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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of terror of the 1790s coincided with a new kind of political monstrosity asso- ciated with tyrants and mobs who broke with the social contract. This new idea of monsters would, in time, give rise to concerns with the moral mon- strosity of abnormal individuals and the potential monstrosity of all crimi...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 78–106.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., with prominent throat goiters; or
the Northumberland Monster, featuring the head, mane, and hooves of
a horse.8 Others enacted myth, like the Hottentot Venus and the Painted
Prince, a tattooed African.9
The representation of such curiosities as both learned phenomena and
popular entertainment...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 181–201.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of the
author of things: everything degenerates in the hands of man . who]
disfigures everything: he loves deformity, monsters. He wants nothing as it
was made by nature” (OC, 4:245).3 To be disfigured nature must have an
order, or at least an identifiable character...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 78–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the vgly monster plaine (1:14, l. 123), captures the moment of the knight s looking into the cave, the darksome hole (1:14, l. 120), and perceiving the defor- mity of Error, especially her serpent tail.25 Stothard departs from Kent s compositional idea of depicting both the Una- dwarf- lamb and error...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 135–146.
Published: 01 April 2001
... element is fused with
Christian symbolism. Indeed, the presence of Satan as the seventh head
makes the monster a type of the seven-headed Dragon of Revelation 13,
the Antichrist who “utters blasphemy” and “makes war upon the saints.”
The Whigs in fact used...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 82–108.
Published: 01 January 2005
..., the Fire is a prodigious monster,
consuming the city with voracious, apocalyptic energy. But worldly imag-
ery relating to fi nancial loss and gain, possession and dispossession, that
preoccupied other sections of the poem has an ironic, cooling eff ect on
the grandiose drama of the episode. Dryden’s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
....” The homosexual is suppressed by having filth heaped
upon him, or by being reconstructed as a monster. Thus Victor Frankenstein’s
abhorrence of his creature is a product of the homosexual’s internalized self-
loathing. The women in Victor’s life are “sacrificed to a male same-sex fantasy
because...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
... is helpless against the hierarchy that will impose on her a monster husband, until at the end she is revealed to be the daughter of the respectable Mr. Sealand. Indiana is an orphan, helpless in the clutches of her guardian, “nothing or a mere thing,” merely “one that is to be pregnant,” in her own words...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 55–58.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and
various other kind of monsters” (207). If that is integration, what did persecu-
tion look like?
Second, the introduction and conclusion to Literature, Religion, and the
Evolution of Culture present Weinbrot’s argument in terms of a confusing
One Step Forward, Two...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 58–83.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., monsters appear at moments of crisis as “disturbing
hybrids whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them
in any systematic structuration. And so the monster is dangerous, a form
suspended between forms that threatens to smash distinctions.”17 The toad-
eater, because...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 47–62.
Published: 01 April 2001
...?
According to Miller, Dyer is “an outsider in his ability to understand
the great engine of human physical distress” (p. 397), a permanent exile
who must be some type of “monster automatondemi-god” if pain lies
entirely outside his sphere (p. 382). Miller writes, “I took his...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 45–57.
Published: 01 September 2002
... civil attrib-
utes— houses, clothes, hunting tools, and religion— the New Hollanders’
humanity seems to be in doubt. As Augustine seems to say of humanoid
monsters, as Sepulveda argued in the mid sixteenth century of the natives
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 170–182.
Published: 01 April 2001
... creatures,” and were
compared variously to monsters, devils, reptiles, women, monkeys, asses
and butterflies.3 Their concern for elaborate clothing, including tight trou-
sers, large wigs, short coats, and small hats made them the ridicule of
their generation, who...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 136–149.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of the idealist novel that was
consequent on the sixteenth-century rediscovery of Heliodorus. The ancient
novel’s shapely stories of secret fugitives calmly rooted in wisdom and patiently
awaiting the resolutions of Providence offered an alternative to romance’s
“loose, baggy monsters” filled...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 28–33.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in Locke, the feeling of alone-
ness. . . . The extrasensory perception of isolation is an unmistakable deviation
from the foundational Lockean hypothesis that there are no innate ideas” (154).
But, of course, Locke was not dealing with Frankenstein’s creation. How the
monster’s loneliness or self...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 January 2001
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Bondeson, Jan. The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale (Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn-
sylvania, 2001). Pp. xv + 237. $29.95. ISBN 0-8122-3576-2
Burroughs, Catherine, ed. Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance,
and Society, 1790...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 January 2021
... if seamlessly incorporated, most forms of poetical plagiarism like those in Erasmus Darwin s Zoonomia (1794), which included some of Seward s own poetry, and those in Smith s poetry failed to adhere to a unity of style, thus creating hybrid poetic monsters. Bailes reads Seward s critique of Smith...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 51–77.
Published: 01 September 2006
...-
ally balanced to pursue a life of virtue,” Rollin describes him in far less
fl attering terms, claiming that “Brutus, it seems to me, must have been
regarded as a monster.”14 Bossuet, in contrast, praises the action as the apo-
gee of virtuous masculinity and sees Brutus as worth emulating...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 January 2001
... a part, a small but crucial
part, of a system of ontological classification in which the external world
of material objects is given an absolute priority, and in which those expe-
riences not stemming directly from them—sea monsters, ideology, di-
vinely ordained...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 71–80.
Published: 01 April 2015
... is the intention to do good or to
do harm. Moreover, satires are often formless, baggy monsters, like the Hind
and the Panther, Gulliver’s Travels, or Tristram Shandy. To which one might
answer that in mixed-genre works, the humor and force of the satire turn on
the selection of the forms being combined...
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