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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 225–245.
Published: 01 September 2002
...John Patrick Greene The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26314-Greene.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:38 PM Page 225 French Encounters with Material Culture of the South Pacific...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
...David Garrioch Work on the material culture of the eighteenth century has shown that light was more than a metaphor. The everyday social practise of the Enlightenment reposed on a contrast between light and dark. There was a growing emphasis on brightness in clothing and furnishings, and elite...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
... reflect, as literary-scholars-turned-curators, on what they learned about how material culture produces and records celebrity when the objects of study range beyond standard printed artifacts. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Shakespeare Austen curating celebrity exhibition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... material form in an illustrated manuscript book he produced in the first decades of the eighteenth century. As a work and an object, the Chronicles stages a series of conversations between print and manuscript. In exploring this unique case study, we expose how the mixed medium of the manuscript book could...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 116–134.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Matthew Martin The mastery of a hard-paste porcelain technology in Dresden in 1708 was a major natural philosophical achievement for the European Enlightenment. From the outset, the material possessed a representative function at the Saxon court, where it served to promote the power and cultural...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 96–115.
Published: 01 January 2017
...John McTague This article begins with a literary and material analysis of two instances of post- and intra-publication censorship in Poems on Affairs of State, vol. 4 (1707), and The Foundling Hospital for Wit (1743, 1744). As well as illuminating the climate in which political materials were read...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Pocket Atlas, The Polite Repository , and Le Souvenir ) in some detail to facilitate an understanding of how the genre developed in the nineteenth century. It will focus, in particular, on these annuals’ illustrative material and the ways in which pocket diaries promoted cultural improvement. Copyright...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2025
... material. It was as though the type of culturally loaded versions of Ossianic performance encountered in continental Europe had been subsumed into the general expectations of theatrical adaptation of Scott's works in Britain, and especially in the staging of his poetry. [email protected]...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of both studied restraint and social status. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 consumerism fashion material culture Anglicanism religion Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 3, September 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8718721 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 1 6 5...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., the paratext is busy and noisy, an alternative space in the miscellany through which the collection's antiquarian character is expressed. Both collections test their reader's willingness to engage with less well-known material. This article suggests that although the two poetic collections seem to have little...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Adam Rounce This article looks at the reception of a number of seventeenth-century poets in the eighteenth century, using the materials in the Digital Miscellanies Index (DMI). It considers whether the existing reception narrative of the relative neglect of John Donne and George Herbert during...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 January 2015
... as with a position.16 The Teague of the joke-book preface, by contrast, confidently claims that he can draw on the cultural capital provided by a group of his Irish friends—Bryan and a dozen others—to provide him with the material that he needs for his job, and, as he indicates when he promises that more...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
... science gender material culture eighteenth century In June 1795, Mary Wollstonecraft traveled to Scandinavia on a venture for the American businessman Gilbert Imlay, who had recently ended their romantic relationship. Following “eleven days of weariness on board a vessel not intended...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 102–109.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and to understand how the people living at that time sensed the texture of fabrics and felt about the marvelous qualities and stories associated with exotic objects. Because the ability to do so is far removed from inhabitants of the digital age, the documents and objects of material culture that have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
... nature of items of material culture and acts of communication in order to express their allegiances. Forbes's collection of Jacobite materials can be seen in this context as an act of resistance designed to preserve the perspectives of those on the losing side of history. 11 His comments...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 61–66.
Published: 01 January 2009
... all knowl- edge as forming a single system and producing, or associated with, politeness, intellectual creativity, and improvements of various kinds. He believes this was bound up with material culture. Every place was different in its mix of people, interests, and concerns, but everywhere...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 93–97.
Published: 01 January 2012
... female subject formation, was tightly bound up with a world of proliferating things — and with the habits of self- ­­objectification they inspired — is intriguing. Moving fluidly from literary texts to material culture, to Freudian theory, and back again, Park offers a lively and refreshing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 102–107.
Published: 01 April 2011
... production. In the second introductory essay, Mark Laird locates the collec- tion within broader concerns in eighteenth-­century scholarship, such as issues of taste and virtuosity, material culture, the iconography of the object, and the specialization of space in this period, notably by reconsidering...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... material culture that thrived throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. It reflected the popularity of texts and, in turn, catered to demand for such items as chairs embroidered with such fash- ionable visual media as William Kent s illustrations of John Gay s Fables, porcelain featuring iconic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and the view from the ground, Bell also shifts between the illusory intactness of the nation and the fragmented nature of its damaged subjects. Susan Pearce’s essay on the material culture of Waterloo was perhaps my favorite essay in the book because of its fascinating mini-history of the chang- ing...