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Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth-Century French Print Culture

Amanda Lahikainen

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 101–104.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8793967

Published: 01 January 2021

...Amanda Lahikainen R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793967 Copyright 2021 by Amanda Lahikainen 1 0 1 Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth- Century French Print Culture Amanda Lahikainen Aquinas College...

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Presenting “Truth” in Early Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives: The Case of Leendert Hasenbosch

Shef Rogers

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 21–46.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8793923

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. Eighteenth- Century...

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“Modern Biography”: Form, Function, and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Genre Theory

Eve Tavor Bannet

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8902653

Published: 01 April 2021

...Eve Tavor Bannet This essay outlines the comprehensive theory of “modern” eighteenth-century biography that was articulated throughout the century in the often lengthy prefaces to collections of lives, disseminated in periodical essays, and applied in reviews to stand-alone lives. This theory...

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A Variable Account of Blindness in the Eighteenth Century

D. Christopher Gabbard

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 74–81.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8902705

Published: 01 April 2021

...D. Christopher Gabbard Chris Mounsey . Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain ( Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia , 2019 ). Pp. 340 . $79.50 cloth. $39.50 paper. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth...

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“For I Asked Him Men's Questions ”: Late Eighteenth-Century British Women Tourists’ Contributions to Scientific Inquiry

Emma Gleadhill

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9273034

Published: 01 September 2021

... was not alone in challenging the gendered demarcation of scientific observation. From the second half of the century, British women travelers carefully packed minerals in cases, filled bags with botanical specimens, and roamed the shores in search of shells and seaweed. This article proposes that British women...

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A Tale of Two Boycotts: Riot, Reform, and Sugar Consumption in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Garritt Van Dyk

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9272999

Published: 01 September 2021

...Garritt Van Dyk Atlantic sugar production and European sugar consumption rose dramatically in the late eighteenth century. Despite this increase, there were two separate calls to refrain from consuming sugar in both Britain and France at the end of the eighteenth century. Demands for abstinence...

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Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant

Diana Solomon

Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 123–143.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9955364

Published: 01 September 2022

...Diana Solomon Widely translated and adapted in eighteenth‐century England, Don Quixote inspired some of the period's greatest fiction. Yet while literary adaptations of Cervantes's novel often render its humor “amiable” and accommodate it to polite society, dramatic adaptations instead accentuate...

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Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Misty Krueger

Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 81–87.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10199955

Published: 01 January 2023

...Misty Krueger [email protected] Hilary Havens . Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2019 ). Pp. 242 . $99.99 cloth. $29.99 paper. Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Hilary...

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Introduction: The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

Alexis Chema, Betty A. Schellenberg

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 1–5.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951278

Published: 01 January 2024

...Alexis Chema; Betty A. Schellenberg [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life on the manuscript book is, first and foremost, a celebration of the sheer vitality, variety, and cultural...

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Eighteenth-Century Review Culture and the “Enormous Crimes” of Antislavery Verse

Christopher Chan

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 26–53.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11118280

Published: 01 April 2024

..., if not impossibility, among eighteenth-century literary reviewers to reconcile the poetics and politics of antislavery verse. Specifically, I will demonstrate how antislavery poets’ compulsion to depict the immoral, inhumane truths of British slavery in poetic form clashed fundamentally with contemporary reviewers...

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Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum

Susan Spencer

Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10199942

Published: 01 January 2023

... was unnecessary indicates improved political stability in the years that followed. 4 Seventeenth-century Korean politics had been chaotic. King Yeongjo's father, King Sukjong, successfully steered his way through decades of cutthroat maneuvers and palace intrigue, partly by finding opportunities...

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Face Value: Toward a Theory of Eighteenth-Century Portraiture

Bradford Mudge

Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10199916

Published: 01 January 2023

..., that eighteenth-century portraiture was, and always has been, a vibrant conglomeration of disparate portrait types, in which knowledge of any one type encouraged knowledge of the whole; second, that the objects themselves made frequent reference to the generic and media networks of which they were a part...

