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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Claudine van Hensbergen Duke University Press 2010 R
“Why I Write Them, I Can Give No Account”:
Aphra Behn and “Love- Letters to a Gentleman”
(1696)
Claudine van Hensbergen
St. Edmund...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 104–109.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Natania Meeker Loubère Stéphanie . L'Art d'aimer au siècle des Lumières ( Oxford : The Voltaire Foundation , 2007 ). Pp. vii + 343. 4 ills. $140 Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Review Essay
Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by making it easier to consult liturgical books in church. Wherever funds were available and “Christian enlightenment” prevailed, painted windows and walls were now replaced with white or clear glass and whitewash. 7 The love of light was also expressed in firework displays, used for an ever-wider...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Alison Conway The College of William & Mary 2001 The Protestant Cause and a Protestant Whore:
Aphra Behn’s Love-letters
Critics have often commented on Aphra Behn’s identification with the
figure of the whore, especially in relation to her work as a playwright...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2017
... a collection of pornographic poems at the close of the second volume under the title The Cabinet of Love , Curll subtly created a false association between Rochester and its content. Providing a bibliographical analysis of The Works , this essay traces the shifting ways in which Rochester and his poems were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2019
... dogmatic and more accommodating than his Roman original, particularly with regard to the mortality of the soul. Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725705 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 Lucretius, Englishman: Meter, Mortalism, and Love in Dryden s...
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When History Caught Up with Historians: Biographies of Contemporaries in Encyclopedias, 1674 to 1750
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 47–74.
Published: 01 January 2021
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of his life, but he was also a translator, a textual scholar, a prodigious letter writer, and in the first major phase of his career, a love poet depicting young women in love, such as Sapho, Eloise, the Unfortunate Lady, and Belinda, often focusing on erotic rapture and death. From about 1728 until his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
... pro-French sentiment; Jacobite themes of exile and lost love are also present. Haywood glorifies the victories and conquests of Charles XII of Sweden, who was a Jacobite hero, and who acts as a surrogate for Charles Edward Stuart in the novel. In that part of the novel concerned with love and amorous...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Bradford Mudge Situating a reading of Henry Angelo and the English “love of portraiture” between an anxiety about monuments and history on one side and an anxiety about money and fiction on the other, this essay argues for an appreciation of Angelo's Reminiscences that moves past individual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 85–103.
Published: 01 April 2013
... as a scapegoat for the deeply flawed institution of marriage itself. The courtship narrative rewrites several aspects of conventional clandestine marriage plots, such as stock male characters, lengthy debates between love and duty, climactic wedding scenes, and punitive conclusions. The economic plot, featuring...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Adam Komisaruk Critics from the eighteenth century to the present have largely agreed in portraying Erasmus Darwin as an apostle of sexual liberation. One of Darwin’s career-long themes, that erotic love unifies the visible universe and the invisible, reaches its apotheosis in The Botanic Garden...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 30–60.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Alex Feldman From his first play, Love and a Bottle (1698), to the masterpiece that crowned his career, The Beaux ’ Stratagem (1707), George Farquhar's oeuvre is traversed by legal motifs and legal scenarios, from satirical attacks upon the judiciary, to serious engagements with the law of contract...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
... sentimental tales about hunchbacks in love. Both professionals and amateurs seem to have used them as technical exercises—as a way of amusing themselves and showing off their skill at mimetic versification. As such, deformity poems illustrate the everyday uses of verse in this culture: they were written...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2018
.... In performing close readings of two of Behn’s most complex and perverse runaway-woman narratives, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-87) and The History of the Nun (1688), this essay recalibrates our sense of Behn’s connection with and contribution to what would come to be called the women’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2017
... it among the long English narratives with which it was contemporary: Butler's Hudibras (1663, 1664, 1678), Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684), Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel (1681), and Behn's Love-Letters between a Noble-Man and His Sister (1984, 1985, 1987). What Paradise Lost shares...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2004
...), the original letters
consisted “chiefly of School Divinity, and the Learning of those Times”
and thus were “rarely to be met with but in publick Libraries, and in the
Hands of some learned men, [and] are much more known by a Translation,
or rather Paraphrase of them in French.”7 The love letters...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 126–139.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., purpose, and insight on display in these two books,
and in their very different investments and procedures.
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“What role,” Katherine Binhammer asks, “does seduction play in teaching us
how to love?” (9). Focusing on the decades between the publication of Samuel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 83–87.
Published: 01 April 2024
... droll prosaicness (62–69). Chapter 3, “Love and Books,” details Swift's non-love poems of the late 1710s and early 1720s, including his narrative poems, such as “The Progress of Beauty,” “The Progress of Marriage,” and “The Progress of Love,” as well as his birthday poems to Stella, holder...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 46–61.
Published: 01 September 2024
... been associated with the reclusive philosopher or the religious hermit, but the figure of the solitary mourning poet reflecting on death offers a view of solitude that is distinctly different. A common theme of poetry dealing with intimate love and friendships across Western culture is death...
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