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The Reception History of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as a Celebrity Female Traveler
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 58–80.
Published: 01 April 2025
... after and widely circulated among the British reading public in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The reception history of Montagu's travel letters reveals an underlying anxiety in British society concerning the expanding range of female mobility, as the meaning of her travels...
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Thomas Rowlandson's Vauxhall Gardens : The Lives of a Print
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the definitive image of that famous pleasure garden, and has given rise to many complex and contradictory readings, a reception history of this beguiling print is long overdue. Tracing the print's reception from Henry Angelo, an old, school friend of Rowlandson's, through David Coke and Alan Borg's 2011...
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Unlocking The Cabinet of Love : Rochester, Reputation, and the Eighteenth-Century Miscellany
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2017
... presented to readers of this enduringly popular miscellany before considering what the inclusion of its pornographic “cabinet” reveals about Rochester's complicated reception history. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Rochester Curll miscellany cabinet pornography...
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“I Know Not Who Was the Author”: Disputed Authorship in the Digital Miscellanies Index
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 142–157.
Published: 01 January 2017
... reading: those poems, the authorship of which was (or appeared to be) disputed. This article considers how, through accident or design, misattributions entered into and persisted in the printed record. Each case of disputed authorship provides insight into the reception history of the poem under...
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Ephemeral Spenser: Stothard’s Vignette Series of The Faerie Queene for The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 78–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... words, these vignettes may have conveyed mnemonically a prior reading experience of The Faerie Queene or have stimulated recall of other engagements with the moments represented. Understanding Stothard’s illustrations as iconic interventions in the reception history of Spenser’s work that, by being...
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“My Case,” Her Cure: William Hay's Permissible Gender Fluidity and Mrs. Stephens's Controversy
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... This article compares the reception history of Stephens's recipe and Deformity: An Essay , examining why Stephens attracted censure whereas Hay garnered approval for endorsing the same basic treatment. Focusing on both Stephens's and Hay's gender-fluid personae, I argue that Hay, unlike Stephens, was able...
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Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... Modern critics, such as Dustin Griffin (1986), have explored how Milton's poetry influenced writers in the succeeding century, yet its appropriation in miscellaneous publications remains largely unexplored. This essay analyzes the history of Milton's reception in the period 1700-1800 through his...
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“Her Later Works Happily Forgotten”: Rewriting Frances Burney and Old Age
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2013
... into Burney’s conceptions of and ruminations on authorial celebrity in old age. The narration of the Memoirs provides a compelling picture of what an aged woman author was up against in fashioning a persona in her text. Examining the complicated reception of the Memoirs also advances our discussion of Burney’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Review Culture and the “Enormous Crimes” of Antislavery Verse
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 26–53.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Christopher Chan This essay charts the reception of five widely read antislavery poems—Hannah More's Slavery (1788); Edward Rushton's West-Indian Eclogues (1787); William Roscoe's The Wrongs of Africa (1787 – 88); John Jamieson's The Sorrows of Slavery (1789); and James Field Stanfield's The Guinea...
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Afterlives
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 216–220.
Published: 01 January 2011
... literary history. It is telling that words like Rezep-
tionsgeschichte and Nachleben are often left untranslated in English texts — our
words reception history and afterlife simply do not carry the same connotations.
We in the English-speaking world are never quite sure what we talk about
when we...
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Introduction
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
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of a complex and varied poetry publishing landscape, they are undoubt-
edly a vital part of it, and consequently, the data-driven reception history
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enabled by the DMI has the potential to challenge—or confirm—some of
the customary narratives...
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Johnson in Japan
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2025
... history. It would be a bit misguided to focus simply on isolating the “Japanese” elements here. These essays, commissioned for this project, assume a cultural exchange that is not reducible to the assertion of national values. That said, the story of the reception of Johnson in Japan, as the volume...
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Eighteenth-Century Arts of Love
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 104–109.
Published: 01 September 2011
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qui ne cède à l’attrait du texte que pour le rendre ‘honnête she writes, “de
l’autre les Lumières trouvent dans L’Art d’aimer des arguments pour illustrer
une érotique matérialiste ou sensualite” (87). Interestingly, this division in the
reception history...
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Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., farcical antics of Sancho Panza. Studies of Don Quixote 's eighteenth-century cultural history that fail to account for these dramatic adaptations—and the persistence of farce and presence of cruelty therein—oversimplify the text's reception history, overestimating the significance of high comedy...
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Women Novelists and the Canon: Ingrained Misogyny?
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2010
... reception history of British women novelists, his
“history of histories of the novel” (3), with what strikes him as a scandal-
ous aside in The Rise of the Novel (1957) in which Ian Watt remarks that “the
majority of eighteenth-century novels were actually written by women,” a fact
whose...
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Sentimental Modernity in Literature and Film
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 157–161.
Published: 01 April 2016
...” into the cultural past (xvii). Endlessly
illuminating, this is first-rate scholarship by a critic in virtuosic command of
his material.
In part 1, “The Capraesque,” after a sweeping look at Capra’s career and
reception history, Chandler focuses on “three moments or phases of recursiv-
ity” (41), which...
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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
... to have suspected Swift as the progenitor of the Predictions. All of
this is made available by the error in Partridge’s letter, which privileges us
to an obscured reception history of the hoax. That there was “no such Man
as Isaack Bickerstaff ” enables Partridge’s mistake, but it also enables our...
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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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it as a source of laughter; still others greeted it with impatience and exas-
peration. Keymer persuasively argues that in the very beginning of Tristram
Shandy’s reception history, one can find rudimentary evidence of all the diverse
attempts, the “competing discourses and traditions” (9) that have been...
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David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 81–87.
Published: 01 January 2007
... of the way towards a reassessment of the reception of
Hume’s political thought” (28).
Part of the way, yes, but it is the rest of the way in which certain problems
arise, especially with regard to the History of England. I come away from Spen-
cer’s study with a general sense that readers...
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Curating Will & Jane
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
... was reprinted in that same wartime format for troops serving in
Iraq.36 Given this shared reception history during wartime, how did the
soldiering Jane of the first half of the twentieth century ever become the
girly “chick lit” author hyped by Hollywood at the century’s close, which
we cannot help...
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