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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
... by Duke University Press 2020 Jonathan Swift secret history war trauma displacement English Civil Wars post-memory Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 3, September 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8718644 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 3 0 Swift, Secret History, and War Melinda...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 92–100.
Published: 01 September 2012
...” (as Bongie calls them) such as us to take a stand, even if our approach is necessar- ily “muddled” by the mixed demands of writing about “the resistant memories and the emancipatory projects of our post/colonial world” (365). The Haitian Revolution Today     9 9...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 149–167.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., mapping out four 152 Eighteenth-Century Life “Letters complaining of a long Silence,” and only three “Answer[s] to Let- ters complaining of Silence” (156 – 58). Throughout his correspondence, Cowper is manifestly conscious of the progress of letters in time: of the schedules of the post...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 159–182.
Published: 01 January 2024
...” (7:1,496). Anticipating the erasure of Jacobite history, Forbes was keen to fashion the volumes of “The Lyon in Mourning” into a comprehensive and corroborated site of memory. Figure 2. Bishop Robert Forbes, “Lyon in Mourning,” vol. 4, back boards, Simon Fraser University Digitized Collections...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., copyists, makers, editors, and authors. As a result, when they took ownership of their books by signing their names on elaborate title‐pages, such gestures signified something more complex and variable than a claim to “authorship.” Rejecting a post‐Romantic oppositional hierarchy of writer over reader...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., and other Learned Men, and Famous Divines, . . . Together with the Livelie Effigies of most of the Eminentest of them cut in Copper. The term “effigy” is a Janus word, meaning both a representation of a specific deceased individual as a celebratory memorial marker, and as a hated figure intended...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... angry, insecure, and keen to destroy lingering notions of authority external to their own. They thus sought to memorial- ize the terrible beheading of Charles I on January 30th 1649 (n.s.) and to do so as a permanent and fundamental basis of English law. The thirtieth of January became one...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
...,” as David Woolley points out in his edition of Swift’s correspondence, is the journalist and political writer William Pit- tis, sometimes spelled Pettis (1:190). Pittis was involved in the publication of The Memorial to the Church of England (1704), a High Church contribu- tion to the occasional...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
... by commonplaces, tropes, and figures. And from a post-Kantian perspective, everyday circumstances can certainly trigger the sublime, since sublimity names a structure of subjective experience, not (as with Dodsley) a category of objects. Nonetheless, surely the claim of the sublime is to be extraordinary, awe...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
...). In presenting the post-fire rebuilding as a missed opportunity, Ralph echoed the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor's argument that Wren's plans would have ensured that London “excell'd in Beauty and Accommodation,” as well as “Extent, Commerce, [and] wealthy and worthy Cittizens [ sic ].” 8 It was not only...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... offers a representative example of this. An extract from its adaptation, The Jew of Venice (1701), by George Granville, first Baron Lansdowne, first appears in a miscellany, The Diverting Post (1706), with- out attribution.20 By contrast, the anonymous compiler of the 1724 edition of the Thesaurus...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
...   Eighteenth-Century Life associations with the Gothic, the sublime, and with ideas about history, mem- ory, and authenticity.2 Broadly put, Jung sees modes of incompletion and ambi- guity as reflecting generalized anxieties about the cultural and social landscape of post-Union Britain, and about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Harman’s recent biography, the two short chapters dealing with Burney’s life in 1815 and thereafter are depressingly titled “Keeping Life Alive” and “Post-­Mortem.” In Kate Chisholm’s biography, a mere thir- teen pages make up the chapter “Last Thoughts in Mayfair, 1818 – ​1840.” 8 The reason...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., are the marks of someone who was there. At other points in the letter, he 3 2 Eighteenth-Century Life engages in vigorous self- justification: You will not, I flatter myself, blame me for not quitting such advantageous ground, and risking the fate of so decisive a day, by seeking a fresh enemy, posted perhaps...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
... case studies of these matters. The first considers two Peter Pindar poems provoked by efforts to memorialize a figure of stature in the literary world, the recently departed Samuel John- son: A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell, Esq on his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Journal (6 June 1730). The same advertisement was printed in the London Evening Post (9 June 1730) and the Daily Journal (10 June 1730). These periodicals are not paginated. 16. Advertisement leaf printed on the final leaf of Winter, A Poem; A Hymn on the Seasons; A Poem to the Memory of  Sir...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... expressed in the elaborately embellished guide books to coun- try seats and places of interest issued at the time. In the vignettes to his pocket diary, Peacock provides miniaturized versions of narratives of cul- tural progress and sophistication by patriotically memorializing the homes of the upper...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
...- standing patterns in the formation, marketing, and function of these various types of ephemera. These examples of topical printed forms mark the transient nature of events 1 8 Eighteenth-Century Life and their outcomes, yet simultaneously memorialize, lament, or celebrate the ongoing impact of what...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 67–70.
Published: 01 January 2009
... dialogues in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a culture that pulls between memory and forgetting. This volume roots its wavering discourse in four analytical sections, “Print Culture,” “The Structure of Print,” “Collecting and Reading Print,” and “The Impact of Print,” the last, largest...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the Board of Longitude with copies of the ship’s logs and journals. He was advanced to post captain; he personally pre- sented the expedition documents to King George III. King’s own journal, supplemented with those of others, became the basis for his writing the third volume of the official history...