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Matters of Style in the French Eighteenth Century

Giulia Pacini
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 148–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2007-040
Published: 01 January 2009
...Giulia Pacini Natania Meeker. Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment (New York: Fordham Univ., 2006). Pp. 310. $60. ISBN 0-8232-2696-4 Elena Russo. Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore: Johns...
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Grafts at Work in Late Eighteenth-Century French Discourse and Practice

Giulia Pacini
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 1–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2009-014
Published: 01 April 2010
...Giulia Pacini As they debated the pros and cons of grafting, eighteenth-century French agronomists, philosophers, novelists, and poets negotiated the tensions and contradictions that surfaced between their nostalgia for a `”natural” society, and their dreams of perpetual innovation, culture...
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Troubling Amnesia: The Slave Trade in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Maeve McCusker
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 221–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-039
Published: 01 January 2011
...Maeve McCusker Christopher L. Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke Univ., 2008). Pp. xvi + 571. 17 ills. $27.95 paper Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay Troubling Amnesia...
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Reason, Experience, and Emotion in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

Giulia Pacini
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 101–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1672862
Published: 01 September 2012
...Giulia Pacini Bostic Heidi . The Fiction of Enlightenment: Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2010 ). Pp 270 . $59.50 Stewart Philip . L’Invention du sentiment: roman et économie affective au XVIIIe siècle ( Oxford...
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French Encounters with Material Culture of the South Pacific

John Patrick Greene
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 225–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-26-3-225
Published: 01 September 2002
...John Patrick Greene The College of William &amp; Mary 2002 ECL26314-Greene.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:38 PM Page 225 French Encounters with Material Culture of the South Pacific...
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Spaced Out: Early Modern French Travel Literature

Beatrice Fink
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 118–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-28-3-118
Published: 01 September 2004
...Beatrice Fink The College of William &amp; Mary 2004 R e v i e w E s s a y Spaced Out: Early Modern French Travel Literature Beatrice Fink University of Maryland Sophie...
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Catharine Macaulay's French Connections

Karen Green
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 59–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3841372
Published: 01 April 2017
... and the English Civil War. Jean-Paul Marat also appreciatively referred to this history, and hints such as these suggest that this work was quite well known in France before the Revolution, although a French translation was not published there until 1791-92. This paper provides an overview of Macaulay's influence...
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Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the Visual Culture of the French Revolution

Denise Amy Baxter
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 51–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2006-002
Published: 01 September 2006
...Denise Amy Baxter Duke University Press 2006 Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the Visual Culture of the French Revolution Denise Amy Baxter University of North Texas Je tenais les...
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Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth-Century French Print Culture

Amanda Lahikainen
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 101–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8793967
Published: 01 January 2021
...Amanda Lahikainen R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793967 Copyright 2021 by Amanda Lahikainen 1 0 1 Turkeys Dancing on a Hot Metal Floor: The Theater in Eighteenth- Century French Print Culture Amanda Lahikainen Aquinas College...
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Eliza Haywood’s The Fortunate Foundlings : A Jacobite Novel

Carol Stewart
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1895208
Published: 01 January 2013
... pro-French sentiment; Jacobite themes of exile and lost love are also present. Haywood glorifies the victories and conquests of Charles XII of Sweden, who was a Jacobite hero, and who acts as a surrogate for Charles Edward Stuart in the novel. In that part of the novel concerned with love and amorous...
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Representations of the Social Order in The Gentleman's Magazine , 1785-1815

William Stafford
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 64–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2008-046
Published: 01 April 2009
...William Stafford This essay studies the issues of The Gentleman's Magazine from 1785 to 1715, selecting those years because of the common view that society and a class system crystalized following the French Revolution. Rather than view society from an economist's or a Marxist's perspective, I am...
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A Tale of Two Boycotts: Riot, Reform, and Sugar Consumption in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Garritt Van Dyk
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9272999
Published: 01 September 2021
.... The increase in Parisian sugar prices was not driven primarily by profiteering, but by a global shortage caused by the slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti. Comparing these two sugar boycotts, one in Britain, the other in France, provides an opportunity outside of national historical...
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Insects and the American Farmer: Crèvecœur's Response to Buffon's and Raynal's Theories of American Nature

Gordon M. Sayre
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11118292
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The article traces Crèvecœur's interactions with Buffon and with Raynal, who were variously rivals and mentors to him, as well as examining how the French-American soldier, farmer, author, and diplomat survived two revolutions and laid down principles today associated with sustainable agriculture. 42...
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The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping

Amanda Strasik
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9955351
Published: 01 September 2022
... conventional imperial attributes that characterized Napoleonic imagery at the time. On one level, the portrait can be understood according to Christian iconography or as an allegory of the new French order according to ancient Roman mythology. I argue, however, that Prud'hon subscribed to early nineteenth...
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Jakob Bogdani's Stuffed Titmouse: Birds, Still-Life Painting, and the Global Imaginary

Lucy Powell
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11309293
Published: 01 September 2024
... it appears to have been replaced by a simple, celebratory dynamic, the central tension of the still‐life genre (or nature morte in French) between vivification and decay continues to animate Bogdani's bird paintings. Morte continues to shadow nature , through the appearance of two native British birds...
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Home Is Where the Heart Is: The Rise of Emotional Spaces in the German Late Enlightenment

Amir Minsky
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9273013
Published: 01 September 2021
... in the context of the Franco-German cultural exchange surrounding the French Revolution; and the emergence of “homeland” ( Heimat ) as an increasingly ubiquitous emotion-bound metaphor in the nationalization of space toward the century's end. These contexts reveal major shifts in the cultural dynamics of space...
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Chivalry, Commerce, and Generosity: Godwin on Economic Equality

Rowland Weston
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 43–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3841360
Published: 01 April 2017
...Rowland Weston Burke's outrage at the revolutionary insult dealt to Marie Antoinette is one of the better-known pieces of the British pamphlet war that erupted in the wake of the French Revolution. What is less well known today is that William Godwin's anarchist magnum opus, Enquiry Concerning...
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The Prospectus War of the 1790s: Literary Advertising in an Age of Revolution

David Duff
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8218602
Published: 01 April 2020
...David Duff Prospectuses, a type of printed advertisement widely used in the eighteenth-century book trade, played a vital but previously unexamined role in the French Revolution controversy, attracting subscribers to political publications and encapsulating their message. Focusing on journal...
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Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith on War and Acquiescence

Andrew Lincoln
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8718688
Published: 01 September 2020
... that, during the early years of the French revolution, had reason to feel especially vulnerable to the threat of civil disorder; she therefore had a particular incentive to see the horrors of war abroad in relation to the fear of social unrest at home. For Smith, who identified herself publicly...
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Figure 1. Locke's commonplace book index, printed in Locke, A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books . . . To Which Is added Something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same Subject, trans. from French (London: J. Greenwood, 1706), Huntington Library, RB 470934. Courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Locke's commonplace book index, printed in Locke, A New Method of Making C...

in Line Making as Life Writing: Graphic Literacy and Design in Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books > Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. Locke's commonplace book index, printed in Locke, A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books . . . To Which Is added Something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same Subject , trans. from French (London: J. Greenwood, 1706), Huntington Library, RB 470934. Courtesy More