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The James L. Clifford Prize is awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for the best article regarding any aspect of eighteenth-century culture.[1]

Background

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The award is named in honor of James L. Clifford, the third president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,[2] the founder of the Johnsonian News Letter,[3] and 1980 winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize for his work, Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years.[4]

The award supports the interdisciplinary inquiry of, and communication between, diverse fields of eighteenth-century scholarship as embraced by Clifford.[5] Prize-winning articles have covered wide-ranging topics, including legal history;[6] disability studies;[7] history of science;[8] musicology; women, gender, and sexuality studies; philosophy; cultural and intellectual history;[9] art history;[10] and literary studies.[11]

Eligibility

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The Prize is open to all Society members for articles published in peer-reviewed journals on any topic in the eighteenth century.[1]

Notable winners

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Previous prize winners have included the American political theorist Isaac Kramnick, Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Walker Howe, literary scholar and cultural theorist Christie McDonald, sleep historian A. Roger Ekirch, and French cultural historian Suzanne Desan. Spencer Weinreich won the award while a graduate student at Princeton University.[12]

Five scholars have received both the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' James L. Clifford Prize and its award for best book in eighteenth-century studies, the Louis R. Gottschalk Prize: interdisciplinary art historian Barbara Maria Stafford, British cultural historian Dror Wahrman, historian of ideas Joseph M. Levine[13], historian of science and medicine Paola Bertucci[14], and French Enlightenment historian Katie L. Jarvis[15].

Clifford Prize Recipients

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2024 - Lisa Forman Cody, “‘Marriage is No Protection for Crime’: Coverture, Sex, and Marital Rape in Eighteenth-Century England,” Journal of British Studies, 61.

2023 - Terry F. Robinson, “Deaf Education and the Rise of English Melodrama,” Essays in Romanticism 29.1.[16]

2022 - Alan S. Ross, “The Animal Body as Medium: Taxidermy and European Expansion, 1775-1865,” Past & Present (November 2020).[17]

2021 - Spencer J. Weinreich, “Unaccountable Subjects: Contracting Legal and Medical Authority in the Newgate Smallpox Experiment (1721)”, History Workshop Journal (Spring 2020).

2020 - Avi Lifschitz, “The Book of Job and the Sex Life of Elephants: The Limits of Evidential Credibility in Eighteenth-Century Natural History and Biblical Criticism,” Journal of Modern History (December 2019).

2019 - Katie L. Jarvis, “The Cost of Female Citizenship: How Price Controls Gendered Democracy in Revolutionary France.” French Historical Studies 41:4 (October 2018).[18]

2018 - Richard Taws, “Conté’s Machines: Drawing, Atmosphere, Erasure.” Oxford Art Journal 39:2 (2016).

2017 - David Brewer, “Rethinking Fictionality in the Eighteenth-Century Puppet Theatre.” In The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ed. Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager (Cambridge UP, 2015).

2016 - Aaron Wile, “Watteau, Reverie and Selfhood.” The Art Bulletin XVCI:3 (September 2014).[10]

2015 - Paola Bertucci, “Enlightened Secrets: Silk, Intelligent Travel, and Industrial Espionage in Eighteenth Century France.” Technology and Culture 54:4 (October 2013).[19]

2014 - Melissa Mowry, “Past Remembrance or History: Aphra Behn’s The Widdow Ranter or How the Collective Lost its Honor.” ELH 79 (2012).[11]

2013 - Rebecca Messbarger, “The Rebirth of Venus in Florence’s Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History.” Journal of the History of Collections (2012).[20]

2012 - Melinda Rabb, “Parting Shots: Eighteenth-Century Displacements of the Male Body at War.” ELH 78 (2011).

2011 - Andrew Curran, “Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences.” History and Theory 48 (October 2009).[21]

2010 - Suzanne Desan, “Translatlantic Spaces of Revolution: The French Revolution, Sciotomanie, and American Lands.” Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008).

2009 - Sean R. Silver, “Locke’s Pineapple and the History of Taste.” The Eighteenth Century 49:1 (2008).

2008 - Catherine Molineux, “Pleasures of the Smoke: 'Black Virginians' in Georgian London’s Tobacco Shops.” William and Mary Quarterly 64.2.

2007 - Lauren Clay, "Provincial Actors, the Comédie-Française, and the Business of Performing in Eighteenth-Century France." Eighteenth-Century Studies 38:4 (Summer 2005).

2006 - Sarah Cohen, “Chardin’s Fur: Painting, Materialism and the Question of Animal Soul.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 38:1 (Fall 2004).

2005 - Mark Blackwell, "Extraneous Bodies: The Contagion of Live-Tooth Transplantation in Late Eighteenth-Century England."" Eighteenth-Century Life 28:1.

2004 - Gregory S. Brown, “Reconsidering Censorship of Writers in Eighteenth-Century France. Civility, State Power, and the Public Theater in the Enlightenment” Journal of Modern History 75 (June 2003)

2003 - Georgia Cowart, “Watteau’s Pilgrimage to Cythera and the Subversive Utopia of the Opera-Ballet.” The Art Bulletin 83:3.

2002 - A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles.” The American Historical Review 106:2.

2001 - Dror Wahrman, "Gender in Translation: How the English Wrote Their Juvenal, 1644-1815." Representations 65.

2000 - John Crowley, “The Sensibility of Comfort.” The American Historical Review 104:3 (1999)

1999 - James Schmidt, “Cabbage Heads and Gulps of Water: Hegel on the Terror.” Political Theory 26 (1998)

1998 - Holly Brewer, “Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia: “Ancient Feudal Restraints and Revolutionary Reform.” William and Mary Quarterly (April 1997).

