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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 29–36.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jonathan M. Yeager Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Whitehouse Tessa . The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent, 1720–1800 ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2015 ). Pp. 272. $100 ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Ana M. Acosta The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27102-Acosta.q4.jw.SH 4/14/03 2:10 PM Page 1 Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in Hackney, Stoke Newington, and Newington Green...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
...Sarah Prescott The College of William & Mary 2001 Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections, and Noble Friends: Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Female Authorship in Early Eighteenth-Century England ’Twas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 24–45.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Robert W. Jones The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26103-45-jone.q4 5/24/02 3:21 PM Page 24 Sheridan and the Theatre of Patriotism: Staging Dissent during the War for America...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... and imploring God's forgiveness for so horrid a national crime. Such sermons soon indeed were heard in Britain's 10,000 parishes and generally were hostile to the ever guilty Dissenters waiting to repeat the act if given a chance. The (High) Church of England must support the monarch and be supported by him...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
... , and her blank verse poem The Emigrants . It considers how these works, which condemn the guilt arising from war, expose the problem of necessary acquiescence in what is condemned. Taken together, the writings illuminate two sides of the problem. As a Dissenter, Barbauld belonged to a social group...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
... religion, and to do so he exploits the greater flexibility, ambiguity, and complexity of the graphic mode. An examination of Steele and Hoadly, among other things, permits us to situate more precisely the “sacred parody” of Hogarth's major works on a grid of such terms as Radical Dissenter, Hoadlian Low...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 150–155.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Mark Canuel Colin Jager. The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. xi + 274. $59.95. ISBN 0-8112-3979-2 Daniel E. White. Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp xiii + 266. $90.00...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 January 2014
... figures in the book, whom Major for good reasons dislikes labeling as Bluestockings (81 – ​­84), are the Anglicans Elizabeth Montagu, her sister Sarah Scott, their friends Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Carter, and Hannah More, and, to a lesser extent, the Dissenter Anna Laetitia Barbauld...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 149–154.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., the struggle between “prejudice,” amenable to Burke, but anathema to Dissenters, such as Priest- ley, and “free inquiry,” championed by Dissenters, but abominated by Burke. The point matters, because as it is currently constructed, her sentence suggests that Jacobins were struggling to think like us...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 118–122.
Published: 01 January 2012
... mainly with Eng- land. Yet like most Americans, he identifies with the Protestant Dissenters, so many of whom shaped US history, but who were a relatively small minority in England where the majority of the population were members of the Church of England. Pincus stresses James II’s pro...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
... projects of historicizing the associations between women writers and theorizing the gender of aesthetic production. 64. James, in “Lucy Aikin and Dissent,” reminds us that during this period Joseph Johnson's “house and shop had functioned as a hub of a Unitarian intellectual network which stretched...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... The critical reception of the poem succeeded not only in burying her liberal Dissenting agenda, but also in allying her with Priestley’s polit- ical enemies and arguably fueling the feeling that later culminated in the 1791 Church and King riots. As such, “The Mouse’s Petition” marks an important case...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 January 2020
... as the poets at using broader ideological arguments or biblical examples as a way to assess, indirectly, topical matters and current events. What most literary scholars will find of particular interest in chapter 5 is Hone s reading of Defoe s The Shortest- Way with the Dissenters (1702). That pamphlet has...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 115–120.
Published: 01 January 2022
... to Dissenters” (16) and his “characteristic denigration of dissent” (83). But isn't Swift's portrayal of Jack in the Tale more a play of exuberant satire and humor, and a warning about the intellectual misdirection of Dissenters, than a reflection of “notorious hostility”? Rumbold writes also of “Swift's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
... to assess, though it is striking how miscellanies in the last decades of the century provide evidence of the evolving relationship between the dissenting tradition and the reading of Milton aloud. Exercises in Elocution and its forerunner The Speaker (1774) were both published by the radical Joseph...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 82–108.
Published: 01 January 2005
... to an imperial power creating its own colonies of fl ame (ll. 930 – 36). Dryden’s title for the poem had signaled that he would tease at the imaginative possibilities of dissenting imagery, and the description of the Fire as “dire Usurper” (l. 849) sustains both the apocalyptic tone of dis- senting...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 April 2014
... volumes, where Crusoe’s changing religious ideas are quite far from the little we can safely assume about Defoe’s beliefs based on his other writings and life. Defoe himself, as far as we know, was a Dissenter, fiercely anti-­Catholic, and interested in colonization only so far as it was profit...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 111–127.
Published: 01 April 2000
.... Priestley was born 24 March 1733 (13 March old style) in Fieldhead, near Leeds, into a family of dissenting Calvinists. Reared by his aunt, who intended him for the ministry, the young Priestley attended grammar school, studied Latin and Hebrew, taught himself German, Italian, and French, and wrestled...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 April 2015
... to the same desperate invocation of the monarch to close discussion when con- fronted with dissent. And the parts of the final spectacle of the battle between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada that actually do work are undercut not only by the ridiculousness of the preceding play, but also by Puff...