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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 17–28.
Published: 01 January 2001
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Godliness, homosociality, and duty to the nation—all are within reach of
the manly choice that rejects “Effeminacy, Sloth, Supineness, the Disor-
der and Looseness of a thousand Passions,” as Shaftesbury neatly voices
the interdependence of these terms.12
Manliness...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 January 2000
... homosocial subtext.
This dispute, like Anaïs, is ultimately settled between two men. Nonethe-
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less, the progenitor of these thirty-six children is Anaïs’ celestial slave; he
acts on her orders, and Ibrahim’s new children are so many...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 January 2025
... activities in a homosocial context. 40. See also Lees-Milne, Last Stuarts , where it is suggested that Albani “did not reciprocate the Cardinal York's transports” over the course of their long friendship (154 – 55). 39. Stone's associate, Lord George Sackville, was “suspected of the same...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 91–94.
Published: 01 September 2013
... morally and aesthetically
replicates that of the master, while the footman remains a child of the family.
In this context, Straub considers Tobias Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker and Wil-
liam Godwin’s Caleb Williams as endorsing and introducing different variations
of cross-class homosocial bonds...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 23–56.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., and even Sir Wil-
liam’s gesture at the book seems halfhearted. The painting offers insight
into the workings of the eighteenth-century gentlemen’s club, where col-
lecting and appreciation occurred amid the pleasures of homosocial com-
panionship. In his catalogue of Reynolds’s work, Nicholas Penny...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 221–225.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in the slave trade himself ” (300). In
both, Miller identifies a narrative of homosociality, if not homoeroticism. The
centerpiece of this section is a magisterial reading of Prosper Mérimée’s short
story “Tamango” (1829) and of subsequent rewritings and adaptations. Méri-
mée’s text is identified...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 119–123.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., and other members of a mixed elite—paid to retain their services. Male
patrons, in turn, doubtless augmented their own reputations for libertinism or
virility—in short, homosocial power—by actively participating in the demi-
monde. Scholarship by Robert Darnton, Arlette Farge, and others has allowed...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 7–23.
Published: 01 September 2024
... ! (II.ii,.221–22) The sexual threat to Imoinda is given new prominence onstage, as the tragic hero (Oroonoko) and the villain (the Lieutenant Governour of Surinam) vie for access to her body. She is an object of homosocial exchange, as male characters together discuss the governour's desire for her...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 31–56.
Published: 01 September 2012
... between the homosocial and homosexual, but scholars have
slighted the persistence with which gothic paranoia and same-sex sexuality
were associated throughout English culture of the later eighteenth century,
and associated in English law.
I shall argue that the twelve judges’ decisions...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... As part of this economy of spectacle, Hay's body freely circulated among surgeons as an object of homosocial exchange, calling to mind Clucas's assessment of Stephens's recipe as a text that was ultimately mediated by male authority. But while Hay was able to transcend his posthumous objecthood through...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to dance and to mingle; salons were a way of maintaining status and occasionally a route to social advancement, and, no doubt, some Freemasons simply enjoyed the food and the homosociality of most lodge meetings. Private reading was probably most often of religious texts. Nevertheless, all these social...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
... or assembly,” Hume
establishes not only the social nature of the barons’ discontent, but sug-
gests the homosocial nature of all courtier society, in which the barons
were no less implicated than Piers and Edward.
The target of Hume’s satire in the episodes of Edward...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2004
... homosocial triumph over the Span-
iards is complete as Antonio and Pedro renew their foolish struggle to be
enslaved, like the dead Spanish general before them, to a woman that he
has casually used and discarded (ll. 338 – 54).
As a court jester, Behn does give voice to criticism of the libertine...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... that in these periodicals the “topic of women is almost
invariably put forward in the framework of their necessary influence on
men and on society generally” (45), the topic of the soldier introduces a
competing idea, that the manners of men can be improved most effectively
in the homosocial environment of the army...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2001
... is her
role as leader of a homosocial circle. Buckram, the staymaker, says that he
is “recommended by lady Horatia Horton” and works “for all the ladies
of fine taste in town” (p. 7). It soon becomes clear that Lady Horton is the
leading lady of fine taste...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 43–61.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., “We Officers do,
’tis our way; we live together like Man and Wife, always either kissing or
fighting” (2:81). While kissing among soldiers might be a gesture of com-
radeship or a rising homosocial order, Kite nevertheless implies a latent
homosexuality...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 76–101.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... (Stroud: Chafford, 2006), chapter 5. For more on the
paradoxical simultaneity of privacy and display made possible by club life, see Marie
Mulvey Roberts, “Pleasures Engendered by Gender: Homosociality and the Club,”
in Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Roy Porter and Roberts (New York: New...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 88–112.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., they narrowly avoid such a consequence. Morden's politeness prevails, and he once again assures Lovelace that he did not come to “seek” a confrontation (1,284). Morden appears convinced by Lovelace's promises of reparation; the scene closes in homosocial jocularity, with Morden and Lovelace sharing “bottle[s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., were circulated
within homosocial networks of power and privilege and that Reynolds was
often willing to profit indirectly from the celebrity of his sitters.5 In other
words, he painted many of these portraits of his own volition and displayed
them in his studio or circulated them as prints...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 73–102.
Published: 01 September 2000
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and female virtue within it.
The four novels examined here, when read together, help demonstrate
how female homosocial spaces operated a guarantee of English moral pu-
rity. Hence the category of female friendship is the principal syntax through...
