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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Ronald Paulson; Ashley Marshall William Hogarth and Richard Steele were in many ways part of the same intellectual and religiopolitical milieu, one that also links them both to the radical Whig cleric Benjamin Hoadly. Modern scholars have almost always connected Steele to Joseph Addison...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Valerie Rumbold The relationship between the Spalding Gentlemen's Society (founded 1710) and Richard Steele's Tatler (1709–11) achieved its most influential commemoration in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (1812). While there were indeed shared ideals and anxieties that aligned this celebrated example...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 January 2014
...James Robert Wood Joseph Addison’s and Richard Steele’s The Spectator turned anecdotes into the moral equivalents of experiments in the science of human nature. Just as the experimental reports of the early Royal Society described exceptions to the ordinary workings of nature, The Spectator...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., and 130 — reveals that the baronet’s work as a justice of the peace stimulates Mr. Spectator’s moral development. Sir Roger’s intimate relationships with his inferiors and his quasi-familial approach to problem-solving challenge Mr. Spectator’s worldview, allowing Addison and Steele to express their ideas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
... and also to place a critical frame around the problematic spectacle of stoic suicide. In the second part of the essay, I then consider how it was that an instrumentalist view of the play nonetheless became canon. Here, I trace Richard Steele's appropriation of Cato to his project to reform the stage...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... in
these periodicals Addison and Steele encourage politeness in an attempt to
imagine a cultural middle ground between landed and commercial inter-
ests, and to modify the acceptable norms of gentlemanly behavior “from a
primarily courtly and aristocratic code, given to the display of power and
wealth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 19–31.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and librettist Paolo Antonio
Rolli.3 In the fall new season there premiered amid great excitement and
controversy Richard Steele’s long-awaited The Conscious Lovers, another
great financial success. For the Scriblerian writers who remained—John
Gay, Dr. John Arbuthnot...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 88–92.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and culturally persistent” of her selected authors’ repertoire. These authors—many of them fixtures of eighteenth-century literature, from Aphra Behn, to Richard Steele, to Eliza Haywood—are particularly illustrative, Ingrassia argues, because they each “had a connection in the material workings of the British...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
...
like a dissecting room, stocked with all of man’s limbs, organs, tissues, and
fluids.” 2 In both cases, it is a conjunction of armor and dead flesh that first
announces the haunting of the monarchy: “What may this mean, / That
thou, dead corse, again in complete steel / Revisits thus...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., on style, on taste, Addison’s and Steele’s The Tatler and The Spec-
tator are the best known and most influential of these papers, though Steele’s
later The Guardian and Johnson’s The Rambler remain crucial ethical and liter-
ary-critical landmarks. For much of the twentieth century, these papers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... technologies, and the transi-
tion from copper and steel engraving to wood engraving. Finally, I will con-
textualize ephemeral material ranging from advertisements and competing
marketing strategies, to interpretations of culture in tune with a new culture
of consumption of luxury print material...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 60–75.
Published: 01 September 2007
... (1713), Richard
Steele off ered another account of Selkirk, with whom Steele had apparently
met and conversed two years prior. Steele concentrates mainly on “the dif-
ferent Revolutions in [Selkirk’s] Mind in that long Solitude” rather than
on the guiding hand of providence, though he draws...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 126–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and religious culture more broadly, inscribed in an array of acts of preser-
vation: of souls, persons, characters, reputations, time.
The opening chapters on Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Spec-
tator (1711–12) and Edward Young’s Night Thoughts (1742–45) lay out the book’s
case...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 29–55.
Published: 01 April 2007
... servant as a trope for the social and sexual
desires of working women who defied the decorum of consumption. In
pamphlets and tracts in support of the wool trade, authors such as Dan-
iel Defoe and Richard Steele accused female domestic servants, who were
subject to fewer sartorial constraints than...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Steele s The Lying Lover: or, the Ladies Friendship (1704) painted relationships between women as fundamentally unsustainable because they were marred by jealousy and competitiveness. Although this play was unsuccessful on the stage, it was reprinted a number of times throughout the next few decades...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 111–115.
Published: 01 April 2015
...” (74); as a successful
periodical writer and wit in the tradition of Addison and Steele (110–20); as a
highly productive writer whose later neglect elicits puzzlement (221); as a vain
crackpot who cooks up a scheme to start his own Royal Society with him-
self as perpetual “conductor” (289...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 74–82.
Published: 01 January 2009
... need look at the changing view of its relation-
ship to Addison and Steele’s Spectator. Female Spectator criticism has gone from
being about the ways Haywood was influenced by (and failed to live up to)
Addison and Steele’s work, to exploring how The Female Spectator critiques or
refigures...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 January 2008
...
is an ingenious literary composition. But knack also meant the ability to do
something cleverly, adroitly, and successfully. Thomas Fuller suggested that
“[Philemon] Holland had the true knack of translating,” and Steele would
later poke fun at those who had “no knack at writing Sonnets.”22 In other
words...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
...
an increasing conflict between the comparative value of drama as text and
as performance. Richard Steele, writing in 1723, exhorted his readers, “It
must be remembered a Play is to be seen, and to be Represented with the
Advantage of Action, nor can appear with half the spirit without it.” 3 6...
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Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (published 1647) Aphra Behn's The Amorous Prince (1671) Thomas Southerne's The Disappointment (1684) John Crowne's The Married Beau (1694) Thomas D'Urfey's The Comical History of Don Quixote, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (1694 – 95) Richard Steele's The Tender Husband (1705) Christopher...
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