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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
... appearance in miscellanies, in the form of quotation, imitation, and as an exemplar of a distinctly British poetic identity. It traces the way in which Milton's Paradise Lost is quoted from in these collections, and explores how his poetry was read aloud, and for what purpose, by so-called “ordinary” readers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 111–142.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., by the end of the century, collecting was considered laudable self-advancement. Things had changed, so that on 15 January 1759, when the British Museum opened for “study and public inspection,” Sloane, formerly a charlatan and a toyman, stood as the noble exemplar of the collector and the father of a new...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
... possibility of imitation that it seemingly seeks to foreclose. Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 exemplarity emulation suicide sentimentalism theater Addison Steele On Wednesday 4 May 1737, the writer Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, took two coaches from his home...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 85–87.
Published: 01 September 2013
... been mostly forgotten
today: Philip Quaque. Equiano, that exemplar of the eighteenth century’s self-
made man, was actually being touted as a second coming of Philip Quaque.
Published as part of the University of Georgia’s outstanding “Race in the
Atlantic World” series, Vincent Carretta...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
... exemplars, these writ-
ers addressed accusations that women had inferior intelligence or were sexu-
ally incontinent. Although less appealing in our era of sexual liberation and
equal rights, Astell, Rowe, and similar writers did more to advance the status
of women in their time than Behn did in hers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Fits of Passion (1996) stand as exemplars
of the critical literature—one might well ask whether it is possible to put new
tires on this cultural vehicle and take it for a spin. Goring manages to do so by
analyzing elocution debates that were carried out on the stage, in the pulpit...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 49–73.
Published: 01 January 2020
... of examination. Despite Fielding s careful examination, neither the thief nor the men who captured him are given names, descriptions, or any features that dif- ferentiate them from the mass of citizens in the town; this allows them to act as exemplars and not individuals. This is completely contrary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2014
... served
as belletristic exemplars of eighteenth-century taste and manners. The pub-
lication of Terry Eagleton’s The Function of Criticism: From “The Spectator” to
Post-Structuralism (1984) and of the English translation of Jürgen Habermas’s
Structural Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 126–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
...
with the apparent retreat of God” (77). Sider Jost’s analysis of how the nov-
el’s otherworldliness and its fine-grained particularity work together is espe-
cially insightful; he argues that it is in the details of Clarissa’s daily efforts of
self-improvement that she acquires an exemplarity, for the reader...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 65–75.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to The Crafts-
man, which date from 1727 to 1736 and number almost a hundred, are power-
ful exemplars of Opposition journalism; The Idea of a Patriot King (written by
1738) is among his best-known works, but arguably richer political analysis is
to be found in his Dissertation upon Parties (written 1733...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 January 2014
... exceptionality to exemplarity.8 His anec-
dotes promised not to confirm known truths but rather to enable human
nature to be thought anew.
In The Spectator, the anecdote became what Shapin and Schaffer would
call a “literary technology” for generating knowledge of human nature and
delivering...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 93–97.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of Freud’s uncanny on the German writers Schelling
and Hoffman, themselves preoccupied with Enlightenment predecessors, and
briefly invokes Rousseau as evidence that femininity “became an exemplar
of the uncanny” (204) in the eighteenth century. The lightningquick shifts
among historical epochs...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and most
perfect Being. (1:190)
So the practice of humanity is a mimetic practice, and this ties it to
both piety and humility, since to choose Christ and primitive Christianity
as exemplars requires the first (piety), and the consequence of that choice
for one’s worldly social relations...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 162–167.
Published: 01 April 2016
... vitality of Irish nature. Such attitudes have an exemplar
in Edmund Spenser, whose “Mutabilitie Cantos” are included here. Despite his
anti-Irish sentiment, Spenser wrote poetry that bears Ireland’s imprint: natural
abundance is shadowed by a threat of unruly lawlessness, as verdant wildness
veers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 99–123.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., it is no wonder then, again, that
Sentiment vs. Cynicism in Richardson’s Clarissa 111
Richardson stresses the need to come up with ‘rules, equally new and prac-
ticable . . . for the general conduct of life22 But the problem, even for an
exemplar such as Clarissa, is that no one can keep...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of transnationalism (41). And yet its
apparent inclusiveness is misleading, and does, in fact, play into what Mary
Louise Pratt sees as an ideological cover-up: “It proceeds on a case-by-case
basis, focusing on extraordinarily moving exemplars. It admits select individu-
als rather than whole classes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the period. Rather than dismiss such a work as beyond or antithetical to the Enlightenment, Stewart makes it the centerpiece of his study—the exemplar of a more capacious vision of Enlightenment poetry that presumes to scan God and the heavens and to wrestle with the immateriality of spirits, angels...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and diseases of Europeans were unknown all that could retard the progress of civilization, which has served as a pretext to your Government. 30 Granted, Baudin, unlike most of the potential exemplars for this study, was an older man when he voyaged to the Pacific, and had lived through the unique...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 41–47.
Published: 01 September 2010
... as a commodity that could be identified,
protected, and sold. As a consequence, a legal regime came into conflict with
the facts of literary art. The very concept of genre implies the presence of a
host of previous works that makes any individual exemplar possible. Driven by
copyright laws...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the
most happily married woman in the novel and as such brings long-absent felic-
ity back to Kellynch-hall. Furthermore, she represents the contentment that
can be enjoyed in a naval marriage, an important exemplar for her brother and
Anne. Sir Walter remains clueless and dismisses the Wentworths...
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