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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 49–66.
Published: 01 April 2003
...Robert A. Houston The College of William & Mary 2003
The Face of Madness in Eighteenth- and Early
Nineteenth-Century Scotland
Robert A. Houston
University of St Andrews
In 1806 the anatomist...
Journal Article
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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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2010
...William Gibbons The magician Zoroastro plays a critical role in Handel's opera Orlando (1733). He opens the first act with a dramatic monologue, keeps the hero Orlando from wreaking too much havoc in his madness, and eventually brings the opera to a peaceful conclusion. Despite his importance...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of defendants to
fashion pleas of diminished responsibility based on popular perceptions of
mental distress. This version of madness differed significantly from excul-
patory insanity as defined by the law and in legal commentary. With words
like “confusion...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 138–158.
Published: 01 April 2008
... imaginings begin to
lead to dire consequences — potential drownings and a suitor’s near-mortal
wounding — Sir George hires an actress to impersonate Cynecia, a princess
of Gaul, who attempts to jolt the heroine out of madness through perfor-
mance. The actress playing Cynecia, ensnaring Arabella...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 1–42.
Published: 01 April 2000
... for folly and de-
ceit. In such a context, the conditien published at the beginning of Het
groote tafereel cease to be legal documents and come to be read as the
quixotic schemes of mad projectors—like the deranged experiments wit-
nessed by Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver in the Grand Academy of Lagado...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 60–67.
Published: 01 April 2008
... to Swift in Beckett’s early writings, and testifies to
the double articulation of asylum as both a place of madness and of sanc-
tuary.4 Yet neither of these studies (nor those of Fletcher) does full justice
to Swift’s presence in the earlier collection of short stories, More Kicks than
Pricks (1934...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 1–44.
Published: 01 April 2009
... for
the tax were, for the most part, not devoid of compassion toward his human
constituency. The destruction of dogs, he argued, would reduce the large
number of cases of hydrophobia (rabies) caused by mad dogs that dispro-
portionately afflicted the poor, and would curtail the many attacks of dogs...
Journal Article
Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the plays’ low and often violent and cruel brand of comedy. Gregory Baum illustrates how D'Urfey uses characters as activators of Don Quixote's madness and describes how Don Quixote's will in part 3 satirizes Sancho. Baum also contrasts the different worldviews of Don Quixote and Sancho in a way...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 23–40.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Frederica Locke of that dreadful harrowing never to be for- gotten moment of horrour that made me wish to be mad ( JL, 4:386).2 Her letter reveals the thin line between grief and madness, and her later responses exhibit an unusual turn to religion that would reappear in her subsequent writings...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., the books shielded within the library's walls. His folly is dangerous because it is no longer contained: it spreads out and sets on fire his cultural environs to build from their ashes misshapen replicas of an exemplary past. His madness comes with selective memory and microscopia: the books...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
... made the study of religious belief so difficult for
modern scholars.9 The second sentence alone speaks volumes: “That he
eventually went mad — as did his more illustrious contemporaries Defoe,
Pope, and Swift — we should at least surmise from his later works . . . if we
had no more explicit...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 31–44.
Published: 01 September 2002
... to be
dangerous. This view, which was particularly that of the church, was for-
mulated by Fénelon, future archbishop of Cambrai, in a letter to Mme. de
Chevreuse in which he quotes Teresa of Avila, who saw the imagination as
an element of madness in the human makeup: “Elle ne...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 85–103.
Published: 01 April 2013
... into the very sort of egoist her father must have been when he
selected Mr. Delvile for her. Her “frenzy,” an indication of madness fur-
ther supported by her cry that her “brain is on fire” before her blood ves-
sel bursts, suggests that her emotionally unsuitable union has essentially
driven her mad...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
.... . . . In the early days of the novel, during
the seventeenth century, such reading was regarded as a form of madness,
because it meant becoming someone else.”3 In other words, ekstasis is at the
very heart of the reading experience.
What Iser says about the act of reading also applies to the act of writ...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the problems stem from the hero's madness—and since the magician Zoroastro prevents all harm from occurring, there is little to worry about. We get a fine display of madness, but little dramatic tension. Arminio manages some serious plot conflict by way of Germano-Roman wars, but again, the ending...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 153–156.
Published: 01 January 2025
... first essay in this section, Benjamin Pauley considers Crusoe as a rambler, and uses The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe to demonstrate Crusoe's unchanging rambling ways. He never settles in England, as we might assume if we just stop at the more famous volume 1, but remains “a mad rambling boy...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 147–155.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of Our
Minds: Reason and Madness in the Discovery of Central Africa [University of
California, 2000 It prompts a reader in the twenty-first century to ask what
the historical reality was that lurked to one side of the falsely unified view-
points...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 83–105.
Published: 01 April 2010
... mad-
dest satire. Unlike the traditional and New Critical approaches, Phillip Harth’s
Swift and Anglican Rationalism (1961) studies the historical background but is
not interested in offering a “reading” of A Tale. Twenty-first-century readers
of A Tale, dubious about the imposition of order...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 63–77.
Published: 01 April 2001
...,
the whole congregation occasionally joining responsive to his notes. The
madness now became threefold increased, and such a scene presented it-
self as I could never have pictured to my imagination, and as I trust, for the
honour of true religion...
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