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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Rictor Norton George E. Haggerty. Queer Gothic (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 2006). Pp. 231. $20 paper. ISBN 0-252-07353-3 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
Queer Gothic
Rictor Norton...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Neil Guthrie Abstract The precise nature of Horace Walpole's sexuality remains elusive, in spite of the extent of his surviving correspondence — which is vast but with notable and possibly strategic gaps. Walpole's reactions to two queer men he encountered in Italy, Cardinal Prince Henry Benedict...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2025
... historians, contemporary disability theorists, and even—surprise—queer theorists. First, he situates Baxter amidst more recognizable theologists (for literary historians) like John Milton and John Bunyan. McKendry opens with Pilgrim's Progress (1678), a canonical text that, since it is familiar, helps...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 January 2025
..., in the wider world of Anglophone poetry. Declan Kavanagh revisits a tension between essentialist and constructivist approaches to queer history, and argues for an evolved critical dexterity in eighteenth-century/Irish studies. In so doing, he reads Gulliver's Travels (1726) anew as an “earlier iteration...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 April 2024
... it perish. The chapter on the poet-physician Akenside offers a broadly queer reading of The Pleasures of the Imagination that takes as its starting point Akenside's embryological views, which include no creative role for male sperm and require God to intervene in every act of conception. As a result...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of Queer Gothic Châtel notes that Beckford did not see himself as fol- lowing in the footsteps of Walpole (123), but rather than proving his point, this arguably says more about the effort that Beckford made to differentiate himself from his precursor. The two men were certainly discussed alongside each...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... problems . . . most of all” (118). 7. Susan S. Lanser, “Queering Narrative Voice,” Textual Practice 32 (2018): 923–37; the quotation is from 926. Lanser attaches this definition to one of the meanings of what she describes as a “queer voice.” In this case, “queer” maps onto the disruption...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
....1 Although recent critics have assessed the flourishing relationships that Haywood imagines between women beginning with The British Recluse (1722) and continuing through to Betsy Thoughtless (1751), and rang- ing from the platonic to the queer the role Epistles plays in her career- long vision...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 January 2025
... in Culture and Society 37 (2012): 823 – 31, especially 829. 41. Caroline Gonda, “Maria Edgeworth's ‘Angelina, or L'amie Inconnue’: Queer Materiality and the Woman Writer's Grotesque Body,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 17 (2013): 279 – 90, especially 281 – 82; Hugh Parry, “ ‘There's No Romance...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., [and] inanimate objects” (22). Rather
than interpreting Yorick’s sensibility as a front for genteel masculine privilege,
Nagle sees his sensibility as queer: unpredictable and unproductively perverse.
Raising the reader’s temperature and stimulating his passions are the aims of a
text in which emotions...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 128–138.
Published: 01 September 2013
... it. This reminds me that one of the features
of Walker’s book worth mentioning is that, while it takes unsettlement as its
goal, it does not conceive of that goal through a queer lens, nor does it make
use of queer discourse. Not to have done so when he clearly — with Kristeva, to
whom he points — wishes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 103–106.
Published: 01 April 2007
...: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-
Centry Fiction (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2006). Pp. 231. $49.50. ISBN 0-8387-
5604-2
Haggerty, George E. Queer Gothic (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 2006). Pp. 231. $65.
ISBN 1-252-03108-3. $20 paper. ISBN 0-252-07353-3
Heimann, Nora M. Joan...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 147–152.
Published: 01 January 2025
... among a “queer intertextual network” stretching from Orientalist plays by William Davenant and Nathaniel Lee to genre-defining fictions by Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson (213). In making this audacious and exhilarating argument, Bobker treats anecdotes as “the original memes” (214)—highly condensed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 74–81.
Published: 01 April 2021
... are as compelling, painstakingly researched, and thought provoking as this one, scholars are in store for major contributions to body studies, an increasingly popular field. Mounsey, a professor of eighteenth- century literature at the University of Win- chester, comes with an impressive record. He coedited Queer...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 69–91.
Published: 01 January 2004
... looks narcissistically to the sun as he
“floats with gay abandon in the plasma of outer space,” surrounded by
angels, devils, and cherubim vogueing “alternative sexualities.”2
These recent perspectives on Crusoe opened by queer studies offer an
answer to the old question of why Defoe’s novelistic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the cultural binaries of male/female, civilized/barbarian,
west/east that romance characters negotiate” (46). Brian Glavey, in “Frank O’Hara
Nude with Boots: Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet,” American Literature
79 (2007): 781–806, defines a “queer ekphrasis,” in which the poet himself takes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 January 2021
... There were no other separate publications of the story of Leendert Hasenbosch in the eighteenth century. Only near the end of the twenti- eth century did his story reappear in a new guise as The Queer Dutchman, edited by Peter Agnos (New York: Green Eagle, 1978, reprinted or reissued 1979, 1993...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
... sexuality, see George E. Haggerty, Queering Horace Walpole, Studies in English Literature 46 (2006): 543 61; Matthew M. Reeve, Gothic Architecture, Sexuality, and License at Horace Walpole s Strawberry Hill, Art Bulletin 95 (2013): 411 39; Dominic Janes, Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 122–129.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Halager (Fairbanks: Univ. of
Alaska, 2008). Historical Translation Series, vol. 14. Pp. xii + 171. 25 ills. $29.95.
ISBN 978-1-889-96394-1
Mounsey, Chris and Caroline Gonda, eds. Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions
of Homosexuality, 1700 – 1800 (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2007...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 31–56.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the ‘Unspeakable’: William Godwin and the
Politics of Homophobia,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 1 (1990): 85 – 101; and George
E. Haggerty, Queer Gothic (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 2006), 111 – 16.
5. For “crime not fit to be named,” see William Blackstone, Commentaries on
the Laws of England...
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