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Chivalry, Commerce, and Generosity: Godwin on Economic Equality
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 43–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Rowland Weston Burke's outrage at the revolutionary insult dealt to Marie Antoinette is one of the better-known pieces of the British pamphlet war that erupted in the wake of the French Revolution. What is less well known today is that William Godwin's anarchist magnum opus, Enquiry Concerning...
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A Sartorial Road Map to Rebellion
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 124–129.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jennifer M. Jones Caroline Weber. Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (New York: Henry Holt, 2006). Pp. 412. 26 ills. $27.50 Duke University Press 2009 Review Essay
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The Second Time Around: Marriage and Remarriage in Riccoboni and La Guesnerie
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 53–68.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Antoinette Sol The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26205-68-sol.q4 5/28/02 2:22 PM Page 53
The Second Time Around: Marriage and
Remarriage in Riccoboni and La Guesnerie...
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Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 74–97.
Published: 01 April 2006
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In April of 1770, Marie Antoinette undertook a twenty-seven-day journey
that would lead her to France, her marriage to the future Louis XVI, and
to a disaster that eerily presaged the revolutionary events to come. Her
trip began innocuously enough. As she traveled from Vienna to Versailles,
where...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Succession, emphasizing that this feat
ultimately brought peace and prosperity to the land.11 Last but not least, the
marriage of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette was repeatedly illustrated as
a graft, for instance, in a sonnet published in the gazette Mercure de France
that proclaimed that the royal...
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The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
... dynastic continuity through customary royal iconographies and not sentimental bonds between mother and child. 31 A generation later, amidst revolutionary stirrings in France, the public began to question their queen's feminine virtue and embrace of French customs; Marie Antoinette—the empress's...
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How the Enlightenment Invented La Bohème
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 122–127.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Régime court, such as the vitriolic pamphlets
denouncing Marie Antoinette, which appeared after 1789 and were hugely pop-
ular.5 Unlike those pamphlets, however, Pelleport’s novel was morally ambiva-
lent, and its gaze focused narrowly on the world of letters.
Notes
1. According...
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Imagination Under Pressure 1789-1832: Aesthetics, Politics, Utility
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 January 2001
...,” but instead through an act of affective response to great men,
and with imaginative sympathy towards our fellow countrymen. For Burke,
failure to see the loveliness of, say Marie-Antoinette, will make the state
and constitution unlovely, causing it to collapse...
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Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth-Century French Print Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., sympathetic ways that add a narrative component to the clergyman and aristocratic woman arguing in the bedroom. In addition to communicating abstract ideas in images, for instance with caricature (Rosine looks a lot like Marie Antoinette in this print) and the mechanics of humor (the figures are incongruous...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 133–143.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ., 2011). Pp. 156. 10 ills. $55 hardcover. $19.95 paper
Hooper-Hamersley, Rosamond. The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour:
Patronage, Politics, Art, and the French Enlightenment (Lanham: Lexington
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 127–130.
Published: 01 September 2007
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Weber, Caroline. Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006). Pp. 412. 42 ills. $27.50.
ISBN 0-8050-7949-1
White, Daniel E. Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent (Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ., 2006). Pp 266. 6...
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Weather, Water, Persons, and Books: Mediating Global Romanticism
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 110–116.
Published: 01 January 2018
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be a worthwhile legacy for both these titles.
Notes
1. Isabel Hofmeyr, “The Globe in the Text: Towards a Transnational History of
the Book,” African Studies 64 (2005): 87±103; the quotation is from 88.
2. For more on this idea, see Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, “Intro-
duction. The Spine...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 101–108.
Published: 01 April 2002
..., 2002). Pp. 304. $47.50.
isbn 0-8122-3639-4
Frobenius, Nikolaj. De Sade’s Valet, trans. Tom Geddes (New York: Marion Boyars,
2000), [novel]. Pp. 239. $14.95. isbn 0-7145-3060-3
Fraser, Antonia. Marie Antoinette: The Journey (New York...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 140–146.
Published: 01 September 2003
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Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B. Pingree. New Media, 1740–1915 (Cambridge: MIT,
2003). Pp. 271. $34.95. ISBN 0-262-07245-9
Goodman, Dena, ed. Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen (New York:
Routledge, 2003). Pp. 289. $23.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-93395-1
Goodridge, John, ed. Eighteenth...
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Father, Lackey, Son, Friend, and Voltaire: Pederasty and Publicity in Pre-Revolutionary France
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 41–60.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., left traces in several sources. He escaped the chaos and carnage in the Place Louis XV on 30 May 1770, when the fireworks celebrating the marriage of the dauphin and Marie Antoinette set off a panic, which ended with a stampede, by climbing onto the back of the duc de Croy s carriage.9 The Mémoires...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 156–164.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Documentation in Britain, 1770–1830
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000). Pp. 216. 50 ills. $84.95. ISBN 1-84014-636-2
Sol, Antoinette Marie. Textual Promiscuities: Eighteenth-Century Critical Rewriting
(Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ.; London: Associated Univ., 2001). Pp...
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Suzanne Necker's Legacy: Breastfeeding as Metonym in Germaine de Staël's Delphine
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2004
... year, and especially the
first month” (Badinter, 112). See M. W. Beaver, “Population, Infant Mortality and
Milk,” Population Studies 27 ( July 1973), 243–54; Antoinette Chamoux, “Mise en
nourrice et moralité des enfants légitimes,” in Annales de démographie historique (Paris:
Belin, 1973); Marie...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 130–138.
Published: 01 January 2003
...-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie Antoinette (New
Haven: Yale Univ., 2002). Pp. 336. 50 b/w and 175 color illustrations. $60.
ISBN 0-300-09329-2
Kates, Gary. Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 115–126.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Univ.,
2008). Pp. xiv + 210. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1077-2
Lasky, Kathryn. Marie-Antoinette: Princesse Autrichienne à Versailles, 1769 – 1791, trans.
from the English by Lilas Nord (Paris: Editions Gallimard Jeunesse, 2005).
Pp. 224. €9.50. ISBN 978-2-07-051156-3...
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Hannah More and the English Poor
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 237–251.
Published: 01 April 2001
...: “Adieu! Thou excellent woman! Thou reverse of that hyena in
petticoats, Mrs. Wollstonecraft, who to this day discharges her ink and
gall on Marie Antoinette, whose unparalleled sufferings have not yet
staunched that Alecto’s blazing ferocity. Adieu! Adieu! Yours from my...
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