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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Melinda Alliker Rabb “Swift, Secret History, and War” argues that the relationship between Swift’s writing, reading, and his abiding interest in the English Civil Wars produced a distinctive contribution to the discourses that arose after the reestablishment of monarchy, called “secret histories...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 59–72.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and the English Civil War. Jean-Paul Marat also appreciatively referred to this history, and hints such as these suggest that this work was quite well known in France before the Revolution, although a French translation was not published there until 1791-92. This paper provides an overview of Macaulay's influence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 160–164.
Published: 01 September 2020
... be real- ized, Melinda Rabb argues in her contribution to this special issue: not for Jonathan Swift any more than [Walter] Benjamin s angel or [Judith] But- ler s spectral agent. Swift obsessively studied histories of the English Civil War, a conšict that had devastated his father s family and brought...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 1–7.
Published: 01 September 2020
... grappling with the reality of war and its lasting e˜ects.2 It was, after all, an era of almost incessant war, from the English Civil Wars through the revolutionary and Napoleonic battles at the turn of the nineteenth century.3 The Age of Rea- son is also the Age of War an age, then, far beyond the scope...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Literature     95 ity stories into war literature belongs more with the history of literature than with that of war. The first is that the Seven Years’ War, though cruel, was no more so than earlier wars — the Thirty Years’ War in Europe, for instance, or the English Civil War.12 Indeed, the author...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 105–109.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Civil War, the prime instance of enthusiasm remains the Camisards. This historical moment is indeed fascinating and reveals a host of tensions and contradictions that are well described here, but it means that the evidence of “enthusiasm” brought into consideration is surprisingly narrow...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and fought next to Franco- Irish and Scoto- French allies. They possessed numerous artillery pieces and ‰red more balls per man than the British (i.e., Cum- berland s army, which combined English, Scottish, Dutch, and Hessian units).15 What then do we mean when we speak of civil war? I have already cited...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 109–114.
Published: 01 January 2022
... sweep as in Poetics of the Pillory , which traces the story from the English Civil Wars beyond the French Revolution, modifying and refining Patterson's paradigm along the way. Here Keymer makes his third intervention, in the history of reading. Sophisticated writing demanded equally sophisticated...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 87–112.
Published: 01 April 2004
... to the sibyls of antiquity, the English Civil War created a new and entirely different type of visionary.6 Writing in a time of extreme uncertainty about England’s future, they tended to be overtly political and apocalyptic. The Fifth Monarchist Mary Cary, whose sect believed that King Jesus would supplant...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
... offered other ways of understanding, and valuing, feeling. Daniel Gross’s The Secret History of Emotion is an ambitious work of intel- lectual history, which focuses on the period between the English Civil War and the French Revolution while drawing connections from Aristotle and Hel- lenistic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
Published: 01 September 2020
... rouse them to crush the thievish band (20). Freneau was not the •rst poet of war to draw upon the experience of imprisonment. A number of prison poems appeared much earlier, during the English Civil Wars (1642 51). Richard Lovelace expresses a distinctly Royalist view of England in his prison poems...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 January 2001
... a precedent but are, nevertheless, fitted into a prior template by both their supporters and, especially, their opponents (Burke claims that the French Revolution is like the English Civil War, for ex- ample), Paine, in considering the radical and unchartered changes brought...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2005
... knew his history and saw plenty of examples of such danger in the sixteenth-century French wars of religion and the English Civil War. The same attitude shows up in the sixth cause, “Contempt of Fathers and of authority.” The identity of these “Fathers” is not explicit, and it may...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 75–95.
Published: 01 September 2020
...-8718666 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 7 5 Con icted Representations: Language, Lexicography, and Johnson s Langscape of War Lynda Mugglestone University of Oxford A war word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (henceforth, OED) is a distinctively twentieth- century phenomenon.1 When...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 81–87.
Published: 01 September 2010
... political perspectives as well as her thinking about the Civil War. Sig- nificantly, it also contains excerpts from her military biography of her husband, The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William Cavendishe (1667), a text that has not been reprinted since 1916. In Astell’s case...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 43–61.
Published: 01 September 2001
... feudalism to modernity effects a process of civilization that transforms all aspects of English culture.35 The historical evolutions in the military are thus a microcosm of larger cul- tural transformations that are also at the heart of Farquhar’s play. Captain...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
.... “Of Civil Liberty,” in Essays, p. 91. 16. On “polite language” as explained by Lord Kames, Hugh Blair, and George Campbell, see Carey McIntosh, The Evolution of English Prose 1700–1800: Style, Politeness, and Print Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1998), pp...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 60–80.
Published: 01 September 2011
... in the history [of] either nation, with the one excep- tion of the English civil war, which attracted more attention and created more controversy than the union.” 1 9 It is in the context of this new “kind of imagined community that is the nation” described so aptly by Benedict Anderson that Watson’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... alternative to the newspaper in shaping public opinion about war. War News The establishment of a regular army in the late seventeenth century, and the practice of hiring foreign troops, had made war an activity that most English gentlemen would only read about. And war generated an ever...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 2006
... lengths to explain the absence of Druids in Ossian. The story he tells in the dissertation accompanying the Fingal volume is of a civil war occasioned by the refusal of Fingal’s grand- father to hand over the kingship, originally an elected offi ce overseen by the Druids, but which had for several...