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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 7–23.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Angelina Del Balzo This article offers a genre‐based argument for the white Imoinda in Thomas Southerne's stage adaptation of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko . Southerne's adaptation was one of the earliest depictions of plantation slavery on the English stage, and it drew on tropes from the Oriental she...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2007
...David Fallon Duke University Press 2007
“That Angel Who Rides on the Whirlwind”:
William Blake’s Oriental Apotheosis
of William Pitt
David Fallon
University College, Oxford...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 164–180.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Walter Veit The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26311-Veit.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:35 PM Page 164
Goethe’s Fantasies about the Orient
Walter Veit...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 120–126.
Published: 01 April 2014
... : Oxford Univ. , 2011 ). Pp. xii +396. 16 ills. $65 Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay
Dredging Orientalism
Betty Joseph
Rice University
Siraj Ahmed. The Still...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
...-century sublime, yet the logic behind the sublime is at odds with the dulling of sensation. The article closes by touching on the reemergence of “second nature” in contemporary art oriented toward the sublime, and on the revisions of Enlightenment nature this involves. Copyright 2021 by Duke University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2025
... as “Enlightenment Orientalism” to engage with questions of foreignness, cultural belonging, and the circulation of information. The Orientalist figure of Noureddin offered Armstrong a usefully oblique angle of approach, granting him more room to maneuver against Wilkes than he might have enjoyed had he written...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 115–119.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Jason H. Pearl Aravamudan Srinivas . Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel . ( Chicago : Univ. of Chicago , 2011 ). Pp. xiv + 342. 13 ills. $29 paper Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of rehearsing the details of Beckford s colorful life, Châtel addresses what he refers to as the aesthetic dimension of his subject s elusiveness (5). Beckford is an elusive Oriental- ist, he argues, above all because of the interactive and highly creative way in which he engaged with diverse Eastern...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., the fi gure of the fi ctional oriental traveler seems to belong
primarily to the eighteenth century. Following the great success of Gio-
vanni Marana’s Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, fi rst published in Paris in 1684,
a wide range of European writers sought to exploit the various satiric and
comic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 139–163.
Published: 01 September 2002
... on Orientalism, but the material culture of the Ottoman response to
Europe during the eighteenth century has not yet been the topic of a com-
prehensive study, in spite of some important preliminary studies.
Relevant background research on social evolution and institutions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 88–90.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Michael Keevak Porter David . The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England . ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. x + 230. 26 ills. $90 Yang Chi-ming . Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760 . ( Baltimore...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2015
... 2015 George Macartney orientalism travel writing Opium Wars George Chinnery •
Cultural Difference in George Macartney’s
An Embassy to China, 1792–94
Greg Clingham
Bucknell University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 76–80.
Published: 01 September 2010
... sinophobia during the eighteenth
century, and contemporary scholars continue to deny the “Oriental connec-
tions” of key writings on aesthetics (40). Proving these connections through
establishing a genealogy of influence is a thorny endeavor, and one that in this
book produces mixed results...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 31–44.
Published: 01 September 2002
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Oriental languages. This is borne out by the éloge of Barthélemy d’Herbe-
lot, “interprète des langues orientales,” who, in 1655–56, perfected his mas-
tery of the Oriental languages by direct contact with native speakers:
“Après un travail assidu de plusieurs années, il fit...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 114–121.
Published: 01 April 2010
... the defining trait of the novel? Is the novel a mod-
ern form?
Jenny Mander’s collection of essays is oriented to a wider geography and
longer history than Watt’s rise of the novel, critiquing both the British and
modern aspects of Watt’s account. Many of the essays take as the salient trait...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 137–144.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in which mechanist defenders of trituration and the chemically
oriented fermentationists were at each other’s throats. The spin-offs of these
food and faith confrontations continued until the politically based suppression
of the Society of Jesus and the expulsion of the Jesuits from France...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... way toward orienting readers, but one hears the frustration in the author's advertisement at the need for such notes and the lack of linguistic resources for making sailors’ language accessible to land-based readers. The “Advertisement” prefacing the second edition notes that the Author of this Poem...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 January 2000
... to
which he had been transported, found only his wives and thirty-six chil-
dren].
Rica’s opening epistolary wink at Usbek, of course, remains in place,
to reassure him (and to inform us) that in this Persian context, Zuléma
and her story are ultimately so many fantasies, created by an Oriental
50...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., and officials copying printed forms. Oblong books were used in both a horizontal and vertical orientation ( figures 2a and 2b ). Held horizontally, they were used almost exclusively for printed and manuscript music and frequently included manuscript additions by amateur musicians. The horizontal orientation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2021
... recognized the importance of space to the culture of improvement, whether this entailed spreading politeness, expanding knowledge, or transforming nature. Most famously, perhaps, Joseph Addison acknowledged the need to reconfigure the spatial orientation of civility when, in 1711, he expressed his intention...
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