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When History Caught Up with Historians: Biographies of Contemporaries in Encyclopedias, 1674 to 1750
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 47–74.
Published: 01 January 2021
... 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793934 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 4 7 When History Caught Up with Historians: Biographies of Contemporaries in Encyclopedias, 1674 to 1750 Jeff Loveland University of Cincinnati In his introduction to the Encyclopédie (1751 ± 72), Jean Le...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2020
... in the third volume of the official history, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean . This skewed chronology has led to some disorientation among historians of surfing, while historians of Cook’s voyages, for the most part, have neglected the surfing episodes altogether. In this essay, I address the descriptions in four...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Lance Bertelsen John Singleton Copley’s The Death of the Earl of Chatham has been discussed extensively by art historians, but little critical attention has been paid to written accounts of the debate between the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Chatham nor the process by which they evolved...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 57–80.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Paddy Bullard This article develops recent work by literary historians on miscellany publication, and on the printed miscellanies that were so important and popular for the early eighteenth-century book trade. It offers a history of the form, illustrated by comments made by the Duke of Buckingham...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 69–87.
Published: 01 September 2021
...), L. T. Jones's Historical Journal of the British Campaign on the Continent (1797), the work of the army officer and historian William Napier (1785–1860), and the Waterloo images of the army officer and painter George “Waterloo” Jones (1786–1869) presented the wider British public with a complex...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Peter Denney Sound played a crucial role in plebeian politics in the eighteenth century, with singing, shouting, clapping, and other kinds of acoustic expression conveying a range of meanings. However, historians have mostly neglected the acoustic dimensions of popular political discourse...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
....” Swift’s distinctive deployment of secret history’s strategies allows an ironic historian a mechanism to look directly at and disclose some of the follies and vices of his culture, but also to remain cognizant, at some level, of what remains buried under “the heap” of a traumatic past. Copyright 2020...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 131–154.
Published: 01 January 2015
... focuses on the new opportunities available to both Irish men and women for accumulating capital and wealth in the City. It examines the growth in Anglo-Irish investment, during what historians call “the Financial Revolution,” and analyzes the development of increasingly complex financial networks, which...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
... the Hanoverian Church has militated against sustained inquiry into the religious challenges of the Georgian world of goods. The strenuously Christian are conspicuously absent from the history of consumerism. The fashion victim and shrewd consumer matron have their historians, but what of the pious and judgmental...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2003
... of character in eighteenth-
century historical writing, despite its obvious importance for historians,
readers, and critics alike. This is partly because of a lingering sense that
historical characterization was a strained, artificial, and self-consciously lit-
erary ornament, consisting of labored...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., and referred to the story of
Vortigern as relating by that historian; when conceiving it apt to my pur-
pose, I immediately planned the outline of the play.2
The history depicted in John Hamilton Mortimer’s painting and in
Holinshed’s history was that of Vortigern, the fifth-century British...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 83–96.
Published: 01 January 2009
... to them. First of all, the opening essay on the “field and its future,”
by Pocock, Schochet, and Lois Schwoerer, the four essays by historians that
comprise part 1 of the collection, “British Political Thought and History,” and
the afterword by Quentin Skinner, all provide accounts...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2015
... on the man Scots historians usually refer
to simply as Ilay and on the central role he played in the political and cultural
life of Scotland in the early Scottish Enlightenment. Ilay, who, in 1743, at the
age of sixty-three, succeeded his elder brother to become the third Duke of
Argyll and Chief...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 17–22.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and deconstruct the simplistic Enlightenment
invoked by historians, literary critics, and political commentators for much of
the twentieth century and beyond. How did the Enlightenment, we might ask,
develop into such an easily graspable signifier?
To answer this question, Brewer traces...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 81–87.
Published: 01 January 2007
... reference to Hume in the Virginia Gazette (Wil-
liamsburg) of 4 April, 1777: “That celebrated David Hume, esq., the philoso-
pher and historian, lately deceased, it is asserted, in his last moments exhorted
his friend governor Johnston [governor of West Florida, 1763 – 67] to persevere
in supporting...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 36–65.
Published: 01 April 2016
... nationalist concerns that so influenced nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century music historians. I suggest, however, that this periodiza-
tion, with its assumed causal link between nineteenth-century nationalism
and the Oxford Movement, and the formation of the standard narrative of
English music...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 120–124.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in the official “patri-
archive,” whether that be composed of company papers or of other materials
favored by historians of the state and its agencies. If, as Joseph makes clear, the
archive is “a Tool for Male Legal Subjectivity and the Preservation of Property”
(7), then feminist critics are forced...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 98–102.
Published: 01 January 2012
... their status.
Kathleen Chater argues in Untold Histories that historians’ misconcep-
tions about the condition of black people in Britain are based on their failure
to recognize that while “in America race is paramount,” in Britain “class [is]
more significant” (220). A careful scholar, Chater...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
... employs a straightforward narrative style and short chapters
to make the work accessible to a range of audiences, from art historians and
scholars of print culture, to those with a special interest in 1690s London,
and to Defoe enthusiasts (he sees Defoe and Collier as kindred spirits...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 81–87.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Historians of political thought have been recalcitrant to
admit even the most well-known figures, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, into
their canonical fold. As Berenice A. Carroll argued some time ago in “The
Politics of ‘Originality’: Women and the Class System of the Intellect,” if we
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