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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
...John McTague Duke University Press 2010 R “There Is No Such Man as Isaack Bickerstaff ”: Partridge, Pittis, and Jonathan Swift John McTague St. Catherine’s College, Oxford John Partridge was the most...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 68–80.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Clive Probyn Duke University Press 2008 R Blindness and Insight: The World, the Text (of  Jonathan Swift), and the Criticism of Edward Said Clive Probyn Monash University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 101–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Sabine Baltes-Ellermann R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902744 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 1 0 1 An Adamant Patriot in Changing Times: Jonathan Swift s Later Political Pamphlets Sabine Baltes- Ellermann Huerth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Seth Rudy Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift both believed, with varying degrees of self-assuredness, that some part of themselves would outlast their lives. They differed, however, as to precisely what would or could endure. From their earliest works, including Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Pope's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Mary Carter Most scholars turn a blind eye to A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars in All the Parishes of Dublin , but as Jonathan Swift’s final pamphlet on Irish affairs, it deserves our attention. This essay contextualizes the pamphlet among Swift’s more familiar arguments for solving...
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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 (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
Published: 01 September 2017
... with any confidence. Was Jonathan Swift a virgin? Opinions differ, and evidence is lacking. In theater history huge gaps in performance records prior to the advent of daily newspaper ads post 1700 leave us ignorant of what was performed on more than 80 percent of nights in Restoration London. In some...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 118–122.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Daniel Cook Damrosch Leo . Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World . ( New Haven : Yale Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xi + 573 . $35 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay The Ehrenpreis Dilemma and the Lives of Swift...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
... by Duke University Press 2020 Jonathan Swift secret history war trauma displacement English Civil Wars post-memory Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 3, September 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8718644 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 3 0 Swift, Secret History, and War Melinda...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 60–67.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Chris Ackerley Duke University Press 2008 R “The Last Ditch”: Shades of Swift in Samuel Beckett’s “Fingal” Chris Ackerley University of Otago Samuel Beckett’s use of Jonathan Swift’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 93–100.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Ian Higgins Marsha Keith Schuchard . Masonic Rivalries and Literary Politics from Jonathan Swift to Henry Fielding (Amazon Create Space: Gauthier Pierozak Editeur, 2018 ). Pp. ii + 715. $30 . Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 83–105.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Political Writings, 1711  –  1714: The Conduct of the Allies and Other Works, ed. Bertrand A. Goldgar and Ian Gadd, vol. 8 of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of  Jonathan Swift (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. xxx + 546. $150. ISBN 978-0-521-82929-8 Hermann J. Real, ed. Reading Swift...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 33–54.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the ancient model by using it “to make their fortune” (Reflections, 92–93). Samuel Parker agreed, disclaiming panegyric’s “Nauseous, vile, pedantick Forms,” and mercenary panegyrists’ hackneyed compliments “as prostituted Common-places as Panegyrick itself!”12 By the time Jonathan Swift published his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 83–87.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Octavia Cox [email protected] Daniel Cook . Reading Swift's Poetry ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2020 ). Pp. 316 . $100 , £75 . Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Poets steal. Or, to put it politely, borrow. Jonathan Swift preposterously claimed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 January 2011
... fictional dialogues and dramatizations of encounters and experiences.30 Jonathan Pritchard has written suggestively of the importance of pronunciation and the read- ing aloud of Swift’s verse, reminding us too that Swift was said to have drafted his prose while reading it aloud to his domestic staff...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Ashley Marshall Ormsby-Lennon Hugh . Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2011 ). Pp. 396 . $85 Walsh Marcus , ed. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift , Volume 1 : A Tale of a Tub and Other Works ( Cambridge...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of January sermons merely in the century from 1662 to 1762. These were written by High Church, lower church, Dissenters, colonial Americans, and many eminent men of letters who also were priests or wrote sermons: Joseph Trapp, Jonathan Swift, Edward Young, William Warburton, Samuel Johnson, Laurence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 110–117.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Received      113 Hammond, Brean. Jonathan Swift (Dublin: Irish Academic, 2010). Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Times, series ed., Stan Smith. Pp. xvii + 214. $32.95 paper Hanson, Craig Ashley. The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
..., especially if it be in things indifferent. — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)1 So Lemuel Gulliver, the fallible hero of Swift’s fiction, blandly describes to his Houyhnhnm master some of the causes for warfare. Whether Gulliver...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Damrosch, Leo. Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2013). Pp. xi + 573. $35 Davies, Simon, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, and Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, eds. India and Europe in the Global Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014). Pp. xi + 341. 14 ills...