Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call Carter a feminist. The story traces the life of another Moll Flanders, but focuses on her career in the New World as an indentured servant, rather than on her bawdy past. Carter avoids the literal picaresque by making the protagonist ironically self-aware of the conventions of 18th century narrative: "...my name is no clue as to my person nor my life as to my nature." Stripped of a name, the voice could be that of any period picaresque character, Moll Flanders or--Tom Jones...
...with holiday festivities. Residents cruised slowly in their cars to gape at the Vigliarolo family's front lawn, an electrified montage of Santa's workshop. Around the corner, more cars were parked in front of Steven Schorr's house, where 30 of his friends were helping him celebrate his 18th birthday. Among them were Jon Lester, 17, Jason Ladone, 16, and Scott Kern, 17. Shortly before midnight, according to police, several guests, including Lester, left the party to drive a young woman home. Along Cross Bay Boulevard their headlights caught three blacks walking toward the New Park pizza parlor. "Niggers...
...Running Footman (Little, Brown; 206 pages; $15.95) -- named, like all her work, for an actual pub -- keenly observes Britain's myriad social classes and offers a persuasive story of family obsession and revenge. Keith Heller attempts the double voyage of writing not only about England but about the early 18th century. His debut, Man's Illegal Life, was a tour de force about urban turmoil in the years before London had police (his detective, named George Man, is a sort of civic night watchman with an awesome sense of duty). Heller's second novel, Man's Storm (Scribner...
Hufton will leave "a personal chair" at England's University of Reading where she taught courses on early modern European history, the history of women, and the history of the 18th century, she said...
...pack) of Henry's, a local brew which soon became our beer of choice. Then we'd go to the usual outdoor drinking spots, the names of which have been around since long before our time--Inspo, Arbo, the Circle, the Crest, the Peanut Bowl, the Meadow, the 18th Hole, the Water Towers, the list went...