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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 85–103.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Ann Campbell This essay argues that Frances Burney in Cecilia; or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) critiques political debates and literary conventions focused on clandestine marriage. Through two plots of this novel, one economic and one focused on courtship, Burney interprets clandestine marriage...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 92–112.
Published: 01 January 2024
... from a single Dublin address, made me curious about the album's creator, Thomasina Newcomen, and the circumstances surrounding the creation of her album. In tracing the album's signatories in the archives, I discovered that the entries reflected both the personal story of a teenage courtship and also...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 January 2001
... “courtship.” Throughout the eighteenth century, “courtship” functions as a synonym for “gallantry,” suggesting a semantic link for both the polite and the amatory dimensions of gallant behavior.7 ECL25105-043b-Rung.p65 45 4/17/01, 4:36 PM 46...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 53–68.
Published: 01 April 2002
.... Many women writers sought empowerment through the latter because it seemed to offer them a platform from which to speak. The courtship novel, evolving from the old romances, ended in the marriage of the heroine and focused on the tri- umph of sentiment over...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 94–111.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Catherine and Mary (b. after 9 Mrs. Cambridge, whom Richard Owen married in after a long courtship, was the daughter of George Trenchard (ca. ), of Lychett Matravers, Dorset. Unlike her husband and sons, she seems rarely to have quitted her home, and there is no mention in Burney’s journals...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2004
... with the usual abbreviated history but quickly turns to fiction, becoming no less than a one hundred-page novelization of Abelard’s Histo- ria calamitatum, with added dialogues of their courtship, imagined encoun- ters, and a fortuitous delay in Abelard’s castration to allow for a number of midnight...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of courtship rituals, and certain developments in science, language, and philosophy—that ECL24304-031-Pritchard.jm 32 1/1/01, 8:30 AM 33 helped it seem possible or necessary to read...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 119–135.
Published: 01 April 2016
... the time of his courtship with Iris. Not surprisingly, the public received Dunton’s Voyage coolly and the projected series was quickly dropped. Its failure could easily be attributed to the irregularity and inconclusiveness of its plot, its lack of engaging characters, the apparent...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2013
...- man’s and Oldfox’s attempts to woo her. She admonishes Freeman after his first attempt at “courtship” (I.i.627 – ­42). In the second act, when Freeman and Oldfox try to out-­woo each other, she calls their attempts “foolish” (II.i.1,079, 1,218) and then proceeds vehemently to denounce them. Among...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 136–146.
Published: 01 January 2002
... subscriptions could be paid, which suggests that he may have had a stake in the scheme. The prints were sufficiently celebrated to be the subject of the five-page doggerel poem “A Love-Match, taken from Mr Collet’s four celebrated Pictures, viz. Courtship, Elopement...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 120–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Mulholland discusses “The Hymn to Durg Jones’s poem about Shiva’s courtship of Parvati layered on top of Gray’s original: “The bard’s suicidal loyalty to Wales becomes Parvati’s selfless dedication to her husband” (131). The rest of the chapter explores forgotten poets—Eyles Irwin, John Ley- den...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 132–137.
Published: 01 January 2009
... to an end, from an instrumental sig- nifier to a self-sufficient signified.” The apogee of self-sufficient domesticity, manifest in a courtship narrative propelled by the politically inflected mar- riage debate, can be located in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, where “Richard- son’s inquiry...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 January 2015
...), drinking and entertaining each other in alehouses (TJ, 36) and ordinaries (TJ, 78–81), and helping each other in courtship rituals (TJ, 118–19). Also, according to this last-mentioned joke, such gatherings worked to preserve elements of traditional Irish culture in this new place of settlement...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 April 2015
.... In the verse, as in the courtship, as in the first version of The Rivals, there is “a desire to provoke a response” (56), which ultimately retreats into “seek[ing] accep- tance and friendship” (44). As an exception to the general trend, however, Jones’s essay calls atten- tion to what I fear may...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 56–82.
Published: 01 April 2007
... and the eponymous hero- ine, and a successful courtship and marriage involving the planter’s slave and a rural Englishwoman named Lucy. Despite its colonial record in North America, the government enacted no statutes preventing the bap- tism or legal marriage of slaves held in Britain, nor did it bar marriage...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... likeness to the French monarch and thus his own gender fluidity with respect to Lord D . and General O . By contrast, Hay's imagery of the spider and the lapdog emerges in the context of heterosexual courtship and its attendant challenges for the physically disabled, which once again undercut Hay's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
... (1971; rep. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1994), 35–80. 14. D. D. Devlin, Jane Austen and Education (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1975), 122; Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1991), 166; and Sarah Emsley, Jane...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 98–116.
Published: 01 September 2002
... ceremonies and courtship procedures to commentary that reproduced received ideas about other ECL26308-OConn.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:32 PM Page 105 Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism 105 worldly forms of sexuality. English versions of the genre...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
...- euermann is not shy about ascribing moral excellence to Jane and Elizabeth, or demonstrating how Elizabeth and Darcy’s courtship is contingent upon resolv- ing moral issues between them. Morality is not just someone else’s problem but a way of making sense of one’s own self. Elizabeth’s receptiveness...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 96–102.
Published: 01 April 2007
... amorous couple beneath her. Does she signal that this is a propitious moment for the young man dressed in theatrical costume, at whom she gazes, to place his hand on the breast of his pretty companion? Holmes does not speculate about this, nor does she analyze the various stages of courtship...