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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2018
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Alan J. Barnard The College of William & Mary 2001 –– Review Essay —
Anthropology, Race, and Englishness:
Changing Notions of Complexion and Character
Miriam Claude Meijer. Race and Aesthetics in the Anthropology...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2003
... of character in eighteenth-
century historical writing, despite its obvious importance for historians,
readers, and critics alike. This is partly because of a lingering sense that
historical characterization was a strained, artificial, and self-consciously lit-
erary ornament, consisting of labored...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 96–107.
Published: 01 April 2003
... accept, in broad outline, the coherence of his
Critical approach.
The ad hominen character of Kant’s reply to Feder and Garve was not
untypical of his general attitude towards criticism. For instance, Kant’s
response to Tiedemann, who questioned the characterization of 7 + 5 = 12 as
synthetic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 January 2013
...
characterization of Rousseau’s and the revolutionaries’ rhetoric “is an accurate
assessment, it allows Burke to define the positive and practical ends of his own
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rhetoric of character” (193). Such claims reveal how determined Bullard is to
defend the ethical status of Burke’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 72–96.
Published: 01 January 2013
... the dialogic personal practice of philosophy with the characters of three modern Socratics, producing an aestheticized theory of enthusiastic self-characterization in which the philosopher can only perform “true enthusiasm” by multiplying himself into different characters. Copyright 2012 by Duke University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 76–104.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Laura J. Rosenthal While appreciating the author’s skill, critics have nevertheless characterized John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure as little more than a string of pornographic vignettes held together with the barest of plots and populated by superficial characters mechanically...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... or dynastic” in character. Five he characterizes as “magic operas”: Rinaldo , Teseo , Amadigi , Orlando , and Alcina —three of them quite early, and the last two anomalies in the 1730s. The remaining ten titles Dean groups under the heading “Antiheroic Operas” (100), though admitting that three...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 58–83.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of cruel hosts. The article argues that women novelists popularized toadeaters as a sympathetic character to push back against the satire of the dependent guest, draw attention to women’s precarious social standing, and seek improvements through more ethical hospitality exchanges. Copyright © 2018 Duke...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Ruth Scobie In the world of Frances Burney’s fiction, the South Seas do not seem to exist. Burney’s characters do not discuss the latest discoveries, read accounts of Pacific islands, dine with Oceanic natives, or admire, collect, or copy curiosities from Tahiti, New Zealand, or Hawaii. Yet members...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 29–37.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to the physical health of its characters, such as Fanny’s mild smallpox in childhood, Mr. Norbert’s “flimsy consumptive texture,” and Mr. Crofts’s aggressive sexual impotence. We see these facets of the novel as being consistent with Cleland’s regular concern, evident from his letters, for the health of his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to precise amounts of money, focus on characters’ financial situation in their introductions, and extensive economic metaphors, the novel drives home the point that capitalist economic structures determine all other social and affective structures, including sex. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
... that The Spectator functions as a provocative inquiry into ideology rather than a vehicle for Whiggish politics through a narrative point of view that responds to the characters and settings it encounters, most significantly the figure of the country magistrate. The Spectator ’s adoption of the magistrate’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of self-indulgence. The heroes of those novels tend to exercise benevolence in accordance with the duties of their profession, especially as described in the courtesy books of the period. Nevertheless, even if adept at helping the needy or extending kindness toward their peers, her central male characters...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of novels or familiar histories, which already characterized themselves as histories of private life, already took the domestic for their domain, and were, like biography, concerned with the lives and characters of individuals.37 But, at least in the eighteenth century, this did not mean that biography...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., the paratext is busy and noisy, an alternative space in the miscellany through which the collection's antiquarian character is expressed. Both collections test their reader's willingness to engage with less well-known material. This article suggests that although the two poetic collections seem to have little...
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Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 September 2022
... characteristics of Sancho and employ physical violence and cruelty to women and lower characters, showing that low comedy thrived in not only marginalized genres like jestbooks and comic illustrations, but also popular drama. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Don...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 7–23.
Published: 01 September 2024
... naturalizing white women as the default sympathetic subject for Enlightenment audiences. The dramatic conventions of the Oriental she‐tragedy make this representation of the white Imoinda imaginatively viable, while the dissonance of her character reveals the contradictory nature of race thought in the long...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., a project that staked its claims for the cultural and moral efficacy of the theater on an avowedly emulative (and sentimental) model of drama. And I argue that Addison's belated insistence on his protagonist's all-too-humanness works to sentimentalize the character and so paradoxically opens up the very...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
... conventional imperial attributes that characterized Napoleonic imagery at the time. On one level, the portrait can be understood according to Christian iconography or as an allegory of the new French order according to ancient Roman mythology. I argue, however, that Prud'hon subscribed to early nineteenth...
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