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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 78–97.
Published: 01 September 2002
...David Paxman The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26307-Paxman.q4.jw 3/25/03 3:32 PM Page 78
“Distance Getting Close”:
Gesture, Language, and Space in the Pacific...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 75–95.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Lynda Mugglestone Books, as Samuel Johnson stated in 1754 in his Dictionary of the English Language neared completion, always exert “a secret influence on the understanding” so that the reader is informed in both overt and covert ways. Reference works, he stressed, were no exception. As this essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the challenge that techne , the language of fact and detail, has posed to the georgic since Hesiod, Falconer prioritizes the former, positioning himself as a sailor first and poet second, writing in the advertisement that opens the second edition of the poem that “he is much more tenacious” of “his claim...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 56–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of Central and South America in the late seventeenth century. Exquemelin's sensationalized account captured considerable attention and was translated into multiple European languages, including German, Spanish, and English, in the ensuing years. Many scholarly treatments of his influential narrative have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 162–187.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to metaphorical and euphemistic language so as to avoid “rank words,” was nevertheless easily covered by the rationale offered in R v. Curll (1727), but his case was never brought to trial. Some have thought that this circumstance is mysterious and requires explanation; however, obscene works were rarely...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 46–61.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of nature, and how these poets used this separation to produce an alternate darkened landscape filled with echoes of mourners and the dead. I explore some of the ways Rowe and Gray question the substantiality of poetic language in the mourning process through images of darkness and echoes in desolate...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 105–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Carolyn D. Williams Attempts to find connections between Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Cleland’s etymological tracts, in which he attempted to recover the ancient Celtic language, have, so far, met with mixed success. The most promising approach is to relate them to their broader contexts...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 April 2019
... status as a banned and dangerous book that was continually reprinted despite attempts to censor it. This article identifies Venetian playwright and aristocrat Carlo Gozzi as translator of the first Italian-language edition of Fanny Hill , titled La Meretrice and published in 1764. All subsequent editions...
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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 (2023) 47 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Patricia L. Hamilton In the front matter of The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy , Charlotte Lennox conflates the language of patronage and friendship to refer to John Boyle, the fifth Earl of Orrery. Her conflation points to the unusual relationship the two writers forged between 1752 and 1760...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 88–115.
Published: 01 September 2021
...). This categorical distinction, however, scantily registered the emergence of a corollary affective economy in this period, which redefined social, political, and physical spaces according to their emotional content, or lack thereof. This article focuses on the rise of emotional language, its spatial configurations...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Melanie Bigold This article reconsiders the importance of antiquarian interests and research methods in the making of George Ballard’s encyclopedic biography of learned women, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 14–40.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., clergymen and active members of religious sects. Occasions when sizable numbers of the Irish met are discussed. Also, other factors that may have encouraged a sense of “Irishness,” such as residential districts favored by the Irish or continuing use of the Irish language, are considered. The occasional...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 January 2016
... moral philosophy or physics, Dennis's essays can also teach us about eighteenth-century proto-disciplinary organization. Recent work in cognitive cultural studies has shown that the concept of motion is of vital importance to understanding the way the brain comprehends and structures language. This has...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2005
... universities, has
emphasized the Anglocentricity of these Scottish rhetoricians and their
promotion of metropolitan English as the language that ambitious Scots
had to acquire in order to participate in the public life of the new British
Empire. That these academics largely ignored Scottish vernacular...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 166–187.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of maritime dictionaries, with the problem of legibility in attempting to construct in words what sailors did in practice. Seventeenth- through nineteenth-century pilot books exemplify the inescapable tension between using images and using language to give instructions regarding sea life and travel, which...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 January 2011
... this metaphor through lin-
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guistic play, by employing his “little language.” As scholars have discussed,
the psychology of the little language may have worked in various ways: it
infantilized the relationship with Johnson and Dingley, perhaps recalling
the origins...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 88–92.
Published: 01 April 2024
... weaving biography with literary analysis, Catherine Ingrassia traces in great detail how the experience of indentured servitude, Barbary captivity, and plantation slavery in the colonial hinterlands provided a language of bondage that not only inspired a range of popular works but also gave female...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 January 2001
...-
franchisement, by “routing it through the language of civility and polite-
ness,” at the heart of which is the properly circumscribed, lovely female
body (p. 28). While individuals differed as to the source and potential
dangers of feminine beauty, they consistently described...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 28–51.
Published: 01 January 2003
... such as Bernard
Lamy and Charles Rollin in expanding rhetoric beyond oratory to include
written compositions.
Early modern theories of language and science had an equally strong
influence on the conceptualization of prose kinds. The scientific revolu...
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