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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 101–119.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Elizabeth King Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria can be considered both gothic and anti‐gothic, in that it both evokes and subverts gothic imagery in order to emphasize women's oppression. Throughout the novel, Wollstonecraft employs gothic iconography while simultaneously dismissing gothic...
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Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 5. A view of the gardens at Painshill, with the Gothic Temple in background.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Rictor Norton George E. Haggerty. Queer Gothic (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 2006). Pp. 231. $20 paper. ISBN 0-252-07353-3 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
Queer Gothic
Rictor Norton...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 76–96.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Joseph A. Dane; Svetlana Djananova Duke University Press 2005
The Typographical Gothic:
A Cautionary Note on the Title Page to
Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Joseph...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Jane Lim If John Locke established the self‐enclosed, paternal household as the basis of a new liberal state that fosters self‐governing individuals, this Enlightenment model of family unit is disrupted in gothic fiction that posits claustrophobic homes as the primary locus of terror. Yet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the Gothic to produce an eclectic mix. Almost the exact contemporary of Jane Austen (who claimed to have read Burney’s first novel three times), she began publishing fifteen years before Austen, and continued for another twenty-two years after Austen’s death. The two have many elements in common, but Burney...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Yael Shapira This essay considers the limited presence of the dead body in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto . The near absence of gory death from the novella is striking, given both its intensive borrowing from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its status as the founding work of the Gothic tradition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., violence and progress, secrecy and the self, and the numinous and Gothic as irrepressible irrationalities. We also welcomed papers that chose to address the theme aesthetically by considering the interplay of darkness and light and the philosophical and social foundations of this relationship. We hoped...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2002
..., after a stream of similar fathers had appeared in the pages of Robert
Bage, Eliza Fenwick, Eliza Parsons, Charlotte Smith, and others, this
trope had become well entrenched enough for Jane Austen to open
Northanger Abbey (1818), her parody of the Gothic novel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... that a chapbook of poetry or the gothic chapbooks issued by Thomas Maiden, Ann Lemoine, and T. Hughes are, ephemera such as funeral elegies and invitations have a cultural function. These hybrid media, consisting of both text and image, not only help shape the understanding of practices of mourning...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 113–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... (and, in fact, strikingly similar to some of them): a blend of realism, sentimentality, and gothic supernatural fantasy coming off an assembly line of novels, it shares plots, settings, and character types with many other works of the day, which would only have seemed to confirm its presumptive fictionality...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 131–151.
Published: 01 April 2018
... as the foundry for a great many authors and a wide range of genres:
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sentimental ction, romans à clef, gothic horrors, scurrilous melodramas,
and domestic fables.8 After Lane’s retirement in
, Minerva continued
to publish well into the nineteenth century, under...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
... innovative and experimental activities at Strawberry
Hill with the Gothic, he should change so swiftly from an unqualified
admirer to such a harsh critic. This paper aims to explore some of the
deeper reasons for this disillusionment and to suggest a greater coher...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 31–56.
Published: 01 September 2012
... explores these developments in English criminal law and
argues that awareness of them reveals how closely late eighteenth-century
“paranoid gothic” literature, exemplified here by William Godwin’s novel
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 January 2016
... and implied
reader: “The reader should read and interpret like a magistrate, and the mag-
istracy should form judgments the way a reader of Fielding’s fiction does” (64).
The argument proceeds from Fielding’s narrator to the gothic heroine,
whose simultaneous vulnerability and dangerousness makes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in the 9 8 Eighteenth-Century Life postwar era.12 Foucault himself had proposed that the gothic literature of terror of the 1790s coincided with a new kind of political monstrosity asso- ciated with tyrants and mobs who broke with the social contract. This new idea of monsters would, in time, give rise...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Figure 5. A view of the gardens at Painshill, with the Gothic Temple in background. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
... replicas of real places (for instance, Cibber's Empire of Dulness is an inversion of Virgil's Augustan Empire), and sometimes utterly unreachable (the space one sees reflected in the mirror). In this essay, I read Colley Cibber's “Gothic Library” (1:145), as described in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of Orientalism (19), Châtel is particularly keen here to rescue his subject from any association with Hor- ace Walpole. While the point that he makes about the critical baggage that accompanies the Gothic label is a very fair one, it seems inaccurate to insist on Beckford s distance from Walpole, not least...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of the text is in a neat English round hand, and its content is displayed and ordered with decorative capitalization, italic, and gothic script, with pages commonly divided and decorated with hand-drawn rules, and columns, and colored inks. The volume is scattered with hand-drawn illustrations: Cannon shows...
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