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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Churchman, Deist, Enlightenment gentleman, and witty blasphemer. Mpaulson41@gmail.com marshall@unr.edu Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 William Hogarth Richard Steele radical Whiggery anti-clericalism satire The Spectator (1711–12) has long been recognized...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 January 2014
...
in Wales (briefly mentioned) metamorphosed into a major Congregational col-
lege at Cheshunt in the nineteenth century, a remarkable instance of one wom-
an’s impact on the religious and educational life of the nation. Methodism is
discussed too much in terms of anti-Methodist satire.
The other...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., and
chastity. The key to this minimalist reconfiguration of the virtues is Tillot-
son’s understanding of happiness, which is continuous with what Burtt has
described as his move to preach “less the duty of virtue than its rewards.”19
In a profoundly anti-Calvinist move, Tillotson suggests that happiness...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., as he did in his work on the New Testament and, to some extent, in his
Paradise Lost: in both works an anti-Trinitarian bent is perceptible. But it is
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Bentley’s linguistic work that is most durable and demonstrably closest to his
heart. His last two editions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of news, the forensic excavation of a
corpse, and the pervasive anti-Catholicism that bubbled over at the time
of the Popish Plot.
Perhaps it is because letters always draw attention to the creation of an
alternative persona that Abigail Williams, Claudine van Hensbergen, and
John McTague...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
... not convinced that sugar's influence on social habits was positive. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, this identification was reversed with the rise of the anti-saccharide movement. Even before sugar was denounced as a product of slavery, it troubled clerics and social reformers who were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 124–139.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., and India— with a concluding excursion into
Afghanistan. Throughout the book she scrutinizes received readings and
questions many myths, both imperial and anti-imperial. Far from having been
acquired “in a fit of absence of mind,” as Sir John Seeley famously ventured at
the height of Victorian self...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and newspaper prospectuses, which proliferated in the 1790s, this article analyzes examples from across the political spectrum, including the prospectus for the Argus by the radical journalist Sampson Perry, George Canning’s hugely influential prospectus to the Anti-Jacobin , and other examples by William...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
... did not write the Predictions.
Partridge, Pittis, and Jonathan Swift 8 5
“The Protestant Almanack- Maker”
The customary image of Partridge is that of a bigoted anti- Catholic Whig,
and a quack- practitioner of a bogus science. However, this image of Par-
tridge...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 69–91.
Published: 01 January 2004
..., the death of
Friday— killed by Caribs who shoot him with arrows after six of them moon
him— is a scene of murderous gay-bashing: replete with choral expression
of anti-sodomitical contempt, it is symbolically staged as such in Robinson
Crusoe’s “guilty” subconscious mind (“mooning natives...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and activism in such
causes as anti-slavery, governmental reform, pacifism, and animal rights.”27
Of course, it is important not to forget that the composition of “The
Mouse’s Petition” preceded by many years Barbauld’s involvement in such
causes as anti-slavery. Other causes were more likely to have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 170–182.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of a period in which they had devoted a great deal of their time
and attention to the cause of the radical politician John Wilkes. The Darlys
supported Wilkes through their anti-Bute print campaign in the early
1760s, and in at least one pro-Wilkes pamphlet, Matthew Darly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 155–182.
Published: 01 January 2015
... avoided
fashionable card games. See the acclamation of his anti-gaming stance in Thomas
McDonnell, The Eighth Commandment Considered (Dublin: George Faulkner, 1760).
45. Walpole to Henry Seymour Conway, 16 April 1756, in The Yale Editions of
Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. W. S. Lewis, 48...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
... or unnecessary, but also that he actively opens up a space for conjectural history and invites us to consider what does not happen, but what might have happened. In doing so, it is worth noting, he makes exactly the rhetorical move to be found in the anti-Catonic polemic of contemporary treatises on suicide...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... observed, were themselves part of the entertainment value of the spectacle but also a potent source of political anti- Catholic propaganda. These ephemeral texts served to convey the news to those who could not attend the London event, but they also were souvenirs of the day. Repeatedly, they also lay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2003
... on Historical Antiquarianism
The immediate origins of the Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society clearly
lay in the energies and enthusiasms of Rev. James Scott, indefatigable anti-
quarian and principal minister of St John’s Kirk.7 Numerous works survive
to affirm Scott’s tirelessness as a collector...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
... in a political beating,
but also, “about the year 1778,” was “run-over by a hackney-coach, and his
leg broken in three places,” consequently spending the next sixteen months
“in a horizontal position.” 14 If Wall wrote and published the strongly anti-
Chatham report of April 8th, one can at least...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 82–108.
Published: 01 January 2005
... literature and the parodic grotesquerie of counterattacks. The Fire
is at once a vengeful army destroying the institutional icons of Charles’s
authority (ll. 837 – 80) and a feeding, frenzied monster intended to sug-
gest the grotesque Puritan “bellygod” from Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair or
the anti...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 136–165.
Published: 01 January 2004
... for the neo-Palladian revival
in architecture, the anti-baroque theories of landscape design, and attitudes
towards the study of classical antiquity on the Tour. In Classical Culture and the
Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England,Philip Ayres, for the first time, has
succeeded in demonstrating...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 36–67.
Published: 01 September 2016
... it is unsuitable because
of the influence of the climate on character, or if there are other reasons why
northern latitude is unsuitable (perhaps for reasons of imitation). Swift’s complaint
anticipates anti-Italian prejudices echoed in music criticism of the 1760s. Of the
influence of castrati, he writes...
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