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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 201–213.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Patricia C. Brückmann The College of William & Mary 2001 Clothes of Pamela’s Own:
Shopping at B- Hall
In the Apprentice’s Vade Mecum (1734), Samuel Richardson makes clear
his view of dress, class...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 119–135.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Patricia Crown The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26107-135-crow.q4 5/24/02 1:58 PM Page 119
Sporting with Clothes:
John Collet’s Prints in the 1770s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
...David Garrioch Work on the material culture of the eighteenth century has shown that light was more than a metaphor. The everyday social practise of the Enlightenment reposed on a contrast between light and dark. There was a growing emphasis on brightness in clothing and furnishings, and elite...
FIGURES
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... life, as well as moral reflections on the relationship between humans and animals. In particular, “The Moral Zoologist” includes pointed critiques of the use of animal fur and feathers for clothing and therefore provides a contrasting perspective for readers to consider when they peruse the fashion...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 124–129.
Published: 01 September 2010
... our clothes?
Could such an approach permit our biographer to descend from the sartorial
surface to our subjective being? Could a biographer interpret our hairstyles
and hemlines to make sense of the broad contour of our lives? In the case of
Caroline Weber’s sartorial biography of Marie...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 29–55.
Published: 01 April 2007
... eighteenth centuries in renewing laws that would
regulate clothing.3 Defoe represents the clothing of female servants as an
unpredictable threat to England’s economic and social structures. In his
pamphlets, servants slip between legitimate and unlawful roles; they pass
as maids and mistresses...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., though endorsing the use of dress to reinforce social position. Women bore the brunt of the tirade.7 The rejection of profane pleasures might be a marker of awakening even within the Church of England. Casting o¯ ne clothing was a set piece of conversion narratives. An Anglican educationalist, Joanna...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90.
Published: 01 April 2005
... hair tied back, which
became standard for informal military dress after the 1706 Battle of Ramil-
lies and subsequently, during the 1730s, for general wear.15 The bagwig (in
which the hair was gathered in a black purse) likewise attained great pop-
ularity; the bag both protected clothing from...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 135–141.
Published: 01 September 2006
...). Pp. 301. 8 ills. $29.95. ISBN 1-85285-295-x
Batchelor, Jennie. Dress, Distress, and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in
Eighteenth-Century Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Pp. 216.
ISBN 1-4039-4847-x
Bell, Matthew. The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
...,
seems to require a version of Oceania in which novelty is counterbalanced
by familiarity. James’s journals, then, dwell on exotic characters such as
Omai, on new details or types of clothing, canoes, tattoos, or weapons—
categories that his readers would broadly recognize from their reading...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2000
... women’s bodies. The second
section examines the ways in which people attempted to read women’s
bodies. I analyze the failure of what I call behavioral signs (carriage and
clothing, in particular) to provide certain knowledge of women or to chart
the persistence...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 225–245.
Published: 01 September 2002
....
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French Encounters with Material Culture of the South Pacific 231
the islander holding the bowl contrasts with Bougainville’s rather regal
seated pose as he touches the fruit. The islanders are dressed in cloth...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 62–79.
Published: 01 September 2001
... had no turn for industry,” presents a
grotesque spectacle: her skin, “which was quite tawny, was never washed,”
and her clothes are mere rags which she has to clutch together with the
hand not holding a pipe.21 Dame Apsley, on the other hand, who...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 49–66.
Published: 01 April 2003
..., was a
betrayer of the failure of reason. Apart from touch all the organs of sense are
concentrated in the face, and speech originates there. In eighteenth-century
Britain the face was often the only part not clothed— the hands of the mid-
dling and upper ranks were usually gloved, for example— meaning...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 76–101.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and harmony, is putting the Devil into a
canonical robe, or, . . . a wolf into sheep’s clothing” (235 – 36). Who is fooling
whom with this artful illusion?
There is a much larger ironical disparity running through The London
Spy. In order to see this clearly, it is necessary to broaden the context...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 113–119.
Published: 01 April 2004
...: University of Pennsylvania,
2003). Pp. 289. 4 ills. $39.95. ISBN 0-8122-3687-4
Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson, eds. Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in
Contemporary Culture (Albany: State Univ. of New York, 2002). Pp. 277. $73.50 cloth.
ISBN 0-7914-5615-3. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7914-5616-1...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 120–124.
Published: 01 April 2004
... of Pennsylvania,
2003). Pp. 289. 4 ills. $39.95. ISBN 0-8122-3687-4
Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson, eds. Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in
Contemporary Culture (Albany: State Univ. of New York, 2002). Pp. 277. $73.50 cloth.
ISBN 0-7914-5615-3. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7914-5616-1...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by means of surrogation a vacancy created by the absence of an original. Beyond ostensibly inanimate effigies fashioned from wood or cloth, there are more elusive but more powerful effigies fashioned from flesh. Such effigies are made by performance. They consist of a set of actions that hold open a place...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 81–97.
Published: 01 April 2008
... their hostess showed them the operation of waulking cloth,
that is, felting and sizing the new-woven woolen cloth by hand while sing-
ing. Even today in Scotland, one finds certain ballads described as “waulk-
ing songs,” that is, songs traditionally sung while “waulking” the cloth. “It
is performed...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 70–94.
Published: 01 January 2002
....
Class strictures also demanded that middling- and upper-rank women
remain physically noncompetitive. Laboring women had to be strong,
wore clothing that enabled physical exertion, and could shout or exhibit
themselves in public. Men of the middling and upper ranks...
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