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Du Bartas’ Visit to England and Scotland in 1587
(Oxford University Press, 2012-10-19)
Word versus honor: The case of Françoise de Rohan vs. Jacques de Savoie
(2012-12-24)
This paper examines one of the most notorious scandals of sixteenth-century France. In 1557, Françoise de Rohan, a lady-in-waiting to Catherine de Medici, launched a legal battle to get the duke of Nemours, Jacques de ...
'The Darling of the Temple-Coffee-House Club’: Science, Sociability and Satire in Early Eighteenth-Century London
(Blackwell Publishing, 2012)
This article explores the relationship between metropolitan sociability and the production of natural knowledge in early eighteenth-century London. It considers three discursive sites where the intellectual and sociable ...
'An author in form': Women writers, print publication, and Elizabeth Montagu's Dialogues of the Dead
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
Eighteenth-century women writers repeatedly expressed resistance to the public exposure of print publication. The first publication of the bluestocking intellectual Elizabeth Montagu, three satirical dialogues included in ...