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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 31–52.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Will Pritchard The College of William & Mary 2000 Masks and Faces: Female Legibility in the Restoration Era Thus while he spake, each passion dimm’d his face, Thrice chang’d with pale, ire...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... In discussing a mask the harlot has casually tossed aside, for example, Paulson tells us: The mask lying on a table in the second plate of the Harlot’s Progress is a simple emblem of deceit, whose classical source can be found in emblem books or in paintings like Annibale Carracci’s Choice...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of a Name: The Life of Voltaire” (17  –  ­30), the volume’s contributors invariably try to come to terms with the many masks and voices Voltaire assumed over his long and turbulent career. Turnovsky calls Voltaire “an advocate of humanity itself” (28); the “essential” Voltaire can, nevertheless...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., and literary narrative, is its penetration of sensibility’s defensive maneuvers. In a discussion of where the internal con- tradictions and tensions in sensibility lie, she stresses that its “masked urge to instruct is, in fact, one of the most powerful expressions of its philosophical insecurity” (164...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 January 2001
... denial of imagination in political thought, and its supposed absence from his writ- ing, masks a deeper reliance on it. Whale begins to employ a psychoana- lytic discourse; the imagination functions in Cobbett’s text like the return of a repressed memory...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 34–36.
Published: 01 January 2009
... traces of redeem- ing virtues. Rousseau’s vision of a society where appearance masks reality—in this case, where officials put up false fronts, secretly indulging in sexual dal- liances, while they order others imprisoned, sent to the galleys, or even exe- cuted for the same behavior—is amply...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2014
... distinct from the author. These eidolons are not merely the public masks of private writers, but also fully fledged characters in their own right, with both public faces and personal histories and predilections. Powell’s study, I believe, is most sophisticated and valuable in explicating...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 32–35.
Published: 01 September 2010
...” conservative behind the mask of progressive anti-­establishment critique, and denounces even scholars like Carol Houlihan Flynn for complicity in this complicity (65). Mackie’s prosecutorial drive sometimes flattens the most interesting ironies, for exam- ple, that Boswell, acting the blackguard...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 105–109.
Published: 01 September 2013
... quotes Shaftesbury’s comment in his essay “Sen- sus Communis” in which he imagines an Ethiopian “transported on a sudden” to Paris or Venice during the carnival where everyone wears a mask and cos- tume. She rightly observes that this individual is cast in the role of the moral- ist who laughs...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 98–109.
Published: 01 April 2008
... anonymity” echoes Johnson’s definition of anonymity in The Rambler 208 (14 March 1752) as a “mask” that “confers a right of acting and speaking with less restraint, even when the wearer happens to be known” (Works, 5:317 – 18). Johnson’s subsequent fame, as an anonymous author who was also known...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 1–50.
Published: 01 September 2006
... what in Scotland would be thought down- right madness.” Masquerade dress and topsy-turvy social norms he saw as “turning all into ridiculous”; “St Marks’ Place is like a throng of fools,” he remarked: Water, Windows, and Women 5 Everybody is in mask...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 12–16.
Published: 01 September 2010
... colloquial presence is masked . . . with anony- mous phrases like ‘it is said’ or ‘we are told,’ substitutions which preserve the air of oral history but efface its authority” (158). Thus, reprinting past classics also involved reproducing and disseminating the critical opinions of the pres- ent...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 76–80.
Published: 01 September 2010
... with the frivolous European fantasies of chinoiserie, thus masking how revolutionary Chinese design was in the “English landscaping revolution” (11). Liu aims to “go beyond Walpole and chinoiserie” and dismisses the relevance of the latter by branding it “Ori- entalist”; along these lines, he invokes Edward...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 93–97.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the poetics and semantics of excess reinforce one another in the debate between the Lady and Comus in Milton’s A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus). The pleasure of shadowing a literate and sophisticated critic renders Making Waste valuable, but its tantalizing brevity leaves one craving another...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 113–117.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... The playhouse chapter presents standard evi- dence about anxiety over actresses’ bodies. Pritchard concludes the chapter by remarking that “the mask was reassuring to men” because it was “an empty sign that gains its meaning by metonymy; the container stands for its contents” (109-­10), and I would have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 101–105.
Published: 01 September 2012
... discusses fascinating visual materials, and she mobilizes useful metaphors — ​of a mask, a cup, and a book — ​to illustrate her central arguments about Graffigny’s, Ric- coboni’s, and Charrière’s works. Bostic’s chapters on methodology and her theoretical framework are also quite engaging...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2007
... as that of which he had suspected Addison and Tickell. He was all stiletto and mask. To injure, to insult, and to save himself from the consequences of injury and insult by lying and equivocating, was the habit of his life” (1:cxlii). Public response to Elwin’s harsh bias was so negative that he retired...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 109–114.
Published: 01 January 2022
...: depositing a manuscript with a printer by dead drop or through a masked intermediary. Or alternatively, one could include enough indirection, innuendo, and ambiguity that no uniform meaning or message could possibly be pinned down in the courtroom. Shaftesbury summed up this link between irony...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
... was perdigously Chinkd, but it served to wear under the other parts o’ the dress—he had an Otahietie Stick in one hand, and a pillow in the other, and with a Cosmetic of his own invention and preparation, he wash’d his Mask & his hands so as to make them the colour of Omiah’s, and he tattoo’d...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 85–91.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and the deliberately ambivalent. Like Shelley’s great political works (from short ones like “England in 1819” to long ones like The Mask of Anarchy), Blake’s narrative prophecies marshal a variety of voices to destabilize the very anger that they embody. The reader is forced to assess these discursive dramas...