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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 166–187.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in their inconsistency. Previous assessments of Falconer's works focus on his employment of technical nautical language, or “sea language,” in both his poetic and practical texts. Siobhan Carroll, who is interested in Falconer's depictions of the British empire, suggests that “in the 1762 version, The Shipwreck 's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 13–45.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... 3. This letter, in which Jane Falconer writes anxiously in January 1771 for news of her husband, is in the British Museum, Add. MS 29, 132ff, 404. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 maritime poetry shipwreck lexicography nautical language georgic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 188–215.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Latin. Although Mitford depicts Johnny as feckless and naïve, his mistake indicates how nautical language isolates the denizens of the ship as a culture unto themselves. Despite the rough handling from his crewmates, Johnny adjusts and learns the temporal rhythms of his new position. Mitford is generous...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
...), sig.B1.r. Falconer refers to technical sea language as “marine language” in the title to his Universal Dictionary of the Marine (London: T. Cadell, 1769). 4. “Uncouth,” Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (London: A. Millar, 1755). 5. “Directions for Seamen, bound...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 3–12.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., 1750–1850 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2015), 84–92; Margaret Cohen, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2010), 120–26; Janet Sorensen, Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English (Princeton: Princeton...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
... voyages in the eighteenth century were uncertain, dangerous, and often fatal. If we consider the tens of thousands of sailors crisscrossing the oceans, it is scarcely surprising that nautical terms and experiences became staples of language, thought, and the imagination. There were other, more...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., an extraordinary illustration to Robinson Crusoe . . . Revised and Corrected for the Advancement of Nautical Education (1815) shows Crusoe and his shipmates struggling to get ashore in large surf between the Winterton lighthouse and Cromer (figure 7). Their long boat is poised at the top of what seems a cresting...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 106–133.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2017), 266. 31. As Johnson opines in his “Preface to Shakespeare,” “Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 118–127.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Nouvelle Cythère — an updated version of the mythical
Isle of Enchantement.19 In a more scientific mode, Bougainville added a brief
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lexicon of the Tahitian language complete with commentary — a specimen of
early cultural linguistics — but the most thoroughly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 78–97.
Published: 01 September 2002
...David Paxman The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26307-Paxman.q4.jw 3/25/03 3:32 PM Page 78
“Distance Getting Close”:
Gesture, Language, and Space in the Pacific...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 60–75.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in execution . . . a con-
stant Resolution, to reject all the amplifi cations, digressions, and swellings
of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men
deliver’d so many things, almost in an equal number of words.”16 According
to Sprat, any surplus language...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 168–187.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., and disappointments.
The new word aerostation meant “voyaging through air”; by analogy
with nautical travelers, aeronauts were those who sailed in air. But like
sea voyages, air voyages took place in a relatively featureless medium. Dis-
courses of description for both clouds and waves were in the 1780s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 62–80.
Published: 01 January 2007
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such circumstances as to be unexampled in the annals of nautical history.”
Mutinous Behavior and Its Impact on Civil Society 7 1
He appealed to common standards and trusted that “the world” would
receive Edward Christian’s attack on Bligh with the indignation and con-
tempt it deserved.13...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
... his claim to the Capacity assumed in the Title Page, of which he is much more tenacious than of his Character as a Poet.” 1 Although Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) defines a “sailor” simply as “a seaman, one who practices or understands navigation,” Falconer could have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 24–45.
Published: 01 January 2002
...
world of newspaper puffing was “the properest Theme for the Author of
The School for Scandal.” But where that play explored how newspaper gossip
created and manipulated reputation, The Critic has a more explicit political
focus: language and performance are not only...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
... visual interpretation The characterization of William Falconer's descriptive long poem, The Shipwreck , as a treasure trove of nautical knowledge, its “value” primarily existing in its “contain[ing] . . . within itself the rudiments of navigation,” obscures the significance of its media-supported...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 23–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
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3. Lorenzo Alessandro Zacagni (1657 – 1712), Christian apologist and prefect of the
Vatican Library under Pope Innocent XII.
4. The Accademia della Crusca was founded in Florence 1582 to examine the
language of Tuscany, define the meaning of words, and indicate good usage. Membership...
