... to imagine and promote an idea of civil society governed by norms of a benevolent “politeness.” One function of the new culture of politeness was to reconcile readers to the massive increase in military activity. This essay will explore the process of reconciliation in the two most influential periodicals...

... anecdotes to larger concerns about English self-representation and the political authority that it alternately appeased and resisted. Specifically, the essay will follow Angelo from an anecdote he tells about George III at a Royal Academy exhibition, through an account of the constitutional crisis of 1783...

...Robert Neuman The College of William & Mary 2000 108 — Review Essay — Social Identity and the Politics of Place in France Robert W. Berger. A Royal Passion: Louis XIV as Patron of Architecture. Cam- bridge...

...Jeffrey Merrick Duke University Press 2006 Suicide and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France Jeff rey Merrick University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee While theologians, jurists...

...Peter Howell The College of William & Mary 2004 Godwin, Contractarianism, and the Political Dead End of Empiricism Peter Howell St.Mary’s College, University of Surrey At one point near...

...Laura L. Runge The College of William & Mary 2001 Beauty and Gallantry: A Model of Polite Conversation Revisited “None but the brave deserves the fair...

...Peter Howell John C. Whale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 240.$59.95. ISBN 0-521-77219-2 The College of William & Mary 2001 — Book Review — John C. Whale. Imagination Under Pressure 1789–1832: Aesthetics, Politics...

...David Allan The College of William & Mary 2003 The Scottish Enlightenment and the Politics of Provincial Culture: The Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society, ca. 1784–1790 David Allan...

...Alex Pitofsky The College of William & Mary 2000 88 The Warden’s Court Martial: James Oglethorpe and the Politics of Eighteenth-Century Prison Reform James Edward Oglethorpe was the most celebrated and prolific En- glish prison reform...

...John McTague This article begins with a literary and material analysis of two instances of post- and intra-publication censorship in Poems on Affairs of State, vol. 4 (1707), and The Foundling Hospital for Wit (1743, 1744). As well as illuminating the climate in which political materials were read...

...Kathryn J. Ready The College of William & Mary 2004 “What then, poor Beastie Gender, Politics, and Animal Experimentation in Anna Barbauld’s “The Mouse’s Petition” Kathryn J. Ready...

...Adam R. Beach The College of William & Mary 2004  Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and Nationalist Spectacle in Behn’s The Rover Adam R. Beach Ball State University In the epilogue...

...Denise Amy Baxter Duke University Press 2006 Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the Visual Culture of the French Revolution Denise Amy Baxter University of North Texas Je tenais les...

...Octavia Cox R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725804 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 3 8 Identity Politics Octavia Cox University of Oxford Marilyn Morris. Sex, Money, and Personal Character in Eighteenth- Century...

...Neil Ramsey Although Frankenstein has long been read in relation to revolutionary politics, there has been little specific discussion of the themes of suffering and the trauma of war in the novel, concerns that were central to much of Mary Shelley’s writing. Taking inspiration from Ahmed Saadawi’s...

...Sabine Baltes-Ellermann R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902744 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 1 0 1 An Adamant Patriot in Changing Times: Jonathan Swift s Later Political Pamphlets Sabine Baltes- Ellermann Huerth...

...Ian Higgins R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902731 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 9 3 Masonic Rivalries and Literary Politics in the Jacobite Era Ian Higgins The Australian National University Marsha Keith Schuchard...

...Steven D. Scherwatzky The College of William & Mary 2001 “Complicated Virtue”: The Politics of Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage One of the most memorable episodes in Johnson’s Life...

...Peter Denney Sound played a crucial role in plebeian politics in the eighteenth century, with singing, shouting, clapping, and other kinds of acoustic expression conveying a range of meanings. However, historians have mostly neglected the acoustic dimensions of popular political discourse...