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Laurence Sterne's Sermons and The Pulpit-Fool
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
... of exactly the same advice in the 4,000 lines of John Dunton's The Pulpit-Fool , published in 1707, serves to alert us to the possibility that Sterne echoes a long tradition of irenic and moral preaching after the religious wars of the seventeenth century. Dunton offers more than 200 preachers, across...
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Emotional Display and National Identity
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Fits of Passion (1996) stand as exemplars
of the critical literature—one might well ask whether it is possible to put new
tires on this cultural vehicle and take it for a spin. Goring manages to do so by
analyzing elocution debates that were carried out on the stage, in the pulpit...
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Construing and Deconstructing Swift’s A Tale of a Tub
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2013
... on the mountebank as an interpretive key to Swift’s satire is not con-
siderably overstated, a reaction he anticipates. In the introduction, Swift does
invoke “the Pulpit, the Ladder, and the Stage-Itinerant ” (Walsh, 34), Ormsby-
Lennon explains, but his “paraphernalia of wooden machines may seem to
vanish...
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“A Just and Graceful Elocution”: Miscellanies and Sociable Reading
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 179–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Gentleman, author of a
short introduction to elocution, put it: “What we read or speak unfelt, must
be like painting without light or shade.”4 This preoccupation with how to
read well played a significant part in the public understanding of pulpit
oratory in the eighteenth century, and the emphasis...
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The Thirtieth of January Sermon: Swift, Johnson, Sterne, and the Evolution of Culture the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies James L. Clifford Lecture, 2008
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... these and
more still issued from the pulpits and the press. Whigs and Dissenters,
though, clearly had begun to respond in kind. They regularly claimed that
the High-Church “madding day” moved the rabble to violence, that they
were unchristian, unforgiving, unhistorical, unfair, and often unintelligent.
I...
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Designing Piranesi
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 36–40.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in the Morgan Library that are certainly for the interiors of some Venetian
palace, as well as those for a pulpit, that are illustrated on pages 69, 145, 147,
and 154, certainly could be connected with real sites in that city. Following up
on these sheets could allow us to learn more about Piranesi’s...
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Rereading the History of the Book
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 105–109.
Published: 01 January 2021
... in the mechanics of orating and performing texts in the pulpit, the spouting club, or drawing room. In what Williams dubs the great age of elocution (11), good readers were not always or even often silent readers. On the contrary, reading aloud was a polite accomplishment cultivated not only by those who made...
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(Re)Solving Sterne's Unsolvable Riddles and Mysteries: Two New Tools
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 142–149.
Published: 01 September 2009
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dispositions (at least those he assumes by his faith), his social assumptions, his
religious practice, his pulpit language, and his charitable instincts. This work
grounds Sterne as a practicing priest of the Church of England in a way that
has never been done before.
Other work is currently...
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Boss: The First of Hanoverian Scotland's Three Great Satraps—the Earl of Ilay
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the Church of Scotland were
the most important intelligentsia in the nation; their pulpits constituted the
only effective mass media of the era. Though Ilay mediated much of his eccle-
siastical patronage through the Reverend Patrick Cumming, his ecclesiasti-
cal under-manager from 1736 to 1761...
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“Much Might Be Said on Both Sides”: Mr. Spectator in Sir Roger de Coverley’s Worcestershire
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2021
... experimentation resulting from the interaction of these characters: In the numbers devoted to Sir Roger de Coverley, Mr. Spectator retreats from his role as censor to allow Sir Roger to take over in quixotic fashion. Instead of preaching from his bully pulpit, Mr. Spectator exhorts readers to think...
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Hugh Blair, Robert Burns, and the Invention of Scottish Literature
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2005
...: “Nothing can be
more absurd than to imagine, that as soon as one mounts a Pulpit, or rises
in a Public Assembly, he is instantly to lay aside the voice with which he
expresses himself in private; to assume a new, studied tone, and a cadence
altogether foreign to his natural manner” (2:218). Even...
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Books Received
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2015
... + 260.
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Swindells, Julia, and David Francis Taylor, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian
Theatre, 1737–1832 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2014). Pp. xxv + 758. $150
Tennant, Bob. Corporate Holiness: Pulpit Preacher and the Church of England
Missionary Societies, 1760–1870 (Oxford...
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The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
... excess from the pulpit and urged the rich to charity. On the other hand, conformity to fashion could be recruited to support convention and preordained hierarchy. A providential view that wealth could be used to do good works and could be enjoyed moder- ately was gaining ground. Material abnegation...
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“An Oblique and Slovenly Initiation”: The Circumcision Episode in Tristram Shandy
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 72–84.
Published: 01 January 2003
... determined assaults on the West between the eighth and the
seventeenth centuries, beginning with the Saracen invasion of Spain. For
Edward Gibbon, the prospect that “the Koran would now be taught in the
schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised...
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Pope and Rapture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... for this present government is harmless politi-
cal rhetoric, without “Distinction, Satire, Warmth, and Truth,” or the
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“gracious Dew of Pulpit Eloquence,” then “Satire is no more—I feel it
die” (ll. 63, 69, 83). Satire is a living figure for him, but not feminized...
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Hannah More and the English Poor
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 237–251.
Published: 01 April 2001
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and minister says flatly. More sees spiritual and temporal order as a con-
tinuum: Mr. Wilson says, “On Sunday I teach you from the pulpit the laws
of God, whose minister I am. At present I fill the chair of the magistrate,
to enforce and execute the laws of the land. Between...
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Jane Austen and the Tradition of Masculine Benevolence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of the period: benevolence. Preached from the pulpit, in con- duct books, and endorsed in the literature of the period, benevolence was considered a primary duty of the English aristocracy and gentry, includ- ing Jane Austen and her family. Benevolence was such a significant virtue during the period that David...
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Sporting with Clothes: John Collet's Prints in the 1770s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 119–135.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Person at all acquainted with those
Scenes of Riot and Debauchery…[and] the intention of this little Piece is,
gently to reprove those trim Divines who (in this luxurious and dissipated
Age) too often trip into the Pulpit in a Manner and dress apparently...
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William Hogarth and Richard Steele
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and Bradbury, or the Confederacy of the Press and the Pulpit for the Blood of the Last Ministry (London: S. Keimer, 1715), 19. 14. Remarks on Mr. Steele's Crisis, &c. By One of the Clergy (London: B. Berrington, 1714), 13. 13. Remarks upon the Truth, Design, and Seasonableness of Sir...
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Swift, Secret History, and War
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Weinbrot, Swift s Thirtieth of January Sermon: Politics, the Pulpit, and the Choice of Strife, Reading Swift: Papers from the Fourth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, ed. Hermann Real (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2008), 224 44, especially 240. 4. The Garden Plot (1709) is attributed to Swift...
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