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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 114–120.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Seth Stein LeJacq R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8794000 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 1 1 4 London, by Accident Seth Stein LeJacq Duke University Craig Spence. Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 142–157.
Published: 01 January 2017
... reading: those poems, the authorship of which was (or appeared to be) disputed. This article considers how, through accident or design, misattributions entered into and persisted in the printed record. Each case of disputed authorship provides insight into the reception history of the poem under...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 166–187.
Published: 01 April 2023
...,” Fachsprachen/Languages for Special Purposes 2 (Halbband: Walter de Gruyter, 1998), 1,926–30. 14. Andrew Linn, “English Grammar Writing,” in Handbook of English Linguistics , ed. Bas Aarts and April McMahon (Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2021), 63–80, especially 66. 15. John Smith, An Accidence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 87–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is messy, unpredictable, unshapely, “a disor-
ganized jumble of accidents, haphazardly thrown together and fundamentally
unintelligible” (51). Even the “single-character plotline” is mere “fantasy” (128).
Molesworth’s argument recalls Northrop Frye’s famous distinction, made
half a century ago...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 136–149.
Published: 01 April 2016
... heroine her
particular form of perfection. Chariclea is defined by her constancy, endurance,
and statuesque calm in the face of continual batterings by enamored bandits,
jealous queens, warring armies, and other accidents of fortune. The luminous
beauty that attracts all this attention is also...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 131–136.
Published: 01 January 2025
... and legal logic to make this case, DeGooyer argues that the Creature “stages his membership in linguistic and political communities at precisely the same moment that [he] reveals his vulnerability to these groups” (163). The most radical act of narrative naturalization happens, however, by accident...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... family
meet with several potentially calamitous accidents over the course of the
novel, only one—the “troublesome, hopeless” Dick Musgrove—is actually
killed (54). It is the “accidents which occur in the ordinary course of nature”
which Cuvier’s reviewer posits as one explanation for species...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 72–84.
Published: 01 January 2003
... by The College of William & Mary
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the accident would not automatically imply such a surgical result.2 In his
study of themes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 January 2018
... his intel-
lectual soul-searching.
Minor’s final two chapters are more historiographical, examining the con-
verging factors that led Piranesi’s words to be disengaged from his images,
and exploring more recent efforts to reintegrate them. Over the centuriesÐ by
accident and by designÐ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
... into her fire, and the elderly Lady Gower, whose gown was set aflame. 40 Many people, furthermore, supplemented open fires and stoves with foot warmers, bed warmers, and other portable heating devices, both at home and when they went out in winter. These appliances occasionally caused serious accidents...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
... cruelty to animals simply echoes his parents’
mistreatment of their fellow human beings, as in the case of Dan Drug-
ger’s assumption that foreign servants may be beaten with impunity. When
Deborah Drugger has an accident while riding in her “phiz-a-phiz,” she is
Live...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 110–115.
Published: 01 January 2025
... version closely mirrors that of its predecessor. But one difference is especially noticeable: in the 1788 illustration, the mother looks vaguely in the direction of the other figures. On Fox's cover, the mother squarely faces the reader. The choice of the latter version for Fox's book is no accident...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 99–104.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Univ., 2012). Pp. vii + 159. $65
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If we know how to read for it, we will discover the history of the eighteenth
century at work everywhere in our own present. For example, it is no accident
that, today, the study of happiness takes place largely in departments...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 32–47.
Published: 01 April 2006
...
the clothes more attentively, he fi nally recognized his wife and promptly
fainted. Commissioner Louis Joron arrived around eleven, found his col-
league incapacitated by “the greatest grief,” and completed the necessary
formalities. He composed the obligatory procès-verbal about “the accident...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the Tower of Babel (123–27). The art of accident, and its associ-
ated rhetoric of ruin, is also prevalent in the tradition of the picturesque, where
the imprint of the designer on the landscape—the “marks of the scissors
must be carefully erased. As these remarks indicate, Brodey mobilizes a vari-
ety...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to a career as a sailor by accident of geography. His biographers have long thought that Falconer began working as a sailor in 1746 and that his first years at sea, from the ages of fourteen to seventeen, may have been spent in the coal trade, sailing along the east coast of Britain. 4 By following...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., and her social standing. She is a transitional
figure between manuscript and print, disseminating work in manuscript for
much of her life and occasionally dipping into print by accident or design.
In her teens, she shared her work with a coterie of other educated girls her
age, collecting her...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 85–91.
Published: 01 September 2007
... familiar vehicle for anger is satire, and it is no accident that—like
dozens of caricature artists from Rowlandson and Gillray through the Cruik-
shanks—Blake, Byron, and Shelley turned to satire repeatedly, nor is it any
surprise that Wordsworth was characteristically ambivalent about anger for
88...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 37–43.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in chapter 2 of Symbolic Design, for exam-
ple, requires that Pope should have had in mind a very detailed recollection of
Rubens’s decoration of Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House ceiling while compos-
ing certain passages of the poem. “It can simply not be an accident that . . .”
(62). So Pope must have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 3–18.
Published: 01 April 2001
...
erratic and accident-prone chapters in the English chronicle. More curi-
ous, though, is Lowell’s perception that Dryden’s typicality not only var-
ies depending on which of his works one happens to be reading but ulti-
mately is best expressed in the subjunctive. Lowell...
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