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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Terry F. Robinson This essay explores the impact of mirrors on Georgian-era theatrical and social performance. It suggests that looking glasses—as they burgeoned in eighteenth-century playhouses, offstage, onstage, and backstage—provided key sites for actors and audiences to engage with both...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... with other forms of writing and publication, mirroring the techniques of pamphlets and contributing to the polemical intertextuality that was a feature of the Revolution debate. For all its ephemerality, the genre had a powerful impact, serving all sides of the dispute and marking a convergence of literature...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 212–235.
Published: 01 January 2015
... in order to satisfy his ambitions in the metropolis. Johnson’s identity formation did not progress in a linear fashion that mirrored his physical movement from Ireland to London, but was rather a struggle that moved back and forth, depending on time, place, and circumstance. By exposing the ways that Irish...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., the likeness of the artist who faces the crowd and sketches the scene captured in Vauxhall Gardens , in other words, Rowlandson himself. An endless of hall of mirrors in which we can gaze at ourselves gazing at others gazing at us, Rowlandson's Vauxhall Gardens is indeed a print with many lives. Copyright...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 97–101.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 19 ills. $29.95. ISBN 0199269300
Arnaud Maillet. The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western
Art, translated by Jeff Fort. (New York: Zone, 2004). Pp. 300. 37 ills. $26.95.
ISBN 1 – 890951 – 47 – 1
Virginia E. Swain. Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 89–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
...: Society Hostesses and Social Networks 9 3
visual impressionism of Lady Blessington’s travelogues. Schmid cites a passage
from The Idler in Italy (1839–1840) to illustrate how “Blessington’s sociability is
mirrored by an all pervasive theatricality, which is embedded into the Italian
ambiance...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
... no merit in helping those he con- siders inferior in status or looks. Austen cleverly emphasizes Sir Walter s vanity by describing the excessive number of mirrors he has placed in his stately home, Kellynch, and his rented home in Bath. Admiral Croft, who has recently taken over Kellynch as its tenant...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 157–161.
Published: 01 April 2016
... on as the man
Sentimental Modernity in Literature and Film 1 5 9
hungrily eats. This three-part sequence, relying heavily on shot/reverse-shot
editing, triggers Deeds’s otherwise unexplained decision to create a foundation
to give away his newly inherited wealth—an act mirroring...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 62–87.
Published: 01 January 2000
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gular complexities and peculiarities. On one salient point, however, an
immediate corrective note is in order. Cole’s translation of the book’s title
as The Great “Mirror” of Folly is too free a rendering of the original Dutch,
which actually uses the word “picture” (or “scene The translation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 26–53.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of poetry itself. Not coincidentally, this double role as journalistic medium and arbiter of literary taste mirrored the challenges that British antislavery poets faced in presenting their nation's moral and material crimes accurately, while also writing in a genre governed by lyrical expectations...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., according to one visitor, fashionable shop “windows are filled with innumerable lights, that greatly illuminate the streets outside.” 5 Larger windows, mirrors, and crystal chandeliers also decorated cafés, which one observer described as “pretty houses of glass. . . . I see only lights and mirrors...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 153–155.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and
country houses, and still lifes. This biography even sets the stage for van der
Heyden’s interest in technology: his brother had a mirror manufacturing busi-
ness, and as a boy, Jan witnessed the old town hall burn down in 1652, which
doubtless inspired his interest in firefighting.
A chapter...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2023
... “Billy.” My feeling is that, as a freethinker and a rational follower of Newton, Hogarth disapproved of oppression of all kinds, but his principal aim was to hold up a mirror—in his case, using the medium of shiny copper plates and inked paper—for the relatively privileged to see how they themselves...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 170–182.
Published: 01 April 2001
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subjects of Ghezzi and Patch were produced for that same class of soci-
ety.11 Through their grotesqueries, these caricatures are configured as other,
even while they are mirrors of the rather confined social circle that looked
at them. The prints were surely intended...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2003
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rejoinder, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800). The female reader of the
novel reads a novel about a woman reading a novel; and these mise en
abymes,or embedded scenes of novel-reading, provide internal mirrors for
how the reader ought to read Emma Courtney and Modern Philosophers.In
what follows, I...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 January 2016
...-style visions, masques, embedded plays, mirror-reflections, arrays of
characters displaying disparate aspects of the protagonist. What sets his mod-
ern “allegories of identity” apart is that the inner truth to which the external
sign now refers is an ineffable, unfathomable self. Rousseau’s ideal...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
... that dental prostheses served pre-
dominantly cosmetic purposes (48). Later, Nicolas Dubois de Chémant
remarks in A Dissertation on Artificial Teeth in General (London, 1797) that
“[a]mong the number of charms which constitute perfect beauty, if the
eyes, commonly called the mirror of the soul, are justly...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 January 2023
... a novel, so by that train of logic, Defoe not only wrote a novel before Robinson Crusoe with the Continuation , but was also experimenting in novel writing as early as the beginning of the 1690s. The messiness of attribution mirrors the messiness of the story, a controversial satire told through...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 28–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., consciously or not, saw the Egypt that
worshipped Isis as a distant mirror of their own times. Having lived through
the French Revolution, the Terror, the Empire, and the restoration of the
Bourbons, the order’s members were keenly aware of how much their lives
were shaped by the violently shifting...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 92–96.
Published: 01 September 2015
... looks in the mirror are
only some of the examples Radisich sees as smart looking. Her close attention
to costume, such as the torn seam on a frock coat, or a dress similar to that of
a fashion plate, and to posture, like standing straight, or sitting slouched, con-
tribute to a nuanced reading...
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