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Jane Austen and the Tradition of Masculine Benevolence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Marilyn Roberts During the long eighteenth century, benevolence was thought to be the greatest of all virtues. In her later novels especially, Jane Austen emphasized its primacy, showing that benevolence must be taught, practiced, and perfected through rigorous self-analysis and the repudiation...
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War and the Culture of Politeness: The Case of The Tatler and The Spectator
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... to imagine and promote an idea of civil society governed by norms of a benevolent “politeness.” One function of the new culture of politeness was to reconcile readers to the massive increase in military activity. This essay will explore the process of reconciliation in the two most influential periodicals...
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“Law Enough to Set You Free”: Contract, Community, and Consent in the Comedies of George Farquhar
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 30–60.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., in general, and the law of contracts, in particular, reorient drama away from the rights of the liberal subject, autonomously imagined, toward renewed conceptions of the social good, and the ethics of the community, replacing regulatory frameworks with emancipatory dispensations, in the benevolent comic...
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“Doubt Not an Affectionate Host”: Cowper’s Hares and the Hospitality of Eighteenth-Century Pet Keeping
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 75–104.
Published: 01 April 2014
.... In The Task and several other works, Cowper depicts himself as a benevolent caretaker who generously provides shelter, food, and protection for his apparently grateful pet hares, but this representation of pet keeping coexists uneasily with the more skeptical and impartial accounts of interspecies hospitality...
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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
...: it is indistinguishable from love or
benevolence, as those qualities are rationally conceived and directed (Politi-
cal Justice, 620). It is the Golden Rule. I count forty-two uses of “generous”
and six of “generosity” in the third edition of Political Justice. In St. Leon,
“generous”’ occurs forty-nine times...
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“Genius Thus Munificently Employed!!!”: Philanthropy and Celebrity in the Theaters of Garrick and Siddons
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
... invective toward the dual targets of the theatrical fund
and the avaricious actor/manager Garrick, the farce implies that Garrick
used the fund to create a mask of benevolence that only barely obscured his
miserly ambition, a charge that followed him far beyond the farce itself; his
management...
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Returning to Emotion, Via the Age of Sensibility
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in Britain — in
the benevolent deism of Thomson, the bourgeois morality of Richardson, the
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reformist novels of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding, or the comic-erotic aes-
thetics of Sterne — determines how one defines its longer trajectory. For Nagle,
sensibility begins...
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The “Jewish Question” on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Harrington and the Correspondence between Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
... is invariably attached to him. Can it be believed that this race
of men are by nature mean, avaricious, and unprincipled?6
Edgeworth, abashed, wrote back,
The Correspondence between M. Edgeworth and R. M. Lazarus 3 3
Your polite, benevolent and touching letter has given me much pleasure...
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Literary Sentimentalism and Post-Secular Virtue
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
... matters is not what Adams preaches, or believes, or even
thinks, but what he does. Or, to put this a little more technically, what
counts is not knowledge or faith or representations, but, in particular, the
practice of a virtue: charity—where that involves not just benevolence but
also practical...
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Tristram Shandy and War Representation
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and heartfelt benevolence, Toby s war- gaming in the gar- den shows him to be grossly defective in fellow feeling. 25 Whether or not Keymer deliberately echoes Smith s compound, fellow- feeling, Sterne does seem to be demonstrating a way of imagining very different from the sympathetic way Smith describes...
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Incle and Yarico and The Incas : Two Plays by John Thelwall
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 January 2009
... The Benevolent Planters, published and performed (if only twice) in
1789. In this short, musical play, the prologue promotes abolition, while the
plot closes disappointingly with grateful African slaves lauding their kindly
European masters. How refreshingly fair-minded is Thelwall’s notion that
worthy...
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Collecting Trouble: Sir Hans Sloane’s Literary Reputation in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 111–142.
Published: 01 April 2012
... that of
benevolent physician, to charlatan, to toyman, and finally, to entrepreneur.
Sloane thus serves as an index to the changes in the history of collecting.
By the eighteenth century, collecting had become endemic to British
culture. In the medieval period, churches frequently housed small museums...
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Cook and the Question of Naval History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 98–115.
Published: 01 April 2006
...) the reputation for solving the problem
of scurvy.
One of the reasons that books about Cook keep being written is that he
is a fi gure encrusted with myths: the myth of his conquest of scurvy, the myth
of his benevolence toward indigenous peoples, the myth of his role as active
agent of empire...
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Ancient Ethics and Modern Happiness: A Study of Three Treatises in Enlightenment Britain
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 47–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
.... “This sympathy,” Nettle-
ton writes, “will not suffer us to confine our views to a narrow self-interest,
but will give full scope and exercise to the Social Passions” (111). Thus it
is through “virtue” — which Nettleton associates with “benevolence” and
that which is “beneficial to mankind in general...
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Making a Play for Patronage: Dennis O’Bryen’s A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed (1783)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 183–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
...
from the benevolence and good humor of Sheridan’s Lucius O’Trigger or
Dennis O’Bryen’s A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed (1783) 2 0 1
Richard Cumberland’s Major O’Flaherty.56 A malevolent usurer, Ragan
is a throwback to the pernicious, stage Irishman of the early decades of
the century...
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Troubling Amnesia: The Slave Trade in French and Francophone Literature and Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 221–225.
Published: 01 January 2011
... these throughout to issues of ambivalence
and affirmation. He shows how France, throughout colonial and postcolonial
history, will be torn between its benevolent, liberal impulses, religious at first,
then humanitarian, and its desire to conquer and profit.
Eighteenth-Century Life...
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Handwriting, the Self, and Society in the Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 143–147.
Published: 01 September 2019
... literacy. Such simple benevolence does not seem especially transcen- dent and ethereal. Notwithstanding these faults, Work in Hand should alert readers to impor- tant gaps in our understanding of language and communication during the eighteenth century. The long shadows of Elizabeth Eisenstein...
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“Much Might Be Said on Both Sides”: Mr. Spectator in Sir Roger de Coverley’s Worcestershire
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of tightly con- nected, familial association. Mr. Spectator, though identifying with the justice s benevolence, transcends simple absorption or imitation of the bar- onet s techniques of judgment to ask how he himself would proceed given the justice s authority. George Justice tracks the narrative...
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From Nobodaddies to Noble Daddies: Writing Political and Paternal Authority in English Fiction of the 1780s and 1790s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2002
...
of unaffected piety and matured wisdom” (Vindication, p. 18) and to be
“equally loved for the piety and benevolence of the Christian as respected
for the dignity and elevation of the philosopher” (Romance, p. 245). Nor is
it purely accidental that Adeline’s true father displays...
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“What then, poor Beastie!”: Gender, Politics, and Animal Experimentation in Anna Barbauld's “The Mouse's Petition”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in Hartleyan principles of benevo-
lence. In the introduction to the History,Priestley repeats David Hartley’s
advice in the Observations on Man (1749) that “benevolence and piety are
our only true guides” into natural philosophy.14 A committed vegetarian
who took seriously the possibility of the animal...
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