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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
... methods from folklore, musicology, and literary study. The formats of the ephemera, and their performative modes seemingly identify these expressions as impermanent; at the same time, examining them collectively, we recognize an ironic gesture for lasting universal human sentiment and meaning...
Includes: Multimedia, Supplementary data
Journal Article
“The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 138–143.
Published: 01 January 2009
... such comprehensive treatment. Newman updates
Friedman and widens his perspective to include reception of the ballad within
a trans-Atlantic context addressed by folklorists but largely omitted by lit-
erary historiography. Over the last several decades, folklore or social-history
approaches have dominated...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 18–38.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and circulated alongside texts that were already well established in
the ranks of anonymous, often romance- or folklore-based, popular narra-
tives. In publishers’ lists of titles for sale and in bound collections of chap-
books in such archives as the British Library, Crusoe keeps company with
the likes...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2014
...-
heavy eighteenth century. While the evidence connecting the water nymph
(“rusalka”) figure to Catherine is not strong, the chapter on the rusalka/
undine/mermaid theme in Russian folklore as well as in Russian and Euro-
pean romanticism is definitely worthwhile. In her chapters on Rimsky...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 January 2000
...-
ferred a living divinity upon them, he would have been aware that the
twelve caesars and their successors were all artificially (rather than
folklorically) deified, and that imperial images very palpably functioned
as images of euhemerized men. But there is third level of deconstruction.
Since...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 110–115.
Published: 01 January 2025
... research in sources ranging from personal correspondence and diaries to recipes, folklore, and court documents. Like the figure in the book-cover image, the mothers in this monograph directly engage and demand the reader's attention. Although this figure lies closer to the periphery of the illustration...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2007
... all
that can be told about his early intellectual life.3 Stewart says nothing about
Hume’s development until he was ten, by which time an eager and inquisi-
tive little boy would have absorbed much of the local folklore surrounding
the ruins in his area of the Borders as well as the role his...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 3–13.
Published: 01 April 2008
... bequeathed
to Bolingbroke, would have included the Adagia.26 According to William
Kupersmith, Pope may have drawn on the “Adages” for folklore about don-
keys when devising the Dunciad illustrations. Elsewhere, Pope records his
reverence for Erasmus in several places, most famously in the “Essay...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2001
... variously as “ethnography” (in the eighteenth
century, usually but not always at the level of description), “ethnology” or
Völkerkunde (in contrast to folklore [Volkskunde], at the level of compari-
son), or part of “moral philosophy” (especially in Scotland, at the level...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of males—from sexual aggressors, to
moralizing Quakers, to Satan himself. In this case, the nymph terrifies the
entire village, and longer versions of the poem add an extra stanza about
the sight entering local folklore: “So large were its Whiskers / They took
up the Discourse / Of all the young...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of Nonsan, which he named Baekilheon House (House of the White Sun), after one of his newly acquired titles. The housing complex has been preserved intact, and although the main house is still occupied, the outbuildings are currently being operated as a bed-and-breakfast guest house. National Folklore...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
... them famous. These figures, however, are deployed here toward a specific end, which is to note the potential for once-proud and prosperous territories, celebrated in epics and folklore, to sink into disrepair and poverty. These passages, that is, are observations about the historical fortunes...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 81–97.
Published: 01 April 2008
....” From the essay “Mrs.
Women’s Oral Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 9 5
Brown and the Ballad,” originally published in California Folklore Quarterly 4 (1945),
and reprinted in The Ballad as Song (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1969), 64 – 78,
especially 74.
2...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 92–109.
Published: 01 September 2007
... interpretations of the phenomenon.
Robert Folkenfl ik’s “Folklore, Antiquarianism, Scholarship, and High Liter-
ary Culture” concludes this section of the History. The title suggests a grab bag
of cultural infl uences, but of course the three activities had the united eff ect
of enriching British literature...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2013
... brings them onstage, yet at almost
every opportunity to express a personal opinion about them, he dodges the
issue not only by citing “Philosophers or Divines,” but also by ascribing his
poetic usage to established conventions, scriptural authority, or folklore. In
“Of Heroique Playes...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 138–158.
Published: 01 April 2008
...
plays. The peculiar propensity of Lee’s The Rival Queens to produce anec-
dotes occurred because the acting paralleled the real-life situation of the
actresses, thereby collapsing the boundaries between public and private.
The folklore surrounding the play focused on the women and the stage...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in “The Fatal Boot,” a tale that became part of a burgeoning American folklore surrounding the rattlesnake. 41 It also claims that rattlesnakes could be tamed as pets, once their fangs were removed in an ingenious but brutal technique developed by the Indians, who “often stroked it with a soft brush...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 107–134.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Colonization and
British Anti-Slavery (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005), 28 – 62.
20. Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in
Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2004), 3 – 6.
21. See Hilda Ransome, The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore (1937...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2000
... examines in depth several types of
seriocomical literature that stem, he believes, from carnivalistic folklore
and that signal the transition in western literary culture from the epic to
the novel.9 For Bakhtin, foremost among these seriocomic types, along...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 January 2012
... lifelong predispositions (fear of Jews) that are
constantly reinforced by artistic, theatrical, folkloric, and historical tradi-
tions.9 However, Edgeworth seems uninterested in religious belief itself. As
Judith Page states of Harrington, the novel warns of “irrational prejudice”
against the Jews...
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