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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2007
...David Fallon Duke University Press 2007
“That Angel Who Rides on the Whirlwind”:
William Blake’s Oriental Apotheosis
of William Pitt
David Fallon
University College, Oxford...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 17–22.
Published: 01 September 2010
... philosophes began to identify and valorize their
own movement, through the culture wars of the nineteenth century, when
Sainte-Beuve and Villemain shaped the Enlightenment canon, and finally into
the twentieth century, when the Enlightenment finally achieved its apotheosis
in the hands of Ernst...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2019
... also profited the satirists who produced less positive representations of her, but which fed into the same loop, thus again augmenting Siddons s market value. In chapter 1, Garrick, Reynolds, Art and the Mak ing of Celebr it y 1 1 7 and the Apotheosis of Performance, McPherson places performance...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... will
tell the truth, whereas an image can be misleading. Pope’s double move—
the simultaneous use and deconstruction of ekphrasis— allows The Rape of
the Lock to exercise moral and aesthetic superiority over a beautiful object.
The poem’s concluding apotheosis of Belinda’s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 123–132.
Published: 01 September 2015
... resignation as unofficial prime
minister (and simultaneous apotheosis as the Earl of Orford). The masterfully
concise and informative headnotes to each debate provide just enough back-
ground in military, economic, and parliamentary history to pave the way for a
student new to the period. Scholars more...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
... body-
parts, of the Bard’s legacy was, in a sense, to participate in his apotheosis.
In some ways, Hamlet — a sustained meditation on death as a phil-
osophical and religious conundrum as well as a biological reality — is a
more plausible ancestor for the horror tradition than The Castle...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 98–116.
Published: 01 September 2002
... legacy. In twentieth-century theory the universalist theoriza-
tion of matrimony reaches its apotheosis in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s struc-
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turalist anthropology. In The Elementary...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2017
... to Milton.
In Dryden’s poem, the antitype is not a sacred figure of the New Tes-
tament but a secular figure of modern history, occupying a position that
is chronologically but not spiritually conclusive. The parodic structure of
typology remains, but it is itself parodied when the apotheosis...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2021
... understandings of socio-political spaces. Whereas the pre-1789 French clandestine press was mainly invested in undermining the quasi-sacral status of the French monarchy, and the Revolutionary-era press celebrated the apotheosis of the rights of man, the German press idealized domesticity ( Häuslichkeit...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 98–115.
Published: 01 April 2006
... (Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago, 1985) and Gananath Obeyesekere’s The Apotheosis of Cap-
tain Cook (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 1992). Both authors focused their atten-
tion on Cook’s visit to Hawaii, where he was worshipped as Lono, the god of
plenty, and for that reason eventually killed. Obeyesekere...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 33–54.
Published: 01 September 2015
... death providing another indication of his coming apotheosis.
Like a deity, he is able to comprehend the whole of human history within
a single volume, grasping complex or contingent historical events with per-
fect divine clarity:
He saw in th’ever lasting chains
Of long passed time...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2008
... The expansion of the metropolis is of concern to Johnson
because it limits the agency of urban dwellers. Against these trends, which
reach their apotheosis in the suburban sprawl of the twentieth century,
Johnson presents and models walking as the exemplary means of negotiat-
ing urban topographies...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2020
... ancient alaias but adapt their designs: they are generally made of paulownia wood rather than koa, breadfruit, or wiliwili, and are significantly thinner than surviving ancient boards. For additional information, see <httptomwegenersurfboards .com 5. See Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... . . . Simultaneously, George III was ‘Farmer George,’ the king who mingled freely with his subjects” (160 – 61). And Linda Colley, in “The Apotheosis of George III,” Past and Present 102 (1984): 94 – 129, argues that a “shift in the royal image” occurred in 1786 when caricatures of the king in the role of Farmer...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780 1830, ed. Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 87 98, especially 88. 25. Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body (Durham: Duke Univ., 2009), 19. 26. Ann Radclie, The Romance...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
... phrases,
to prepare the way for the apotheosis of the elder Pitt, and to transform
Richmond into the kinder, gentler opponent we find in the biographies of
Chatham. Whatever the motive, the alterations in the Gazetteer were but
the first in a series of cosmetic touches over the next three years...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2007
... that “the apotheosis
of ‘sensibility’ typically involves the production of certain kinds of retreat
or specialization. Sensibility and the pleasures of sentiment with which it
is associated are not represented prescriptively, not represented as strictly
available models of behaviour.” 41 But in John Belford’s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Kennedy, The
Death of Captain Cook (London: Duckworth, 1978), 94; Gananath Obeyesekere, The
Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, 2nd ed. (Princeton:
Princeton Univ., 1992); and Marshall Sahlins, How “Natives” Think: About Captain
Cook, for Example (Chicago: Univ...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
... at a
young age and treated like domestic animals or even inanimate objects.
Yet if donors like Rowlandson’s sweep and servants like The London
Dentist’s black youth are similarly reduced to fashionable accessories, they
are also the apotheosis of a modish rage for beauty, youth, and the exotic...
