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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Lance Bertelsen The first descriptions of Hawaiian surfing were written by David Samwell, surgeon of HMS Discovery , and James King, second lieutenant of HMS Resolution , in the months bracketing Captain James Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay on 14 February 1779. In his journal entry for 22 January...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 88–112.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of Lovelace's own self-willed death at length. The following consideration of Lovelace's “gloomy scheme of death” reveals the violence necessary for performances of masculinity in the early to mid-eighteenth century and suggests that the duel is at the heart at such efforts at self-display. 25. “Some...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. More
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. More
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 103–111.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Peter Howell Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii + 737. $115. ISBN 0-19-811292-0. The College of William & Mary 2000 — Book Review — John Barrell’s Imagining the King’s Death...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Yael Shapira This essay considers the limited presence of the dead body in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto . The near absence of gory death from the novella is striking, given both its intensive borrowing from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its status as the founding work of the Gothic tradition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of his life, but he was also a translator, a textual scholar, a prodigious letter writer, and in the first major phase of his career, a love poet depicting young women in love, such as Sapho, Eloise, the Unfortunate Lady, and Belinda, often focusing on erotic rapture and death. From about 1728 until his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... anxiety about bodily dissolution after death. And at this time, the religious connotation of the uncorrupted corpse becomes translated into the endorsement of preservation as a guarantee that the body and soul will be properly rejoined in the afterlife. In medical terms, surgical innovations demanded...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the Gothic to produce an eclectic mix. Almost the exact contemporary of Jane Austen (who claimed to have read Burney’s first novel three times), she began publishing fifteen years before Austen, and continued for another twenty-two years after Austen’s death. The two have many elements in common, but Burney...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 23–40.
Published: 01 September 2019
... commonplace book, “Consolatory Extracts occasioned by the tragic death of her sister Susan Phillips in January 1800,” which reveals her protracted process of mourning through her appropriation of extracts from A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
... with the challenges of representing war, which he explores in studying Uncle Toby and Trim’s miniature fortifications, as well as the story of Le Fever, and the various sympathetic reactions, some of which are self-promotional, to death. Sterne places two modes of representing war in counterpoint — a “distancing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in terms of the march of progress and development of the “inner life” of the nation, Frankenstein offers a different vision of awakening life by turning the novel, as Sara Guyer claims, toward biopolitical concerns with the organization of life and death. In Frankenstein , the wartime awakening...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., both in the later eighteenth century and the present day. It focuses specifically on two poets who formulated the private sublime: Freneau in the 1781 British Prison-Ship and Ann Eliza Bleecker in the poems that she wrote after her daughter’s death in 1777. While Freneau’s poetry emphasizes terror...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., a titmouse and a bullfinch, which he painted from dead specimens. Their appearance troubles the glorification of global expansion on display in these canvases, reminding viewers of the violence and death that underwrote European expansion into colonial territories. I argue that Bogdani's birds are uneasily...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 69–87.
Published: 01 September 2021
... understanding of war. Even as they represented battlefield violence and death with visceral intensity, they understood battlefield space itself to be grounded in affective practices associated with enlightened modes of virtue, sensibility, and civility. There the chaos and horror of conflict gave way to duty...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Pastorals , through their joint efforts as members of the Scriblerus Club, and on to later achievements, such as The Dunciad , Pope's Imitations of Horace , and Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift , they executed strategies of authorial identitycreation and control designed to achieve ends in purposeful...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Lance Bertelsen John Singleton Copley’s The Death of the Earl of Chatham has been discussed extensively by art historians, but little critical attention has been paid to written accounts of the debate between the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Chatham nor the process by which they evolved...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
... at the center of continuing scholarly disputes concerning Cook’s death. This essay reconstructs King’s previously unknown American experience, suggests the formative effect of his activities on both sides of the Atlantic in the years just prior Cook’s third voyage, and proposes new approaches to reading his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
... their deaths, and the Will & Jane exhibition tells the story of that process through the display of many and various objects—from porcelain figurines and portraits, to advertisements and bobbleheads—that are part of the marketing and cultural dissemination of literary fame. The authors of the article also...