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Godwin, Contractarianism, and the Political Dead End of Empiricism
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 61–86.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Peter Howell The College of William & Mary 2004
Godwin, Contractarianism, and the
Political Dead End of Empiricism
Peter Howell
St.Mary’s College, University of Surrey
At one point near...
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Novel Empiricisms
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 133–147.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Matthew J. Rigilano R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8794033 Copyright 2021 by Matthew J. Rigilano 1 3 3 Novel Empiricisms Matthew J. Rigilano Pennsylvania State University, Abington Roger Maioli. Empiricism and the Early Theory...
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Discourse and Period Style across the Arts
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... (1712)—now recast as the beauti-
ful, novel, and strange—and firmly rejects the orthodox notion of ideal beauty
associated with Shaftesbury and the academic tradition.5
Paulson’s interpretive method is most valuable for those working within
the iconoclastic framework of empiricism, it strikes...
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The Beauty of Judgment
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 106–111.
Published: 01 September 2012
... values, Valihora
describes how the aesthetic emerged in response to particular developments
within empiricism. She reconstitutes sympathetically the justifications that
gave rise to the aesthetic project in the first place and reminds us what it was
that this project ideally hoped to achieve...
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Imagination Under Pressure 1789-1832: Aesthetics, Politics, Utility
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 January 2001
... for those phenomena not immediately accounted for in
British empiricism’s assertion that all knowledge comes from the senses,
so that the imagination was a faculty posited as the means of associating
ideas, or as a method of organizing and, therefore, creating comprehen...
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The Sublime Redivivus
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 76–79.
Published: 01 September 2015
... or reason, then
it has become something else, a seme, a portent, an algebraic symbol, and
not, as Emily Brady briefly suggests, a mystery. In the history of empiricism,
this was a matter hotly debated, with followers of Locke and Hobbes on one
side, and the associationists, such as Hume, Hartley...
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Paranoia and Fiction
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 87–91.
Published: 01 September 2012
....
Molesworth begins by recalling the standard story of the “rise of the
novel” as a rejection of romance, with its ghosts, goblins, and gods from
machines, in favor of more “realistic” accounts of the world: stories inflected by
new notions of empiricism and probability. But, he asks, is it really likely...
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Romanticism, Religion, Secularization
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 150–155.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., as a progressive narrative of internalization,
Jager—as the introduction and chapter 1 boldly argue—says that seculariza-
tion results from a far more interesting and uneasy division of bivalent discur-
sive practices: empiricism vs. teleology, skeptical inquiry vs. a commitment to
God’s intentional design...
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Is There a Devil in This Text? Subtlety and Satanic Persuasion in Defoe's Roxana
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 110–134.
Published: 01 April 2025
... that is more metaphysical than metaphorical, and that marks a distinct shift in literary representation from the age of Milton to that of Defoe. [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Daniel Defoe Roxana Devil novel genre empiricism religion secularity...
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Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 104–109.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of the Ovidian
elegy, Gentil-Bernard reanimates his source text by infusing his Art of Love
with a sensuous empiricism that renders the experience of pleasure as a philo-
sophical position in itself. We are traveling here far beyond hedonism and well
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into Epicureanism...
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Mindful Matter
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 124–129.
Published: 01 January 2018
... metaphor and empiricism, Silver concentrates on
the material and theoretical problems of filling the sheet for empirical thinkers
like Locke and Sterne.
What is additionally fascinating about the coinciding publication of these
books is that, despite their different objects of inquiry...
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Ancient Ethics and Modern Happiness: A Study of Three Treatises in Enlightenment Britain
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 47–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
... influence extending well into the second half of
the eighteenth century.11 He is now best remembered in costarring roles,
opposite John Locke as the author of Cursory Reflections upon a Book called
An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690), the first printed critique
of Lockean empiricism...
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The Exotic and the Normative in Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle Terre Australi Incognite by Zaccaria Seriman
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 58–77.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Seriman also looks to Mauper-
tuis21 for Henry’s endorsement of empiricism, as the castaways observe,
measure, and document the natural environment of littoral Terra Australis
Incognita. More relevant to Seriman’s interests, however, is a debate in the
1740s...
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“Distance Getting Close”: Gesture, Language, and Space in the Pacific
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 78–97.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of Jonathan Lamb, the commitment to empiricism and direct
observation of the “unorderable mass of things” recorded in voyage narra-
tives signals the failure, not the success, of the assimilation of detail into
coherent providential, enlightened, historiographical...
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Traveling in Place: Gilbert White's Cosmopolitan Parochialism
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 46–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... to answer” (P 24). In this exchange, White reveals not
only his dispositional empiricism and restraint, but also his ability to con-
sider the problems of geographical history on a global scale.
Recent studies of eighteenth-century natural history have been partic-
ularly attentive to its role...
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“Open House”: Hospitality and Decentered Subjects in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya , or The Moor (1806)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Understanding (1696), Locke illustrates the basis of empiricism by elucidating how the human mind reacts to external stimuli: “Understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut off from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without.” 14...
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Books Received
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 110–117.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Received 113
Hammond, Brean. Jonathan Swift (Dublin: Irish Academic, 2010). Visions and
Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Times, series ed., Stan Smith. Pp. xvii + 214.
$32.95 paper
Hanson, Craig Ashley. The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the
Age of Empiricism...
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William Dampier’s “Mixt Relation”: Narrative Vs. Natural History in A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 29–54.
Published: 01 September 2013
...” (History,
96). I take the term naïve empiricism from McKeon, who uses it to describe an early
phase of the experimental program (Origins, especially 25 – 118).
26. Lamb, “Minute Particulars and the Representation of South Pacific
Discovery,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 28 (1995): 281 – 94...
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The Rise of the Novel, or ’Tis Sixty Years Since
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 127–137.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., and knowledge as growing from our individual experience of specific times and places, rather than from authorities or abstract principles derived a priori. Although Watt does not explicitly claim that Defoe could not have written without Locke, by implying that literary realism and empiricism are linked, he...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that even as Enlightenment spaces exemplified the modes of progress, empiricism, humanism, and secularism that we conventionally associate with enlightened modernity, they were rarely singular or fixed, nor can they be reliably understood in exclusively progressivist terms. Instead—like the battlefield...
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