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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Raymond Stephanson Duke University Press 2007
Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope
and the Curious Case of Modern Scholarship
and the Vanishing Text
Raymond Stephanson
University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 36–59.
Published: 01 April 2012
... an account of attribution as a slow and repetitive process rather than a singular moment or act. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 R
Attribution and Repetition:
The Case of Defoe and the Circulating Library
Mark...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of Politeness:
The Case of The Tatler and The Spectator
Andrew Lincoln
Queen Mary University, London
The influence ofThe Tatler and The Spectator on the development of a polite
culture in Britain has long been recognized.1 Scholars have shown how...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 49–73.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Catherine Fleming In his novels and pamphlets, Henry Fielding promotes a hierarchical structure that suppresses the common people. But his writings, especially his novel Joseph Andrews , his pamphlets, the 1749 A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez and the 1751 Enquiry into the Causes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 January 2021
... that “the more information we have on a narrator, the more concrete will be our sense of the quality and distinctness of his or her voice,” this case study questions that relationship, at least for the early novel, when narrative techniques and readerly practices were still being developed. Copyright © 2021...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Lesley Thulin In Deformity: An Essay (1754), William Hay offers an autobiographical account of his life as a hunchbacked member of the House of Commons, followed by an appendix, titled “My Case,” which details an experimental health regimen he adopted to treat the more quotidian ailment of chronic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 113–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... argument that examines Ruthinglenne 's straddling of fact and fiction; by analyzing both the novel and its paratexts, I propose that Kelly's fictional encoding of fact would have been obvious to at least some of her readers. The case of Ruthinglenne , I further argue, lends support to recent critical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 83–100.
Published: 01 September 2022
... possible sense of rivalry that he might have felt. Still, while that argument may appear credible on the surface, closer scrutiny raises doubts. Modern scholarship has questioned whether operas really were so damaging to playhouse receipts, and then there is the case of James Miller, the very man who...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
... questions of attribution or authorship are not pressing. In most manuscripts, the scribe's activity is unattributed. Even in the case of two long-time scriveners who produced large numbers of works, direct attribution is minimal and tends to be self-effacing: Sister Cecily Joseph signs one book, MS 13...
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 10. Thomas Rowlandson, Exhibition Stare Case (ca. 1811), hand-colored etching, 18 ¾ in. × 13 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 59.533.573. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 10. Thomas Rowlandson, Exhibition Stare Case (ca. 1811), hand-colored etching, 18 ¾ in. × 13 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 59.533.573. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 January 2025
... into the world of letters in mid- to late-eighteenth century England. His disappearance from literary history also offers an opportunity to assess the reasons why authors disappear. In Robertson's case, the self-consciously imitative, even derivative, quality of his verse seems greatly to have contributed to his...
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Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 3. Frederick Magnus Piper, Study Map of Stourhead (1779), reproduced from Steffen Nijhu's “GIS-Based Landscape Design Research: Stourhead Landscape Garden as a Case Study,” in Architecture and the Built Environment 15 (2015): 115.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... material form in an illustrated manuscript book he produced in the first decades of the eighteenth century. As a work and an object, the Chronicles stages a series of conversations between print and manuscript. In exploring this unique case study, we expose how the mixed medium of the manuscript book could...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 38–57.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Hal Gladfelder In the wake of the court cases that led to the clearing for publication of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , a handful of publishers rushed other more or less erotic eighteenth-century novels into print, eager to cash in on the new celebrity of Fanny Hill (as it was usually known...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 88–112.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Rachel Sulich This article uses Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48) as a case study in order to expose the relationship between dueling and suicide in eighteenth-century literature and culture. By examining the novel alongside contemporary documents concerning dueling, I make the case...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
...,” “magic operas,” and “antiheroic.” By implication, Handel approached each opera on a case‐by‐case basis, not much concerned with generic form. Ellen T. Harris critiqued Dean and offered a dialectical model, dividing the operas into “pastoral” and “heroic” groups. But if we ask “What is the ‘source...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 142–157.
Published: 01 January 2017
... reading: those poems, the authorship of which was (or appeared to be) disputed. This article considers how, through accident or design, misattributions entered into and persisted in the printed record. Each case of disputed authorship provides insight into the reception history of the poem under...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 89–95.
Published: 01 September 2017
...James A. Winn The essays printed here all make the case for historical criticism in reasonable and persuasive terms. Professor Weinbrot's paper shows how recovering the meaning that classical allusions, formal word order, and particular loaded phrases had for their original audiences makes us...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Nora Gilbert This essay seeks to explore the pivotal role that female rebellion, refusal, and flight played in both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism. To make my case for the ideological and narratological importance of what I am referring to as the “runaway-woman plot,” I...
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