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The 18th-Century Common offers a public space for sharing the research of scholars who study eighteenth-century cultures with nonacademic readers.
We present short digests of our research in accessible, non-specialized language, along with links to original texts, objects, and images, as well as resources for further reading.
We solicit content from academic contributors, including descriptions written for a lay audience of recently published scholarly work in eighteenth-century studies, descriptions of interesting holdings in a university archive, museum, or rare book collection, descriptions of critical controversies or research problems in the field, etc. We seek both specific contributions as well as ideas for content development of the site.
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Collections Features Digital Humanities and 18th-Century Studies digital humanities Announcements Gazette Women's Lives in the 18th Century Blog Austen novel history Historical Fiction Set in the 18th Century Gender fiction Jane Austen Staging The Mysterious Mother Horace Walpole Miscellany Theater Science and the Arts in the Long 18th Century
13 November 2023
Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797, British, Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade, 1766, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1989.32. Published between...
11 November 2023
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British, The Ballad Singers, undated, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Yale...
Database: The Art Collection of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
22 October 2023
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Septimius Severus and Caracalla (1769), oil on canvas, 124 cm x 160 cm, Louvre Museum (Image File from Wikimedia Commons) The Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte...
Pierre Bayle and the QAnon “Skeptics”
7 February 2021
Print made by James Gillray, 1757–1815, British, Published by Hannah Humphrey, ca. 1745–1818, British, The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers...