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One Popular Playwright, One Private Man

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Linda Bree
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 83–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3143791
Published: 01 September 2015
... + 865 . $350 ; vol. 3 : Pp. xxi + 722 $299 . Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay One Popular Playwright, One Private Man Linda Bree Cambridge, England Henry Fielding. Plays, vol...
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Scotland and Naples: Two Contexts, One Enlightenment

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Jeffrey Smitten
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 48–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2008-024
Published: 01 January 2009
...: Two Contexts, One Enlightenment Jeffrey Smitten Utah State University John Robertson. The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680 – 1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. 463. $90. £55. ISBN 0-521-84787-7...
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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Jacob Sider Jost
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 55–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3143731
Published: 01 September 2015
...Jacob Sider Jost Weinbrot Howard D. , Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780 . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xii + 371 . $60 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay One Step Forward...
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Figure 3. Leaf from one of the duchess's print albums. Prints by Johannes Sadeler I (after Maarten de Vos), The First Day: The Creation of Light and The Second Day: The Creation of the Firmament (1580–90), engravings, Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Bail SpC/RB: 37FF/2 v.1A Sadelers/de Vos f.3. Courtesy of the Baillieu Library Print Collection.

Leaf from one of the duchess's print albums. Prints by Johannes Sadeler I (...

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in Enlightened “Museums of Images” or Decorative Displays? Elizabeth Seymour Percy and the Eighteenth-Century Print Room > Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 3. Leaf from one of the duchess's print albums. Prints by Johannes Sadeler I (after Maarten de Vos), The First Day: The Creation of Light and The Second Day: The Creation of the Firmament (1580–90), engravings, Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Bail SpC/RB More
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Is There a Devil in This Text? Subtlety and Satanic Persuasion in Defoe's Roxana

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Mira Zaman
Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 110–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11692506
Published: 01 April 2025
... of the Devil remains uncertain: is he there, or not there? This question is not one we would ask of earlier portrayals, such as Milton's Satan, but one we must ask of Defoe's Devil, who never physically appears in person, but seems to operate as an unseen, internal force, tempting Roxana from within her own...
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Collecting Trouble: Sir Hans Sloane’s Literary Reputation in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Barbara M. Benedict
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 111–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1548054
Published: 01 April 2012
... in genres ranging from poetry to memoirs, it traces Sloane’s reputation in literary culture from that of a model physician and benefactor, to a charlatan, to a toyman, and finally, to an entrepreneur. These shifts reflect the challenges that collecting presented to culture: on the one hand, it threatened...
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Containing Identity in The Plain Dealer and The Way of the World

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Ashley Brookner Bender
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2080964
Published: 01 April 2013
... brought on stage during revelatory moments, the containers and their contents not only help resolve the action, but they also manifest the connection between what one owns and who one is. They reinforce the correlation between property and power. That women often owned property in these plays reveals...
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Clandestine Marriage and Frances Burney’s Critique of Matrimony in Cecilia

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Ann Campbell
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 85–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2080991
Published: 01 April 2013
...Ann Campbell This essay argues that Frances Burney in Cecilia; or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) critiques political debates and literary conventions focused on clandestine marriage. Through two plots of this novel, one economic and one focused on courtship, Burney interprets clandestine marriage...
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Old & New Foundling Hospitals for Wit in the Age of the Digital Miscellanies Index

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Donald W. Nichol
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 116–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3695963
Published: 01 January 2017
... of parodies set to old tunes and prose extracts haranguing the new administration and promoting amputation with Swiftian gusto. One of the problems facing twenty-first-century readers is how to get a handle on what exactly is being satirized. In order to gain a fuller understanding of how this collection...
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Second Nature and the Sonic Sublime

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Miranda Stanyon
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9273041
Published: 01 September 2021
... between habit and the sublime. It focuses not on that eighteenth-century “cultivar,” the natural sublime, but on sonic sublimity, exploring on one hand overwhelming sounds, and on the other a conceptualization of sound itself as a sublime phenomenon stretching beyond audibility to fill all space...
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Face Value: Toward a Theory of Eighteenth-Century Portraiture

