Oliver Wunsch’s essay ‘The Aesthetic Redemption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France’, published in the February 2025 issue of Art History has been awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies the 2026 James L. Clifford Prize ⬇️
‘Much depended on men, and it is notable that these artists had supportive fathers and disastrous husbands who spent their money, failed to nurture their careers and in the end became burdensome.’
Rosemary Hill on the work of two eighteenth-century female painters.
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Today we're thinking about our special Pandemic/Post-Pandemic issue, conceived 6 years ago. Edited by David Mazella and Elaine McGirr, these essays offer extensive reflections on the questions posed by a pandemic. Read the introduction here: doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/rst....
Do you have published a book or essay that we should include in our “Some Current Publications” section? Please let us know!
"Whom Did He Mean? The Restoration Context of Pope’s 'Phryne’ and ‘Artimesia’” by Rebecca Ferguson
Volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2020, pp. 55-109
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"'He Best Can Turne, Enforce, and Soften Things': Of the Danger and "To the Queen" as Waller's Earliest Poems" by Richard Hillye
Volume 47, Number 2, Fall 2023, pp. 27-60
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"A Revolutionary Beverage: The Politics of Tea in Nahum Tate's Panacea" by Mercy Cannon
Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2019, pp. 73-105
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"Partisan Bodies: John Dryden, Jacobite Camp, and the Queering of 1688" by James Horowitz
Volume 39, Number 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015, pp. 17-60
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"Clandestine Dissent and Covert Martyr-Making in Restoration Pamphleteering: John Twyn's Tryal Narrative" by Magi Smith
Volume 40, Number 2, Fall 2016, pp. 59-74
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"Authorship in Female Disguise: Love in Distress; or, The Lucky Discovery. A Novel Written by the Honourable Lady * " by María José Coperías-Aguilar
Volume 46, Number 2 & Volume 47, Number 1, Fall 2022 / Spring 2023, pp. 139-155
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"(Trans)historical Fiction in Saint-Réal's Don Carlos" by Rafael Vélez-Núñez
Volume 46, Number 2 & Volume 47, Number 1, Fall 2022 / Spring 2023, pp. 83-101
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"On Not Overlooking Ogilby’s Homer" by Richard Hughes Gibson
Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2025, pp. 3-22
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"Creating Queen Mary: Textual Representations of Queen Mary II" by Elaine Anderson Phillips
Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2013, pp. 61-75
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"Pregnant Monarchs, English Protestantism, and The Innocent Usurper" by Averyl Dietering
Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2016, pp. 7-23
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"Hume’s “1688” and the single-year genre of historiography" by David Mazella
Volume 39, Number 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015, pp. 153-170
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“'The abdicated family': Hume’s Partisan Grammar in “Of the Protestant Succession” by Toni Bowers
Volume 39, Number 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015, pp. 61-81
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"Ideology and Racial Myth in Purcell’s King Arthur and Arne’s Alfred" by Ken McLeod
Volume 34, Number 1-2, Spring-Fall 2010, pp. 83-102
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“'The King His Play': Charles II, Christina of Sweden, and Dryden’s Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen" by Candy Schille
Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 41-59
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"True-Born Nationality and Other Patriarchal Fictions in Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668) and Daniel Defoe's The True-Born Englishman (1700/1)" by Amanda Louise Johnson
Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2019, pp. 3-28
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“Anne Finch as Playwright: The Purposes of Manuscript and Print in Her Pro-Stuart Plays" by Claudia Kairoff
Volume 38, Number 1, Spring 2014, pp. 19-40
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"Annus Mirabilis at the End of Stuart Monarchy: Repackaging a Year of Wonders in 1688" by David Alff
Volume 35, Number 2, Fall 2011, pp. 21-36
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"Gaming Restoration Politics: Playing Cards, the Penny Post, and Conspiratorial Thinking" by Stephanie Koscak
Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2018, pp. 95-133
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"Swift after Cowley" by Daniel Cook
Volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2020, pp. 37-54
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"'Made on purpose, and lin'd with velvet': Containing the Amours of Messalina (1688–90)" by John McTague
Volume 46, Number 2 & Volume 47, Number 1, Fall 2022 / Spring 2023, pp. 11-28
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"The Role of Manuscript Newsletters in Charles II's Performance of Power" by Erin M. Keating
Volume 41, Number 2, Fall 2017, pp. 33-51
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"'A Devoted Heart Attones for a Worthless Offering': Mary Pix's Dedication of The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) to Princess Anne"
Nora Rodríguez-Loro
Volume 46, Number 2 & Volume 47, Number 1, Fall 2022 / Spring 2023, pp. 157-171
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"Swift, Satire, and the Problem of Whig Regeneration" by Michael Brown
Volume 39, Number 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015, pp. 83-99
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"Hibernophobia and Francophobia in Restoration England" by Tim Harris
Volume 41, Number 2, Fall 2017, pp. 5-32
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We did a special key word search today Here's how "Ireland" shows up in all the previous articles published by Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below: