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Journal Article
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 (2008) 32 (2): 120–137.
Published: 01 April 2008
...
Robert Hooke, though more famous, has something in common with
Moxon, whom he knew well. Both worked closely with scientific instru-
ments, and both were separated by their work from the leisured gentlemen
Crusoe’s Hand 1 2 3
of the Society. Hooke...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 30–62.
Published: 01 September 2023
... practitioners had very little relevance for culture at large—Boyle's weighing air and Hooke's microscope observations, as Coppola contends, were often the subject of scathing satirical plays—whereas Newton's ideas were immediately made a matter of national pride. See Coppola, Theater of Experiment , chapter 1...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 51–54.
Published: 01 September 2010
... on hooks on the wall so that the nurses could go about their daily work
without the burden of their charges.” By the nineteenth century a revolution
in child rearing had taken place, according to Popiel, and “Jean-Jacques Rous-
seau’s work drove this shift in perception” (5).
Popiel describes...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 124–129.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Hooke and Horace Walpole, as well as in more idiosyncratic figures
like John Woodward and Laetitia Pilkington, as well as figures at home in
eighteenth-century studies, if not typically thought of as collectors (John Mil-
ton) or even writers (Jonathan Wild). “Home” turns out to be a crucial concep...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 January 2013
... with the consonantal sound “w” is active in many lines that other-
wise present problems of scansion. Bentley’s “hook,” as Pope calls the digamma
in the Dunciad, may be Bentley’s most infamous brand, but it should be a sign
of his talent for close reading. He could edit with thematic predilections in
mind...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 29–54.
Published: 01 September 2013
... writing (and, more broadly, in knowledge production) that were
occurring in the early eighteenth century. Dampier published New Voy-
age at a time when the Royal Society was attempting to implement a new
standard for scientific travel writing, and when the society was, as Robert
Hooke explains...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 181–188.
Published: 01 September 2008
...), 7, 20, 38, 41, 48,
George, prince of Denmark, 71; 65, 71
proposed as captain-general of the Hook, Henry, 77
Dutch forces, 30; inspects fleet at Hooper, George, Dean of Canterbury, 52
Portsmouth, 31 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 3, 4...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 2006
...
number of commentators have wondered about this unlikely — not to say
unholy — alliance between critics equally wedded to and hostile towards
notions of a Scottish cultural identity in the eighteenth century. As early as
1984 Andrew Hook wondered whether regarding The Poems of Ossian as a
source...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 114–123.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Pilgrim’s Progress. Wall’s reading of
Pilgrim’s Progress, a surprising and innovative proof text, spans two chapters
that are interrupted by an intervening chapter on writers of scientific experi-
mentalism and their literary contemporaries and respondents, namely Hooke,
Boyle, Swift, Evelyn...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 82–92.
Published: 01 January 2012
... contradiction” (198) in the relationship
between art and science, drawing upon an array of writers, from Bacon, Sprat,
Hooke, and Wotton, to Dryden, Hume, Burke, and Johnson. According to
McKeon, each of these writers, in a variety of ways, addresses the mutual
implications of aesthetic and scientific...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 112–122.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of
people living today believe these things, and the “she asked for it” explanation
was probably even more ubiquitous in Richardson’s time. But even if Richard-
son thought that Clarissa was at fault in some way, which I do not believe, he
does not let Lovelace off the hook. So heinous are Lovelace’s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., not only in her ordinary course, but when
she seems to be put to her shifts, to make many doublings and turnings,
and to use some kind of art in indeavouring to avoid our discovery” [Hooke,
“Preface,” Micrographia, p. A2r This trope receives perhaps its fullest...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 140–150.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., the more
honorable she will seem. Studying Kant, Soni learns that the labor of philo-
sophical ethics is to limit responsibility, to let you know what you are under no
obligation to do, to let you, finally, off the hook. And in the end, the Revolu-
tion’s happiness project turned out to be just...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... Most of what can be said about geographically-specific developments outside
Edinburgh is contained in just a few publications: Andrew Hook and Richard B. Sher,
eds., Glasgow and the Enlightenment (East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell, 1995); Jennifer J.
Carter and Joan H. Pittock, eds., Aberdeen...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 115–126.
Published: 01 September 2007
... theorization of colonial guilt” (223). Of additional note
in this chapter is O’Quinn’s close reading of James Hook’s 1778 satiric print on
the Hastings trial, entitled The Trial, which recasts the actors as the characters
in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
The fi nal section of Staging...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 51–64.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., he quotes heavily from letters he has received and
marks his answers to correspondents’ points in turn with square hooks.
At one point during their correspondence in 1754, Richardson suggests to
Bradshaigh that they number their paragraphs, “1, 2, 3, 4, &c. that we may
the better refer...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 116–134.
Published: 01 April 2001
...
takes place indoors in silverfork novels. The hero of Theodore Hook’s
Jack Brag (1837) simply rents the door of a great house in Grosvenor
Street and meets his friends at his Club: “My name is on the door, and my
address is on the card,” he boasts to his old mother.30...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of birds under six orders, according to the different figure of the beaks” (13:95). The six categories are “I. Birds that have uncinated , or hooked beaks. II. The picae , or birds, that have convexed and compressed beaks. III. Those that have dented , or depressed beaks. IV. Those that have...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2001
... with erotic
interest in other women. Yet, what strikes me about these comedies is how
easily they let such characters off the hook: “condemnation” is far too
strong a word for these characters’ fates. The question is why they are not
treated more harshly. The answer...
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