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The Telegraph : Radical Transmission in the 1790s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 26–52.
Published: 01 April 2013
... the potentially transformative political effects of communicative media. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 R
The Telegraph:
Radical Transmission in the 1790s
Mary Fairclough...
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Radical Moderates
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 87–91.
Published: 01 September 2015
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Radical Moderates
Ross Carroll
The College of William & Mary
Aurelian Craiutu. A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political
Thought, 1748–1830 (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2012). Pp xix + 338. $49.50...
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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
...Ronald Paulson; Ashley Marshall William Hogarth and Richard Steele were in many ways part of the same intellectual and religiopolitical milieu, one that also links them both to the radical Whig cleric Benjamin Hoadly. Modern scholars have almost always connected Steele to Joseph Addison...
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Clamoring for Liberty: Alehouse Noise and the Political Shoemaker
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... A fruitful way of examining this issue is by focusing on the figure of the shoemaker, a character who often appears in popular culture as a noisy, irreverent, and vigorous defender of liberty. Scholars have long associated the proverbial political radicalism of shoemakers with occupational qualities...
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Fabricating Defoes: From Anonymous Hack to Master of Fictions
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Ashley Marshall The “Defoe” to be found in the major modern biographies and the criticism of the last four decades is a radically different person and writer from earlier Defoes. Although the notion of a “constructed” author is by now an over-worked cliché, Defoe represents an especially...
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Old & New Foundling Hospitals for Wit in the Age of the Digital Miscellanies Index
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 116–141.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the brainchild of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. The New Foundling Hospital for Wit starts off with his poem, “Isabella,” which stands up well beside Rape of the Lock. A vehicle for John Wilkes and his radical bookseller John Almon, this later miscellany offered up the most audacious satires and politicized...
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Literary Sentimentalism and Post-Secular Virtue
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...” light. It aims to show that sentimentalism affirmed Christian virtues such as charity and chastity, but it radically transmuted and displaced those virtues. In particular, it argues that sentimental fiction imaginatively negotiated the difficulties of practicing Christian virtue in a rapidly changing...
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Catharine Macaulay's French Connections
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 59–72.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in France, examines the origins of the translation of her history, and considers the way it was presented, during the crucial period of the Revolution when it appeared. I will offer new evidence for Macaulay's relationships with French radicals and aristocrats before the Revolution, and in particular...
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Writing against Sophie: Mary Hays's Female Biography as Enlightenment Feminist Critique of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 73–88.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Shane Greentree Mary Hays's Female Biography (1803) stands as a good example of collective biography, and a landmark in women's history writing. Scholarly debate continues on whether this epic text further develops Enlightenment feminism or marks a retreat from 1790s radicalism into early...
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“A Future to Look Forward to?”: Extinction and Evolution in Jane Austen's Persuasion
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., Austen writes, “had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which Providence had placed him.” The romantics' newly formed understanding of the process of extinction, led by a growth in the study of fossils, forms the background to this novel in which Austen radically...
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“That Friendship Which Is Yet Dearer to Me than Any Other Earthly Good”: Female Intimacy in Eliza Haywood’s Epistles for the Ladies
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and friendship, this article also makes the case for Haywood’s radical vision of female virtue in contrast to didactic and pedagogical literature. Likewise, the article argues that Epistles showcases Haywood’s ambitious critical aims by incorporating both amatory pleasures and moral concerns. Eighteenth...
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The Prospectus War of the 1790s: Literary Advertising in an Age of Revolution
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and newspaper prospectuses, which proliferated in the 1790s, this article analyzes examples from across the political spectrum, including the prospectus for the Argus by the radical journalist Sampson Perry, George Canning’s hugely influential prospectus to the Anti-Jacobin , and other examples by William...
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“How Is Our Blue Club Cut Up!”: Frances Burney's Changing Views of the Bluestockings
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 37–55.
Published: 01 January 2022
... of the principal members, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, and Hester Chapone, underwent a complete transformation by the time she published her father's biography, Memoirs of Dr. Burney (1832), which contains glowing tributes to the group and its members. This essay seeks to explain the radical change...
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Anti-Gothic Gothic Animals in Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria (1798)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 101–119.
Published: 01 September 2024
... eighteenth‐century society, and animals are an integral part of that picture. The social world she recreates is one of deeply entrenched hierarchical violence that permeates all levels of society and radically affects the experiences of both women and animals. [email protected] Copyright...
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The Enlightenment's Dark Spaces: Library as Heterotopia in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and cultural corruption inevitably results in subpar productions and debasement of taste. Within the larger argument of the poem, Pope's radical rewriting of Theobald's monologue and immolation scene from the Variorum to fit the new hero better delivers the poem's message of the intertwining of writing...
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John Wolcot and “The Anecdotic Itch”: Peter Pindar, Biography, and Historiography in the 1780s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Dafydd Moore John Wolcot, under his nom de plume of Peter Pindar, was one of the most popular satirists of the late eighteenth century. Today his work is primarily known for his anti-ministerial satires during the 1790s and discussed in terms of its radical credentials in ways that have narrowed...
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Incle and Yarico and The Incas : Two Plays by John Thelwall
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 January 2009
...: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., 2006). Pp. 167.
$39.50. ISBN 0-8386-4101-6
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This volume of two previously unpublished plays by the English radical John
Thelwall (1764 – 1834) is a fascinating supplement to earlier studies document-
ing Thelwall’s prolific and parlous...
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John Barrell. Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-1796
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 103–111.
Published: 01 September 2000
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and literary, of radical and conservative politics during the 1790s in Brit-
ain. The Treason Trials of 1794, in which leaders of radical societies in
London and Edinburgh were put on trial for High Treason with prosecu-
tions initiated by a frightened administration, have been...
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“There Is No Such Man as Isaack Bickerstaff”: Partridge, Pittis, and Jonathan Swift
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
... — in reality a polemic — supersedes opinions about the man that pre-
date Swift’s hoax, and continue for some time after it. These accounts of
the astrologer present a figure deeply involved in the radical opposition to
Charles II and James II, both in Britain and in the Netherlands. Some...
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Uncorking Old Sherry for the Twenty-First Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 April 2015
... commitments. Sheridan, for Taylor (and I think he is right), was fun-
damentally a radical devoted to working within the system, both in Parlia-
ment and at Drury Lane. For many observers, both in Sheridan’s lifetime and
more recently, this stance has come off as hopelessly contradictory, or even...
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