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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
...David Garrioch Work on the material culture of the eighteenth century has shown that light was more than a metaphor. The everyday social practise of the Enlightenment reposed on a contrast between light and dark. There was a growing emphasis on brightness in clothing and furnishings, and elite...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 19–31.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Yvonne Noble The College of William & Mary 2001 Light Writing from a Dark Winter:
The Scriblerian Annus Mirabilis
May 1722 to May 1723 was an anxious time for many in London. Rob-
ert Walpole, the prime minister, had...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 46–61.
Published: 01 September 2024
...James Morland In this article, I examine the role of conversations with the dead in the darkened solitude of grief in the poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Thomas Gray. Close reading reveals how grieving in darkness is often paralleled with a feeling of separation from a light‐filled system...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...” light. It aims to show that sentimentalism affirmed Christian virtues such as charity and chastity, but it radically transmuted and displaced those virtues. In particular, it argues that sentimental fiction imaginatively negotiated the difficulties of practicing Christian virtue in a rapidly changing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
... observers within the larger scientific knowledge-building enterprise that drew from the diffusion of Enlightenment classificatory systems, overseas exploration, and trade. This article brings to light four understudied eighteenth-century female empiricists: the mistress of Hardwick House, Whitchurch...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Clares included not only printed works but also numerous manuscripts—many of them translations—that fostered a devotional culture drawing on diverse strands of continental Catholicism. Sister Cecily Joseph's prayer books, often highly miscellaneous in their contents, shed light on how manuscripts were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of “the book” changes in light of historical archival practices and present‐day techniques of digitization and computational literary analysis. The Ballitore Collection consists of roughly 2,500 letters, journals, and notes related to the eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Irish Quaker community of Ballitore...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... in Mourning” remained unpublished in Forbes's lifetime, the Scottish Historical Society published a three‐volume printed version in 1895–96. The printed version succeeded in generating knowledge about the work, but it also fundamentally changed how the manuscript was perceived. In an effort to shine new light...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 73–88.
Published: 01 April 2017
... writers, and Hays's work can also be seen in this light, for her biographies present a strikingly opposed view of the proper education of women. To this end, I examine Hays's innovative depiction of childhood education, and the great emphasis she places upon her subjects' reading and intellectual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... such an image, some radicals deployed the figure of the shoemaker to demonstrate that the ethos of noisy alehouse sociability could further artisan claims to public citizenship. In making this argument, the essay sheds new light on the role of classical republican discourse in plebeian politics, and it also...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... questions the desirability of the very existence of the British landowning classes, concluding: “They were gone who deserved not to stay.” Austen's ultimate ambivalence about the survival of her culture's values and even its members takes on new significance when read in light of novels that import romantic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 39–75.
Published: 01 April 2011
... her into established networks in the profession. It then reveals the ways in which an actress's legal status as feme covert might impact upon her professional agency, particularly in light of her unique position as both trader and object of trade. The essay then goes on to consider how actresses...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
... sumptuous cultural history of the gardens, this article concludes with a closer look at a version of the print that has only recently come to light. Part of the Paul Mellon Collection housed at the Yale Center for British Art, this image, perhaps a trial version, contains a surprising figure that is absent...
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in Enlightened “Museums of Images” or Decorative Displays? Elizabeth Seymour Percy and the Eighteenth-Century Print Room
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 3. Leaf from one of the duchess's print albums. Prints by Johannes Sadeler I (after Maarten de Vos), The First Day: The Creation of Light and The Second Day: The Creation of the Firmament (1580–90), engravings, Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Bail SpC/RB
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Eric Parisot; Robert Phiddian; Katie Barclay Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Darkness and light—the binary opposition most deeply embedded...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 106–113.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of
Liverpool in 2007, and with Liverpool’s designation as European Capital of
Culture in 2008. They were also scheduled to mark the fortieth anniversary
of the late Benedict Nicholson’s landmark catalogue raisonné Joseph Wright of
Derby: Painter of Light, published for the Paul Mellon Foundation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., and the imperial flowers bow down before [Napoleon II], as if to salute him and promise him strength. The light, like that of the dawning of the day, illuminates this gracious composition, distinguished by its smooth brushwork and fresh palette.” 18 This remark reveals that the inspiring effects of morning...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 119–124.
Published: 01 January 2013
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Useful as Hilles’s and Boyce’s articles are in establishing a history of the
reception of the Life of Pope, they are dated and thus represent a critical choice
that undermines this edition’s second aim, to “throw some light upon the
place of the Lives in the broad context of Johnson’s life, thought...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
.... Navigation is through mouse clicks or, if
one is using an iPad, by touching.
Click (or poke) on a specific painting and a “light box” window will
pop up with a larger version of the picture and helpful information includ-
ing its position in the catalog, its current 2013 location, any alternative...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... In
doing so, they shed new light on the connections between poetic miscella-
nies and the literary canon as we have come to understand it. As several of
these essays note, the works with which we are today most familiar are not,
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