Search Results for bob

... Bob has made during his thirty-odd year career—as teacher, editor, and scholar—in eighteenth-century studies. As one contributor has remarked, “Bob is one of the unsung heroes of eighteenth-century stud- ies, and I think it is high time he were sung...

... to the miracle of technology), and have come to regard him as a partner, always available for feedback, advice, information, a second opinion. Adam’s contributions go well beyond just the book-review edi- torship. As a colleague of Bob’s at William & Mary, and as one of Bob’s editors, Adam has been...

.... In Fall 1999 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary, where he observed the inner sanctum of Eighteenth-Century Life and prac- ticed the “talkative arts” with Bob Maccubbin and his colleagues. Beatrice Fink is Professor of French Emerita...

.... It is instructive to read the statement Bob made in his fi rst issue, because it applies as much today as it did in October 1980: Our subject is implicit in our title — the life of the eighteenth century — social life, political life, literary life, intellectual life; the life of the great...

... was also, in all senses of the term, a man of letters, a writer.1 As is Bob, who, quite apart from his own writings, carefully cultivates the articles that ornament Eigh- teenth-Century Life, another labor of love. Candide’s garden is not far off. True, the ornate...

... Tower” and “Bob’s Castle,” it was in tolerable condition in the 1930s, when Beckett would have seen it, but it was later neglected and has been only recently restored as a tourist attraction. The Donabate Parish Council, in its list of “Places of Interest,” perpetuates the legend: “Near...

... + 260. $85 Swindells, Julia, and David Francis Taylor, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre, 1737–1832 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2014). Pp. xxv + 758. $150 Tennant, Bob. Corporate Holiness: Pulpit Preacher and the Church of England Missionary Societies, 1760–1870 (Oxford...

... equestrian acrobatics, the “celebrated” Mr. Wildman would ride “with a swarm of bees on his arm, then on his head, which will imitate a bob-wig,” the bottom locks of which were turned up into bobs or short curls (fi gure 5). Wildman’s wearing of the bee hairpiece, clearly the eighteenth-century...

... the ball, as the great golfer Bob Jones said after learning he would gradually be crippled by irreversible degenerative disease, where it lies. It is how we play it that matters. Undoubtedly, the western Europeans who spread their maritime trade and seaborne empires so widely from the sixteenth...

...) the tye wig (in which the hair was drawn back in a queue), the bagwig (in which the queue was enveloped in a silk or satin bag), the bob wig (a short wig without a queue, favored by those who could not aff ord the expense of a long wig), and the scratch wig (a rather haphazard arrangement designed...

... because the category of ‘novel’ is for them inherently ragtag, a farrago of diverse bits and bobs” (372). The irony, for Lynch, is that while Tristram Shandy will never fit comfortably into any generic taxonomy, “It may be the work that best embodies the history of the novel” (377). As so many...

... #3786; B&C, 1:223; BMC #3787 is a smaller version “The following prints are 14 inches wide and 10 inches deep” 436. Fielding’s Myrmidons spoiling Bob Booty’s Morning Draught (1 May 1781), 433; BMC #5947 437...

..., The Bourgeois Gentleman [1670], trans. Bernard Sahlins (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000), 11, 16 – 17. Imaging the Nabob through “Upstart Iconography”     5 9 29.  Michael Greenhalgh, The Classical Tradition in Art (London: Duckworth, 1978), 81 – 82. 30.  Bob Harris, “‘American Idols...

... on to more important things, like improving the taste of Euro- pean architecture. In some cases, Stuart’s improvements went unappreciated. Although in public he generally treated his “Athenian” competitor with respect, Stuart’s much more prolific archrival architect Robert “Roman Bob” Adam...

...): 1,467–94. 120   Eighteenth-Century Life 24.  Bob Bushaway, By Rite: Custom, Ceremony, and Community in England, 1700–1880 (London: Junction, 1982), 45–46. 25.  Iorwerth Prothero, Artisans and Politics in Nineteenth-Century London: John Gast and His Times (London: Methuen, 1981), 33–36...

... Brzezinski Potkay not only for helping me with this essay, but for teaching me everything I know about the Middle Ages. I would also like to thank Bob Maccubbin for teaching me much that I know about the eighteenth century. 1...

... of 1983, in a seminar taught by the unwiltable Bob Maccubbin. For his errant wit, vigor, and sprightliness of mind—and for many lively contacts over the years—I remain most happily grateful. 1. “Dryden,” North Atlantic Review...

...: Liverpool Univ., 1995). Henry Fielding is eloquent on this kind of satirical interpellation in the story of Bob and the sign of the ass, in “Dedication to the Publick” in The Historical Register (London: J. Roberts, 1736), n.p. 31. See Oxford DNB, online at <httpwww.oxforddnb.com/view/article...

..., portmanteau for brilliant bibs and bobs, padscrawlings, Post-Its that remain when main poems, prose, or dramatic pieces leave them behind, the forgotten, unwanted, or ignored parts set apart from the calf-bound whole. Between the litter-basket and literary afterlife, most writers would prefer to see...

..., is included as an appendix (pp. xxi–lxii). 11. J. F. C. Phillips, Shepherd’s London (London: Cassell, 1976), p. 44. 12. Pierce Egan exploits the guidebook structure in his Real Life in London; or The Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His...