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		<title>Fall 2006 Issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volume 40, Issue 1
Alison E. Hurley: &#8220;A Conversation of their Own: Watering-Place Correspondence Among the Bluestockings.&#8221;
Hurley&#8217;s essay examines how the spas at Bath figured into the correspondence and friendship of the women who formed the bluestocking circle. Hurley begins by emphasizing the isolation experienced by many women in the later 18th century. Unlike men, whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A History of 18c Agricultural Societies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hudson, Kenneth. Patriotism with Profit: British Agricultural Societies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. London: Hugh Evelyn Limited, 1972.
I only read about half of this book since it made its way to the nineteenth century very quickly, but I found it enormously helpful in understanding how agricultural societies figured into advancements made in 18c agriculture. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=327</link>
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		<title>Arthur Cash&#8217;s Biography of John Wilkes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cash, Arthur. John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006.
I just finished this lengthy tome after spending most of Christmas break on it, and I must say it&#8217;s one of the best biographies that I&#8217;ve read in some time. Cash mentions in his afterword that this is not a scholarly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=325</link>
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		<title>The Tuesday Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I started reading The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club and in the preface I&#8217;m already seeing a lot of material that gets at some of the weirdness surrounding the club phenomenon. Throughout Hamilton&#8217;s Preface you can see the elitism that R. and I were talking about in our meeting yesterday. Hamilton [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=324</link>
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		<title>Justine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written in the reading journal for quite some time, but since I finished my Sade reading group today I thought I would write a quick post about any conclusions we might have come to. Truthfully, I&#8217;m not sure that we did come to any conclusions, at least ones that we hadn&#8217;t come to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=323</link>
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		<title>Anti-Morality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ashe, Geoffrey. The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000.
This book was first published in 1974 but I am reading a reprint from 2000. I think it&#8217;s curious that Sutton decided to reprint this book (and perhaps disconcerting given my dissertation project), but so far it&#8217;s a good book and I&#8217;m quite enjoying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=322</link>
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		<title>A History of Heterosexuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still on the Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship book, I just finished &#8220;The Heterosexual Male in Eighteenth-Century London and his Queer Interactions&#8221; by Randolph Trumbach. Trumbach argues that previous to the 18c, modern definitions of heterosexuality and homosexuality did not exist. Instead, western European culture had an age-based system whereby it was socially acceptable (perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=321</link>
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		<title>The Queer Archive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read another chapter in Love, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, this one called &#8220;Homosexuals in History: A.L. Rowse and the Queer Archive&#8221; by Alan Stewart. Stewart looks at Rowse&#8217;s provocative book (published in the mid-70s, around the same time as the first volume of Foucault&#8217;s History of Sexuality), in which he sought to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=320</link>
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		<title>Observations on Hume</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been going through Book I, Part III of the Treatise for the first time in a long time for my philosophy reading group and I&#8217;m finding it quite enjoyable. I&#8217;m forced to read through this very quickly so I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m getting all of the nuances of the arguments, but there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=319</link>
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		<title>Homo-this, Homo-that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article by George Rousseau is titled &#8220;Homoplatonic, Homodepressed, Homomorbid:&#8221; Some Further Geneaologies of Same-Sex Attraction in Western Civilization&#8221; and appears in Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800.
I went into this anthology thinking that it would be mostly about homosocial groups of men, but this article by George Rousseau is knee-deep in queer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.deadmetaphor.com/18cblog/?p=318</link>
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