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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of Morals
Eric W. Nye
University of Wyoming
Mona Scheuermann. Reading Jane Austen (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
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It is probably a sign of the times that contemporary readers can find so...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
... The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England Amanda Vickery Queen Mary University of London Religion and the Georgian world of goods are rarely discussed in tandem. There is immense scholarship on medieval Renaissance religious culture, but the modern history of consumerism is remarkably secular...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Lina Jiang This article focuses on Ann Murry's serial essay “The Moral Zoologist, or Natural History of Animals,” which appeared in the Lady's Magazine in sixty‐seven letters between 1800 and 1805. I argue that Murry's “The Moral Zoologist” contested the bounds of women's scientific knowledge...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 52–71.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Timothy M. Costelloe The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27104-Costello.q4.jw 4/14/03 10:56 AM Page 52
The Theater of Morals: Culture and Community in
Rousseau’s Lettre à M. d’Alembert...
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 8. Dedication page, with signature. Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: A. Bell, 1773), Houghton, AC7.W5602.773p(A).
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Melvyn New Because Laurence Sterne suggested that sermons should come from the heart and should be practical rather than polemical, his own sermons have often been read as products of a sentimental and secular midcentury ethos, moral essays without theological meaning. However, the appearance...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of what their female protagonists are and are not morally, socially, or legally permitted to do—and, more specifically, where their female protagonists are and are not morally, socially, or legally permitted to go —that it is hard not to detect in them a tacit expression of precisely such an interest...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
... intrigue, Haywood draws on the French salon romances that placed women in a position of power and influence. This aristocratic bias was friendly to Royalism. Jacobitism offered a home to women writers with an unconventional view of sexual morality and the politics of gender. Acknowledging the politics...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
... the metaphysical and empirical implications of specular display. It further reveals how mirrors functioned as cultural touchstones in critical debates over the correlation between morals and manners, authenticity and facsimile, ideal imitation and original expression, and how they thus provide fresh contextual...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 66–87.
Published: 01 April 2016
... before the Marriage Act of 1753 in England and Wales, especially the notorious clandestine marriage trade of London, I argue that there is a strong suggestion throughout that Sarah may not be simply a discarded mistress, but actually the rake's first wife. By contemplating ways in which the moral lesson...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 76–98.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of rational religion. To its followers, Methodism offered a model of spiritual sincerity and moral piety through internal revelations best exhibited through passionate, extemporary preaching. For anti-Methodists, it was crucial to formalize the supposedly organic occurrence of the extempore, thus reducing its...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., and 130 — reveals that the baronet’s work as a justice of the peace stimulates Mr. Spectator’s moral development. Sir Roger’s intimate relationships with his inferiors and his quasi-familial approach to problem-solving challenge Mr. Spectator’s worldview, allowing Addison and Steele to express their ideas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 January 2016
... moral philosophy or physics, Dennis's essays can also teach us about eighteenth-century proto-disciplinary organization. Recent work in cognitive cultural studies has shown that the concept of motion is of vital importance to understanding the way the brain comprehends and structures language. This has...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., emphasizing Steele's morals-and-manners journalism—but this is not a fair representation of his output. Identifying the connections between Steele and Hogarth allows us to appreciate each man's more radical proclivities. Hogarth transforms Steele's populism into something still more radical, emphasizing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 179–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of cultural concerns, from social aspiration, to moral rectitude. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 performance poetry elocution miscellanies education •
“A Just and Graceful Elocution”:
Miscellanies and Sociable Reading...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Andreas Mueller This article argues that Richard Hurd was more directly engaged than previously appreciated with the Anglo-Scottish cultural wars of the early 1760s over the nature of and center of gravity of an emergent British literary tradition. It establishes the ways Hurd’s Moral and Political...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 75–95.
Published: 01 September 2020
... are presented with war as an ethical or socio-moral problem, freighted with meanings of a very different kind. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Samuel Johnson lexicography eighteenth-century lexicology Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 3, September 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
... with the landowning classes, and who desired socially appropriate positions for her children, such horrors had to be set against the material opportunities made available by war. In both cases the representation of sympathy for the victims of war provides a way out of the moral impasse they encounter. Copyright...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 January 2014
...James Robert Wood Joseph Addison’s and Richard Steele’s The Spectator turned anecdotes into the moral equivalents of experiments in the science of human nature. Just as the experimental reports of the early Royal Society described exceptions to the ordinary workings of nature, The Spectator...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and friendship, this article also makes the case for Haywood’s radical vision of female virtue in contrast to didactic and pedagogical literature. Likewise, the article argues that Epistles showcases Haywood’s ambitious critical aims by incorporating both amatory pleasures and moral concerns. Copyright © 2019...
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