particular, were thought to have important effects on readers, which critics’ widespread…”
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“Reason not the need”: The Accidental Journey of the Conde de Villamediana around the South of England in 1603 by Cano Echevarría, Berta

“…After twenty years without diplomatic representation due to the prolonged hostilities of the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) Spain made the first move…”
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Early Enlightenment English poets on Russia and its Sovereign: Matthew Prior and Thomas Tickell by Ivonina, Liudmila

“…The transformation of political and international life at the turn of the 18th century gave rise to a storm of emotions in public opinion and stimulated…”
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“The interests of our Allies”: Allied public diplomacy in Britain and the making of the Treaty of Utrecht by Tuffnell, Kevin

“…Between late summer 1711, when secret Anglo-French negotiations to end the War of the Spanish Succession became public, and the signing of the Treaty of…”
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Handwritten newsletters between continuity and change from 1600 to 1700 by Mansutti, Sara

“…Before the advent of printed newspapers, news circulated in Europe in the form of handwritten newsletters sent by agents, ambassadors, informers to courts,…”
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“Plain Mat / Has been doing at Paris, The Lord knows what”: Matthew Prior and Harleyite diplomacy in the year 1711 by Monter, Alice

“…In the year 1711, Harleyite diplomacy was driven by two major concerns: the credit crisis precipitated by the ministerial change of 1710, and the matter of the…”
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Eclectic Endeavours of 18th-century Popular Philosophy by Frenzel, Friederike

“…The University of Göttingen was a product of the personal union between Great Britain and the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. As such, it established a…”
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Esther Sahle, Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660-1800 by Caron, Nathalie

“…In Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660-1800, Esther Sahle, an economic and social historian of early modern Europe and the British Atlantic, is…”
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Searching for Cofitachequi: How English Colonizers Mapped the Native Southeast before 1700 by Edelson, S. Max

“…When English colonizers arrived in Carolina in 1670, they drew on Spanish geographic and ethnographic knowledge of the North American Southeast to understand…”
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“[T]he most mortifying sight” : retour vers les Struldbrugs dans Gulliver’s Travels by Viviès, Jean

“…The Struldbrugs episode occupies Chapter X at the end of Part III of Gulliver’s Travels. It features Immortals while Gulliver is in Luggnagg. It has often been…”
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w.b. gerard and m-c. newbould eds., Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey. A Legacy to the World by Bandry, Anne

“…This collection of essays is a welcome addition to criticism on Sterne as it is devoted to his second book, far less frequently the object of publications than…”
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Colour-Coded Manuscript Maps in the Military Enlightenment by Miyamoto, Bénédicte

“…Manuscript military maps operated according to a specific colour code, reinforced by reformed military academies in the eighteenth century. They attest to the…”
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Mapping Dispossession: the Social Worlds of Adlum’s 1792 Pennsylvania Map by Mandelblatt, Bertie

“…In the first decades of the early republic of the United States of America, states such as Vermont, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania created large format,…”
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Interpreting Native Trans-Appalachia, 1670-1770 by Ray, Kristofer

“…In 1723 a Lower Chickasaw man called Fanni Mingo (translated as “Squirrel King”) delivered a deerskin map to British South Carolina. It designates trade paths…”
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