...Eric Parisot; Robert Phiddian; Katie Barclay Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Darkness and light—the binary opposition most deeply embedded...

... in Four Books (1743), as a “heterotopia of indefinitely accumulating time” (Foucault, 26), a type of heterotopia that illustrates in an exemplary way one of the many “dark” spaces of the Enlightenment. 3 Unlike traditional understandings of the Enlightenment as negotiating binaries of public vs...

...Yvonne Noble The College of William & Mary 2001 Light Writing from a Dark Winter: The Scriblerian Annus Mirabilis May 1722 to May 1723 was an anxious time for many in London. Rob- ert Walpole, the prime minister, had...

...James Morland In this article, I examine the role of conversations with the dead in the darkened solitude of grief in the poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Thomas Gray. Close reading reveals how grieving in darkness is often paralleled with a feeling of separation from a light‐filled system...

...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...

... sensationalism for its failure to capture women's real‐world subjugation; thus, an “anti‐gothic gothic” perspective characterizes her depiction of the dark realities of Enlightenment society. The animals that feature in Maria are likewise anti‐gothic gothic animals. Important signifiers in gothic texts, animals...

... of intellectual progress within a state of nature in which each lives on his own [as if this were his point] is equally a challenge to a Lockean model of individual epistemic achievement” (30). The following passage, on the dark room, becomes an anchor of her reading of Locke and of her broader argument...

..., and subjectivity collapses. Attending to the operation of “open houses” in Zofloya redirects our conventional readings of the gothic home as a parochial site of violence. Gothic homes instead display the constituent of Dark Enlightenment in that the subject, and to that extent the household, blurs...

... in their pursuit after land and wealth. By repeatedly dis- paraging the “dark paths of antiquity” and the “dark clouds of antiquity,” Kames would thus doubly defy the Name of the Father, challenging not only tradition, but also the very pillars and enactments of paternal legacy...

..., Pride and Prejudice oozes sensuality in a velvety palette of browns and dark greens. Sonny Liew’s artwork brings out the social satire and humor of Sense and Sensibility, with bobbleheaded characters whose rosy cheeks suggest either strong drink or innocence. The pale sherbet colors and doe...

... editions in the early 1790s, as David Dick- son discovered, selling ten thousand copies of the first three issues alone. These moments of clarity shine from the dark of a material dearth of evidence in this study’s early period. Ireland was, in 1550, a place where English was the minor- ity language...

... of travel writing should prove of interest to students of the early novel and of nascent ethnography and anthropology. Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is scholarship of high caliber. Maillet follows the fate of the curious dark mirror known as the “Claude glass” from the eighteenth...

..., engraving (1735). Photo author’s collection. story, are only sketched in. The viewer is aware of the predominance of earth colors, a single wedge of blue sky appearing in 4, with struggling figures surg- ing out from the dark background of the underpainting.5 Hogarth’s color can serve...

...: But how is it That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?2 Shakespeare’s “abysm” here lies behind James’s recurrent image of the “gulf  ” of time, to suggest what lies beyond the edge of living memory. James was born in 1843, only as long...

... (black crown, red breast, dark gray wings) in flight. How are we to understand Bogdani's badly stuffed birds? One interpretation might be taxonomic. Some of the birds in Churchill's aviaries were so rare that Bogdani's representations of them would have functioned not only as an opportunity...

... with his figure as a jarring trial for her as a poet: But to thy Portrait, ELYMAS, we come Whose Blindness almost strikes the Poet dumb; And whilst She vainly to Describe thee seeks, The Pen but traces, where the Pencil speaks. Of Darkness to be felt, our Scriptures write...

... of grass and a brook lie in the foreground. Clouds cover the sky; a storm may be brewing (depending on the darkness of the engraving, something as much related to printing “state” as artistic intent). A brooding female fi gure in contraposto (a muse?) stands to the right of the bard; to his left, fi...

..., dark, static past. Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 34, Number 2, Spring 2010  doi 10.1215/00982601-2009-019 Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 114...

..., but in innovative ways. This is the only one of Ovid’s twenty-one Heroides, almost all spoken in the voices of women, that Pope, then about nineteen, chose to imitate. Why? Perhaps because Sapho is a poet whom the now physically transformed Pope can identify with. Sapho is a short, dark-skinned (or black...

..., we can start to sort it all out. Fortuantely, every now and then some light apears in the darkness, something that promises illumination. I believe that maybe one of those moments happened in 2005 with the near simultaneous publication of two books by Howard D. Weinbrot: the fi rst, Menippean...