Sophie Coulombeau
Biographic Data
| ID | 6114229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Coulombeau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Coulombeau |
| SIGNATURE | COULOMBEAU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0619-5510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Review of Books and Borrowing 1750–1830
Introduction
This article offers an overview of the research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (2019–2023) — the impetus for this special issue — and positions it within the field of eighteenth‐century studies. After outlining the project's genesis, we describe one of its core outputs, the digital edition of Mary Hamilton's archive, providing key technical information which is referenced in the articles that follow. We then summarize the contents of …
A ‘generousRival’? Mary Hamilton and Frances Burney
This article combines close reading of manuscript correspondence with digital analysis of reading practices to trace literary and sociable interactions between the Bluestocking writers Frances Burney and Mary Hamilton between 1782 and 1796. I argue that Burney's well‐established dislike of Hamilton was motivated by the (accurate) perception that Hamilton was a shallow and disingenuous reader of her novels, more interested in capitalizing on Burne…
The Tip of the Iceberg
This article evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of using quantitative digital analysis to reconstruct eighteenth‐century reading practices using manuscript life writing. Our corpus is over a thousand pages of Mary Hamilton's letters and diary entries covering one year of her life. We report significant findings concerning the space, time, nature, and mode of Hamilton's reading, and the media, genre, authorship, and provenance of her material. H…
A Philosophical Gossip”
In Frances Burney’s second novel, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), the social taxonomist Mr. Gosport educates the protagonist in the ways of the bon ton by applying classificatory principles to metropolitan polite society. This article argues that Gosport’s methodology derives principally from the discourse of Linnaean taxonomy, with which Burney was familiar primarily through the personal tutelage of the botanist Daniel Solander (a soci…
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A Philosophical Gossip”
In Frances Burney’s second novel, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), the social taxonomist Mr. Gosport educates the protagonist in the ways of the bon ton by applying classificatory principles to metropolitan polite society. This article argues that Gosport’s methodology derives principally from the discourse of Linnaean taxonomy, with which Burney was familiar primarily through the personal tutelage of the botanist Daniel Solander (a soci…
Introduction
This article offers an overview of the research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (2019–2023) — the impetus for this special issue — and positions it within the field of eighteenth‐century studies. After outlining the project's genesis, we describe one of its core outputs, the digital edition of Mary Hamilton's archive, providing key technical information which is referenced in the articles that follow. We then summarize the contents of …
A ‘generousRival’? Mary Hamilton and Frances Burney
This article combines close reading of manuscript correspondence with digital analysis of reading practices to trace literary and sociable interactions between the Bluestocking writers Frances Burney and Mary Hamilton between 1782 and 1796. I argue that Burney's well‐established dislike of Hamilton was motivated by the (accurate) perception that Hamilton was a shallow and disingenuous reader of her novels, more interested in capitalizing on Burne…
The Tip of the Iceberg
This article evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of using quantitative digital analysis to reconstruct eighteenth‐century reading practices using manuscript life writing. Our corpus is over a thousand pages of Mary Hamilton's letters and diary entries covering one year of her life. We report significant findings concerning the space, time, nature, and mode of Hamilton's reading, and the media, genre, authorship, and provenance of her material. H…
A Review of Books and Borrowing 1750–1830
Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (3 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (3 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (2 works) · Close reading (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 works) · Gossip (1 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (1 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (1 works)