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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 3–19.
Published: 01 September 2017
... such as EEBO and ECCO invite new forms of history writing, from “distant reading” by computer, to more inclusive documentary-style formats that emphasize richness of the particular and idiosyncratic as well as reveal the larger patterns. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 EEBO ECCO distant...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 171.
Published: 01 April 2017
... 2017 Erratum for Abigail Williams and Jennifer Batt, “Introduction,” Eighteenth-
Century Life 41, no. 1 (January 2017): 1–6.
On page 1 of the article, the first five lines of text should read:
Long before the current vogue for big data and distant reading led literary
scholars...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
...
Abigail Williams
St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford
and
Jennifer Batt
University of Bristol
Long before the current vogue for big data and distant reading led literary
scholars to examine ever larger...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 131–151.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., Distant Reading (London: Verso,
authorship Burney Minerva Press publishing women’s writing Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... catastrophe, and, on the other, a sense of immediacy produced by the poem's representations of the desperate struggle for life aboard that distant ship. In Falconer's best-selling poem, the speaker frets over the challenge of making remote, unseen sailors present to readers on land. To meet this challenge...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 160–164.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., or read of it in books, but have never presented its evils to their minds, consider it as little more than a splendid game; a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph. Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland s Islands (1771)1 We can hardly tell when exactly war...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2008
... author” — has
written extensively on everyday life, includes walking, along with talk-
ing, eating, and reading, as a quintessential everyday practice. He argues
that such practices are important because they represent the level at which
most of human life is lived. Certeau says that the tactics...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 January 2018
... their own interests in seemingly disinterested depictions of
distant parts of the globe.
It is self-evident that when cultures go through transformations and rein-
vent themselves in accordance with new material conditions, the context for
interpreting objects is also transformed. If we want...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of which have (as far as I can tell) not yet
been remarked. Here are the lines in context:
Imperial wonders rais’d on Nations spoil’d,
Where mix’d with Slaves the groaning Martyr toil’d;
Huge theatres, that now unpeopled Woods,
Now drain’d a distant...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 124–129.
Published: 01 January 2018
...), indicating
general patterns in using court figures to represent models of mental activity.
In the “fetters” entry, Pasanek reads metaphors of slavery as tropes that “link
mind and matter” in that they often conflate notions of figurative and physical
captivity, as when Hannah More emphasizes...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
...- Pedersen recognize, mixing 3-D portrayal of a town with temporal narrative and dramatic reenactment.7 Since the newspapers Toby reads are among his sources, the remodelings can be considered in part caricatures of a supposedly objective, journalis- tic mode of representing war.8 An alternative mode focuses...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 45–52.
Published: 01 April 2002
... the papers were
some dated 1788 in which the Inquisition asked García to read the books
and give his opinion on them. Also found were the clergyman’s written
opinions on most of these books, including the one on Pope.2
The censor begins with a statement about...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and beauty, Bleecker fashions a private sublime by aligning her own suffering with that of war combatants. This essay then turns briefly to Charlotte Smith, who depicts distant war via her own intense and highly aestheticized emotions. As Smith demonstrates, then, the private sublime emerged in the poetry...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 14–28.
Published: 01 April 2008
...-
tion, it is clear that James was well read in the eighteenth century and also
that his relation to it is something he was consciously thinking through.
On the creative side, he set one tale, “A Romance of Certain Old
Clothes” (1868) “toward the middle of the eighteenth century...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 23–44.
Published: 01 April 2002
... political meanings and dates remain tentative. A precise dating
would be desirable, especially for those scholars who interpret the piece
(largely the text) as politically allusive and commenting on, variously,
Charles II, James II, or William and Mary. Such readings...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 26–53.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Christopher Chan This essay charts the reception of five widely read antislavery poems—Hannah More's Slavery (1788); Edward Rushton's West-Indian Eclogues (1787); William Roscoe's The Wrongs of Africa (1787 – 88); John Jamieson's The Sorrows of Slavery (1789); and James Field Stanfield's The Guinea...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 108–117.
Published: 01 April 2003
... to other nations is an Englishman.
An instinctively Anglophobic reviewer would hope to persuade his read-
ers that this is probably a very good thing. There have been demands from the
trendier wings of academe in the U.S. that people like Boxer should not ever
be reprinted on the grounds of his...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 125–129.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in exposing the significance not just of char-
acter names in Austen, but also of place names and even mentions of distances
between places. In this absorbing study, Barchas unearths real people, events,
and locations that she claims are alluded to in Austen’s fiction. Challenging
formalist readings...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
...-eyed observation of the natural world is therefore unmasked as sheer stagecraft. 41 On this reading, Bogdani's bird canvases work to endorse colonial and Enlightenment projects. The exotic birds, in Churchill's aviary and in the artistic rendering of them, function as proof of the untapped...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 23–40.
Published: 01 September 2019
... with present duties, death and the beyond, and self- improvement. Her initial entries largely document her struggle to recon- cile her immediate obligations with her yearnings for absent friends. In the fourth entry of her book, Burney records Talbot s valuation of the present versus the distant: The present...
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