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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 (2014) 38 (3): 154–157.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Erin Mackie Powell Manushag N. . Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals . ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xii + 289 . $85 Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay Periodical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 89–104.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... For Judith Dorn, The Lady’s Museum attempts to educate women in philosophy and history by “represent[ing] women as consummate empirical observers.”4 More recently, Manushag N. Powell has argued that Lennox wanted “to alert” her readers “to pleasures beyond narrative—those of the tranquility...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... politics. Specifically, Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell argue in that eighteenth-century women's periodicals register “contestation explicitly in the tone and content of individual essays, articles, fictions, and poems and their dialogic form.” 6 Furthermore, the multivocal form...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
...—certainly the most international David Nichol Smith Seminar yet. The conference also attracted exciting work from new as well as experienced scholars, and the essays reflect both the high standard of scholarship and the intellectual trends that emerged from submissions. Lucy Powell's “Jakob Bogdani's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 38–55.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., Dr. Charles Burney: A Literary Biography (Oxford: Clarendon, See also Lonsdale, “Johnson and Dr. Burney,” in Johnson, Boswell, and Their Circle: Essays Presented to Lawrence Fitzroy Powell (Oxford: Clarendon, . See, for example, Jon Mee, Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 123–132.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of Johnson, ed. George Birkbeck Hill and L. F. Powell, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1934–50), 1:152; Donald Greene, The Politics of Samuel Johnson, rev. ed. (Athens: Univ. of Georgia, 1990), 128; and Benjamin Beard Hoover, Samuel Johnson’s Parliamentary Reporting: Debates in the Senate of Lilliput...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 67–70.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., the historical, literary, sociological, or political. It is possible, as Gillespie demonstrates in his Ireland and Books     6 9 “Print Culture, 1550 – 1700,” to trace the actual publication of a formative Irish work in English, Humphrey Powell’s Dublin...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
... conflicting, with those of Sir Roger. Ultimately, Sir Roger s treatment of the people in his neighborhood models for Mr. Spectator an authoritative, moderating procedure that is both humane and practical. In this essay, I make three main interrelated claims. First, building on Manushag N. Powell s work...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 170–182.
Published: 01 April 2001
...: Cornell Univ., 1985), esp. p. 54. See also the argument for humor as a form of social control, most usefully summarized by Chris Powell, “A Phenomenological Analysis of Humour in Society,” in Humour in Society; Resistance and Control, ed. Chris Powell & George C. Paton...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 119–135.
Published: 01 April 2016
...” (3:2). Digressions are not simply digressions, however, and Dunton’s nar- rators are more than an intrusive presence between readers and the story they would tell. Manushag N. Powell has argued that eighteenth-century readers were learning to enjoy seeing “authorship being enacted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 37–64.
Published: 01 September 2009
... McDermott (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005), 138. 5. James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, ed. G .B. Hill, rev. L. F. Powell, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1935 – 65), 1:218, hereafter cited as Life. Neither Hill nor Powell could find a copy of Ephraim Chambers’s Proposals for the Cyclopaedia...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 101–108.
Published: 01 April 2002
... 0-19-818469-7 Powell, John S. Music and Theatre in France, 1600–1680 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2000). Pp. 582. $135. isbn 0-19-816599-4 Radisich, Paula Rea. Hubert Robert: Painted Spaces of the Enlightenment (Cambridge & New York...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2008
....  Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., ed. George Birkbeck Hill, rev. L. F. Powell, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1935 – 65), 1:202, hereafter referred to as Life, followed by volume and page numbers, followed by the date. Boswell’s remark is surely, in any case, a very inadequate account...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 127–134.
Published: 01 April 2014
... (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2013). Pp. xvii + 293. 30 b/w + 10 color ills. $50 Piker, Joshua. The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2013). Pp. 310. $29.95 Powell, Manushag N. Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-­Century English...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Periodicals, Eighteenth- Century Studies 32 special issue: Politics of Friendship (1998 99): 199 214. 6. Kathryn King, A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012), 157. For more on the atypical nature of Epistles as a periodical, see Manushag N. Powell s Eliza Haywood...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 102–125.
Published: 01 January 2023
... prose, especially The Lives of the Poets , were timely. They were made when the scholarly labors of R. W. Chapman, L. F. Powell, David Nichol Smith, and others to edit and publish the Johnsonian and Boswellian corpus, building on George Birkbeck Hill's foundation, had gotten under way. This revaluation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2000
... posing or moonlighting as prostitutes, gin served the more sinister function of befuddling the intended victim. James Powell “happen’d to light on” Clare Dickenson at “about one in the Morning,” whereupon she asked him for a dram. At some point during their en- counter someone stole Powell’s watch...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 98–109.
Published: 01 April 2008
... “The Idler” and “The Adventurer,” ed. W. J. Bate, John M. Bullitt, and L. F. Powell, vol. 2 of The Works of Samuel Johnson. (New Haven: Yale Univ., 1963), 457. All subsequent citations to the Adventurer will be to this text, hereafter referred to as Works, followed by volume and page number. 108...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 133–143.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., and Martyn J. Powell, eds. Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-­Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010). Pp. 496. $70 Kete, Kathleen. Making Way for Genius: The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2012). Pp. x + 240. $38 Khater, Akram Fouad...