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Bradford Mudge
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10199916
Published: 01 January 2023
...Bradford Mudge This essay postulates a field theory of the portrait, one capable of explaining both portrait objects and the forces to which they were subject. It does so not with the intention of celebrating theoretical mastery, but to facilitate three comparatively modest claims: first...
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The “Jewish Question” on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Harrington and the Correspondence between Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus

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Catherine Craft-Fairchild
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/000982601-2773963
Published: 01 September 2014
...Catherine Craft-Fairchild Maria Edgeworth, in her novel Harrington (1817), was one of the first proponents of religious and cultural tolerance of the small but growing Jewish population in Great Britain. Edgeworth suggested that the best method of counteracting the irrational biases reinforced...
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John Wolcot and “The Anecdotic Itch”: Peter Pindar, Biography, and Historiography in the 1780s

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Dafydd Moore
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3483900
Published: 01 April 2016
...Dafydd Moore John Wolcot, under his nom de plume of Peter Pindar, was one of the most popular satirists of the late eighteenth century. Today his work is primarily known for his anti-ministerial satires during the 1790s and discussed in terms of its radical credentials in ways that have narrowed...
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Figure 6. Draft portrait of Yi Ikpil, 1751 (reverse), Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), ink on colors on paper, Asian Art Museum, gift of Arthur J. McTaggart, 1992.203.b. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. Yi was one of the five Bunmu officers who survived long enough to have a second portrait drawn from life. This view shows the typical confinement of reverse coloring on the back of the paper to the area behind the face.

Draft portrait of Yi Ikpil, 1751 (reverse), Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–191...

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in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum > Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 6. Draft portrait of Yi Ikpil, 1751 (reverse), Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), ink on colors on paper, Asian Art Museum, gift of Arthur J. McTaggart, 1992.203.b. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. Yi was one of the five Bunmu officers who survived long enough to have a second portrait More
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Figure 1. Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, installation view, 2021. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. The freestanding glass walls in the center of the room enabled viewers to examine both front and back of the paper drafts. One wall (to the left) displays a painting on silk of Lee Sam in military attire and the set of three versions of Oh Myeonghang's portrait: draft, half-length painting, and full-length painting. The other wall (to the right) served as a screen on which to project a video demonstration of the steps involved in creating an official portrait from draft to completion.

Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, installation view, 2021. Photogr...

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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 1. Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, installation view, 2021. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. The freestanding glass walls in the center of the room enabled viewers to examine both front and back of the paper drafts. One wall (to the left) displays a painting on silk of Lee Sam More
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The Private Sublime in Public Discourse: War Poetry of the American Revolution

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John Richardson
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8718699
Published: 01 September 2020
...John Richardson This essay examines how poetry of the American Revolution contributed to the broader tradition of Anglophone war poetry through the “private sublime,” which would start as a minor and relatively unknown development, but eventually become one of the primary modes of depicting war...
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Representations of the Social Order in The Gentleman's Magazine , 1785-1815

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William Stafford
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 64–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2008-046
Published: 01 April 2009
... dichotomous one offered its readers an alternative to imagining a middle class. Duke University Press 2009 R Representations of the Social Order in The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1785 – 1815 William Stafford...
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Hell-Fire Jane: Austen and the Dashwoods of West Wycombe

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Janine Barchas
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 1–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2009-002
Published: 01 September 2009
...Janine Barchas Modern readers of Jane Austen have been reluctant to acknowledge that Sense and Sensibility (1811) rewards, and perhaps even demands, detailed knowledge of one of England's most notorious families in Austen's time, namely the Dashwoods of West Wycombe Park. The best-known member...
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Negotiating Marriage and Professional Autonomy in the Careers of Eighteenth-Century Actresses

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Helen E. M. Brooks
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 39–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1214090
Published: 01 April 2011
... negotiated their ways between the benefits and the liabilities of marriage. “Contract” marriage, or “performing marriage,” the essay suggests, was one way in which an actress might maintain her legal, and therefore professional, agency, within the framework of a long-term personal relationship. Some...
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“Like as My Profile”: Of Monuments, Money, and Political Caricature in Spring 1784

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Bradford Mudge
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1336790
Published: 01 September 2011
...Bradford Mudge Situating a reading of Henry Angelo and the English “love of portraiture” between an anxiety about monuments and history on one side and an anxiety about money and fiction on the other, this essay argues for an appreciation of Angelo's Reminiscences that moves past individual...
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