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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Jeffrey Barnouw Koch Erec R. . The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2008 ). Pp. 390 . $75 Thomson Ann . Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 62–79.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Sarah Jordan The College of William & Mary 2001 From Grotesque Bodies to Useful Hands:
Idleness, Industry, and
the Laboring Class
In 1720, Laurence Braddon, one of the many public-spirited projec...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Mark Blackwell The College of William & Mary 2004
“Extraneous Bodies”: The Contagion
of Live-Tooth Transplantation
in Late-Eighteenth-Century England
Mark Blackwell
University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... anxiety about bodily dissolution after death. And at this time, the religious connotation of the uncorrupted corpse becomes translated into the endorsement of preservation as a guarantee that the body and soul will be properly rejoined in the afterlife. In medical terms, surgical innovations demanded...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
... the Christian spectrum, who are not “fools”—who preach from the heart and preach reconciliation rather than exclusion. It would be useful to students of Sterne to familiarize themselves with just a tenth of this vast body of sermon literature before suggesting that Sterne had no commitment to the religious...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Yael Shapira This essay considers the limited presence of the dead body in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto . The near absence of gory death from the novella is striking, given both its intensive borrowing from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its status as the founding work of the Gothic tradition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Ireland’s problems of poverty and unemployment, including a scheme for giving badges to Dublin’s deserving poor while setting the able-bodied to work, under threat of corporeal punishment. Swift supported this scheme in the 1720s and 1730s, and this essay gives us a fuller picture of Swift at the end of his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 111–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... valuable body of our arts.” Specimens collected and collated with the text anchor, document, and illustrate the words on the page. As a result, an identical multiple in a print run was turned into a unique object. Through the art of extraillustration, the extra-illustrator Richard Bull “erected for himself...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the people is entangled with estrangement, monstrosity. and suffering. The novel appeared in a postwar world of ruins, dismembered bodies, and revenants that formed around a newly heightened awareness of the living forces and traumas that compose war. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 36–67.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Baretti used Montesquieu's theory to conceptualize relationships between music, audience, and environment. They were drawn to Montesquieu not simply because his political ideas were popular, but also because his thought was directly engaged with midcentury concerns about music's power over the body, its...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 January 2025
... of satire, or a pathologized and useless body, but can also be fertile, autonomous, and even healthy. Ultimately, I will claim that the fat woman is more than just a cypher of medical opinion: she is also a discordant figure of criticism too. [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to demonstrate an unusually nimble approach to the eighteenth century's emergent categories of gender, because his deformity, gender, and class helped, rather than hindered, such persona making. I understand Hay's gender fluidity in the embodied terms of his leaky male body and his spinal “deformity...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
... somatic—which in different
ways contributed to the construction of eighteenth-century understandings of
bodily eloquence” (13). The body’s capacity for communication assumes a signal
importance at a moment when half the population experienced print culture
only by listening to someone read out...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90.
Published: 01 April 2005
... En-
gland at times makes it diffi cult to decide where one person’s parts end
and another’s begin. The wig’s physical nature — the way it shuttles among
diff erent individuals, recomposing the body and its surfaces — erodes the
boundaries that set the individual subject off from the world...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., conduct books, diaries, traveler’s accounts, sermons, poems,
and pamphlets of the period, was both remarkably attentive to bodily
exteriors and deeply suspicious of their truthfulness. This essay discusses
the surface of bodies—women’s bodies, in particular—and the vexed...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 January 2011
... as a deliberate act on Behn’s
part to erase her private identity.20 She argues, further, that the absence of a
publicly accessible “body” provides Behn with a powerful agency grounded
in its potential for an endless and strategic process of self- reinvention. Gal-
lagher’s approach necessitates a shift...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 April 2024
...!” in the margins on more occasions than an academic monograph usually merits.) The wit isn't merely ornamental. Instances of chiasmus—for instance, “First your body has a future as a detached soul and then your detached soul has a future as a body” (4)—polyptoton—“Young rewards souls for having been mined (from...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 139–153.
Published: 01 April 2017
... scorbutic connotations for decades: James
Lind, who authored the landmark A Treatise of the Scurvy (1753), thought
faulty diet interacted with dirty and undisciplined bodies to produce the
disease. Subsequently, evidence for scurvy’s basis in faulty nutrition con-
tinued to pile up, but so did...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 234–239.
Published: 01 January 2011
...M. G. Sullivan Matthew Craske. The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770 (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2007). Pp. xiii + 528. 200 ills. $75 Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the boundaries of self and other, light and darkness, presence and absence. Dacre, by positing the model of the “open house,” begins to imagine the household as neither the paragon of bourgeois civil society, nor a hauntingly claustrophobic prison that holds the female body hostage. At the moment...
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