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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Rachel Mann Through the figures of Jane Barker, a gentlewoman who lived from 1652 to 1732, and whose work was both circulated in manuscripts as well as print, and Robert Hooke, curator to the Royal Society, this essay shows that experimental science and manuscript culture were premised...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 106–113.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Martha Hamilton-Phillips Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool
Martha Hamilton-Phillips
Williamsburg, Virginia
Elisabeth E. Barker and Alex Kidson. Joseph Wright...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 76–96.
Published: 01 September 2005
... in large
part at the collection of title pages published by Nicolas Barker, notes that
the Percy title page also contains features that are classical; therefore, “In
the Reliques a sophisticated typographical programme is used to achieve
a twofold aim: fi rst, to claim ‘classical’ quality...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 143–147.
Published: 01 September 2019
... teacher Joseph Barker, argued that denying writing instruction to the poor was a cruelty, even a denial of their full humanity. Yet Maria Edgeworth, as in her novel Helen (1834), continued to regard the activities of writing and copying as a potential threat to the social order. Like her pedagogic...
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in “The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 5. A page from the King James Bible genealogies; The Holy Bible Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New , printed by Robert Barker (1611), 1. Cambridge University Library, online at EEBO, <ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:2082/books/holy-bible-conteyning-old-testament-new-newly/docview
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Hindry Barker s Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane (1939), Leonard R. N. Ashley s Twayne Colley Cibber (1965, rev. ed. 1988), and Helene Koon s Colley Cibber: A Biography (1986). The studies by Senior, Barker, and Ashley are respectable efforts of their times and types. The Koon biography is an inaccurate white...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 80–110.
Published: 01 April 2012
... accountability” (34).
Though Methodism clearly ran counter to much of what we associate
with the Enlightenment, its emphasis on feeling as a conduit to a higher
reality situates it squarely in the culture of sensibility. As G. J. Barker-
Benfield points out, “It was Methodism that seems most to have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 50–81.
Published: 01 January 2005
... the political
positions of the various British newspapers in this instance.
Some critics do address newspaper coverage of the storming of the
Bastille at least briefl y.6 Hannah Barker, for instance, contends, “Newspa-
pers served both to publicise the events of the revolution, and, in these early...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
... standards of politeness, Goring
also shows how culture gets embodied and the body gets acculturated.
Given the number of articles, books, conference papers, and class lectures
devoted to the topic of sensibility—G. J. Barker-Benfield’s The Culture of Sen-
sibility (1992) and Adela Pinch’s Strange...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 January 2001
.... The
reformation of manners initiated during the reign of William and Mary
served to put a restraint on the sexual license and male violence associ-
ated with the libertine privilege of his reign (see Barker-Benfield, pp. 38–
65). While the processes of civility continued despite...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 109–114.
Published: 01 April 2014
... sat
Miss Barker, towards whom I dared not raise an eye, and who was in as
much fear of a glance from me as I was of one from her.
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Thus callow youth in the presence of dignified seniority. But Southey saw
something else, and in describing Seward’s person...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 April 2023
... are added, Dramatic Epistles from the Principle Characters in some of our most approved English Tragedies . London: R. Dodsley. Barker, Robert, Carpenter on board the Thetis. The Unfortunate Shipwright, or Cruel Captain. n.p. [Prose version of the narrative published in 1758.] Nevill...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 5. A page from the King James Bible genealogies; The Holy Bible Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New , printed by Robert Barker (1611), 1. Cambridge University Library, online at EEBO, <ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:2082/books/holy-bible-conteyning-old-testament-new-newly/docview...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 119–135.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., the most
successful and wealthy even owning large printing and bookselling businesses
(Clayton, pp. 237, 256–46; Hannah Barker, “Women, Work and the Industrial
Revolution: Female Involvement in the English Printing Trades, c. 1700–1784,” in
Gender...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 101–108.
Published: 01 April 2002
....
$45. isbn 1-85182-530-4
Kidson, Alex. George Romney, 1734–1802 (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2002). Pp. 256.
$65. isbn 0-691-09559-0
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675–1725 (Oxford: Clarendon,
2000). Pp. 262. $65...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
... on the basis of Cartesian
and Platonic philosophy, she insisted on female rationality, a right to educa-
tion, and female self-reliance. Katherine Philips and Jane Barker were Roy-
alist women. In the poetry of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, coded
support for the king in exile and quiet insistence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2008
...,
Sensibility: An Introduction (London: Methuen, 1986), and G. J. Barker-Benfield, The
Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago, 1992).
6. Jeffrey C. Robinson, Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism
(New York: Palgrave, 2006...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
...-
erary history can omit discussing sensibility, which has received major crit-
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ical attention in the past decade. G. J. Barker-Benfield, among others, has
defended sensibility as a major influence in refining mid eighteenth-century
culture, particularly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2013
... authors, and cabalists as well as
hacks, quacks, barkers, freaks, and early propagators of Christianity” under the
classis of the stage itinerant (83). The proponents of “modern” learning, Jack
and Peter, the founders and followers of new religions — all belong to the clas-
sis of mountebank...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 127–137.
Published: 01 September 2019
... was an anomaly; as recently as Ernest Baker s encyclopedic ten- volume History of the English Novel (1939), many of the women novelists from before 1750, rediscovered in the 1970s (not only Behn, Manley, and Haywood, but also Barker, Davys, and Rowe), were represented and discussed in his third volume. 2. Ian...
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