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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 58–83.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of hospitality, this article contends that the term raises concerns about the ethical obligations of hosts and guests and the role reputation played in building social hierarchy. Simple satires of the toadeater as dependent guest reveal a fear over social mobility while novels present a sentimental exposé...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
... household in Zofloya anticipates the slippage between host and guest delineated in Derrida's ethics of hospitality. By attending to moments of entering and passing, I will explore how Dacre's gothic imagination transforms the household into a space where the Enlightenment discourse on membership, household...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 75–104.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Erin Parker Sharing decadent meals and living space with humans, eighteenth-century pets were often compared to guests who were lavishly treated by their hosts. This article examines the intersections between eighteenth-century pet keeping and hospitality in the writings of William Cowper...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Lisa Zunshine Duke University Press 2005
The Spectral Hospital:
Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy and the Novel
Lisa Zunshine
University of Kentucky
Established in 1739 as a shelter...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 116–141.
Published: 01 January 2017
... miscellany; Sir Robert Walpole's reign as Britain's prime minister had just come to an end, and Pope revised his Dunciad to devastating effect. Out of the mix of political uncertainty and satiric excess emerged The Foundling Hospital for Wit , which ran to six volumes by 1749. It offered a potpourri...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 96–115.
Published: 01 January 2017
...John McTague This article begins with a literary and material analysis of two instances of post- and intra-publication censorship in Poems on Affairs of State, vol. 4 (1707), and The Foundling Hospital for Wit (1743, 1744). As well as illuminating the climate in which political materials were read...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 94–98.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Deborah S. Symonds. Pp. 198; vol. 3: Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, ed. Alysa Levene. Pp. 373. 6 ills.; vol. 4: Institutional Responses: The Refuge for the Destitute, ed. Peter King. Pp. 440; vol. 5 Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698 - 1818, ed. Lisa Zunshine. Pp. 302. 1 ill. $750 set...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 January 2013
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lin had become so completely overrun with beggars that its only workhouse
was unable to accommodate the men, women, and children who sought
relief; it soon ceased to function as a workhouse and became entirely a
foundling hospital, or as the modest proposer would have it, a repository...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 81–115.
Published: 01 April 2001
...), an aca-
demic book currently distributed through an American book club, remarks
that “the colonnades of Greenwich Hospital are a match for Bernini’s col-
onnades for the square of St. Peter’s [at least this compares colonnades to
colonnades], and that the sweep...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 January 2025
..., the poem resolves variety into an ideal of hospitality; in so doing, it prompts a reconsideration of the binary understanding of Irish culture in the period, with the Gaelic and Catholic on one side, the English and Protestant on the other: “The prospect of revels at which Irish Anglicans, Dissenters...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., associational charities had brought the innovations of the joint- stock company into the eleemosynary sphere, including charities, such as: the Foundling Hospital for the care of aban- doned children, established in 1739; the Lock Hospital for treating venereal disease, established in 1746; the Marine Society...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to repress, as most famously depicted in Francisco de Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799, Los Caprichos , plate 43). Two articles in this special issue complicate this simplified view. Jane Lim's “ ‘Open House’: Hospitality and Decentered Subjects in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, or The Moor...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of relatively free debate
and inquiry in the intellectual sphere” (28). “During frequent walks through
the first decade of his pontificate, he visited churches, oratories, hospitals, con-
vents, and monasteries, making himself visible to the inhabitants and generat-
ing enormous esteem and good...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
... by the reputations that particular collections acquired. Don Nichol’s
essay explores how long-running series such as The Foundling Hospital for
Wit (later developed into The New Foundling Hospital for Wit) catered to
an interest in satirical, topical, and political verse and prose over several
decades...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and Guilt has not debased, your Brother and your Equal, as far as is consistent with the outward Forms and Distinctions of life. 31 Hogarth carried Steele's principles into action: he donated paintings of The Good Samaritan and The Pool of Bethesda to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and participated...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 74–81.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., because they resorted to what the former considered unseemly hustling, advertising, general self- promoting, and traveling to find patients. By contrast, the orthodox, or sheep, as Mounsey calls them, stayed put in their hospitals, waiting for patients to come to them, and did not engage in direct self...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 60–67.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Asylum (now St. Ita’s Hospital), in effect abandoning her for the
bicycle. While waiting in vain for his return, Winnie is told by a local relic
the story of “Dane Swift” and Stella’s tower. The details, including the con-
fusion of “motte” and “moth,” are almost exactly as in Beckett’s letter...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 156–164.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the
Queen’s House (New Haven & London: Yale Univ., 2001). Pp. 304. 350 ills., incl. 50
color. $80. ISBN 0-300-08397-1
Bongie, Laurence L. David Hume: Prophet of the Counter-Revolution. 2d ed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 47–62.
Published: 01 April 2001
... 10/19/01, 3:34 PM
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heated? How were the women inmates in the Bethlem hospital segregated
from the men? Did they ever see each other? Would a man on a moderate
income visit the barber’s every day? How much would it cost him? (p. 382...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 83–87.
Published: 01 April 2024
... poets, by exposing the colonial exploitation happening under the guise of agricultural improvement in Ireland (171). Chapter 5, “Market Hill,” surveys the poems written in rural retirement in the late 1720s, where Swift reworks the hospitality and country-house poem genres in other ways. Cook...
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