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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 78–106.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Barbara M. Benedict Duke University Press 2006
Displaying Diff erence:
Curious Count Boruwlaski and the
Staging of Class Identity
Barbara M. Benedict
Trinity College...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 62–79.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Sarah Jordan The College of William & Mary 2001 From Grotesque Bodies to Useful Hands:
Idleness, Industry, and
the Laboring Class
In 1720, Laurence Braddon, one of the many public-spirited projec...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 58–83.
Published: 01 January 2018
... University Press 2018 hospitality social hierarchy Sarah Fielding eighteenth-century novel gender •
Revising Hospitality:
Class, Ethics, and the Toadeater Guest
Teresa S axton
University...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 114–117.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Amanda . ( London : British Library , 2013 ). Pp. 168 . £30 hardcover. £20 paper Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay
Georgian Britain:
Modernity and the Middle Classes
Paul...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 64–91.
Published: 01 April 2009
...William Stafford This essay studies the issues of The Gentleman's Magazine from 1785 to 1715, selecting those years because of the common view that society and a class system crystalized following the French Revolution. Rather than view society from an economist's or a Marxist's perspective, I am...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 212–235.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., this analysis suggests that the idea of assimilation is too simplistic to capture the experiences of middle-class Irish migrants in London. Unpacking the histories of Johnson’s thoughts about himself, and of the ways other writers represented him, demonstrates that Johnson could not reject his Irish past...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and its dissemination during the late German Enlightenment in three thematic contexts: the “popular Enlightenment” ( Volksaufklärung ) and its emphasis on the enhancement of literacy among the lower classes to achieve emotional refinement; the visual representation of domestic emotional scenarios...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 66–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... These Irish had many connections with English Catholics of their own class, with whom they often attended school, and among whom they often intermarried. London, the capital city of a Protestant state, was sufficiently large, diverse, and tolerant to accommodate a vibrant Catholic community. Catholics were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... study, his work challenges expectations of gender and class in eighteenth‐century manuscript studies and reveals how the affordances of the pen might reflect the burgeoning print culture of the period. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... questions the desirability of the very existence of the British landowning classes, concluding: “They were gone who deserved not to stay.” Austen's ultimate ambivalence about the survival of her culture's values and even its members takes on new significance when read in light of novels that import romantic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... trade that catered to different classes of readers, the essay makes a contribution to understanding Thomson's text as a cultural classic of iconic significance that was being reinvented (in ever new media and interpretations) throughout the second half of the eighteenth and the first half...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
... with the landowning classes, and who desired socially appropriate positions for her children, such horrors had to be set against the material opportunities made available by war. In both cases the representation of sympathy for the victims of war provides a way out of the moral impasse they encounter. Copyright...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to demonstrate an unusually nimble approach to the eighteenth century's emergent categories of gender, because his deformity, gender, and class helped, rather than hindered, such persona making. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 58. Stephen Pender, “In the Bodyshop...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 48–73.
Published: 01 April 2006
... history.3
It has done so primarily through two key analytical concepts, class and
gender. The genre’s not-so-subtle messages about class-appropriate behav-
ior have inspired interpretations emphasizing the signifi cance of children’s
literature in the formation of the middle-class identity...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 144–147.
Published: 01 January 2009
... prostitution, and bawdy houses were located
throughout the city, not just in the port area. People from all classes, women
as well as men, regularly enjoyed casual sexual behavior, and a permissive atti-
tude continued relatively unchecked until the nineteenth century, despite an
explosion in venereal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2000
...
literary studies is reading art and aesthetics as ideology. This practice
commonly issues in the specific claim that eighteenth-century literary writ-
ing and aesthetics serve the interests and values of the middle class or
bourgeoisie, which is understood to be the rising or emerging group within...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and good, especially within their own class. Even
across class boundaries there were rules of respect and charity. Though Aus-
ten’s novels are conspicuously concerned with love, Scheuermann argues con-
vincingly that any wholesome love is contingent on morality, that, for example,
Elizabeth Bennet...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of aristocratic libertinism, Fielding asserted
that the majority of harlots were laboring-class women, driven into whore-
dom by economic need.2 Though Fielding’s Plan differed both in its analy-
sis of the cause and cure of prostitution, his reconceptualization of the
prostitution narrative through...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 29–55.
Published: 01 April 2007
.... Condemned as the chief consumers of calico, women
were reproached in dozens of pamphlets and economic tracts for purchas-
ing the printed cotton fabric.1 Attacks on female consumption, however,
were not limited to the shopping habits of upper-class women. The pam-
phleteers also crafted the female...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 January 2001
... manuals, and seventeenth-century French
salons, it becomes in eighteenth-century Britain a highly contested set of
conventions with the capacity to describe both aristocratic privilege and
middle-class politeness. On the one hand, gallantry refers to the propri-
ety...
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