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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
...John Wilton-Ely The College of William & Mary 2001 “Gingerbread and sippets of embroidery”: Horace Walpole and Robert Adam “How sick one shall be, after this chaste palace, of Mr Adam’s gingerbread and sippets...
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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 (2019) 43 (3): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Adam Potkay My design in this essay is twofold: first, I show the underappreciated poetic mastery of Dryden’s Lucretius translations. Second, I connect what Dryden does at the level of the poetic line with how he subtly refashions Epicurean philosophy for his era. Dryden’s Lucretius is less...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 20–43.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Adam Rounce Duke University Press 2005 “Stuarts without End”: Wilkes, Churchill, and Anti-Scottishness Adam Rounce Keele University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Adam Budd Duke University Press 2007 Why Clarissa Must Die: Richardson’s Tragedy and Editorial Heroism Adam Budd University of Edinburgh When Samuel Richardson released the final...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Adam R. Beach The College of William & Mary 2004  Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and Nationalist Spectacle in Behn’s The Rover Adam R. Beach Ball State University In the epilogue...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Adam Komisaruk Critics from the eighteenth century to the present have largely agreed in portraying Erasmus Darwin as an apostle of sexual liberation. One of Darwin’s career-long themes, that erotic love unifies the visible universe and the invisible, reaches its apotheosis in The Botanic Garden...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 150–156.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Adam R. Beach Loar Christopher F. . Political Magic: British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650–1750 . ( New York : Fordham Univ. , 2014 ). Pp. vii + 326. 5 ills . $45 Pearl Jason H. . Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel . ( Charlottesville : Univ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 6–11.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Adam Rounce Jack Lynch. Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). Pp. xiii + 218. $89.95 Duke University Press 2009 Review Essay Proving a Fake Adam Rounce...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Adam Rounce This article looks at the reception of a number of seventeenth-century poets in the eighteenth century, using the materials in the Digital Miscellanies Index (DMI). It considers whether the existing reception narrative of the relative neglect of John Donne and George Herbert during...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 81–87.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Adam Potkay Mark G. Spencer. David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America , Rochester Studies in Philosophy (Rochester: Univ. of Rochester, 2005). Pp. 552. $90. ISBN 1-58046-118-2 Duke University Press 2007 Review Adam Potkay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): v–ix.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Adam Potkay The College of William & Mary 2001 Introduction This festschrift commemorates Robert Maccubbin’s twenty years as edi- tor of Eighteenth-Century Life; its distinguished contributors are among the many friends...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Adam Potkay The College of William & Mary 2001 Hume’s “Supplement to Gulliver”: The Medieval Volumes of The History of England Difference in Opinions hath cost many Million of Lives...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
... that comes second in time, whether as a refined Eve in relation to a rudimentary Adam, or as the revisionary woman poet in relation to the originary masculine classic author. Taken together, their rewritings of Original Sin, human origins, English poetry, and Britain's progress transformed the discourse...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2017
... consists. Part 2 both preserves part 1 and supersedes it. Bunyan’s Christian allegorizes the emotional psychology of the typical believer, buttressed by scriptural passages, in his struggles to attain salva- tion. Milton’s Adam accommodates the Old Testament figure of the first believer in his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 April 2017
... after twenty-four years as editor of Eighteenth-Century Life and we had moved the journal to the University of Wyoming, Adam Potkay generously agreed to serve as our book-review editor. Readers have frequently complimented us on the quality, thoroughness, and authoritativeness of our reviews...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 98–102.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Vincent Carretta Adams Catherine Pleck Elizabeth H. . Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England ( New York : Oxford Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. xi + 265. 10 ills . $21.95 paper Chater Kathleen . Untold Histories: Black People in England...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...- acterized precisely by its deployment of virtue discourses and narratives in the context of everyday life practices and challenges. The characters of the early sentimental novel—Pamela and Parson Adams, for instance—are (orthodox) Christians encountering the world. Conversely, we can think of prose...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 29–38.
Published: 01 April 2008
... of Charles Adams, an obvious spoof of Sir Charles Grandison. Austen has great fun with Adams, first of all by having him attend Mr. Johnson’s masquerade, an entertainment of which Sir Charles Grandison very much disapproves.4 Along with mis- chievous plotting like this, Austen also parodies some...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 89–103.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of Abigail and John Adams (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007). Pp. xx + 507. 29 ills. $35 Sarah M. S. Pearsall. Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008). Pp. 281. $110 Jeffrey H. Richards and Sharon M. Harris, eds. Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters...