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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... this hugely popular literary form over the century? Whilst the article examines a number of texts, it also offers a more focused analysis of one particular collection, The Agreeable Variety (1717), from which we can draw wider conclusions. The miscellany contains eight “Shakespearean” fragments. Some...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
... . ( Bethlehem : Lehigh Univ. , 2009 ). Pp. 173 . $44 Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay
Ruin Nation: Ruins and Fragments in
Eighteenth-Century England
Sophie Thomas...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 119–135.
Published: 01 April 2016
... personal narrators who together recalled a fragmented history of their youth. This self-representation was harlequin-like—insistently informal, by turns irreverent or extravagant or facetious, based entirely on their changing whims. The eccentric world of their novel existed only as they imagined...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 January 2019
... by microscopy; and (2) the fragmentation of scientific knowledge through putatively social but unrealizable and unrepeatable experiments, exemplified by the microscope and compensated for by the sociality of manuscript verse. As such, “A Farewell to Poetry” is not about anatomy per se; “A Farewell to Poetry...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 123–132.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., not a copy. Accord-
ing to Coetlogon, the short, cross-referenced articles in Chambers’s work had
the effect of fragmenting knowledge, when the whole point of an encyclopedia
was to bring knowledge together. Thus, to compose his own work, Coetlogon
stitched together continuous treatises from...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to excise—constitute “a rich and inadequately understood form of eighteenth-century historiography.” 28 The paratext, offering a counterpoint to the flimsy and fragmented poetry, allows Percy to exhibit his antiquarian scholarship, which sets his work apart from such texts as Macpherson's Ossian...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 57–80.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and separation, appear as so many distinct Fragments; the
Mind will have much ado to take in, and carry on in its Memory an
uniform Discourse of dependent Reasonings, especially having from the
Cradle been used to wrong Impressions concerning them, and constantly
accustom’d to hear them...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 January 2009
...
and the view from the ground, Bell also shifts between the illusory intactness
of the nation and the fragmented nature of its damaged subjects.
Susan Pearce’s essay on the material culture of Waterloo was perhaps my
favorite essay in the book because of its fascinating mini-history of the chang-
ing...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
... all that remained would be fragments of the present. The debates about how the metropolis looked, and what its future ruins might say about London's—and the nation's—contemporary status, also informed imaginative works that invoked a ruined city as a vantage point from which to apprehend its current...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., makes an important contribution to our understanding
of eighteenth-century constructions of emotion, theatricality, and civility.
Goring finds amid “the scattered fragments of the post-humanist and
post-structuralist subject,” as conceptualized by Michel Foucault and Judith
Butler...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 214–224.
Published: 01 April 2001
... that follow upon them” (Fragment 37).
If one had to point to the crux of Brillat-Savarin’s disagreement with
Epicurean hedonism, it would be the limitation and unity of sensate plea-
sure. Brillat-Savarin views pleasure as pleasures, variable in quality and
capable...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2007
... throughout the volume and become more bothersome as they accumulate:
John Ramsay of Ochtertyre becomes James (9); John Simpson never denied
any of the articles of the Westminster Confession and was not an Arian (15).
Hume’s fragment on chivalry was not part of a paper written when he was a
student...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
... experiment with hybrid forms and encourage transverse reading practices that ask us, as Bul- lard notes, to think and read across boundaries between polemic, news, romance, scandal, manuscript fragments, letters, and travelogue. Secret histories appeal to broad audiences, employ unusual narrative...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 54–60.
Published: 01 January 2009
...-
modified image of Highland backwardness. This discussion sets the stage for
the fifth chapter’s exploration of modernity’s “unsated hunger for immediacy”
and authenticity (139). Wickman here makes an ingenious comparison between
James Macpherson’s Ossian and Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments: Memoirs...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 68–73.
Published: 01 April 2021
... editions, but as an oral tradition tragically forgotten and impossible to remember fully. Romantic fragments, translations, editions, and new poems were understood as mediations that restored the bardic past only ironically, as 7 2 Eighteenth-Century Life marks of loss and failure, if also of hope...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2000
... in a seriocomic style but in complex and erudite
Latin. Working only with fragments must caution us not to conjecture too much about the
nature of Varro’s satire. For eighteen of these fragments, including useful headnotes for
each, see W. W. Merry, ed., Selected...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 216–260.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of a draft of Ode on the Duke of York 37r blank 37v–39r “Invitat[ion]”; fair copy of a sixty-six-line unpublished fragment 39v–42r “Ode”; nineteen stanzas, mainly the song of Arion 42v–43v deleted stanzas from “To Cleora” 44r “Song”; two further stanzas of “To Cleora” 44v blank...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 152–169.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of her father as “unjust and untruth-
ful.”4 The remaining fragments of Charles Burney’s memoirs were partially
published in
by Slava Klima, Gary Bowers, and Kerry Grant, who in
their introduction to that volume trace Burney’s long and painful editorial
process through her own journals...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 170–186.
Published: 01 April 2018
... have been curbed by her fears
of ridicule. At some point, she seems to have considered becoming a writer
herself, since a fragment of a novel survives, probably written sometime
between
and
.12 The fragment is very short, just about two pages
in print, but even those su¼ce to show...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 2006
... historian, deeply interested in the philosophy of his-
tory. . . . Even as he imagined the coalescence of his Gaelic fragments into
a national epic, his tone was critical of national mythologies” (Subverting,
230). As Macpherson begins the fi rst of his dissertations:
James...
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