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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Peggy Thompson Jane Austen uses “habit” and its variants four times as often in Mansfield Park as she does in her previous novel, Pride and Prejudice . In what seems, then, to be a deliberate exploration of habit, the novel repeatedly recalls Aristotle's views on habit, which could well have been...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 111–115.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Walks in Too Many Parks, or, What
Valerian Couldn’t Cure:
The Chronic Careers of “Sir” John Hill
Kevin L. Cope
Louisiana State University
George Rousseau. The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 114–123.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Julie Park Mark Blackwell, ed. The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2007). Pp. 365. $62.50 Cynthia Wall. The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century (Chicago: Univ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Julie Park In this essay, I seek to redefine life writing to encompass the very forms used for recordkeeping in eighteenth‐century commonplace books, in the flow of life as it happened, primarily through lines in grids used in indexes for separating pieces of information and designating subject...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 75–104.
Published: 01 April 2014
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 1–36.
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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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Lucy Powell This article analyzes two paintings by Jakob Bogdani, of the exotic aviaries of Admiral Churchill at Little Park, Windsor, between 1708 and 1710. In it, I argue that by following Bodgani's development from a painter of traditional still lifes to an innovative painter of exotic birds, we...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 76–104.
Published: 01 April 2019
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2024
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 93–97.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Mark Blackwell Gee Sophie . Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination ( Princeton : Princeton Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. viii + 196 . $26.95 Park Julie . The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England ( Stanford : Stanford Univ. , 2010...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 116–134.
Published: 01 April 2001
... for Williams how in Dickens’ urban imagery,
“the most evident inhabitants of cities are buildings…where the house
and the life being lived in it are undistinguishable” (pp. 156–57). In con-
trast, a visit to a nearby Regent’s Park neighborhood in Catherine Gore’s
novel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of money and land is a key
virtue to be examined in her characters. It remains puzzling that Scheuermann
chooses to bypass these early novels and focus on the later ones.
But her excellent study of Mansfield Park, which occupies the most exten-
sive section of the book, makes us forgive her...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 118–122.
Published: 01 April 2003
..., & Michael Gamer, eds. The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama
(Orchard Park: Broadview, 2003). Pp. 449. $36.95. ISBN 1-55111-298-1
Crawford, Rachel. Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700–1830 (N.Y. &
London: Cambridge Univ., 2002). Pp. 318. $60. ISBN 0-521-81531-2
Crawford...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 113–117.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the epistemology of gender; the
period’s “blend of positivism and caution” (65) characterizes the will to know
women.
The remaining three chapters address “the somewhat abstract questions
about female legibility” (81) by taking us to the playhouse, the park, and the
New Exchange marketplace...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 125–129.
Published: 01 September 2014
...,
one on Austen’s juvenile work Evelyn, another on Sense and Sensibility, and
a final chapter on Persuasion. She thus leaves room for other critics to apply
her approach to Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Sanditon, and the
rest of the juvenilia. Barchas’s underlying assumption...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
... were replaced by a more conventional brick cottage with steeply
thatched roof, containing two principal rooms, mainly to Chute’s design.29
Within a few years of this episode, Walpole had been to see the remark-
able transformation of Osterley Park House for Robert...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 73–113.
Published: 01 January 2010
... (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. lxxxii + 540. 2 ills. $149, £72. ISBN 0-521-82514-8 Jane Austen. Mansfield Park , ed. John Wiltshire. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. lxxxviii + 738. 2 ills. $137, £72. ISBN 0-521-82765-5 Jane Austen...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 81–115.
Published: 01 April 2001
... a much larger Great Court). The colonnade seems an afterthought
squeezed awkwardly into one side of a Tudor courtyard. The south and
east ranges (Plate 8), facing the Thames and the park respectively, have
the massiveness one finds in later English architecture...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., as so few survive intact. Of the likely hundreds of print rooms that were created in Britain in the eighteenth century, the remnants of approximately fourteen are extant today. 10 The few surviving plans for print rooms—for example, at Castletown (County Kildare), Woodhall Park (Hertfordshire...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 70–94.
Published: 01 January 2002
... in retirement in
both wet weather and fine. In the city they walked in specified parks.
Walking became a trope for their lives— nothing too strenuous, nothing
ungraceful, but rather the practice of an art, as, walking about the drawing
room of Netherfield, Austen’s...
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