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The Art of Imperial Maternity: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Empress Marie-Louise, and The King of Rome Sleeping
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Amanda Strasik In 1811, Pierre‐Paul Prud'hon painted an allegorical portrait of the infant Napoleon II for Empress Marie‐Louise, Napoleon's second wife and the child's mother, that was exhibited publicly at the Paris Salon the following year. Prud'hon's painting is distinctive because it lacks...
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Figure 3. François Gérard, Portrait of Marie-Louise Presenting the King of Rome , 1813, oil on canvas, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et Trianon, Versailles, photographic credit: © Huelam987, 2019. From Wikimedia Commons.
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Figure 4. Joseph Franque, The Empress Marie-Louise Watching Over the Sleeping King of Rome , 1811, oil on canvas, Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et Trianon, Versailles, photographic credit: © Thomas1313, 2018. From Wikimedia Commons.
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The Economics of Ethical Conversation: The Commerce of the Letter in Eliza Haywood and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Ros Ballaster Duke University Press 2010 R
The Economics of Ethical Conversation:
The Commerce of the Letter in Eliza Haywood
and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Ros Ballaster
University...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: New Insights from the Digital Miscellanies Index
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kathleen Lawton-Trask A sometime friend, sometime adversary of Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu largely resisted publication, sharing her work privately and denying authorship of some of her poems that made their way into print. Nevertheless, today she is considered a prominent literary...
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Writing against Sophie: Mary Hays's Female Biography as Enlightenment Feminist Critique of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 73–88.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Shane Greentree Mary Hays's Female Biography (1803) stands as a good example of collective biography, and a landmark in women's history writing. Scholarly debate continues on whether this epic text further develops Enlightenment feminism or marks a retreat from 1790s radicalism into early...
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Mary Shelley and the Monstrosity of War: Frankenstein and the Post-Waterloo Politics of Life
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Neil Ramsey Although Frankenstein has long been read in relation to revolutionary politics, there has been little specific discussion of the themes of suffering and the trauma of war in the novel, concerns that were central to much of Mary Shelley’s writing. Taking inspiration from Ahmed Saadawi’s...
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Anti-Gothic Gothic Animals in Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria (1798)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 101–119.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Elizabeth King Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria can be considered both gothic and anti‐gothic, in that it both evokes and subverts gothic imagery in order to emphasize women's oppression. Throughout the novel, Wollstonecraft employs gothic iconography while simultaneously dismissing gothic...
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The Reception History of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as a Celebrity Female Traveler
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 58–80.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Yoojung Choi Abstract Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's legacy as a celebrated female traveler offers a compelling case study for understanding how critics and readers sought to make sense of a woman's exceptional mobility. Her letters, written during her time in Turkey and Italy, were highly sought...
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New Science and the “New Species of Writing”: Eighteenth-Century Prose Genres
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 28–51.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Jill Marie Bradbury The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27103-Bradbury.q4.jw 4/14/03 10:55 AM Page 28
New Science and the “New Species of Writing”:
Eighteenth-Century Prose Genres...
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Stories of the Origin of Syphilis in Eighteenth-Century England: Science, Myth, and Prejudice
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 22–44.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Marie E. McAllister The College of William & Mary 2000 22
Stories of the Origin of Syphilis in
Eighteenth-Century England: Science,
Myth, and Prejudice
The stories we tell about the origins of things speak to who we are.
Each culture has...
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Rhetoric, the Pox, and the Grand Tour
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Marie E. McAllister In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, the Grand Tour, sex, and venereal disease became almost indivisible in the public imagination. The Grand Tour was an essential element of a well-born man's education. Yet a persistent belief developed that continental travel...
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The Further Surprising Adventures of the Scholarship of Robinson Crusoe
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 153–156.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Ann Marie Fallon 2. Tejumola Olaniyan, “Derek Walcott,” in Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation , ed. Belinda Edmonson (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 1999), 199 – 214; the quotation is from 210. 1. Ian Watt, Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don...
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Frances Burney and the “Cantabs”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 94–111.
Published: 01 April 2018
... full of agitation, so rarely quiet; so frequently replete with distress—confusion—suspence … even torture.” This paper examines Burney’s shifting, sometimes turbulent, relationship with the members of the Cambridge family—Richard Owen and his wife Mary Trenchard; their daughters Charlotte, Catherine...
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More than Eve: Women and Superior Secondariness in English Poetry, 1751–1810
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Michael Nicholson Mary Leapor, Mary Scott, Joanna Southcott, Lucy Aikin, and their peers collectively articulate what I call women's “superior secondariness.” To counter an eighteenth-century culture that represented man as “primary” (universal and originary) and woman as “secondary” (derivative...
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Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith on War and Acquiescence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Andrew Lincoln Queen Mary University of London This essay considers works published by two women writers as Britain was preparing for hostilities against revolutionary France in 1793. Both writ- ers considered the guilt arising from war. In response to the national Fast Day proclaimed for 19 April, 1793...
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The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
... The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England Amanda Vickery Queen Mary University of London Religion and the Georgian world of goods are rarely discussed in tandem. There is immense scholarship on medieval Renaissance religious culture, but the modern history of consumerism is remarkably secular...
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Introduction
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): v–ix.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Adam Potkay The College of William & Mary 2001 Introduction
This festschrift commemorates Robert Maccubbin’s twenty years as edi-
tor of Eighteenth-Century Life; its distinguished contributors are among the
many friends...
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Hume's “Supplement to Gulliver ”: The Medieval Volumes of The History of England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Adam Potkay The College of William & Mary 2001 Hume’s “Supplement to Gulliver”:
The Medieval Volumes of
The History of England
Difference in Opinions hath cost many Million of Lives...
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Comedies of Manners: British Romantic-Era Writers on America
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 63–77.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Kim Wheatley The College of William & Mary 2001 Comedies of Manners: British
Romantic-Era Writers on America
In Letters from North America (1824), Adam Hodgson identifies “the most
offensive peculiarity in American...
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