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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2006
.../00982601-2005-001 Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press 1 2 Eighteenth-Century Life fi rsthand knowledge of the nation’s jails. We should not lightly dismiss his summary: “How full of emphatical meaning is the curse of a severe creditor, who...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 88–102.
Published: 01 January 2000
... reflected anxieties that were closer to home. Because most Britons could easily envision financial losses that would render them incapable of repaying a debt of forty shillings (the minimum sum that authorized credi- tors to have debtors jailed), most Britons could easily envision themselves plunging...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 50–81.
Published: 01 January 2005
... are depicted diff erently in diff erent reports. A similar reaction is visible in two confl icting representations of the Bastille — either as a regular prison no diff erent from British jails or as a cruel institution, unimaginable in England, housing victims of French despotism — articulating...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 130–134.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., the charitable patriot, Harry Fenton of Henry Brooke's Fool of Quality , who discharges the burdens of others, and the reckless Primrose of Vicar of Wakefield , whose arrears land him in jail, suggests that the readerly pleasure of character accrues from the “risks a text takes with misinterpretation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 87–91.
Published: 01 September 2015
... are usually made from a vantage point of political or social privilege, an observation Martin Luther King Jr. ruefully made in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. There King famously considered the “white moderate,” whose fondness for order trumped a lukewarm commitment to justice, to be the “great...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in a Cellar, a Garret or a Jaile, and therefore you may by Partridge, Pittis, and Jonathan Swift 9 3 that judge what kind of Reputation this fellow hath to be Credited in the world. in a word he is a poor Scandalous necessitous Creature, and would doe as Much...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of narratives and poems that describe, reflect upon, and mourn shipwrecks as well as the conditions of life and labor on board. Samuel Johnson was certain that “no man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Edward Stuart during what would be the final Jacobite military attempt to return the Stuarts to the British and Irish thrones. Forbes spent the remainder of the 1745 – 46 Jacobite Rising in jail. Imprisoned first in Stirling Castle, then in Edinburgh Castle, he was eventually released on 29 May 1746...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and if their cases are really compassionate, to give half a guinea for me to each, . . . but don t mention me (40:344 45).19 Walpole also used Bedford as his con- duit for the anonymous relief of sick prisoners housed in the various jails around London.20 In short, he was doing good by stealth and stipulated...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2000
... Office, Sessions Bundles, General Quarter Sessions, Surrey, QS2/6/1737/Epiphany. 36. In 1738, for example, it was noted that the Surrey county jail was exceptionally crowded and “very sickly on account of the great number of prisoners there for selling spirituous liquors,” for which see...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 31–56.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of your penetration or your rashness” (136). Falkland tells Caleb that he must remain his servant forever, forever despised and feared. When Caleb flees, Falkland frames him for stealing, and Caleb is held to stand trial for a crime that could send him to the gallows. After escaping jail, Caleb...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... radical satirist John Wolcot (alias Peter Pindar), reveal- ingly, was inspired to compare the suppression of the labor privileges of journeymen shoemakers to the repression of the civil liberties of the nation as a whole.51 “Clos’d be your mouths, or dread the jail or thong,” Pin- dar sarcastically...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 56–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... is good enough for the officials at Jamaica, who toss the French captain in jail without granting him a hear- ing. Exquemelin thus critiques English colonial officials alongside bucca- neers as more interested in consolidating power than in establishing truth in the historical record. English...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., lacks the vastness of extent, or quan- tity that Burke thought a powerful cause of the sublime (51). The jail- ors are also limited in some ways. The 1775 Midnight Consultations veers between belittlement and elevation of the British, the description of Gen- eral Thomas Gage s bloodlust containing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 41–60.
Published: 01 April 2004
... in a bitter debate with fellow Huguenots over the most effective political stance toward a French monarch who rejected them, Bayle lost many supporters (including a brother who died in jail) to political and religious machinations and was judged harshly on the extreme way in which he expressed his belief...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., matricide, or infanticide— the case went to a trial jury. If found insane the prisoner was acquitted and remanded to the custody of his family or incarcerated in the county jail.16 Popular understanding of the exculpatory nature of insanity is readily apparent...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 82–108.
Published: 01 January 2005
... of London’s institutional landmarks is depicted as criminal activity, for the fl ames break out of prison, “so scapes th’insulting fi re his narrow Jail.” Dryden implies, moreover, that the Fire escapes by buying his way out of London’s corrupt prison system, for he breaks from his prison bars...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2003
... that the princess is the one, although her son’s mistress would add to the currency and the connection. See also Lawrence Lipking, “The Jacobite Plot,” ELH 64 (1997): 844. 36. David Oakleaf reminds me that Mrs. Haywood was jailed and questioned for a pamphlet that led the government to suspect her...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to publish a French version of the Argus, though no copies have survived.14 In August 1793, Perry, along with other British expatriates, was imprisoned under the Law of Suspects and spent fourteen months in vari- ous Parisian jails. On his release in November 1794, he returned secretly to England...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of venereal disease. In the early nineteenth cen- tury, both universities attempted to limit student risk by reworking ancient proctorship systems to allow for inspecting and jailing suspected prosti- tutes (something Philip Howell proves was not meant to eradicate the sex trade, but merely to shift it away...