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Figures of Impropriety and the Joys of Female Community
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 126–139.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. xii + 291. 9 ills . $65 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay
Figures of Impropriety
and the Joys of Female Community
Toni Bowers...
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The Theater of Morals: Culture and Community in Rousseau's Lettreà M. d'Alembert
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Timothy M. Costelloe The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27104-Costello.q4.jw 4/14/03 10:56 AM Page 52
The Theater of Morals: Culture and Community in
Rousseau’s Lettre à M. d’Alembert...
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“Law Enough to Set You Free”: Contract, Community, and Consent in the Comedies of George Farquhar
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 30–60.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., in general, and the law of contracts, in particular, reorient drama away from the rights of the liberal subject, autonomously imagined, toward renewed conceptions of the social good, and the ethics of the community, replacing regulatory frameworks with emancipatory dispensations, in the benevolent comic...
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Writing Himself into a Profession: Knowledge, Skills, and Community in John Martin's “Several Receipts for the Use of Mankind”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 January 2024
... community. He served as an author as well as a collector, and produced a valuable new work for the use of “all mankind,” as one of his title‐pages suggests. Ultimately, this manuscript case study shows that readers—even craftsmen who worked in less traditional centers of learning—were aware...
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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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Hannah More and the English Poor
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 237–251.
Published: 01 April 2001
... to be a law of nature, that the poor should be to a certain degree
improvident, that there may always be some to fulfill the most servile, the
most sordid, and the most ignoble offices in the community. The stock of
human happiness is thereby much increased...
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The Agency of the Mob in Joseph Andrews and A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 49–73.
Published: 01 January 2020
... Fleming Columbus State Community College Henry Fielding is often thought of as part of what Thomas Cleary called the tight, oligarchically smug world of the ruling classes. 1 As a magis- trate, pamphleteer, playwright, and novelist, Fielding gave himself a mag- isterial presence, interpreting and judging...
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Is There a Devil in This Text? Subtlety and Satanic Persuasion in Defoe's Roxana
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 110–134.
Published: 01 April 2025
... persuasion, or to “say something of the Manner how he [the Devil] communicates his Mind” to his victims (353). Lacking a physical body, the Devil is “restrain'd from Violence,” and remains “confin'd to stratagem, and still Soft Methods, such as Persuasion, Allurement, and Feeding the Appetite, prompting...
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Irish Catholics and Their Networks in Eighteenth-Century London
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 66–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
...John Bergin Many Catholics migrated from Ireland to other European countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Those who settled in Catholic regions of Europe are relatively well known, but little attention has been paid to an Irish Catholic community that appeared in London...
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The Telegraph : Radical Transmission in the 1790s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 26–52.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Mary Fairclough This essay explores how the new technology of the optical telegraph provoked discussion of the possibilities of globalized communication in the 1790s. It focuses on the Telegraph , an anti-ministerial London newspaper. the Telegraph exploits its metaphorical connections...
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The “Jewish Question” on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Harrington and the Correspondence between Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
... by drama and fiction was by gaining positive, firsthand experience of the lives of individuals within London’s Jewish community. Ironically, however, in depicting Jewish characters, she relied almost entirely on the representations of Jews offered by books. The inspiration for Harrington had been...
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“Where Are Your Books?”: William Wordsworth's Commonplaces
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 217–235.
Published: 01 January 2024
... textual model of rural community enabled by the idea that the country churchyard is a kind of commonplace book. With its collection of homely epitaphs accessible to anyone who visits, the country churchyard emblematizes a mode of bookishness unalienated from rural life. I turn to the Essays upon...
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“The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Chronicles also helps us connect the study of the manuscript book to a concern with the social dimensions of manuscript forms in a community of mixed literacies. Cannon's copying and writing became an important performance of professional competence in a culture of amateur literary production. As a case...
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Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books: Quaker Correspondence and the History of Its Reconstruction
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of “the book” changes in light of historical archival practices and present‐day techniques of digitization and computational literary analysis. The Ballitore Collection consists of roughly 2,500 letters, journals, and notes related to the eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Irish Quaker community of Ballitore...
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The Battlefield as Enlightened Space: War, the Senses, and the Emotional Soldier, ca. 1790–1840
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 69–87.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., order, civility, and community, and the distinctions of rank were maintained, even as the common humanity of officers and their men was affirmed. 40. For a detailed treatment of the reception of Napier's work, including but not restricted to its original extended form, see Eleanor N. Morecroft...
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Home Is Where the Heart Is: The Rise of Emotional Spaces in the German Late Enlightenment
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., status, and gender across society, and establish new contacts between exclusive and excluded communities; and last, the article shows how the spatial imaginary that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century—despite its reliance on older dispositions regarding space in German culture—deployed...
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Lively Effigies: Memorial Ephemera
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to be destroyed, such as Guy Fawkes. The article will examine what ways effigial images found in broadsides and books lay claim to the reader or viewer’s attention, and explore how are they used to communicate complex meanings about memory and erasure, even in inexpensive ephemeral publications. Copyright 2020...
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The London Irish and the Antients Grand Lodge
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
... could associate and obtain communal support. The movement’s success set an explicit challenge to the authority of the original Grand Lodge of England, which the Antients disparagingly termed “the Moderns,” and led to a schism in English Freemasonry that lasted some sixty years. Copyright 2015 by Duke...
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Manuscript Devotional Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Convents: A Case Study
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
... forms has been increasingly recognized by historians of the book and literary scholars, who have frequently noted the possibilities that manuscript afforded women writers in particular. 3 Historians have brought to light the rich history of women's religious communities in the period, especially...
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This Is Enlightenment : An Event in the History of Mediation?
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 95–104.
Published: 01 September 2013
... the
contemporary problem with the Enlightenment: although “the postmodernist
thinkers and Enlightenment scholars ought to be in close communication, . . .
the Enlightenment . . . is the Other of postmodernism.” 1 Gordon traces a gen-
erational tension in approaches to the Enlightenment. To a younger genera...
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