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Fielding, Opera, and Oratorio: The Case of Handel
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 83–100.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Charles Trainor It is generally stated without qualification that Fielding was a great admirer of Handel. This is understandable given that his works of the 1740s and 1750s are replete with praise of the composer. Curiously, however, during the 1730s, his compliments to Handel are few and far...
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Historical Criticism, the Reclamation of Codes, and Repairs to Literary History: The Examples of Fielding and Richardson
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Howard D. Weinbrot Like other earlier authors, Fielding and Richardson place culturally shared “codes” in their texts and exploit those codes for their readers' instruction and delight. The historical critic uses multiple approaches to reclaim what our ancestors knew and what can enlarge modern...
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Henry Fielding, Politician?
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 240–242.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Linda Bree J. A. Downie. A Political Biography of Henry Fielding (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009). Pp. 269. £60. $99 Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay
Henry Fielding, Politician?
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Henry Fielding, Politician?
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 115–117.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Linda Bree Downie J. A. . A Political Biography of Henry Fielding . ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2009 ). Pp. 269 . £60 . $99 Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay
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Refashioning the Epic for Eighteenth-Century Consumers in Henry Fielding’s Novels
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Nancy A. Mace Power Henry . Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2015 ). Pp. xiv + 232 . 3 ills. $95 Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Review Essay...
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Fabricating Defoes: From Anonymous Hack to Master of Fictions
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2012
... problematic case. Dryden, Pope, and Fielding as we now conceive them are constructions built on the basis of relatively clear (if not uncontested) materials; the evidence we possess about them is open to varying interpretations, but we have a considerable amount to work with. More than any other major...
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Producing Philosophes in Oceania: Enlightenment through Pacific Spaces
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to be the primary or originary field for creating an Enlightenment disposition. More particularly, interactions with Pacific people were the means by which some Europeans apprehended what their “philosophical betters” typically discovered via texts. Pacific spaces prompted Enlightenment practices in ordinary...
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Eighteenth-Century Review Culture and the “Enormous Crimes” of Antislavery Verse
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 26–53.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Christopher Chan This essay charts the reception of five widely read antislavery poems—Hannah More's Slavery (1788); Edward Rushton's West-Indian Eclogues (1787); William Roscoe's The Wrongs of Africa (1787 – 88); John Jamieson's The Sorrows of Slavery (1789); and James Field Stanfield's The Guinea...
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The Narrative Garden
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 January 2022
... also considers the relevance of narratology to nonliterary fields and subjects. Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Gardens narrative narratology How might a changing literary landscape affect the design of public space? In what ways might designed spaces reflect the priorities...
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Face Value: Toward a Theory of Eighteenth-Century Portraiture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Bradford Mudge This essay postulates a field theory of the portrait, one capable of explaining both portrait objects and the forces to which they were subject. It does so not with the intention of celebrating theoretical mastery, but to facilitate three comparatively modest claims: first...
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The Problematics of “Evidence” in Historical Scholarship and Criticism
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
Published: 01 September 2017
... realms we can dig up lawsuit testimony, but plaintiff and defendant rarely agree. What seems plausible is not always true, and the improbable can sometimes be proven. Attribution is a particularly knotty problem, as the horrible messes in the canons of Defoe and Fielding remind us. Memoirs...
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Literary Sentimentalism and Post-Secular Virtue
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Lisa O'Connell Recent scholarly work by Jürgen Habermas, Judith Butler, and others posits a new cultural domain that is simultaneously religious and secular. Drawing on the sermons of John Tillotson and the fiction of Henry Fielding, this paper examines literary sentimentalism in this “post-secular...
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My Life with Fanny Hill
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., it is also because a number of people, including myself, made the field accessible—at some personal cost. eighteenth-century erotica pornography German reactions to research on erotica personal experience Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...
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The Agency of the Mob in Joseph Andrews and A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 49–73.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Catherine Fleming In his novels and pamphlets, Henry Fielding promotes a hierarchical structure that suppresses the common people. But his writings, especially his novel Joseph Andrews , his pamphlets, the 1749 A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez and the 1751 Enquiry into the Causes...
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Visual Interpretations, Print, and Illustrations of Thomson's The Seasons , 1730 – 1797
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Sandro Jung In a reading of James Thomson's The Seasons that largely draws on the history of the book and the fields of print culture and illustration studies, I offer a narrative of the changing interpretation of the poem between 1730 and 1797. Not only did readers, in response to changes...
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Portrait of Lee Sam (1677–1735), early eighteenth century, ink and colors o...
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in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 5. Portrait of Lee Sam (1677–1735), early eighteenth century, ink and colors on silk, Baekje Military Museum, on loan from the Hampyeong Lee Family Collection. This portrayal of Lee as a vigilant military officer in the field differs markedly from the formal poses in court dress
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The School of Henry
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 211–215.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Scott R. MacKenzie Claude Rawson, ed. Henry Fielding (1707–1754): Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Magistrate: A Double Anniversary Tribute (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 2008). Pp. 337. $67 Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay
The School...
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One Popular Playwright, One Private Man
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 83–86.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Linda Bree Fielding Henry . Plays , vol. 1: 1728-1731 , vol. 2: 1731-1734 , vol. 3: 1734-1742 , The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding , ed. Lockwood Thomas . ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2004 , 2007 , 2011 ). Vol. 1 : Pp. xviii + 780 . $325 ; vol. 2 : Pp. xix...
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“Industry in Distress”: Reconfiguring Femininity and Labor in the Magdalen House
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2004
... Industry in Distress, preserving the Deserted, and reforming the Wicked
and the Penitent, are the acceptable Employments, the favourite and advantageous
Delights of those Minds, which are happy enough to have a good Heart for their
Prompter.
—John Fielding, A Plan for a Preservatory and Reformatory...
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The Shortest Way with Domesticity
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the concept of
home from Henry Fielding through Ann Radcliffe, and from William Words
worth to Sir Walter Scott, explains compellingly why this shibboleth is far
from recent and anything but arbitrary. Between 1790 and 1830, MacKenzie
argues, “home” becomes a name both for the normative, middle-class...
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