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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 98–116.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Lisa O'Connell The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26308-OConn.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:32 PM Page 98
“Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed”:
Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2012
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The Centrality of Peripheries:
The Orinoco Ilustrado and
Imperial-Enlightened Knowledge
Ivonne del Valle
University of California, Berkeley
Margaret Ewalt. Peripheral Wonders: Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 January 2018
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Exoticism and the Formation of the Imperial Mind
Christa Knellwolf King
Sultan Qaboos University (Oman)
Benjamin Schmidt. Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early
Modern World (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2015). Pp. xx + 412...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
... conventional imperial attributes that characterized Napoleonic imagery at the time. On one level, the portrait can be understood according to Christian iconography or as an allegory of the new French order according to ancient Roman mythology. I argue, however, that Prud'hon subscribed to early nineteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 10–30.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Christa Knellwolf The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26303-Knell.q4.jw 3/26/03 2:50 PM Page 10
The Exotic Frontier of the Imperial Imagination
Christa Knellwolf...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Imperial and Royal Porcelain Factory, Vienna, Table Centerpiece (1768), Museum für Angewandtekunst, Vienna. Author's photograph.
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 3. Imperial and Royal Porcelain Factory, Porcelain Making (1767–68), Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (hereafter, MAK), Vienna, represented by Christoph Thun Hohenstein, General Director and Artistic Director, and Teresa Mitterlehner-Marchesani, Director. MAK-Inv.Nr.: KE 6823-6.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 56–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... that the horror of piracy, which consists of atrocities concealed and advanced through discursive manipulation, is also the horror of imperialism generally. Duke University Press 2009 R
Exquemelin’s Buccaneers: Violence, Authority,
and the Word in Early Caribbean...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2020
... seafaring and his later claims to sovereignty and possession of “his” island—build on extraliterary systems of knowledge in which war offers blueprints for grasping colonial encounters and global space. Defoe exploits two related imperial geographical discourses, natural law (and its derivative the Law...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and imperial ambition. Jones also argues correctly that the revised versions of the poem are addressed to Falconer's fellow sailors, particularly as the poet is concerned that their lives on board offer no opportunities to improve themselves, or their knowledge of history and culture, even though they travel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
... explored in the context of the loss of the American colonies and Britain's role in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars—served two competing purposes in mid-eighteenth-century Britain. While, on the one hand, improvers acknowledged the transience of imperial power by arguing that now was the time to build...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 7–23.
Published: 01 September 2024
... University Press 2024 tragedy Ottoman imperialism actresses slavery Oroonoko Scholars have marked the Enlightenment as the time when the conception of race in Europe and settler colonies in the Americas began to solidify into our modern race categories. 1 As this focus on race formation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 120–124.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Suvir Kaul Nicholas B. Dirks. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2006). Pp. 389. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-02166-5 Betty Joseph. Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2004...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 120–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jeff Strabone Review Essay
Bardic Internationalism
Jeff Strabone
Connecticut College
James Mulholland. Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730–
1820. (Baltimore: Johns...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 110–116.
Published: 01 January 2018
... hopes to renew and reorient studies
of British romanticism by suggesting that “imperialism . . . was not only always
already global, but was consistently disrupted, diluted, and even derailed by
developing globalization” (6).
The idea that globalization might disrupt, rather than enable...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 130–134.
Published: 01 September 2010
... architectural sensibility in unprecedented
ways.
The book moves beyond the exclusive focus of earlier scholarship on
courtly life and imperial patronage, bringing to light the ambitions of new
urban classes and their interaction with the imperial elite. In contrast to pre-
vailing interpretations...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 January 2009
... an attention to the ways these artworks represent
particular and evolving ideologies of warfare, heroism, and imperialism. Seven
of the essays concern British artworks, and here one can discern an overall nar-
rative in which Britain is transformed from a weary and ineffectual wager of
war in the early...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 141–146.
Published: 01 January 2025
... defines as the period between the ascension of William and Mary in 1688 and Victoria's coronation in 1837—witnessed Britain's rise to imperial preeminence. According to the author, “The British empire had exploded from a collection of English colonies and trading outposts into a vast trading network...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 23–44.
Published: 01 April 2002
... are fascinating;
however, our approach differs: and we shall explore the issues the opera raises
about gender and imperialism, the costs of conquest, and the emotional
experience of loss. There is all but complete consensus that the opera pre-
miered between 1684...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2021
... approach to the Enlightenment refigures it as “dynamic, mobile, and cosmopolitan, not just static and national” ( Placing the Enlightenment , 21). Across the period, an unprecedented increase in geographical knowledge aided and legitimized imperial expansion. This consciousness of global space exerted...
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