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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 80–93.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Steven D. Scherwatzky The College of William & Mary 2001 “Complicated Virtue”: The Politics
of Samuel Johnson’s
Life of Savage
One of the most memorable episodes in Johnson’s Life...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 96–107.
Published: 01 April 2003
...Timothy M. Costelloe The College of William & Mary 2003 Review Essay
A Well-Rounded Character?
The Impurity of Kant’s Life and Thought
Timothy M. Costelloe
College of William & Mary
Kuehn...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 85–87.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Edward E. Andrews Quaque Philip . The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary ., ed. Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese ( Athens : Univ. of Georgia , 2010 ). Pp. xii + 219. 5 ills. $39.95 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 January 2014
... Cleland Get a Life?
Mark Blackwell
University of Hartford
Hal Gladfelder. Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2012). Pp. xii + 311. $54.95
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Roger L. Emerson Roderick Graham. The Great Infi del: A Life of David Hume (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2004). Pp 448. £14.99 paper. ISBN 1-86232-228-7 Duke University Press 2007 Review
Roger L. Emerson
University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 29–37.
Published: 01 April 2019
... by editing a text that was both the author’s first literary work and one that he subsequently repudiated. Our edition argues for the continuity of this early text with some of the concerns that become evident in Cleland’s later life and writings. In particular, we explore some of the novel’s many references...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 April 2019
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in terms of the march of progress and development of the “inner life” of the nation, Frankenstein offers a different vision of awakening life by turning the novel, as Sara Guyer claims, toward biopolitical concerns with the organization of life and death. In Frankenstein , the wartime awakening...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Julie Park In this essay, I seek to redefine life writing to encompass the very forms used for recordkeeping in eighteenth‐century commonplace books, in the flow of life as it happened, primarily through lines in grids used in indexes for separating pieces of information and designating subject...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Lucy Powell This article analyzes two paintings by Jakob Bogdani, of the exotic aviaries of Admiral Churchill at Little Park, Windsor, between 1708 and 1710. In it, I argue that by following Bodgani's development from a painter of traditional still lifes to an innovative painter of exotic birds, we...
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in Jakob Bogdani's Stuffed Titmouse: Birds, Still-Life Painting, and the Global Imaginary
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. Jakob Bogdani, Still Life with Fruits, Parrots, and White Cockatoo (1708-09), oil on canvas. Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2022.
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in Jakob Bogdani's Stuffed Titmouse: Birds, Still-Life Painting, and the Global Imaginary
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 3. Jacob Bogdani, Still Life of Fruit and Birds in a Landscape (1708–10), oil on canvas, private collection. Courtesy of Richard Green Gallery, 2022.
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in Jakob Bogdani's Stuffed Titmouse: Birds, Still-Life Painting, and the Global Imaginary
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 4. Section of Still Life with Birds and a Capuchin Monkey (1708–10). Private collection.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... with the formal erotic, affective, and spiritual experience of rapture and thus demonstrates their dynamic interconnectedness. The result is a new account of Pope's poetic career, and a new assessment of the relationships between writing and life. Pope came to concentrate on writing satire in the last third...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Susan Kubica Howard Writing in the popular nineteenth‐century genre of queens’ lives, Charlotte Papendiek's memoirs, published under the title Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte , chronicle both the life of the queen as well as that of Papendiek. Papendiek establishes her agency...
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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 (1): 37–55.
Published: 01 January 2022
... eventually deepened into a warm appreciation by the end of her life. A broad sampling of her work from her early journals and The Witlings through her companion comedy The Woman-Hater (1802), later life-writings, and the Memoirs of Dr. Burney provides a more complete account of her relationship...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 217–235.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Alexis Chema In this essay, I will analyze William Wordsworth's commonplace book, DC MS26, alongside his poetic and critical statements on the idea of the commonplace in order to reevaluate his stance on book reading, especially on the role of books in rural life. Although his actual commonplace...
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in “The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 4. A prayer of thanksgiving, from John Cannon's “Χρονɛχα seu Annales: Or: Memoirs: Of the: Birth, Education, Life and Death of: Mr. Iohn Cannon” (1741 – 42), MS, “John Cannon's Diary, DD/SAS/C1193/4,” Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, f. 356. Photograph by the authors.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
... doctrines he preached during his entire adult life; the writings of John Norris, of Bemerton, highly praised by both Dunton and Sterne, would be a good place to begin. Duke University Press 2011 R
Laurence Sterne’s Sermons
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