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Irish Money on the London Market: Ireland, the Anglo-Irish, and the South Sea Bubble of 1720
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 131–154.
Published: 01 January 2015
... focuses on the new opportunities available to both Irish men and women for accumulating capital and wealth in the City. It examines the growth in Anglo-Irish investment, during what historians call “the Financial Revolution,” and analyzes the development of increasingly complex financial networks, which...
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Chivalry, Commerce, and Generosity: Godwin on Economic Equality
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 43–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... engagement with a variety of eighteenth-century discourses, all invested, in varying ways, in the age's dominant historiographical trope celebrating extant commercial society as the apogee of social development. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Godwin St. Leon property historiography...
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Elizabeth Inchbald: A Life in Lodgings
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 81–109.
Published: 01 April 2025
...: a rational preference for the pecuniary independence offered by investments in liquid assets, and the flexibility and human interest this writer of comedy found in lodgings. I also reassess the concept of “precarity,” through new research into Inchbald's landlords and landladies. Their economic lives...
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Silent No Longer
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and account books, Froide paints a colorful picture of female financial activities. The emerging financial revolution enabled women to pursue varying and increas- ingly active investment strategies. Women traded on their own accounts to gain financial independence and secure retirement, provided...
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Watched Women
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 113–117.
Published: 01 January 2012
... public sphere by granting women the power to set and enforce
the rules of subjectivity: “The commodification of elite female influence was
perceived as threatening to masculinist foundations of the public sphere, partly
because of the way in which it highlighted commerce’s investment in feminine...
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Afterword
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., was within the reach of even common laborers. 2 Bound blank writing books were also frequently given as gifts, which no doubt made them special to the recipient, but unless an investment was made in a fancy binding, not prohibitively expensive, even for women of the middle ranges of society. 3...
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First and Last
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 118–124.
Published: 01 September 2014
... printed page so fetishized and fussed over by Richard-
son himself, do we still invest time and energy in scholarly editions modeled
upon the advanced technology of the typewriter? Our professional notion of
the literary text has long since expanded to include a work’s presentation on
the printed...
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Ruin Nation: Ruins and Fragments in Eighteenth-Century England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
... poetic
experimentation in the eighteenth century.
Ruined by Design directly links the eighteenth century culture of sensibil-
ity to ruination, and investigates not only the claims, but also the costs and
limits of the widespread cultural investment in ruin. A substantial portion of
Brodey’s...
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The Needs of Strangers: Friendly Societies and Insurance Societies in Late Eighteenth-Century England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 53–72.
Published: 01 September 2000
... effects could be more easily ab-
sorbed by the collective body.
However, despite an emphasis on readiness for the future, traditional
friendly societies did not expand or invest capital.24 Money in the box was
intended to meet immediate member needs, and societies...
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The Second Time Around: Marriage and Remarriage in Riccoboni and La Guesnerie
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 53–68.
Published: 01 April 2002
... she has offered a home.
Mme de Cressy’s affective investment in her marriage makes the betrayal
so much the worse. Adelaïde underscores the reversal in both women’s sit-
uations when she compares hers to that of Mme de Cressy, of whom she
was once so envious...
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Richard Baxter's Soteriological Enabling: Or, the Limits of Enlightenment Liberal Inclusion
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2025
... investments (26). These theoretical moves work to broaden McKendry's audience. Disavowing Disability is also impressive in its breadth of thinking through multiple forms, shapes, and temporalities of disability. One potential archival pitfall of some disability studies is its privileging of the visible...
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Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid and the Speculative Bubble of 1720: A Bibliographical Enigma and an Economic Force
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 62–87.
Published: 01 January 2000
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Ironically, the decision taken in Amsterdam left the field open to the smaller
Dutch cities, which now crowded in with dozens of proposals designed to
cash in on the widespread interest in investment possibilities. In fact, the
project rejected by Amsterdam was resubmitted in an adapted form...
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Irish or English? The Rise and Rise of John Fitzmaurice Petty in the 1750s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 155–182.
Published: 01 January 2015
... collieries in County Durham) supplemented
by their Irish rent rolls and benefiting from careful investments and estate
management, the Pettys under Henry, Lord Shelburne, became one of the
wealthiest titled families in Ireland, even if not normally domiciled in that
kingdom.24 The problem besetting...
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The Goethean Roots of Depth Psychology
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in
his pedagogical program in Emile or On Education). Goethe is clearly attracted
to the emotional spontaneity he finds in Rousseau, but recognizes the social,
ethical, and epistemological problems that arise through Rousseau’s extreme
investment in interiority. Thus in both life and art, Goethe...
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“That Friendship Which Is Yet Dearer to Me than Any Other Earthly Good”: Female Intimacy in Eliza Haywood’s Epistles for the Ladies
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
... contributors, this periodical both reminds us of what we all love about Haywood and offers something new to the scholarly conver- sation about her investment in the diverse possibilities for female inti- macy.1 Although recent critics have assessed the flourishing relationships that Haywood imagines between...
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The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
... into a heavenly realm. Personifications of Virtue, Wisdom, and Justice hover above the cradle to watch the sleeping child, as if they are simultaneously protecting him and investing him with their values. Not only does Rémy show the baby in his imperial cradle to remind viewers of Napoleonic power, but he also...
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“Industry in Distress”: Reconfiguring Femininity and Labor in the Magdalen House
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2004
... investment would also bring
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moral return, thus proving that the charity made incontrovertible financial,
political, and ethical sense. The time and money invested in the charity
paled in comparison with the benefits arising from...
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Complicity
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 32–35.
Published: 01 September 2010
... epistolary advocacy of virtuous
womanhood; Lovelace is the living contradiction produced by the
philosophical investments of libertine ideology; Lovelace is the
authorial proxy, stand-in for all that Richardson desires but dares
not; Lovelace is the aesthetic individual; Lovelace...
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Historical Criticism and the English Canon: A Spenserian Dispute in the 1750s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 43–64.
Published: 01 April 2000
... investigates canonization as a
move from text producers (authors and publishers) to text consumers (read-
ers) with their investment in notions of aesthetic taste and literary judg-
ment. For other critics the crucial element is the development of a con-
cept of “English Literature,” whether it be Patey’s...
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Poaching on Crusoe's Island: Popular Reading and Chapbook Editions of Robinson Crusoe
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 18–38.
Published: 01 April 2011
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application and careful investment — the middle-class moral economy or
“investment mentality” for which Crusoe came to be celebrated — than one
of leisure gained primarily through good fortune: landing on an island
where the hard agricultural labor with which so many chapbook read-
ers would have been...
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