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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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
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