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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 78–97.
Published: 01 September 2002
...David Paxman The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26307-Paxman.q4.jw 3/25/03 3:32 PM Page 78
“Distance Getting Close”:
Gesture, Language, and Space in the Pacific...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., copyists, makers, editors, and authors. As a result, when they took ownership of their books by signing their names on elaborate title‐pages, such gestures signified something more complex and variable than a claim to “authorship.” Rejecting a post‐Romantic oppositional hierarchy of writer over reader...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
... grand monuments to mark the achievements of the present, on the other, a range of writers invoked the trope of future ruin to indicate how the seeds of decline had already been sown. The manifold meanings of ruin to which these works gesture would continue to play out in the late eighteenth and early...
FIGURES
Journal Article
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...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
... insight into an era of aesthetic transition. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 mirror theater acting manners gesture performance •
“The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form”:
The Histrionic Mirror...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
... loud. That reader—along with preach-
ers, actors, and novelists—as Goring convincingly argues, was immersed in a
heated and continuously evolving debate over bodily gestures. Goring considers
this debate in relation to the contemporaneous emergence of notions of polite-
ness, and, in so doing...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 28–33.
Published: 01 January 2009
... intellectual history impossible and prob-
ably irrelevant. The sole gesture toward intellectual, historical context is a ref-
erence to Marshall Brown’s “more dialectical account” of the relation between
the Enlightenment and Romanticism; he holds that “the self-knowledge of
Enlightenment is what we know...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 234–239.
Published: 01 January 2011
...” that applies a contemporary theory of gesture, taken from an article
in the Daily Courant of 1731, to Rysbrack’s monumental figures. The essence
of Rysbrack’s success was his ability to present the notion of inner dignity
through outward appearance, gesture, dress, etc. It is the most effective char...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 104–109.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... (Chenier, along with many of his eighteenth-century precur-
sors, also seems less focused than Ovid on the specificity of feminine experi-
ence; where Ovid addresses an entire book of his poem to women, none of the
eighteenth-century imitators makes this gesture.) Ovid’s playful and parodic
erotic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
....” This seems like a gesture
of respect. However, “Just to the right of Lady Harrington, on the adjoin-
ing wall, hangs ‘King Lear’ (No. 41). Her hand gesture would thus appear
to contribute to the exhibit’s soft parallel between these two mad kings.”
And some information is very Austen-specific. We...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2005
... of passion, accompanied with such
motions and gestures as were farther expressive of passion. . . . Those
exclamations, therefore, which by Grammarians are called Interjections,
uttered in a strong and passionate manner, were, beyond doubt, the fi rst
elements or beginnings of Speech...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the skills of a lowly caricaturist to those of the president
of the king’s own Royal Academy.10
In keeping with the conventions of civic portraiture, Reynolds con-
firms political authority with a gesture.11 Fox’s right hand reaches out to
a document that reads, “A Bill for the better regulating...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 80–93.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., by sharing equally with her his only guinea,
a gesture that Johnson applauds as one that “in some Ages would have
made a Saint, and perhaps in others a Hero, and which, without any
hyperbolical Encomiums, must be allowed to be an Instance of uncom-
mon Generosity...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 72–96.
Published: 01 January 2013
... include intervals of rapturous decla-
mation. During these intervals, “raising his voice and action,” gesturing,
speaking in “numbered prose,” Theocles deliberately invokes the vision-
ary powers of “fancy” to picture the vastness of creation. But enthusiastic
experience is always preceded...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
... stabbing himself is an
“auto-erotic gesture.” Further, the homoerotics of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
(1826) are clearly an accidental by-product of heterosexual desire, since the hero
represents Shelley, and his friend is the projection of Mary Shelley herself.
Haggerty, in his analysis...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2004
... inherited forms of public representation”
(0 James Grantham Turner’s recent work exhaustively catalogs how the
Restoration court appropriated the “festive-violent gestures” of the English
carnival tradition for its own aristocratic frolics.8 Of course, the Restora-
tion theatre reveals another court...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the center of the
painting, the gesture he makes by no means belongs to him alone.
In Pliny’s account, the hand that reaches out to stop the queen belongs
to Lucius Plancus, the judge charged with determining if and when the
conditions of the wager have been met. He reaches out to confirm...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 49–66.
Published: 01 April 2003
... that a
person’s appearance was their face and their clothing. Non-verbal commu-
nication between individuals depended to a degree on gestures such as the
movement of the hands and the posture of the body; but inasmuch as
when the middling and upper classes were in public these were formalized,
learned...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 9–18.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of utilitarianism and thereby links it with the evaluation of actions rather
than with actions themselves. For Ferguson, pornography is not a fundamen-
tal thing that one knows when one sees; it is not some pose or state of undress
of lewd gesture or provocative expression. Rather, pornography shares...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 January 2001
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preted and decoded correctly in order to manipulate the prince or be-
loved into making the desired gesture of return” (pp. 2–3).
In an eighteenth-century setting, gallantry operates through similar
discursive strategies, although the objective for gentlemen shifts from...
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