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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the ability of rational educational approaches to inculcate religious belief. I compare Zenobia to Edgeworth’s Harrington , Rousseau’s Émile , Mme de Genlis’ Adéle et Thèodore , and Hamilton’s Agrippina. Zenobia applies two popular modes of fictional representation of education to the teaching of religion...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
... contested record of Cook’s third voyage. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 •
Revolutionary Sympathy on Cook’s Resolution:
The Transatlantic Education
of Lieutenant James King, 1766–76
Lance Bertelsen...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 73–88.
Published: 01 April 2017
... nineteenth-century domesticity. I wish to reexamine this question and argue for Female Biography being continuous with feminist thought by reading it as a critical response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile (1763). Rousseau's restrictive ideal of female education was widely repudiated by 1790s feminist...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 179–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Abigail Williams This article explores the role of miscellany collections as aids to recitation and education. It offers an insight into the perceived social and cultural roles of literature in the later eighteenth century, and suggests some of the ways we might use miscellanies to understand...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 89–104.
Published: 01 April 2017
... instruction and delight. Her writing offers far more than a straightforward, laudable project of female education, as she imagines pleasing discursive communities in which meaning in general, and “titles” in particular, are debated, challenged, and in flux. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Sophie Coulombeau In Frances Burney’s second novel, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), the social taxonomist Mr. Gosport educates the protagonist in the ways of the bon ton by applying classificatory principles to metropolitan polite society. This article argues that Gosport’s methodology...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
... addressed the proper selection, presentation, and treatment of both individual and collected “lives.” It gave biography national, historical, commercial, and educational functions; detailed the components of its life-historical narrative and of its critical portions; set standards for what constituted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Marie E. McAllister In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, the Grand Tour, sex, and venereal disease became almost indivisible in the public imagination. The Grand Tour was an essential element of a well-born man's education. Yet a persistent belief developed that continental travel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the late eighteenth century used the empirical approach promoted by their polite scientific education to turn their leisured travels into knowledge-finding pursuits. The specimens and observations that they brought home played an overlooked role in allowing them to shape themselves as authoritative...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the natural and social worlds than they had known before, which led to more empirical comparing, more systematic speculation, and more secular self-questioning. Most scholarship on Enlightenment and Pacific voyaging, however, focuses on relatively elite or well-educated thinkers who were already on the path...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Abigail Williams; Anna Marar This paper will focus on the Chronicles of John Cannon, a ploughboy turned exciseman and writing master living in the Somerset levels who described himself as a “Tennis Ball of Fortune.” Cannon's story of self‐education and writerly self‐fashioning took striking...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Melissa Schoenberger Abstract John Armstrong's mock almanac The Muncher's and Guzler's Diary (1748) is now little read, but indicates much about the poet‐physician's attitudes toward the intellectual, educational, and political questions of his day. Having first framed the almanac as a relatively...
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in “The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 4. A prayer of thanksgiving, from John Cannon's “Χρονɛχα seu Annales: Or: Memoirs: Of the: Birth, Education, Life and Death of: Mr. Iohn Cannon” (1741 – 42), MS, “John Cannon's Diary, DD/SAS/C1193/4,” Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, f. 356. Photograph by the authors.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 53–69.
Published: 01 September 2003
... into the history of education in the British Isles in the
eighteenth century has often reflected modern cultural concerns and thus
has explored, for example, the establishment of new scholastic opportuni-
ties for classes of children other than the noble and wealthy. Rather than
treat the better-known public...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 51–54.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Carol Blum Jennifer J. Popiel. Rousseau's Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France (Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire, 2008). Pp. xii + 262. 15 ills. $50 Lesley H. Walker. A Mother's Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Gevlin, “Adulterous Austen: Educating the Rake in Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park , ” ELH 87 (2020): 1,055–78; the quoted phrase is from 1,069. See also Graham, “Falling for the Crawfords,” 889–90. 68. Yeazell, in Fictions of Modesty , makes the same general point (154). 67...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 48–73.
Published: 01 April 2006
... addresses the issue
of gender. Myers demonstrates that writing for and about children gave
women an acceptable outlet for their intellectual and literary skills, and an
eff ective platform for their eff orts to improve the lot of women and reform
the education of girls.5 For Myers, such writing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2024
...” to be “ludicrous, . . . repetitious, and stultifying.” 5 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar have even described the genre's “education in docility, submissiveness, [and] self-lessness” to be “sickening,” on a quite literal level: “To be trained in renunciation is almost necessarily to be trained to ill health.” 6...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 61–86.
Published: 01 April 2004
... by responding to male interventions that demand
superficiality and thus also demand education into habits of mind that pre-
clude the “power of generalising ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclu-
sions from individual observations”— the ability to do which would appear
to be the nature of Wollstonecraftian...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 58–77.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., of the fair Sex and those
Persons without benefit of any systematic education”16 This clearly accords
with the Enlightenment aims of the generation of publisher-printers, jour-
nalists, reviewers, compilers, extractors, and digesters in the flourishing
Venetian...
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