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Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books

Julie Park

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 72–91.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951326

Published: 01 January 2024

...Julie Park In this essay, I seek to redefine life writing to encompass the very forms used for recordkeeping in eighteenth‐century commonplace books, in the flow of life as it happened, primarily through lines in grids used in indexes for separating pieces of information and designating subject...

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Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study

Joanne E. Myers

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951350

Published: 01 January 2024

... outlines of the “bookscape” of the Poor Clare convents founded in the seventeenth century on the Continent to allow young English women to pursue a religious vocation that was proscribed at home. Typical of the broader book culture of continental English convents at the time, the libraries of the Poor...

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Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

Ashley Cataldo

Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10951362

Published: 01 January 2024

...Ashley Cataldo Throughout the eighteenth century, the oblong octavo format had a specific variety of uses. Held horizontally, oblong books were almost exclusively used for printed and manuscript music, and printed music books frequently contain manuscript additions by amateur musicians, as well...

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“Everlasting Memorials”: Urban Improvement and the Shadow of Ruin in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London

Alison O'Byrne

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9272992

Published: 01 September 2021

...Alison O'Byrne This essay explores the relationship between plans for the improvement of London and other forms of writing about the city that imagine its inevitable decline and fall. Those lamenting the appearance of London in the eighteenth century frequently looked back to the Great Fire...

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Enlightened “Museums of Images” or Decorative Displays? Elizabeth Seymour Percy and the Eighteenth-Century Print Room

Louise Voll Box

Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9273027

Published: 01 September 2021

...Louise Voll Box In the second half of the eighteenth century, “print rooms”—created by pasting prints and paper ornaments directly onto walls—were a short-lived mode of fashionable English interior decoration. Concurrently, collections of prints continued to be bound into albums or stored...

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“Women Should Become Thinner When They Are Pregnant”: Corpulency and Women's Reproductive Health in the Long Eighteenth Century

Charlotte Goodge

Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 27–52.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11523680

Published: 01 January 2025

...Charlotte Goodge Abstract In the long eighteenth century, medical writers were quick to condemn “corpulence” or “corpulency” (the Georgian equivalent terms for “obesity”) in potential or actual mothers. Medical writing from the period criticizes the influence of corpulence on the reproductive...

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in The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping > Eighteenth-Century Life

Published: 01 September 2022

Figure 5. Marguerite Gérard, Motherhood , early nineteenth century, oil on canvas, Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon, photographic credit: © Jan Arkesteijn, 2013. From Wikimedia Commons. More

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Portrait of Lee Sam (1677–1735), early eighteenth century, ink and colors o...

in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum > Eighteenth-Century Life

Published: 01 January 2023

Figure 5. Portrait of Lee Sam (1677–1735), early eighteenth century, ink and colors on silk, Baekje Military Museum, on loan from the Hampyeong Lee Family Collection. This portrayal of Lee as a vigilant military officer in the field differs markedly from the formal poses in court dress More

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Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth-Century French Print Culture

Presenting “Truth” in Early Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives: The Case of Leendert Hasenbosch

“Modern Biography”: Form, Function, and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Genre Theory

A Variable Account of Blindness in the Eighteenth Century

“For I Asked Him Men's Questions ”: Late Eighteenth-Century British Women Tourists’ Contributions to Scientific Inquiry

A Tale of Two Boycotts: Riot, Reform, and Sugar Consumption in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant

Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Introduction: The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth-Century Review Culture and the “Enormous Crimes” of Antislavery Verse

Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum

Face Value: Toward a Theory of Eighteenth-Century Portraiture

Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books

Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study

Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

“Everlasting Memorials”: Urban Improvement and the Shadow of Ruin in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London

Enlightened “Museums of Images” or Decorative Displays? Elizabeth Seymour Percy and the Eighteenth-Century Print Room

“Women Should Become Thinner When They Are Pregnant”: Corpulency and Women's Reproductive Health in the Long Eighteenth Century

Marguerite Gérard, Motherhood , early nineteenth century, oil on canvas, M...

Portrait of Lee Sam (1677–1735), early eighteenth century, ink and colors o...

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