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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 93–100.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Ian Higgins R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902731 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 9 3 Masonic Rivalries and Literary Politics in the Jacobite Era Ian Higgins The Australian National University Marsha Keith Schuchard...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Carol Stewart Signs of Eliza Haywood’s Jacobite sympathies are scattered throughout her work, becoming pronounced in The Fortunate Foundlings (1744), a novel written on the eve of the ’45 Rebellion. There is a positive representation of the Stuart court in exile, an emphasis on loyalty, and unusual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 37–43.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in the Age of Queen Anne (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2005). Pp. 341. 4 ills. $125. ISBN 0-19-927439-8 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
Ye Jacobites by Name?
Brean Hammond
University of Nottingham...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Leith Davis This chapter presents a book‐history analysis of a 2,148‐page manuscript book known as “The Lyon in Mourning.” Compiled after the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden (1746), the work consists of pro‐Jacobite materials copied out by Episcopalian minister Robert Forbes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Thomas Keymer This essay approaches the Jacobite rising of 1745–46 as constituting, by most Enlightenment and modern definitions, a civil war, and considers the implications for poems written during or soon after the rising by William Collins, Hester Mulso (later Chapone), Tobias Smollett...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the Turks, created the fame of John
III Sobieski, King of Poland and grandfather to a princess who later mar-
ried James Stuart, pretender to the English throne. I want first to examine
the story of Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702–35) and the uses to which it
was put by propagandists of the Jacobite...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 2006
... damaging false consciousness about Scotland and
its past. The one thing both camps share is a disdain and suspicion regard-
ing Macpherson, the charlatan Scottish (crypto-)Jacobite nationalist who
is also a totem of Anglocentric suppression and incorporation.
Eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 185–200.
Published: 01 April 2001
... they were kept in a chest in the Crown
Room in Edinburgh Castle, well away from the hands of the exiled Stuarts.
Even during the Jacobite occupation of Edinburgh in late 1745, the
Honours remained safe in the custody of two aged but indomitable
Hanoverian officers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 January 2020
... for their explicit (if sometimes pre- dictable) messages, but also for the subtleties and insinuations that regis- ter anxiety or conflict about the basis of the new queen s rule. He offers an extensive and illuminating taxonomy of Williamite elegies, including sin- cere Whig eulogies and Jacobite mock elegies...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 20–43.
Published: 01 September 2005
... very eff ectively made these facts appear to be a natural result
of his Scottishness, which encouraged talk of preferment, Jacobitism, and
treacherous foreign policy. As Bute and George III attempted to replace
political faction with the Bolingbrokean notion of a “Patriot King,” their
opponents...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2007
... of adolescence, manages
to pull off a victory for English letters over the narrow-minded French. Fur-
thermore, his victory over a French Catholic writer helps Pope, a well-known
Roman Catholic, dispel the clouds of suspicion and doubt created by his own
presumed Jacobite sympathies. But little...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 65–75.
Published: 01 September 2015
... his behavior; in his later years, he was a Jacobite sympathizer distrusted
by Hanoverians and other supporters of the Protestant succession, though
he was increasingly frustrated by and alienated from the ineffectual Jacobite
groups. After his death, as H. T. Dickinson observes, he was “widely...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 19–31.
Published: 01 April 2001
... learned of a Jacobite plot for an
invasion coordinated with a local uprising that would seize the Tower and
the financial centers of London and proclaim the Pretender king while
George I would be assassinated abroad. Walpole announced discovery of
the plot on 8 May...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of the 1758 Consid-
erations upon War suggests that advancements in civilization have made war
less, not more, barbarous.13 The second is that the inclusion of atrocities in
literary writing predates the Seven Years’ War, since it is quite common in
English responses to the Jacobite invasion of 1745...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2015
... from almost total historical
neglect, apart from an obsessive cultivation of the Jacobite rebellions of 1715
and 1745. Until about 1980, twentieth-century historians of Scotland were as
obsessed with those two years as their Irish equivalents, at least in the Repub-
lic, were with 1798–1800. One...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 109–114.
Published: 01 January 2022
... a notorious debtor, fraudster, perjurer, and quondam Jacobite courier. But on this occasion, he knew precisely why he found himself in the pillory: “I stand here for writing and publishing two Books” (108). More specifically, Fuller had been convicted under the old English common law of seditious libel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 66–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., attending school or university, making the Grand Tour,
visiting the Jacobite court, passing time at resorts such as Spa, or pursuing
business.
If the Irish Catholics of London have been largely overlooked, it is not
for want of evidence. Among the richest sources are wills proved...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Newton.8
Bolingbroke’s desire to secure his own position and that of the Tory
party in the years leading up to the death of Queen Anne led him to
engage in secret negotiations with the Jacobites for the restoration of the
Old Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart, on the arrival of George I...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of their lives as well as a communal “bookscape”—for example, the shared cultural values and forms of the convent, or the community of loyal Jacobite hearts. Ironically, in terms of the scope and accessibility across gender and social lines imagined by historians of print, it is in these manuscript volumes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of a Jacobite army rising in Ireland in support of
James II. But, as we will see, these Irish joke books also serve as a type of
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archive on the London Irish at a time when relatively few official records
of their activities were kept, documenting, in a predictably...
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