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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
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Studies (ASECS) at Los Angeles in 2015 included a panel entitled “His-
torical Criticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies,” with papers by Mar-
garet J. M. Ezell, Robert D. Hume, Howard D. Weinbrot, and a response
by James A. Winn. No doubt because of the distinction of these scholars,
as well...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... ranging from a simple mourning border to highly complex moral- allegorical scenes or entire tableaux, as well as series of panels depicting a funeral. Some assembled vanitas motifs, while others captured emotional states such as grief and sorrow. The combination of the handwritten script in the form...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... panels; Dawks also promised in an advertisement at the bottom of the print the speedy publication of a pam- phlet, The Tryal and Condemnation of Popery, and another broadsheet, Eng- lands Obligations to Captain William Bedloe, the grand Discoverer of this most Horrid Plot. 22 The highlight of Dawks s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2012
... panel was appointed to review the case. The panel reversed
Calas’ conviction on 9 March 1765, and the government paid the family an
indemnity. The Calas affair greatly strengthened the movement for criminal
law reform and religious toleration in France, but the actual reforms were not
instituted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 102–107.
Published: 01 April 2011
... on the theme of court display in discussing the conventions of dress, the
complexity of sewing and wearing the mantua, which was featured in court
style of the day, and the significance of Delany’s own black silk mantua, which
has survived in the form of a framed silk panel. Although black was custom...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
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significance.
Theater Mirrors
When Robert and John Adam refurbished the Drury Lane auditorium in
1775–76, they fronted the over-thirty pillars that faced the audience and
supported the boxes and gallery with panels of reflective plate glass.10 Their
shimmer and sparkle caused a sensation. In a 1775...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 120–125.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., Thorpe’s many boasts
fan out into peacock-like panels, or Edward and Margaret wear identical pirate
hats at the close of Sense and Sensibility.
Do not make the mistake of judging these graphic novels by their covers.
The fronting graphics are not always the work of the central illustrator...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
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Interestingly, one panel along the way, entitled “New State Idol,” depicts
the two politicians standing on a pedestal, sharing a single coat, awkwardly
impersonating what the nearby crown and scepter suggest was formerly a
statue of the king. The inscription on the pedestal reads “POWER,” and
the design...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 44–75.
Published: 01 September 2005
... as contemporary French commodes.28
Other objects were cut up and the lacquer panels thus obtained were used
to decorate luxury European furniture, in particular, cabinets and tables.
The catalogues mostly subsume the luxury furniture prized by collectors
under the general heading of “meubles de Boule...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 211–215.
Published: 01 January 2011
... both dates. It convenes
a significant portion of Fielding’s most important analysts, including Claude
Rawson, Ronald Paulson, Bertrand Goldgar, Thomas Lockwood, and Angela
Smallwood. Martin Battestin and William Coley do not appear, though Coley
moderated a panel at the 2004 conference. Other...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 63–75.
Published: 01 September 2010
... essay, “Miming Play: Picturing Amusement in Rococo
Decorative Patterns and Garden Designs,” examines decorative panels, ambi-
tiously approaching these understudied works of art via theories of mimesis,
both the Aristotelian and the archaic. Milam’s sophisticated argument is that
the rococo...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 77–82.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and that the claims of the importance of eighteenth-century studies, and archives, for understanding the novel form are proliferating. The 2022 annual meeting of ASECS included a panel on the idea of an eighteenth-century realism, in which the participants asked whether the idea of realism remains useful...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 139–163.
Published: 01 September 2002
... classes of the Empire.
The first baroque interior was created in the so-called Fruit Room of
the Topkapi Palace, which was built for Sultan Ahmed III in 1705. Various
flowers in vases and fruits in baskets are painted in false niches on wood-
paneled walls...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 January 2018
... she does not ask why. She does not ask why
Hogarth paints in the center of his central Annunciation panel (figure 2) not
the Virgin Mary, to whom the church of St. Mary Redcliffe was dedicated, but
the other Mary, Magdalen, painted like the Virgin in blue (in the right panel,
she is in pink...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 63–67.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Organizing, Taxonomizing, Personality and Greatness, and a very short Expanding Circles of Acquaintance feels a little arbitrary and post hoc, as when conference organizers solicit individual papers and then try to group them into panels. The putative themes that bring the papers together are often...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 3–19.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of this project
exist in the context of academic cultures in which intelligent concerns are
raised about the viability of history writing, especially “national” history
writing, as manifest in the 2015 ASECS panel “Against History” and the
challenges posed by some emerging projects in the digital...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 101–122.
Published: 01 September 2022
... formation, surround the cradle, while at the foot, an open-winged eaglet—symbolizing young Napoleon II—gazes toward the allegory of Triumph and Immortality. 10 On each side, bas relief panels depict personifications of the Tiber and Seine rivers. The Seine represents the infant's birthplace, while...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 37–55.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., and the anonymous readers at Eighteenth-Century Life for their very helpful comments, which guided my revisions and made this a better article. I presented an early version of this paper on the “Burney and the Blues” panel at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in 2017 and a revised...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of this essay were first delivered at a panel on “Johnson and the Globalization
of Literature,” at the 11th International Congress on the Enlightenment, at the
University of California, Los Angeles (6 August 2003). I am grateful for the
encouragement of the panel convenor, Greg Clingham.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., nineteenth century, oil on panel, 38.4 x 29.1 cm.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
imagining rather than as definitive likenesses and the walls of our exhibi-
tion offer a sampling of images from the first flush of their posthumous
celebrities—200 years after their respective deaths.
Our selected...
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