Sider Jost, Jacob

Jacob Sider Jost is a professor of English at Dickinson College., Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s Spectator markets itself to readers as a diurnal regimen of moral and spiritual self-formation: by consuming the paper each...

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Sider Jost, Jacob

The English literary magazine originates in the eighteenth century. The first periodical to call itself a “magazine,” the Gentleman’s Magazine, commenced publication in 1731, and was quickly followed by the London Magazine and...

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Sider Jost, Jacob

Jacob Sider Jost is a professor of English at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit AMS Press Inc.’s Website. https://www.amspressinc.com/lifewriting.html, Sider Jost, Jacob. "From Initiate to...

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Jacob Sider Jost is a professor of English at Dickinson College., Research on Shakespeare's choice of ‘Horatio’ as the name for Hamlet's fellow student and confidante has focused on two sources. In Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy...

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Sider Jost, Jacob and Immerwahr, John

Though each of its four constituent essays has received scholarly attention in itself, Hume’s Four Dissertations(1757) has received virtually no consideration from scholars as a unified whole. This article offers such an...

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Sider Jost, Jacob. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020. , Jacob Sider Jost is a professor of English at Dickinson...

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Sider Jost, Jacob

Sider Jost, Jacob. Johnson on Torture: A Legal Footnote to the Life. Johnsonian News Letter 60, no.1 (2009): 44-6. http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/sites/all/themes/NewsLetter/Volume60_NewsLetter.pdf, For more...

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Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the...

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