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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 140–150.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Christian Thorne Soni Vivasvan . Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity ( Ithaca : Cornell Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. ix + 552 . $49.95 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay The Time without Happiness...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 47–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Brian Michael Norton This essay approaches Enlightenment theories of happiness through three forgotten but once highly popular treatises: John Norris’s An Idea of Happiness (1683), Thomas Nettleton’s A Treatise on Virtue and Happiness (1742), and James Harris’s “Concerning Happiness: A Dialogue...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 99–104.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Vivasvan Soni Norton Brian Michael . Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment . ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. vii + 159. $65 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 89–95.
Published: 01 September 2017
... factual discoveries decisively invalidate earlier readings, others enrich our sense of context while leaving room for different interpretations. Professor Ezell, who describes herself as “quite happy with the constructions of databases and counting things,” correctly rejects the preposterous...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
... do not find happiness until they discipline themselves to be more benevolent toward people of all ranks. Although the novels do not advocate a political solution for ending poverty, Austen suggests that her readers can improve society through benevolent action. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... he did not change librettists). Handel's operas comprise, structurally, a series of mostly static scenes in which intense feelings (ambition, lust, hope, fear, doubt, pain, remorse, etc.) are expressed. The happy‐ending convention in opera seria renders plot resolution secondary. Handel's operas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...- logical virtues—faith, hope, and charity (or love)—are most immediately directed by divine light. Their purpose is “supernatural happiness” (150)— or salvation—and­ Aquinas states that charity “precedes faith and hope; because both faith and hope are quickened by charity, and receive from charity...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 September 2017
... national or global phenomena. It is less useful for specific works of art as conceived and received at specific times in specific complex circumstances. Fielding, for example, would assume that the term “Happy is the man,” as discussed below, was broadly redolent of education, social status...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in the novel; it also suggests new responses to perennial questions about the education of women, and Fanny's apparently priggish virtue, as well as the depth of the Crawfords’ corruption, the significance of Edmund's and Sir Thomas's corrections, and the construction of happiness implied by the conclusion...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 154–157.
Published: 01 April 2012
... be described as an attempt to surpass antiquity by bringing together and satisfying simultaneously what before had been the opposing ideals of the Stoic and the Epicurean, of those for whom life’s goal was reason’s contribution to collective happiness and of those who saw that goal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
... money should be included on that list. Recall Marianne’s key conver- sation with her sister early in Sense and Sensibility (volume 1, chapter 17): “What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?” “Grandeur has but little,” said Elinor, “but wealth has much to do...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 214–224.
Published: 01 April 2001
... the passion for happiness and social felicity that moved the thinkers of the Enlightenment1 mutated into a global appetite for pleasure? How did an elite’s Epicurean ethics turn into a population’s pragmatic hedonism? Harvie Ferguson argues that early...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... abstraction to a realistic, albeit dramatic, reading of an episode. Even the sensational realism of the dramatic scene is ultimately moderated in a revised reading of the poem that offers a syntax and ideol- ogy of the domestic and happy family life (figure 17), a process traced in detail in this essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
... to female friendships that challenged this critical model. According to the anonymous (but likely female) author of Thoughts on Friendship (1725): Friendships are necessary to the Happiness of every Person, who has any Idea of Social Pleasure; Then, Women sure may very justly put their Claim to it; since...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 January 2000
... 11–14 concerning the Tro- glodytes. This story is told by Usbek at the request of a friend left behind in Ispahan, who has asked whether men are made happy through sensual satisfaction or through practicing virtue (“Hier on mit en question si les hommes étaient heureux par les plaisirs et les...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2002
..., the nation). In a letter of 3 April 1770 to The Public Advertiser, for instance, he wrote: I would ask him [the kingAs you are a young man, Sir, who ought to have a life of happiness in prospect;— as you are a husband;— as you are a father...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
... with a description of how Marchese di Loredani fell in love with Laurina di Cornari whose unruly passions drive them to a precipitous wedding. Blessed with two children, Leonardo and Victoria, the Loredani household fortresses sentimental kinship: the “whole city of Venice contained no pair so happy” (5). Yet two...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 43–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... happiness from the tone of her own mind. The gestures of worship and the voice of applause were necessary to me. I did not suffice to myself. (42) Crump correctly identifies St. Leon’s crucial inability to live outside the specific “social continuum” to which he is acculturated. Yet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 85–103.
Published: 01 April 2013
... and marries the right spouse, she will be happy for life, and second, that the right husband will necessarily prove thoughtful and mor- ally reflective enough to act in the best interests of his wife. Even though Cecilia agonizes for hundreds of pages about whom and how to marry, and even though she...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2008
... diversified economy, simply by “per- forming his share of the common business . . . gains leisure for intellectual pleasures, and enjoys the happiness of reason and reflection” (389). Yet he is well aware that “intellectual pleasures, and . . . the happiness of reason and reflection” are the pleasures...