Knowledge Commons | Rachael King | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/rachaelsking/activity/ Activity feed for Rachael King. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:30:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bfc2cd239746459eae118be945f5e944 Rachael King started the topic Statement on Forum Executive Committee Election in the discussion CLCS 18th-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/18th-century/forum/topic/statement-on-forum-executive-committee-election/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:19:32 -0500 Dear colleagues,

I’m honored to be nominated to serve on the Executive Committee for the CLCS 18th-Century forum. I have been an MLA member since 2008. My work, while rooted in eighteenth-century British literature, crosses fields to draw from media studies, book history, and the history of ideas. My first book, Writing to the World: Letters a…[Read more]

]]> fcd5b2ab099787ac56a5f7a001d7d5cd Rachael King deposited "Interloping with my Question-Project": John Dunton's and Daniel Defoe's Epistolary Periodicals in the group TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610550/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:14:50 -0400 This article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]

]]> 0 b98cd4466cfddc00936c816da0b12ac1 Rachael King deposited "Interloping with my Question-Project": John Dunton's and Daniel Defoe's Epistolary Periodicals in the group LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610549/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:12:43 -0400 This article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]

]]> 0 899fd453de984295206d7898fbca5961 Rachael King deposited "Interloping with my Question-Project": John Dunton's and Daniel Defoe's Epistolary Periodicals https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610501/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:50:26 -0400 This article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]

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