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Masonic Rivalries and Literary Politics in the Jacobite Era
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 93–100.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Ian Higgins Marsha Keith Schuchard . Masonic Rivalries and Literary Politics from Jonathan Swift to Henry Fielding (Amazon Create Space: Gauthier Pierozak Editeur, 2018 ). Pp. ii + 715. $30 . Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth...
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Divining Zoroastro: Masonic Elements in Handel's Orlando
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2010
... literary works of the time, and was particularly associated with Freemasonry. Using Zoroastro/Zoroaster as a starting point, this article reveals the presence Masonic imagery and ideology in Orlando , and suggests that Handel and his librettist were tailoring their operas to the wealthy Masonic-friendly...
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In Search of Fanny Hill’s “Sacred Sisters”: Celtic Scholarship on Page and Stage
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 105–136.
Published: 01 April 2019
... shall discuss eighteenth-century representations of female power in ancient Europe, with the resulting clashes of ideas on sex and gender. I shall proceed to a discussion of dramatic treatments of Druidic wisdom, focusing on Elfrida (1752) and Caractacus (1759) by William Mason (1725–97), and conclude...
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The London Irish and the Antients Grand Lodge
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
... that the new lodge also attracted English Masons. Its rapid growth in London and provincial England was seeded by the bigotry and condescension with which many in England viewed the Irish, but was more a function of the Antients’ social inclusivity and its commitment to mutual support. This resonated not only...
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The Yale Edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 119–124.
Published: 01 January 2013
... on the history of wit (1:325 – 26), but he too fails to
notice Johnson’s engagement with these important French neoclassicists, dis-
cussed by H. A. Mason, G. F. Parker, and Philip Smallwood.4 Indifference to
the French origins of Johnson’s critical thought surfaces elsewhere in both the
Yale...
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“Frances Burney's Legacy Duty Account” (1840)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of gardens, cleric, and ardent Whig: William Mason. The two men, born only a year apart, first met in 1746, when they were in their early twenties, renewing their acquaintance in the 1760s after Burney returned to London from a nine-year stay in King's Lynn. Sixteen letters between them are extant, five...
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“A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
...–9 Mukhtar Ali Isani 10 “Ocean” Ms Sept. 1773 Private / Mark E. Mitchell (auctioned at Christies 29 May 1998) 1999 “ ‘Ocean’: A New Poem by Phillis Wheatley,” Early American Literature, 34.1: 78–83. Julian D. Mason 11 “Mrs Thatcher's Son is Gone” 1765 Jeremy Belknap's Diary, MHS...
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Horace Walpole, the Prince, and the Baron
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 January 2025
... tamer.) Knight forgot to return the bronze and did not send a copy of the book, to Walpole's irritation. 66 A subsequent publication by Knight, The Progress of Civil Society (1796), “offended and disgusted” an aging and ailing Walpole (Walpole to Mason, 22 March 1796, HWC , 29:338). In part...
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Gentility, Governance, and Race in the Eighteenth-Century Theater
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 115–126.
Published: 01 September 2007
...). Pp. 300. $60. 40 ills. ISBN 0-8014-4344-x Virginia Mason Vaughan. Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 . (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. 190. $75. 10 ills. ISBN 0-521-84584-x Duke University Press 2007 Review Essay
Gentility...
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“Gingerbread and sippets of embroidery”: Horace Walpole and Robert Adam
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and regular correspondent the Revd. Wil-
liam Cole visited Strawberry Hill in October 1774, he records that Horace
showed him the newly created Chapel in the Woods, which had been
begun two years earlier by Thomas Gayfrere, Master Mason to Westminster
Abbey...
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Annotation, Nation, and Canon Formation
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 113–118.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and depth of Pope s engagement with Homer, ultimately claiming that no other English translation of Homer has been able to recreate the narrative of the Iliad in as poetically compelling and satisfying a way as Pope s (124). In Allu- sion and Quotation in Chaucerian Annotations, 1687 1798, Tom Mason...
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Playing with Fire: Love of Light and Nocturnal Shadows
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
...” was the apt phrase Margaret Jacob used to describe the way that tens of thousands of European Freemasons enacted and adopted certain central tenets of Enlightenment thought in their ceremony, ideology, and social events. The rhetoric of light was everywhere in Masonic discourse, always contrasted to the dark...
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Books Received
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 122–129.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Companion to Laurence Sterne
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2009). Pp. xvi + 203. 12 ills. $28.99 paper.
ISBN 978-0-521-61494-8
Kimber, Edward. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson, ed. Matthew
Mason and Nicholas Mason (Peterborough: Broadview, 2009). Pp. 242. $19.95...
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Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
... a general good
taste throughout the land”—and for “entertainment,” for “what could be
more delightful than to hear the beautiful and sublime sentiments of a
Milton, a Shakespear, a Dryden, a Pope, a Tillotson, a Young, an Addi-
son, a Shenstone, or a Mason?” His editorial choices—a combination...
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The Digital Miscellanies Index and the Canon
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
... discovering that Cowley was ‘sunk in his reputa-
tion,’ yet, when that discovery is made over and over again as a new and
modern development, one begins to doubt.”11 Tom Mason agrees, finding
that “continuance of high esteem followed by sudden near oblivion seems
also to be the true history of Cowley’s...
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Tristram Shandy and War Representation
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
... in an imaginative picture of war. Tragic plays of the 1750s do not, in general, directly address contem- porary war, in the way that poetry does, but they often have a similar patriotic and emotional understanding of war. William Mason s 1759 Car- actacus is a closet drama, a dramatic poem, rather than a play...
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Knights Errant of the Distressed: Horace Walpole, Thomas Chatterton, and Eighteenth-Century Charitable Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
...), Walpole forwarded the papers to Thomas Gray and William Mason who promptly and accurately judged them modern forgeries. In particular, they insisted that the word glumm in the first line of The Warre ( Of Warres glumm Pleasaunce doe I chaunte mie Laie ) was a modern cant term; as we shall see...
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BOOKS RECEIVED
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 128–130.
Published: 01 April 2000
.... of California, 2000). Pp. xx + 188. $45. ISBN 0-520-
21794-2
Hoffman, Ronald, in collaboration with Sally D. Mason. Princes of Ireland, Planters
of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782 (Chapel Hill & London: Univ. of North
Carolina for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History & Culture, 2000...
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The Secret Napoleonic Code
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 28–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
... was not for soldiering but for drama, and he had an impressive
theatrical career, composing some 150 plays for the boulevard theaters of Paris.
Spieth’s discussion of Cuvelier amply points out not only the more obvious
parallels between theater and Masonic ritual — many of the Sophisians were
writers, composers...
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The Importance of the Chinese Connection: The Origin of the English Garden
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 70–98.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of landscape—
elaborate, wide-spread, greatly diversified, and having classical associa-
tion,”7 they also admired what William Mason terms “those glowing scenes,
that taught a Claude / To grace his canvas with Hesperean hues.”8 How-
ever, as Raymond Williams says aptly, it “is an ironic insularity...
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