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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 43–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... chivalry •
Chivalry, Commerce, and Generosity:
Godwin on Economic Equality
Rowland Weston
University of Waikato
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2019
... Dialogues were revised last minute to include a response to David Hume’s History of England under the House of Tudor (1759) and explores how Hurd’s Letters on Chivalry and romance engages with the James Macpherson Ossian controversy of the 1760s. It examines the challenge that the recovery of a supposedly...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 3–8.
Published: 01 April 2017
... from feudalism to capital-
ism, Weston advances a reading of the text as a celebration of the contem-
porary relevance of chivalry for economic equality and historical progress.
Weston’s essay demonstrates Godwin’s belief that the social and economic
leveling impulses implicit in generosity...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 41–47.
Published: 01 September 2010
... for the literal in his Letters on Chivalry and Romance proves that
the naked letter cannot be found, only fantasized. The “impostures” of
the old romances ultimately demonstrate the letter’s irreducible excess to
itself — the decent or indecent drapery that, whatever Edmund Burke may
have...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 43–64.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., aims to recover the peculiar original text, not such contextual
trappings as the world of medieval chivalry in the history plays. Upton
detests the romantic strain and the “childish fancy” that has guided the
nation’s reading—what he calls “lying histories of adventurous knight-
errantsformed from...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 136–149.
Published: 01 April 2016
... perfect Renaissance avatar of chivalry, Amadis.
But my favorite part is Pavel’s examination of the “dangerous depths” of Tris-
tram and Isolde’s passionate love, which is atypical, unchivalric, and fails to
realize the ideal of keeping lovers in the world by raising them above it. Here
love...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in common, they are both concerned with ideas of literary preservation and loss, on the one hand, and cultural progress and decline, on the other, that helped to establish the poetic miscellany as a key print genre of the Enlightenment. His “romantic wildness” and “true spirit of chivalry” recall...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 January 2001
... as the
extent to which all women are considered “fair.” Given the centrality of
women to England’s development as a polite nation, such concerns merit
attention.
Although gallantry stems from sources as old and varied as medieval
chivalry, renaissance Italian court...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Memoirs was typical. In
other ways, however, the response was sui generis. Typical is the overarch-
ing skepticism or condescending chivalry with which a new work by an old
woman was met in this era. Many late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-
century critics — and perhaps readers as well — seem...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 108–114.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the lines of “An Historical Essay on
Chivalry and Modern Honour,” that a “great deal of the Treatise” is explica-
ble from his having “thoroughly assimilated” Mandeville (60). Harris is more
down-to-earth in other matters, however, especially when tracing Hume’s
developing essay style—from imitator...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2008
... was “immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry,
and he retained his fondness for them through life” (Life, 1:49, 1725).36 It is
not only to such “extravagant fictions” that Johnson reacted: in his notes to
King Lear he famously testified to his distress over the death of Cordelia.
Less famous...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 110–117.
Published: 01 September 2011
... in the French Eighteenth
Century (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 2010). Pp. 270. $59.50
Bowen, Scarlet. The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Pp. xiii + 223. $80
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry. Modern Chivalry, ed. Ed White (Indianapolis: Hackett...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2007
... throughout the volume and become more bothersome as they accumulate:
John Ramsay of Ochtertyre becomes James (9); John Simpson never denied
any of the articles of the Westminster Confession and was not an Arian (15).
Hume’s fragment on chivalry was not part of a paper written when he was a
student...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... disability typically poses to courtship, Hay describes how his inability to retrieve objects from the ground without kneeling thwarts his interactions with women. Because he can bend his body “no farther than it is bent by Nature,” Hay is unable to demonstrate chivalry to curry favor with potential romantic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., . . . which, aided by its embattled top and flankers, . . . strongly enforce the idea of its having been the inlet to some feat of chivalry” (106–07). For some critics, the emotional appropriateness of these terminating views was crucial: Batty Langley went so far as to remark that gardeners of lesser means...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 60–75.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of Shaftesbury, denounced travel nar-
ratives for their distorted sense of scale, calling them “Gothic,” “ill design’d,”
and “monstrous,” and noting “what false Proportions we see describ’d.”
Shaftesbury thought that modern travel accounts were “in our present
Days, what Books of Chivalry were, in our...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2000
... language became “English” qualifies the Norman vic-
tory. Scott’s romantic depiction of Saxon chivalry, gallantry, and virtue—
especially compared to the corrupt, often effeminate Normans—suggests
strongly that what is best in modern Britain originated in Saxon Ger-
many.
In their shadowy presence...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
... as a Matter of Raillery than Truth (1:8). In Don Quixote in England, Paul- son claims that Sir Roger s purported Restoration- era licentiousness bur- lesques chivalry (35). At this point in the narrative, Sir Roger is desexual- 1 4 Eighteenth-Century Life ized, smiling as the gypsy alludes to the old...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
... motherhood (ll. 202 31, pp. 142 43); a martial gure nurtured on false ideas of nobility and chivalry is seen to mistake inherited status for virtue (ll. 232 60, pp. 143 44). Such gures are manifestly compromised, and bear some direct responsibility for the violence in France, from which they have...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2003
... presents examples of both living relics of archaic characters—
such as the Chevalier Bayard, who possesses “the character ascribed to the
heroes of chivalry” (4:179)— and mixed characters whose adaptation to the
modern stage is imperfect. The View had already indicated that ideas con-
cerning character...
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