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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Lisa Zunshine Duke University Press 2005
The Spectral Hospital:
Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy and the Novel
Lisa Zunshine
University of Kentucky
Established in 1739 as a shelter...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
... question of what level of compensation actresses deserved to receive. This essay thus suggests that the cultural portrayal of benefit performances reveals the often-paradoxical reception of both philanthropy and celebrity, especially as it was inflected by gender, during the period. Copyright 2013...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Andrew Rudd In this article, I examine how notions of charity shaped eighteenth-century literature. I begin by examining Horace Walpole’s philanthropy, which I argue belied his posthumous reputation for miserliness, and proceed to trace the theme of charity in Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 25–55.
Published: 01 January 2006
... Life
place in Montagu’s inner Bluestocking circle, changes our understanding
of Scott’s concept of philanthropy and of the social position from which
she advocated reform. It also gives Scott’s estate novels central political rel-
evance, and makes Montagu and second-generation Bluestockings...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 94–98.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Deborah S. Symonds. Pp. 198; vol. 3: Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital, ed. Alysa Levene. Pp. 373. 6 ills.; vol. 4: Institutional Responses: The Refuge for the Destitute, ed. Peter King. Pp. 440; vol. 5 Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698 - 1818, ed. Lisa Zunshine. Pp. 302. 1 ill. $750 set...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and Benevolence during the Long Eighteenth Century Although both sexes were expected to be benevolent, and although women became increasingly involved in the public discourse about philanthropy during the long eighteenth century, there were different expectations for each gender in the performance of benevolence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 91–107.
Published: 01 April 2005
...; and Katherine
M. R. Lloyd, Peace, Politics, and Philanthropy: Henry Brougham, William Roscoe and
America, 1808 – 1868 (unpublished Ph.D. diss., Oxford Univ., 1996), 78 – 142. Sweet
focuses helpfully on “a culture of Disestablishment” in the Roscoe circle and draws
attention to its internationalist...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Scott (1720 – 95),
author of the utopian novel Millenium Hall (1762) and sister of Elizabeth
Montagu. Pohl traces two contrasting faces of Scott that emerge in her
correspondence. Scott was a committed reformer, advocating both a belief
in Anglican philanthropy and the principles of social...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... the Court,” they
did not believe that the commercial interests associated with the Royal
Exchange could “shoulder the burden of legitimating polite culture.” 6 8 I
would put this rather differently. Commercial interests are shown to be
compatible with the virtues of benevolence and philanthropy...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 92–109.
Published: 01 September 2007
... “Sentimental Fiction: Ethics, Social Critique, and
Philanthropy” is more critical of a topic that has attracted respectful attention
lately: the literature of sensibility. While scholars such as Jerome McGann
The Newest Eighteenth Century 1 0 5
credit sensibility...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 37–55.
Published: 01 January 2022
... never saw Age so graceful in the female sex yet,—her whole Face seems to beam with goodness, piety & philanthropy” ( EJL , 4:133, 137). Burney similarly recorded strong first impressions of Hester Chapone, who formed an important friendship with Elizabeth Carter (see Myers, 60). Though...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 142–149.
Published: 01 September 2009
... (and grace-
fully economical) clarity for readers to understand the importance of excerpts
from Sterne’s sermons “Philanthropy Recommended,” “The Prodigal Son,” and
“Our Conversation in Heaven”; from Tristram Shandy, volume 7, chapters 1 and
43, and volume 9, chapter 24 (on Maria); and from two...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2023
... was an economic imperative, . . . nevertheless—see Cristina Martinez's entry on Jane Hogarth in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2020). It is also worth noting that the essay that carefully catalogs Hogarth's energetic philanthropy makes no mention of ulterior motives. It all makes for good theater...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 133–148.
Published: 01 January 2011
... is confirmed in
the generic choice of her writings. Her fiction, literary translation, and her
historical exempla attest to a Bluestocking reformer committed to Angli-
can philanthropy and economic reforms based on principles of social capi-
tal. But whilst the first quotation underscores Scott’s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 170–186.
Published: 01 April 2018
... (Hemlow,
, Menagh, “Life,”
Religion, Philanthropy, and Death
Throughout the last years of their correspondence, Marianne and Piozzi
continued to discuss all kinds of books—Marianne frankly admitted that
she could not “help admiring Ld Byron’s genius, tho’ I think him a most
unprincipled...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2004
... for the Reception of
Orphaned Girls, an institution that provided young girls with the skills necessary for
those in “superior” domestic service. See Donna T. Andrew, Philanthropy and Police:
London Charity in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 1989), 115–17,
and D. G. C. Allan and John L...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 56–82.
Published: 01 April 2007
... made the public apprehensive, which, in turn,
tempered the way authors treated interracial relations. This ambivalence in
representation did not handicap Britain’s free black residents in any famil-
ial, legal, or political way, and, of course, British law and philanthropy
always off ered abused...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... says in
the preface to his Sermons, he is capitalizing on the novel’s success. The
pronoun “I” appears twenty-one times in the preface’s one-and-one-third
pages. Sterne also makes plain that the sermons continue an essential theme
of the novel — “philanthropy, and those kindred virtues...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
...-intended services. . . . I will speak
plainly on this point; I do most heartily wish they had flattered me with some
token, however small, of which I might have said this is a tribute to my philanthropy,
and delivered it down to my children, . . . but not a word from the lips, not a line
did I...