... Scott Black University of Utah Thomas G. Pavel. The Lives of the Novel: A History (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2013). Pp. xii + 346. $35 • The novel is an idealist genre. In Thomas Pavel’s eloquent and generous book, the history...

... and Sancho Panza developed in the eighteenth century: one version, prevalent in the novel, consists of more idealistic figures and higher-order comedy, while the other, popular in theater, features low comedy characters and privileges the material over the ideal. If we study the history of Quixote...

.... Oakeshott on History, vol. 2 of Oakeshott Studies. British Idealist Studies (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2003). Pp. 300. $49.90. ISBN 0-907845-290 Owenson, Sydney. The Missionary: An Indian Tale, ed. Julia M. Wright (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2002). Pp. 337. $15.95 paper. ISBN 1...

... Studies. British Idealist Studies (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2003). Pp. 300. $49.90. ISBN 0-907845-290 Owenson, Sydney. The Missionary: An Indian Tale, ed. Julia M. Wright (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2002). Pp. 337. $5.95 paper. ISBN -55263-9 Palmeri, Frank. Satire, History...

... as these representations purport to be sympathetic. From a modern standpoint, such texts probably will not seem like challenges to the political status quo because their idealistic representa- tions of willing slaves and humane masters implicitly advocate ameliorating rather than abolishing slavery. Boulukos argues...

..., and the Hebrew prophets.” 4 Taylor is a militant anti-­idealist; the history he sketches turns on unintended consequences and intellectual accidents. And as with Nietzschean genealogy, to trace one contingent mutation involves numerous antecedent others. So, while Taylor’s historiography — ​part history...

... revealed as a “Strict and religious Observer of [her] Word,” dignified, loyal to all who served her loyally, a pragmatic and principled, even idealistic, figure, and to the end, a partial enigma. Her personality, her femininity, her private tragedies, and her enthusiasms all play their parts...

... social hierarchy, stately pleasure-domes, a bald King of France, for example—are to be largely dismissed as mere appearance or fantasy. The reaction against this ontological schema in Romantic and idealist variants rather underscores than denies this; the imagination sepa...

..., William, ed. The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700 –1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists (Bloomington: Indiana Univ., 2005). Pp. 269. $44.95. ISBN 0-253-34456-5 Wenham, Sheena. A More Enterprising Spirit: The Parish and People of Holm in 18th Century Orkney (Kirkwall: Bellavista, 2001...

... was a Baconian empiricist but also a projector, a quantifi er but a dreamer as well. He was a self-promoter and a land speculator whose sharp dealings mired him in endless litigation, but he was also a social idealist and some- time utopian who wished peace and plenty for all. Petty did a lot of his...

... of Wheeler’s sources echo the idealistic sentiments of the English barrister and poet William Cowper: ECL25307-102-revw.p65 96 12/28/01, 4:07 PM 97 Slaves cannot...

... the Age of Sensibility    1 2 3 realized less in the here and now than in the memory of past raptures and the vision of future pleasures. Romantic aesthetics, as theorized by Coleridge and the German idealists, depends on a joy that is “participated in” but not “pos- sessed” (139). The narrator...

... Carnegie Mellon University. Figure 11.  Thomas Kirk, Outlines, plate 45 (1804). Courtesy Carnegie Mellon University. 46 Eighteenth-Century Life ascribes this breach to a conflict between what empirical research revealed and what idealistic literary and artistic depictions of the classical...

...” to establish good terms with a readership. The absolutes of “duty” and “always” outweigh the less certain “as if” and “hereafter.” As outlined in another early, idealistic essay — The Rambler 4 (31 March 1750) — authors should guide the naive minds of the female and the young with “lectures...

... 1790s lived and moved (170–73). And if Adam Smith was adamant that the “coarse clay” of humanity was not to be molded in the ways later specified by Godwin’s idealistic specu- lations, Godwin refused to accept that extant society reflected some ideal, or inevitable, end of history.30 While...

... Catherine, was a favorite of Charles II; in 1680, he accompanied the reinforcements sent to Tangier (see below). 6. John Vaughan, third Earl of Carbery (baptized 1639, d. 1713), was an unpopular but somewhat idealistic governor of Jamaica (1674 – 78), later a member of the Kit Kat Club; Samuel...

.... A cynic might suggest this is because he was aiming to create the broadest possible base of acclaim. A more idealistic reader might think Lunardi’s expressions of sympathy are simply in tune with sensibility, where projections of happiness among the poor go some way to redeem the anxieties...

... that provides the conditions for the formal production of sense to begin with. Maioli is not at all concerned with material substrates, but not because he endorses the more idealist strand of empiricist thought; rather, his interest is primarily on the conflict within the epistemological project consolidated...

... would like to suggest that he found in Norris many of the same qualities that so attracted Sterne. Above all, Norris offers a means by which the truth of an idealistic theology can be set in proximity (I would not want to say reconciled) with the peace of a practical, one might say, social...

... with Enlightenment idealist hierarchies that placed intellect and activity above sensation, matter, and nature (although Ravaisson's ultimate aim is their reconciliation). More specifically, Ravaisson draws on the vitalist Xavier Bichat's Physiological Researches on Life and Death (1799) and Pierre Maine de...