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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Lynn Festa Duke University Press 2005
Personal Eff ects:
Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the
Long Eighteenth Century
Lynn Festa
Harvard University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
... addressed the proper selection, presentation, and treatment of both individual and collected “lives.” It gave biography national, historical, commercial, and educational functions; detailed the components of its life-historical narrative and of its critical portions; set standards for what constituted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 30–60.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., in contexts as varied as military impressment and spousal neglect. The period that followed the accession of William and Mary, in 1688, and the Bill of Rights to which they assented in 1689, is commonly regarded as being governed by contractual relationships between rational individuals, entering...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Jane Lim If John Locke established the self‐enclosed, paternal household as the basis of a new liberal state that fosters self‐governing individuals, this Enlightenment model of family unit is disrupted in gothic fiction that posits claustrophobic homes as the primary locus of terror. Yet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Betty A. Schellenberg This essay covers what it meant to “own” a manuscript verse miscellany in the eighteenth century. Manuscript miscellanies offer palpable, if enigmatic, evidence that the often‐obscure individuals who made such books understood themselves to be, simultaneously, readers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 89–104.
Published: 01 April 2017
... an eidolon, “The Trifler,” whose lively voice recalls The Female Quixote 's chapter titles. As the periodical continues, the Trifler's individual voice gives way to an even livelier assortment of voices, which debate the Trifler's right to her “title”. In both works, Lennox explores the tension between...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... period is scant, despite explicit references in, for example, Shelley's Prometheus Unbound (1820) and Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head (1807). In Persuasion , Austen offers examples of successful evolution, and also of the failure of some individuals to survive in their environments. Sir Walter Elliot...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 29–37.
Published: 01 April 2019
... friends, and his authorship in 1761 of the Institutes of Health , which details how individual well-being could be promoted by exercise, hygiene, and a good diet. Cleland Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure editing sexuality health Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., indignantly satirical reworking of the Good Samaritan parable at Walpole’s expense. I conclude with reflections on how Walpole and Chatterton’s disagreement affected later ideas of charity for impoverished authors, and on the ways in which individual charitable practices might be said to influence literary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
...” mode that entails objective reporting, and a mode that involves an individual, sympathetic narrative — to raise questions about the emotion, beauty, and impact of war representations. I will also argue that Sterne is responding to changes in the way war was publicly imagined. Eighteenth- Century Life...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., and other Learned Men, and Famous Divines, . . . Together with the Livelie Effigies of most of the Eminentest of them cut in Copper. The term “effigy” is a Janus word, meaning both a representation of a specific deceased individual as a celebratory memorial marker, and as a hated figure intended...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Playfair, the London Corresponding Society, and other individuals and organizations. This article shows how prospectus writers exploited the distinctive resources of the genre, adapting its promissory rhetoric and hyperbolic language for political effect. It also investigates how prospectuses interacted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 1–44.
Published: 01 April 2009
... on dogs. The passage of this seemingly slight piece of legislation created impassioned debates about the nature and welfare of animals, about the rights of individuals to possess or keep property, and about the way the kinship felt for animals tampers with the seemingly self-evident borders of kind...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
... reflects an affective ethical attitude towards war, according to which individual actors are responsible for its effects as well as leaders. It combines sympathy and moral outrage with a strong desire for retribution. Duke University Press 2009 R
Atrocity in Mid...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Bradford Mudge Situating a reading of Henry Angelo and the English “love of portraiture” between an anxiety about monuments and history on one side and an anxiety about money and fiction on the other, this essay argues for an appreciation of Angelo's Reminiscences that moves past individual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 80–110.
Published: 01 April 2012
... that ultimately sustained the Methodist movement and helped to define the faith of individual Methodists. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 R
Raising the Roof:
Hymn Singing, the Anti-Methodist Response,
and Early Methodist...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 29–54.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in tandem in the travel genre: the static, ostensibly objective description of nature (what Dampier refers to as “Places”) and the dynamic account of individual experience (what Dampier calls “Actions”). Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 R
William...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Leah Orr Critics have long discussed the conversion narrative in the first Crusoe volume as being a paradigm of an individual’s journey from sin to salvation. In the latter two volumes, however, Crusoe questions his initial conversion and eventually rejects his peaceful conclusions from volume 1...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
... by drama and fiction was by gaining positive, firsthand experience of the lives of individuals within London’s Jewish community. Ironically, however, in depicting Jewish characters, she relied almost entirely on the representations of Jews offered by books. The inspiration for Harrington had been...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 14–40.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Toby Barnard The essay looks at individuals from Ireland who came to London between the 1660s and 1780s. Some belonged to groups that had particular reasons to be there, such as wealthy landowners with property in both England and Ireland, would-be lawyers and physicians, writers and artists...
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