1997 - Mark Salber Phillips, “Reconsiderations on History and Antiquarianism: Arnaldo Momigliano and the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Journal of the History of Ideas 57:2 (April 1996).

1996 - Julia Douthwaite, “Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the ‘Wild Girl of Champagne.”’ Eighteenth-Century Studies 28:2 (Winter 1994-95).

1995 - Christie McDonald, “The Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais’s Trilogy.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History (March 1994).

1994 - Dennis Todd, “The Hairy Maid at the Harpsichord: Some Speculations on the Meanings of Gulliver’s Travels.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Summer 1992).

1993 - Trevor Ross, “Copyright and the Invention of Tradition.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 26:1 (Fall 1992).

1992 - Regina Janes, “Beheadings.” Representations (Summer 1991).

1991 - William Epstein, “Counter-Intelligence: Cold-War Criticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies.” ELH 57:1 (Spring 1990)

1990 - Bernadette Fort, “Voice of the Public: The Carnivalization of Salon Art in Prerevolutionary Pamphlets.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 22:3 (Spring 1989)

1989 - Daniel Walker Howe, “The Political Psychology of The Federalist.” William and Mary Quarterly (July 1987)

1988 - Terry Castle, “The Female Thermometer.” Representations (Winter 1987)

1987 - Syndy McMillen Conger, “The Sorrows of Young Charlotte: Werther’s English Sisters, 1785-1805.” Goethe Yearbook (Spring 1986).

1986 - Joseph M. Levine, “The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles.” Eighteenth-Century Life (October 1984)

1985 - John Barrell, “The Functions of Art in a Commercial Society: The Writings of James Barry.” The Eighteenth Century 25:2 (Spring 1984)

1984 - Frederick Bogel, “Dulness Unbound: Rhetoric and Pope’s Dunciad,” PMLA (October 1982)[22]

1983 - Joel H. Baer, “’The Complicated Plot of Piracy’: Aspects of English Criminal Law and the Image of the Pirate in Defoe.” The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation (Winter 1982)

1982 - Calvin Seerveld, “Telltale Statues in Watteau’s Painting.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 14:2 (Winter 1980-81)

1981 - Isaac Kramnick, “Children’s Literature and Bourgeois Ideology: Observations on Culture and Industrial Capitalism in the Later Eighteenth Century.” In Culture and Politics from Puritanism to the Enlightenment, ed. Perez Zagorin (University of California Press, 1980).

1980 - Carole Fabricant, “Binding and Dressing Nature’s Loose Tresses: The Ideology of Augustan Landscape Design.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, ed. Roseann Runte (University of Wisconsin Press, 1979)

1979 - Barbara Maria Stafford, “Toward Romantic Landscape Perception: Illustrated Travels and the Rise of Singularity as an Aesthetic Category.” The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1977)

1978 - Judith Colton, “Merlin’s Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 10:1 (Fall 1976)

See also

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References

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  2. ^ Weinbrot, Howard D. (2021). "Genesis: Donald J. Greene and the Founding of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 50 (1): 3–11. doi:10.1353/sec.2021.0001. ISSN 1938-6133.
  3. ^ "About the Johnsonian Newsletter". The Johnsonian Newsletter. 2024-12-07. Retrieved 2024-12-07.
  4. ^ Clifford, James L. (1969). Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years (1st ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-011378-5.
  5. ^ Clifford, James L. (1974). "In Praise of Conversation: Communication Between Disciplines". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 3 (1): 3–10. doi:10.1353/sec.1974.0001. ISSN 1938-6133.
  6. ^ "AHA Member wins 2024 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Article Prize". American Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
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  8. ^ Allen, Josh (2022-04-11). "Past & Present Author Wins the 2022 ASECS James L. Clifford Prize - Past and Present". Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  9. ^ "Avi Lifschitz wins Clifford Prize and Leverhulme Fellowship". Magdalen College. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  10. ^ a b "Aaron Wile receives the James L. Clifford Prize". haa.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  11. ^ a b "St. John's English Professor Earns Acclaim for 18th-Century Scholarship | St. John's University". www.stjohns.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  12. ^ "Spencer Weinreich | Department of History". history.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  13. ^ Kelley, Donald R. (July 2008). "Joseph M. Levine 1933–2008". Journal of the History of Ideas. 69 (3): 499–500. doi:10.1353/jhi.0.0004. ISSN 1086-3222.
  14. ^ "Paola Bertucci awarded the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Department of History". history.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  15. ^ "Katie Jarvis". University of Notre Dame. 2024-12-10. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
  16. ^ "Dramatic Effects: Terry F. Robinson Receives James L. Clifford Prize for Study of Deafness in British Theatre | Department of English & Drama". www.utm.utoronto.ca. 2023-07-25. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  17. ^ Allen, Josh (2022-04-11). "Past & Present Author Wins the 2022 ASECS James L. Clifford Prize - Past and Present". Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  18. ^ "Faculty Fellow Wins James L. Clifford Prize | Kellogg Institute For International Studies". kellogg.nd.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  19. ^ "Paola Bertucci awarded the James L. Clifford Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Department of History". history.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  20. ^ "2012-13 Clifford Prize | Messbarger on the Florentine Anatomical Venus". Enfilade. 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  21. ^ "Curran Recipient of Clifford Prize for 18th-Century Research". Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  22. ^ Blake, Robert D. "1965 | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | NOVEMBER 1984". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
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