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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 64–70.
Published: 01 September 2018
... ills. $65 Williams Hannah . Académie Royale, A History in Portraits ( London : Routledge , 2015 ). Pp. xx + 358 . 123 ills. $120 hardcover. $49.95 paper ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
... anecdotes to larger concerns about English self-representation and the political authority that it alternately appeased and resisted. Specifically, the essay will follow Angelo from an anecdote he tells about George III at a Royal Academy exhibition, through an account of the constitutional crisis of 1783...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Refashioning the Epic for Eighteenth-Century Consumers in Henry Fielding’s Novels Nancy A. Mace U.S. Naval Academy Henry Power. Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature (Oxford...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Green 5 and, for example, removed the protection afforded by the annual indem- nity acts— their situation could become precarious indeed. Interior Public Spaces: The Dissenting Academies One of the more fruitful ways to approach the concept of the public...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 80–82.
Published: 01 September 2015
... skeptical remarks about religion in a book titled Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who See (1749). While on his way to Vincennes, Rousseau noticed an advertisement in the Mercure de France news- paper for an essay contest sponsored by the Academy of Dijon. The academy was asking contestants...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2007
... the latter’s tenure as professor of painting at the Royal Academy of Arts. In his fi rst lecture, in 1784, on “The History and Progress of the Art,” Barry dis- cussed Sabaism as an initial religious error, upon which apotheosis formed a subsequent layer of idolatry. After the deluge that cut off America...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... such as C. Steven Larue, Handel and His Singers: The Creation of the Royal Academy Operas , 1720 – 1728 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995). 5. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , 4 vols., ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1992), 2:614 – 36, henceforth, Opera Grove ; the quotations are from 626 – 27...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 92–96.
Published: 01 September 2015
... modernity now seems counterintuitive is due both to the shift in discourse during the 1760s and to the increasingly dominant Revolutionary propaganda. Notably, too, though this is not part of Russo’s argument, these shifts are reflected in the leadership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2010
...), with whom Handel had previously collaborated on Tolomeo (1728, also based on a libretto by Capece) and other operas during the years when Handel was composing operas for the Royal Academy (1719 – 28).5 Haym’s authorship would push the creation of Orlando’s libretto back to the late 1720s, since he...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 106–113.
Published: 01 April 2010
... picture, Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, which had been exhibited in London in 1768, but had not found a buyer. The Royal Academy was established in London towards the end of 1768, but had not included Wright of Derby (who had already departed for Liver- pool) among its founding members...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
... article “Reading the Walls: Pictorial Dialogue at the British Royal Academy.” Concentrating on the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784, Hal- lett explores the way paintings, as they faced one another across the room, interacted: “The format of the Royal Academy exhibitions encouraged cer- tain kinds...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., including the theatrical stage, the practice of portrait painting, the Royal Academy and other exhibitions, reproductive prints, and graphic satire. McPherson s focus on three key figures the painter Joshua Reynolds (1723 92), and the actors David Garrick (1717 79) and Sarah Siddons (1755 1831...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 53–69.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., or “classical,” schools that dosed their pupils with sufficient Latin to make them eligible for university and careers in the law, the church, or the government, such research has described schools sponsored by various Christian denominations— for example, Hackney Academy— or vocational institutions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
... theory A number of years ago, Mark Hallett published an important and influential essay on Joshua Reynolds, Royal Academy exhibitions, and eighteenth-century British spectatorship that should have become an inflection point for scholars of the portrait. 1 The essay focused on a single painting...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of overemphasizing rational or liberal dissent in contrast to orthodox or evangelical dissent, and like such historians, she overstates the importance of Warrington Academy. It is unlikely that Barbauld was sing- ing the praises of Warrington as a “rising” academy in 1790 (215 – ​­19) — ​it closed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 31–44.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., as both Furetière and the Academy Dictio- nary indicate, meant primarily “invent and is little used by Perrault) or merveilleux (which, for contemporary dictionaries as for Perrault, meant above all “digne d’admiration The word that most nearly suggests our...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 111–127.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., Berkshire. Day, meanwhile, attended and boarded at Stoke Newington Academy, contracted smallpox, recovered at Barehill with his mother, and then began stud- ies at London’s Charterhouse ca. 1757–58. Here he met and befriended future literary wit William Seward and perhaps also John Bicknell, Day’s cohort...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 181–188.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of Marlborough Addormentati Academy, Genoa, 9 Aulnois, Madame d’, 33 Aguirre, José (Juan) Saenz de, 8 Austria, House of: criticisms of, 42, 43 Alexander, Henry, 4th Earl of Stirling, 78n1, 80n1, 81n2 Baden-Baden, Margraf Ludwig (Louis) Ambition, 35, 70n8, 74...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
... with the metropolis. The dissenting academies in London played a crucial role in connect- ing the metropolis to the provinces. Many of the significant literary ac- quaintances Rowe made stemmed from the connections between the acad- emy at Newington Green in London...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 17–22.
Published: 01 September 2010
... this book. There is hardly a reference in the footnotes to the countless studies on the rise of the critical public sphere, academies, literary societies, reading rooms, lending libraries, and cafés that have dominated the historiography in recent years. Carla Hesse, James Van Horn Melton, and Daniel...