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“All the Bright Eyes of the Kingdom”: Charlotte Lennox's Discursive Communities
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 89–104.
Published: 01 April 2017
...S. Cailey Hall This article argues that Charlotte Lennox innovates with nonstandard narrative techniques to conjure up lively new discursive communities. In her most famous work, The Female Quixote (1752), Lennox experiments with the formal feature of chapter titles, whose insouciant, disembodied...
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“A Piece of History the Most Remarkable & Interesting That Ever Happened in Any Age or Country”: “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Leith Davis This chapter presents a book‐history analysis of a 2,148‐page manuscript book known as “The Lyon in Mourning.” Compiled after the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden (1746), the work consists of pro‐Jacobite materials copied out by Episcopalian minister Robert Forbes...
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Planned Obsolescence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 January 2020
... (hereafter WC), edited by Christine Gerrard. With forty- three chapters, Jack Lynch s Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660 1800 (hereafter OH) is the latest, and most impressive, installment in this recent succession of guidebooks. 1 0 5 The appearance of Lynch s volume raises questions about publishing...
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Gentility, Governance, and Race in the Eighteenth-Century Theater
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 115–126.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and discursively, for their original audiences” (17).
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Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London is divided into four
parts, each consisting of three chapters. Parts one and two argue that “gentility
was fundamentally...
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Understanding the Transatlantic Hispanic Enlightenment
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 55–62.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to borderland theory, throughout Bár-
baros Weber continues to mine the borderlands for knowledge.1 Weber’s wide-
ranging chapters may seem at times confusing, yet when read in order, their
compelling narratives cement his argument. Weber cites both original and
modern editions of colonial sources...
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Poetry, Pleasure, and Building: Ottoman Architectural Culture in the Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 130–134.
Published: 01 September 2010
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Hamadeh’s is a layered book, divided into eight chapters, each of which
strikes a careful balance between close reading and wider contextual discus...
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The Search for “It”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 114–123.
Published: 01 September 2010
... is not even so much a history
of describing things as a lively and intriguing history of description itself, and
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its changing objects, in the long eighteenth century. Indeed, the playful titles
of her first and last chapters, self-consciously evoking Tom Jones — “ A H...
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Now
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 146–153.
Published: 01 April 2025
... in question. Within each of those sections, Somervell offers three chapters, one situating the poem in relation to larger conversations about time and causation that would have been playing out contemporaneously; one drawing out the creative processes dramatized by the poem, “whether in portraits of the poet...
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Russia’s Male and Female Centuries
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2014
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power with women: for two thirds of the eighteenth century (or exactly for
sixty-six years), four empresses ruled the Russian empire.
Naroditskaya’s first chapter offers a detailed look at masquerades...
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The Newest Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 92–109.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., deserved this rather pejorative treatment is a
question Cliff ord Siskin takes up, indirectly, in the fi nal chapter of this fresh
edition. But Richetti establishes from the outset that his volume’s purpose will
be to provide not only a standard introduction to the literary period, but also
a review...
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Romanticism, Religion, Secularization
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 150–155.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., as a progressive narrative of internalization,
Jager—as the introduction and chapter 1 boldly argue—says that seculariza-
tion results from a far more interesting and uneasy division of bivalent discur-
sive practices: empiricism vs. teleology, skeptical inquiry vs. a commitment to
God’s intentional design...
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Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 81–87.
Published: 01 January 2023
... genres of drama and non-fictional prose” (9). Havens organizes the book by canonical authors Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth—with a final chapter on Laurence Sterne, Matthew Lewis, and William Godwin. The strengths of this organization are many: the chapters...
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Pamela 's Progeny
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 January 2008
.... The first chapter tells the compelling story of Richardson’s
crafty interventions in the marketing mania for Pamela. Keymer and Sabor
successfully articulate the stages by which the book was marketed: first based
on piety, then as pornography, and finally for its pedagogical value. And they
provide...
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Affective Profit
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 97–101.
Published: 01 January 2023
... consists of five chapters, all of which explore how the ideology of sociable profit functions in England, as well as an introduction and epilogue, which place these domestic concerns in the context both of England's position in the Atlantic world, and of its participation in the slave trade and in slavery...
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The Replacements
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 125–130.
Published: 01 January 2025
... the conceptual framework for her argument in her introduction, followed by five chapters that each examine two novels by one author. Such organization allows Campbell to trace a shift in each author's representation of surrogacy and to create a variety of time spans in which to test her hypotheses. Defoe...
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Austen’s Allusions to Cultural History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 125–129.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of fascinating historical detail to enrich our read-
ing of Austen’s work.
Barchas organizes her study around specific Austen texts but does not
follow the traditional format of devoting a chapter to each of the completed
novels. Instead, she gives us a chapter on Lady Susan, two on Northanger Abbey...
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Rereading the History of the Book
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 105–109.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and, simultane- ously, delightfully strange. The book s defamiliarization of its subject opens by reminding us that this history of reading is one of a changing soundscape as much as it is of a changing bookscape. Chapter 1, How to Read, is less interested in what people chose or were told to read than...
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The Rise of the Novel, or ’Tis Sixty Years Since
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 127–137.
Published: 01 September 2019
... a starting block, refer to Ian Watt s monograph The Rise of the Novel, which had been published exactly sixty years earlier. Leah Orr s last chapter in Novel Ventures asks Did the Novel Rise? (The answer, predictably, is no And Tom Keymer s mas- terly introduction to the thirty- five mostly masterly...
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Social Identity and the Politics of Place in France
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 January 2000
.... Two chapters in particular treat buildings not normally discussed
in connection with the monarch. Chapter five, “A Building for the Sciences: the
Observatoire,” concerns Claude Perrault’s structure housing the Royal Academy
of Science, with its stark decor and unusual octagonal corner towers...
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Silent No Longer
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 January 2020
... available to women, and explains the different motiva- tions behind female investment strategies. This chapter is the most struc- tural as it lays out conceptually the supply and demand sides of the finan- cial market as it presented itself to women investors. It shows how women learned about investments...
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