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Article: Introduction: new approaches to the eighteenth century.(Special Focus Section: New Approaches to the 18th Century)(Critical Essay)
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- College Literature
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- June 22, 2004
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The main current of eighteenth-century studies still runs deep with empirical details. As we go to press, the 2004 meeting of ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) has just concluded. The meeting had something for everyone, from panels devoted to teaching poetry in the undergraduate classroom to roundtable discussions about the future of sexuality studies. Yet amidst all the variety and methodological self-consciousness that one can find these days, an impressively large number of papers justified their claims for a hearing by emphasizing the curious and the particular. Discovering new facts, recovering and editing neglected or obscure texts and authors, ...