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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., a project that staked its claims for the cultural and moral efficacy of the theater on an avowedly emulative (and sentimental) model of drama. And I argue that Addison's belated insistence on his protagonist's all-too-humanness works to sentimentalize the character and so paradoxically opens up the very...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2004
... contributed.8 Welch, for example, highlighted “the pride and idle-
ness” of girls and young women who set their sights on fine clothes and
impossible marriages, which inevitably augured their moral decline (4);
and he, Dingley, and Hanway stressed the need to channel the penitents’
desire to emulate...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Cannon clearly used his Chronicles for textual replication, in emulating printed books, his most treasured possession, he seems to favor the unique book over the copy, implying an interdependence between script and print. 13 The kinds of graphically ornate text that he produced confuse some...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 162–167.
Published: 01 April 2016
... anthology The Irish Poet and the Natural World, edited by Car-
penter and Lucy Collins, is replete with precisely such pastoral productions.
As the introduction acknowledges, the predominant perspective is thus “that
of educated Protestants” (2) who often, but not always, emulate neoclassical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 143–153.
Published: 01 April 2012
....
The books under review by Louisa Shea and Christian Thorne both
describe a long-term process of philosophic preservation and reactivation,
but in doing so they must also risk engaging in the process themselves. Both
studies invoke the problem of philosophic emulation: how best to imitate...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 January 2014
... attempted to
domesticate Crusoe into an obedient child and mature adult, thereby setting
an example child readers could emulate at home with their parents. However,
hundreds of cheap chapbooks also represent a cultural tug-of-war between
the ideas and values of elite, Enlightenment culture...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 39–59.
Published: 01 April 2008
... the insalubrious emulation of the ruling class’s tastes and
pursuits. The 1773 engraving entitled THE BENGALL MINUET depicts
an elderly nabob and his wife in a room empty of furniture practicing their
dance moves for the London season (figure 5). That a couple so advanced
in age must rehearse the social...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
... deserving of all ages, an expression of the gratitude due to their services, and the most probable means of exciting, in succeeding times, a spirit of emulation (Biographia Britannica, 1: viii). Especially during the first decades of the eighteenth century, Britain the name Scots proposed for the nation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 91–107.
Published: 01 April 2005
..., which may enable them to render this infant institution
the most essential services, certainly aff ord us the most fl attering
prospects of success. And it is with pleasure I can communicate to you,
that this example has already excited a spirit of emulation in some...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 January 2018
... embraces consumer culture,
attempting to create novels that emulate classic literature but at the same time
appeal to the appetites of his eighteenth-century readers. In Joseph Andrews,
Fielding ties his work to epic through its form, his epic allusions, and his affin-
ity for rhetorical balance...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2021
... peaceful coexistence sustained a logic of emotional emulation, by maintaining both the particular and universal aspects of emotional codes. As he stated, “Every nation must gradually come to feel it as unpleasant when another nation gets disparaged and abused; there must gradually awaken common feeling...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 January 2013
... by
Burke’s more skeptical readers, from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine
onwards. Although all Burke’s democratic readers do well to emulate Hazlitt’s
admiration of him, or his texts, such readers also need to bear in mind that
Burke’s writings and speeches sought to uphold the political privileges...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 114–117.
Published: 01 September 2015
... advancement of “new levels of sophistication and polite-
ness,” essentially in emulation of “a small but still powerful elite.” This lends
the exhibition an underlying conservatism: rather than remaking the modern
world as creators, products, and beneficiaries of new wealth and ways of think-
ing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 January 2005
... intoxication with the principle of free
speech as well as personal ambition inspired emulation.
Rhetoric was essential for the churchman, the lawyer, the parliamen-
tarian, the actor, and useful in every profession. For young men entering
public life or the professions, the study of oratory...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of literary sensibility by making it clear that the exem-
plary elements of Clarissa’s character (rather than the character itself ) ought
to be emulated and not mourned. Critics who have sought physical causes
for her death follow Lady Bradshaigh by implying that Clarissa ought to
be understood...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
... to be emulated. In Thomas Ran-
dolph’s play, The Muses Looking-Glass (1630), for instance, the character
Roscius professes,
So Comedies, as our Poets do intend ’em,
Serve first to shew our Faults, and then to mend ’em.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
... illustrations that satirize dental operations as a fad and advertise-
ments that emphasize “the cosmetic and social benefits” of dental treat-
ment: “care of the mouth and emulation of [one’s] social superiors” became
associated (Brass Plate, 116). However, neither King, who discusses French
developments...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 100–105.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., energy, and desire to do what Macklin had done. Was Macklin an anomaly in this regard, or a model to be copied and revered? But as Wessel explains, performance describes a set of behaviors to be emulated, even when the behaviors in question advertise a proprietary ownership of the same. One person who...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 73–88.
Published: 01 April 2017
... subject in Hays’s
writing and a vital aspect to consider in a didactic work intended to create
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“a worthier emulation” among readers (Hays, Female Biography, 1:v). Rous-
seau himself is rarely mentioned in Female Biography, yet his influential
ideas of sexual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 62–80.
Published: 01 January 2007
...
the poor discipline that generally operated on merchant ships and threat-
ened commercial gain. The merchant captain’s authority was undefi ned
by statute, although subject to the law. Meares argued that Britain should
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emulate other nations by including merchant ships...
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