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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Norbert Schürer While John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , also known as Fanny Hill , seems to be mostly obsessed with sexual activity, it is actually just as much about the burgeoning free-market capitalist economy of mid- eighteenth-century England. In the explicit references...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2021
... problems, enrich sectors of the British economy, and lay groundwork for changes in the control of political power—and that has persisted into our own era's conception of the Grand Tour. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 venereal disease pox Grand Tour England rhetoric Eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2021
...). This categorical distinction, however, scantily registered the emergence of a corollary affective economy in this period, which redefined social, political, and physical spaces according to their emotional content, or lack thereof. This article focuses on the rise of emotional language, its spatial configurations...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 105–113.
Published: 01 September 2010
...: Routledge, 2007). Pp. x + 266. $135 Deborah Valenze. The Social Life of Money in the English Past (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. xiii + 308. $65 hardcover. $23.99 paper Carl Wennerlind and Margaret Schabas, eds. David Hume's Political Economy. Studies in Political Economy 89 (New York...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 48–53.
Published: 01 January 2009
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ues to the Enlightenment: there is also a common core of inquiries designed to
understand human betterment. Robertson examines three interdependent lines
of inquiry: the “science of man” (Hume’s terminology), the political economy,
and social development leading from “barbarism” to “refinement...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2004
... that in their
sizeable body of work we can observe the emergence of the female laborer
as a vital and active agent in the nation’s moral and political economy.
Perceiving the magdalens’ fall as a loss of economic potential, Fielding’s Plan
echoed earlier prostitution narratives...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 97–101.
Published: 01 January 2023
.... In this sense, Genovese provides both a new account of discourse about emergent eighteenth-century capitalism in England, and an important contribution on the way domestic discourses about English society relate to England's role in the transatlantic economy. One of the most interesting things about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., capitalizing on a literary or political reputation. The two dominant
modes of the fictional letter in the early eighteenth century, the amatory
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letter and the spy letter, may be seen as exploiting the letter’s capacity to
convey to its...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
...: an elegant economy, a proper frugality, or necessary luxuries. Aged just sixteen, Anna resolved: 1 7 2 Eighteenth-Century Life I must acquire thought in spending money. An elegant economy a proper frugality do nothing from mere spirit of imitation everything with order, nothing giddily...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 68–88.
Published: 01 September 2016
... economic writing back “at the
heart” of our understanding of party politics after the Glorious Revolu-
tion. Pincus’s conclusions remain strongly informed by the conventional
view that the Whigs were the leaders of a “revolution in political economy”
against regressive, land-based Tories...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 131–154.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., with a number of contem-
porary observers describing the impact of such investments on the local
economy. At the beginning of May 1720, the Dublin pamphleteer and bank
projector John Irwin described the “exhaustion” of the kingdom’s “current
cash” caused by the prospects of “extravagant” gain...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to a gambling economy in which financial risk and fear of
forgery compromised the gift exchange with which elite courtesans had
become associated.10 This argument then turns to material that previous
commentators have considered interesting but ancillary–a faux biography,
The Juvenile Adventures...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
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The occasion for my essay is threefold. First, the criticism of Darwin’s
sexual discourses has concentrated heavily on The Loves of the Plants (1789),
the second (though first-published) volume of The Botanic Garden, and less
so on The Economy of Vegetation (1792), the longer and more accomplished...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 43–61.
Published: 01 September 2001
... cultural economy. Fighting over a woman is silly because the
pursuit of a point of honor is selfish, but fighting over a recruit is a patri-
otic and selfless gesture of service to the state (or at least to one’s com-
pany and regiment). The measure of Plume’s character, however...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 130–134.
Published: 01 January 2023
...” and growth economies remain desirable despite their social debris and ecological fallout. Both Wright and Binhammer assert the relevance of literary studies to the present by centering interpretive reading as a political practice for assembling broader coalitions against the “specter of authoritarianism...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 97–105.
Published: 01 January 2009
... challenge Rosenthal’s blanket explanation that prostitution rose
because women were systematically excluded from the rest of the economy (117,
212). I agree, for example, that competing accounts of the South Seas “reveal
different ideological impulses,” but I find it disappointing when those impulses...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 71–73.
Published: 01 January 2009
... that stressed its
indebtedness to models of the physical world. Margaret Schabas revives that
conversation, but also revises its fundamental premise. She agrees that political
economy began, in the eighteenth century, with analogies to nature. Wealth
was studied as a physical phenomenon; the laws...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 46–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
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intellectual environment was defined above all by the work of the Swedish
author of the Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus, who supplied a method and
a motive for the study of nature on a planetary scale. Linnaeus described
a global economy of nature, a divinely-designed, harmonious and inter-
dependent...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., shows all too clearly the problems of attempting one.
There are two principal problems. The first is that Hume wrote pro-
foundly on many diff erent topics and is, perhaps, the greatest philosopher to
have written in English. His essays on politics and political economy were
benchmarks...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and the Birth of the Modern World , ed. David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2018), 236–72, especially 264–65. 15. Julie Holcomb, Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 2016), 36–40. 16. Christopher Leslie Brown...
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