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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 183–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
...David O’Shaughnessy The Whig pamphleteer Dennis O’Bryen is one of a number of Irish playwrights in eighteenth-century London whose cultural and political contribution to the city has been overlooked. This essay offers the early career of O’Bryen as a case study in how the theater might be used...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 January 2016
... as a central principle of human nature. Questions about the mind/soul's “agitations” were crucial to a wide range of Enlightenment theories about mental imagery, rhetorical persuasion, and aesthetic beauty. Many writers, including John Dennis, linked the aesthetic import of spatial movement to Newtonian laws...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 57–80.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., Francis Osborne, Sir William Temple, Charles de Sainte-Évremond, John Locke, John Wilson, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay. It examines examples of miscellanies produced by John Dryden and his publisher Jacob Tonson, by John Dennis and Charles Gildon, and by Pope...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 23–27.
Published: 01 September 2010
... for the significance of Whig aesthetics. Williams aims to resus-
citate a corpus—perhaps even a canon—of partisan literature that was both
popular and acclaimed by contemporaries.
Working in concert, Whigs like Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; Rich-
ard Blackmore; Joseph Addison; and John Dennis developed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
Published: 01 September 2020
... is closely associated with what Burke would later describe as the sublime. In the preface to the 1706 Battle of Ramillia, John Dennis explains that tho this can by no means pass for a just Epick Poem, yet it is something of the Epick Kind. 25 Finding the Battle of Blenheim too bright, too strong...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 123–132.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Daniel Rosenberg Loveland Jeff . An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon’s “Universal History” (1745) ( Oxford : The Voltaire Foundation , 2010 ). Pp. xiii + 256. $105 Stalnaker Joanna . The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 36–67.
Published: 01 September 2016
... is not a climate for serenades.”20
In his seminal Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manner of 1706, John
Dennis also discussed the possible relationship between climate, char-
acter, and music.21 Dennis’s strict biological determinism, however, con-
trasts with the soft determinism suggested...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... management, 1710 32. Derogatory abuse from John Dennis, Fielding, and others notwith- standing, Robert Wilks, Cibber, and Barton Booth made Drury Lane a gold mine for themselves and their patentee, Sir Richard Steele. As McGirr sensi- bly observes, Success, not incompetence, breeds the kind of sustained...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... manners and new images” from ancient texts (Robinson and Dennis, 47). Percy's “Preface” seems to suggest that his poetic miscellany represents a stadial view of history. However, the paratextual annotations tell a different, more nuanced, story. Here, progress—what Regan helpfully describes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 145–149.
Published: 01 September 2014
... culture, he shows, but also in plays by Nicholas Rowe,
John Dennis, Catherine Trotter, and James Thompson. Wilson looks at serious
drama rather than comedy, and focuses his attention on 1688–1745, rather than
the earlier period. Nevertheless, it is still interesting that he draws such differ-
ent...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 66–89.
Published: 01 September 2004
... aesthetic concept in Boileau-Despréaux’s 674 translation of Longinus’
seminal treatise, Peri Hupsous (On the Sublime), and its mutation through
John Dennis’ awe-struck account of the ruggedness and geological asym-
metry of the Alps in 688, Shaftesbury’s evocation of the grandeur of high
places...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., accuses Louis of aiming for “univer-
sal Monarchy,” and of becoming ever more tyrannical as he grew older, so
that he with “all his Faculties intently bent, / Lavish of Gold, and Blood,
unpeopled France.”39 In the same year, John Dennis, commemorating the
Battle of Ramillies, has Satan look...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
... returned to him. 20. James S. Malek, “The Fifth Act of Addison's Cato ,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 515–19. 21. The Examiner (27 April–1 May 1713). See also John Dennis, Remarks upon Cato (1713), in The Critical Works of John Dennis , ed. Edward Niles Hooker, 2 vols...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 72–96.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of a philosophical dialogue have distinc-
tive voices, not common ones; these voices are compatible through being
tuned to a higher pitch. The effort to define true enthusiasm was partly
recuperative: enthusiasm in its higher meaning, much as John Dennis had
suggested in his literary criticism, was a property...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 110–117.
Published: 01 September 2011
...: A Bibliography
(Knoxville: Newfound, 2010). Pp. xxv + 735. $34.95
Loveland, Jeff. An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon’s “Universal
History”(1745) (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2010). Pp. xiii + 256. $105
Macpherson, Sandra. Harm’s Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
...), The Merry Companion, or Humorous Miscellany (1752),
and The Book of Fun or the Quintessence of Wit and Mirth (1759). It is some-
what of an odd jolt for the modern reader to encounter Milton in the comic
context in which these miscellanies present him. John Dennis’s essay on
Milton’s sublimity (1702...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2025
... of the “cross-fertilization of ideals and practices” between French and British writers on drama over the course of more than a century, including Dryden, Corneille, Shadwell, Collier, Steele, Dennis, Goldsmith, and Diderot, among others. In “Laughter,” Andrew Benjamin Bricker describes the “radical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 66–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of whom were Irish. Among them were lawyers
such as Dennis Molony and Edmund Malone, peers such as Lords Ken-
mare and Fitzwilliam, landed gentlemen like George Matthew and Arthur
French, merchants such as Patrick Walsh and Richard Fitzgerald, and Dr.
Nicholas Shee, a physician.14 One Irishman who...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 120–125.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., and in
the case of Pride and Prejudice, the cover art downplays, even disguises, its sexy
interior. While a primly seated Keira Knightley look-alike, drawn by Sonny
Liew and Dennis Calero, graces a witty Pride and Prejudice cover that spoofs
the layout of Seventeen magazine, Hugo Petrus characterizes Lizzy...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... psychologized sublime, as theorized by John Dennis, proved useful
here, since it allowed equivalences to be found between emotional responses
to war and to art. Dennis argued that enthusiastic passion could be moved
by “Ideas occurring in Contemplation” and that terror, the most transport-
ing experience...
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