...Marie E. McAllister In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, the Grand Tour, sex, and venereal disease became almost indivisible in the public imagination. The Grand Tour was an essential element of a well-born man's education. Yet a persistent belief developed that continental travel...

... contradistinction. Whereas Pope's belief in the redemptive potential of his own poetic prowess—a belief not always unwavering in the face of the cultural decline he set out to combat—compelled him to give the model of Pope-as-author pride of place in future memory, Swift tended to emphasize the expedient...

...Jack M. Armistead In the poems composed before his first serious plays, Dryden rhetorically exploits the malleability of occult beliefs during this period. He uses the mixed attitudes toward astrology, alchemy, and, to a lesser extent, demonology and other folks beliefs, to broaden meaning...

... not coexist with otherwise conservative political or religious beliefs, I analyze conduct books by Evangelical Christians such as Hannah More, Isaac and Ann Taylor, and Jane West. I intend to demonstrate that many conduct books by conservative Christians normalized and even validated behavior traits like...

... and increasingly widespread belief that “close reading is … totally inappropriate as a method of studying literary history.” We need to nurture and celebrate scholars who understand the importance of historical evidence, even when that evidence is incomplete, and who also understand the subtleties of rhetorical...

... with those of literary criticism. Taxonomic concerns with fixity and dynamism, with order and hybridity, permeated Seward's critical endeavors, which were central to her literary reputation. It is my contention that Seward's thinking about literary imitation was shaped by a belief in fixed biological forms...

... the ability of rational educational approaches to inculcate religious belief. I compare Zenobia to Edgeworth’s Harrington , Rousseau’s Émile , Mme de Genlis’ Adéle et Thèodore , and Hamilton’s Agrippina. Zenobia applies two popular modes of fictional representation of education to the teaching of religion...

...Lori Branch Anderson Misty G. . Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xii + 279. 12 ills . $65 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

... of the Wilkites,” and Johnson wields it to ridicule their bad-faith fretting.1 The things we like to imagine kept the world on tenterhooks would not have kept Johnson from his dinner. One thing may, however, deserve the term “crisis” more than most. It might fairly be called a crisis of belief...

....2 Because the stories inherited by the eighteenth century had their be- ginnings two centuries earlier, I must begin by briefly tracing the Renais- sance conclusions on which later authors built. Anna Foa, writing about sixteenth-century beliefs concerning the spread of syphilis, has neatly...

... on the neat conver- sion in volume 1, many scholars take Crusoe’s religious beliefs as indica- tive of his author’s. Is Crusoe just a personal projection of his creator? Or is Defoe more distant from his narrator? If we look beyond the first vol- ume, depictions of Providence (the power of God...

... crying in the wilder- ness, a “Son of Thunder . . . [come] to rouse the Public out of . . . its Stu- pidity.”4 While Hegel and Richardson confront arguably different barriers to belief— irony and cynicism— the question for both is similar: How does one persuade or “convert” another who is not inclined...

... to the modern products of Latin Christendom only) that we each have a choice as to whether we locate our notion of human flourishing, of “fullness,” in the transcendental, or the immanent; in some form of religious belief, or in a vague sense that some alien value yet inheres in nature, as a glow...

...- thermore, these writers argued that, if the Jews were a nation-within-a- nation, then the French could learn how to be a nation from their Jewish neighbors. These assertions, claims Schechter, allowed Jews both to remain faithful to the beliefs and practices that made them Jews and to adapt to meet...

... movement, but their emphasis on its faddish nature minimizes the sincer- ity of her beliefs.3 Other scholars, primarily interested in Piozzi’s associa- Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 28, Number 2, Spring 2004 © 2004 by The College of William & Mary...

... by Fielding about his political motives and beliefs has survived. In its absence, scholars interested in pinning down his political views have had to wend a very wary way through books, essays, and pamphlets, many of them insecurely attributed, which seem to derive from a variety of political...

... works. No clear personal statement by Fielding about his political motives and beliefs has survived. In its absence, scholars interested in discovering his political views have had to wend a very wary way through books, essays, and pamphlets, many of them insecurely attributed, which seem...

... and Unitarian beliefs, resulting in “carefully mod- ulated emotional responses to aesthetic experiences” (43). And in the same chapter, White goes on to show how debates about the validity of particular or experimental preaching—spontaneous preaching designed to communicate and demonstrate revelation...

... to the utilitarian, at times reflecting the chang- ing beliefs or tactics of a single individual. François Bernier, a follower of the French seventeenth-­century Epicurean philosopher Pierre Gassendi, is a case in point, perhaps because he was a doctor who had spent time in India. He was able to transcend his...

...’ story, old wives’ fable ), an unlikely story; a widely held or traditional belief now thought to be incorrect or erroneous. Cf. earlier old woman’s tale s.v. OLD WOMAN n. 1b. — Oxford English Dictionary Online, New Edition (2004) English Romantic poets’ (and Victorian critics’) distaste...