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Attention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading!

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15.2 Scholarship Contents 15.2 Pedagogy Contents 15.2 DH and Book Reviews
February 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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One of my undergraduate students, Oliver Lewis, has a Substack and he's written a piece about Laurence Sterne & Charlotte Lennox, & it's actually left my head spinning - what a remarkable, deeply thoughtful piece of writing:

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An Author's Performance
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. 784pp. Penguin. £10.99 / The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox. 464pp. Oxford University Press. £11.99
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February 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Fashion Gallery: 1740–1760
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Enjoy more than 30 photos of glamorous fashion for ladies and gentlemen.
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left: detail of a bright red 1750-60 waistcoat with floral embroidery, fabric: silk and metal threads / right: robe à la française; fabric: Chinese silk painted with floral design
February 1, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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New Publication Alert

Mierowsky, Marc. A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence. Yale University Press, 2026.

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A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence
Amazon.com: A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence: 9780300260168: Mierowsky, Marc: Libros
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January 29, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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Look forward to February!

Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/

#Regency #Napoleon #history #Bronte #Waterloo #JaneAusten #18thc
A compilation of 18 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet
January 26, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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New Publication Alert

Cole, Lucinda. "The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities." Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Springer, 2025. 1-243.

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The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities
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January 25, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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It's October 1793 and the King of #Denmark is defending the rights of his country in the face of #GeorgeIII trying to strong-arm him out of neutrality.

I can't think why this struck a chord today. (London Chronicle, October 12th 1793).

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January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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Enjoy reading about #18thc - history in January!

Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for this month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/

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#Regency #Napoleon #history #Waterloo #JaneAusten
A compilation of several covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet
January 18, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Lots of 'Burneyana', as it were, coming up for sale at Mallams on Oxford this month. #FannyBurney fans will see the admiration for their ancestor of family members in 1902.
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Mallams | The Oxford Library Sale
Bid Live at Mallams's The Oxford Library Sale auction
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January 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.

Book your free place here:
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January 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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New Publication Alert

Deyab, Mohammad Shaaban, Asmaa Abdelsalam Elshikh, and Ebtihal Elshaikh. "Yet I Alive! Decision-Making during Pandemics in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 27.4 (2025): 512-527.

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Yet I Alive! Decision-Making during Pandemics in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
ABSTRACT. This paper examines Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year through the lens of Herbert Simon’s decision-making theory, which outlines three sequential phases: intelligence, design, and ...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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New Publication Alert

VANWAGONER, BENJAMIN D. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 207–11.

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Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR
BENJAMIN D. VANWAGONER, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Fall 2020), pp. 207-211
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January 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Let's start the New Year with poetry and romance.

Here is a hand-made card with a love poem for New Year’s Day 1796.
Read more about it: regency-explorer.net/newyear/
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Auguste’s New Year’s greeting to Max Joseph, January 1, 1796: on the left side: a painting of a rose inside a laurel wreath. On the right: printed poem in a laurel wreath and an attached paper cover one can lift. When lifted, you see a personal message written by hand.
January 1, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Look forward to January!
Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #Waterloo #18thc
A compilation of 15 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet
December 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Enjoy reading in December!
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for this month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
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#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read #18thc
21 covers of the new books about the 18th century. Find all books in the link in the skeet
December 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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New Publication Alert

Dorson, James. "Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project." To Be Continued–Forms of Narrative Continuation 89 (2025): 83.

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To Be Continued – Forms of Narrative Continuation
The peer-reviewed Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English lan...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Look forward to December!
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read #18thc
A compilation of 18 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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New Publication Alert

Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.

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Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR
Christopher Hamlin, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2020), pp. 933-935
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November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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New Publication Alert

Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.

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A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722
Published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM