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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Lance Bertelsen Unpublished letters in the Burke archive (Sheffield and Northampton) reveal that when Captain James Cook’s Resolution departed Plymouth in July 1776, Lieutenant James King harbored strong pro-American sympathies and that these sympathies were possibly shared by his fellow messmates...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to its patron suggest Marie-Louise's special attachment to it. Figure 1. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, The King of Rome Sleeping , 1811, oil on canvas,Musée du Louvre, Paris, photographic credit: © Jarekt, 2011. From Wikimedia Commons. Figure 1. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, The King of Rome Sleeping, 1811...
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in The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, The King of Rome Sleeping , 1811, oil on canvas,Musée du Louvre, Paris, photographic credit: © Jarekt, 2011. From Wikimedia Commons.
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in The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 3. François Gérard, Portrait of Marie-Louise Presenting the King of Rome , 1813, oil on canvas, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et Trianon, Versailles, photographic credit: © Huelam987, 2019. From Wikimedia Commons.
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in The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 4. Joseph Franque, The Empress Marie-Louise Watching Over the Sleeping King of Rome , 1811, oil on canvas, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et Trianon, Versailles, photographic credit: © Thomas1313, 2018. From Wikimedia Commons.
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in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 2. Portrait of Oh Myeonghang, King Yeongjo's minister of military affairs in 1728, Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), ink and colors on silk, Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Hyeju Oh Family Collection. Photograph © Gyeonggi Provincial Museum. Oh was the highest ranked among the fifteen Bunmu
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 103–111.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Peter Howell Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii + 737. $115. ISBN 0-19-811292-0. The College of William & Mary 2000 — Book Review —
John Barrell’s Imagining
the King’s Death...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... This article took shape at the Habits and Spirits Conference (King's College London, 2016), convened by Zeynep Bulut and Brendan Jamal Thornton, and the Natures and Spaces of Enlightenment Conference convened by Peter Denney and Lisa O'Connell. My thanks to conveners and participants, especially Matthew Head...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 109–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Rachael Scarborough King Wahrman Dror . Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age . ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. 275 . 75 color ills. $34.95 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Christa Knellwolf King Schmidt Benjamin . Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World ( Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania , 2015 ). Pp. xx + 412 . 179 ills. $85 Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Review Essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 3–13.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Edmund G. C. King Duke University Press 2008 R
Pope’s 1723 – 25 Shakespear, Classical Editing,
and Humanistic Reading Practices
Edmund G. C. King
University of Auckland
In his 1756 Proposals...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Lance Bertelsen The first descriptions of Hawaiian surfing were written by David Samwell, surgeon of HMS Discovery , and James King, second lieutenant of HMS Resolution , in the months bracketing Captain James Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay on 14 February 1779. In his journal entry for 22 January...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
... into the strikingly uniform descriptions found in biographies of Chatham and in parliamentary histories both contemporary and modern. A letter from Walker King to Richard Burke, Jr., written within hours of the event, offers a compelling new perspective on what may have been said on the floor of Lords on 7 April 1778...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 183–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... Man (1768) and a scandalous episode in Fox’s life, the play was a creative attack on Fox’s political opponents Lord Shelburne and the moneylender John “Jew” King. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Theater Whig satire Charles James Fox Shelburne O’Bryen...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Greg Clingham Sir George Macartney’s British embassy to the court of the Qiánlóng emperor in 1792-94 was a political and commercial failure. This essay seeks to think critically about Macartney’s failure as it pertains to his journal—the posthumously published Journal of an Embassy from the King...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
... and undignified personal detail. In Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat; alias The Progress of Curiosity; alias A Birthday Ode; alias Mr Whitbread's Brewhouse (1787), Peter diagnoses the opposite problem in Thomas Warton's celebration of King George III, which treats an essential trivial figure as if he were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 September 2022
... within the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte in the 1780s at Windsor by narrating the parallels between her life and the lives of the royals, the points of intersection between them, and the material exchanges with them that enhance her status in society and emphasize her centrality in her...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 64–91.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., even the poor were depicted as loyal. The comfortable impression was given that the overwhelming majority of the elite—from aristocracy down to respectable traders and gentlemen farmer—was cemented together by gentlemanly solidarity and loyalty to king and constitution. There was no sense...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... No bishop no king. By at least as early as 1680, however, many were troubled by the “madding day” brutal sermons. Dissenters protested their loyalty. Lower-church Anglicans sought peace and comprehension, as in Gilbert Burnet's sermon in 1681 on Zacharia 8.19. Better to strike the thirtieth of January from...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... Falconer's response can be traced by contrasting his first edition of The Shipwreck with the revisions he made to the poem after joining the Royal Navy. The revisions address directly the notion that merchant sailors value only financial reward, but then focus on the notion that sailors who fight for king...
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