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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 8. Dedication page, with signature. Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: A. Bell, 1773), Houghton, AC7.W5602.773p(A).
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Donelle Ruwe Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (1814) is a historical novel by the Irish author Adelaide O’Keeffe that features religious conversions from paganism to Judaism, and from Judaism to Christianity. O’Keeffe stages these conversions within the context of late Enlightenment debates about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Amanda Vickery Religion and the Georgian world of goods are rarely discussed in tandem. The modern history of consumerism is secular in conceptualization. The booming literature on the Georgian world of goods has engaged only glancingly with religious ideas. A series of prejudices about...
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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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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2024
... not coexist with otherwise conservative political or religious beliefs, I analyze conduct books by Evangelical Christians such as Hannah More, Isaac and Ann Taylor, and Jane West. I intend to demonstrate that many conduct books by conservative Christians normalized and even validated behavior traits like...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
... outlines of the “bookscape” of the Poor Clare convents founded in the seventeenth century on the Continent to allow young English women to pursue a religious vocation that was proscribed at home. Typical of the broader book culture of continental English convents at the time, the libraries of the Poor...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Lisa O'Connell Recent scholarly work by Jürgen Habermas, Judith Butler, and others posits a new cultural domain that is simultaneously religious and secular. Drawing on the sermons of John Tillotson and the fiction of Henry Fielding, this paper examines literary sentimentalism in this “post-secular...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... and healthy and numerous heirs. The tone of the sermons gradually changed. For example, Swift's sermon in 1726 berates his parishioners for not fully understanding why they must reject any confession other than the Anglican. The regicide heirs have preserved their ancestral political and religious attitudes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... anxiety about bodily dissolution after death. And at this time, the religious connotation of the uncorrupted corpse becomes translated into the endorsement of preservation as a guarantee that the body and soul will be properly rejoined in the afterlife. In medical terms, surgical innovations demanded...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 80–110.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of religious enthusiasm. The emotional power the hymns unleashed required various kinds of constraint so that hymn singing fed the intense feelings of conversion in controlled ways while providing the feelings with content. The hymns achieved this, in part, by creating for singers an experience...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 April 2014
... in favor of a more extreme version of Christianity that calls for completely eliminating pagan religions. By looking carefully at the presentation of Providence and religion, this article argues that if we take all three volumes together, they show Crusoe rejecting the religious conversion he experiences...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Catherine Craft-Fairchild Maria Edgeworth, in her novel Harrington (1817), was one of the first proponents of religious and cultural tolerance of the small but growing Jewish population in Great Britain. Edgeworth suggested that the best method of counteracting the irrational biases reinforced...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 14–40.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., clergymen and active members of religious sects. Occasions when sizable numbers of the Irish met are discussed. Also, other factors that may have encouraged a sense of “Irishness,” such as residential districts favored by the Irish or continuing use of the Irish language, are considered. The occasional...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 150–155.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Mark Canuel Colin Jager. The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. xi + 274. $59.95. ISBN 0-8112-3979-2 Daniel E. White. Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp xiii + 266. $90.00...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 17–28.
Published: 01 January 2001
... eighteenth-century Britain.”1 This study aims to offer
a cautionary note to such a judgment by reintroducing the importance of
religious discourses in shaping English and, after 1707, British views of
men. The Societies for Reformation of Manners—part of a pervasive cul...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 105–109.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Daniel Carey Rosenberg Jordana . Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion . ( New York : Oxford Univ. , 2011 ). Pp. xi + 216 . $65 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 76–91.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., carnality, religious and ‘national’ zeal, hairsplitting casuistry, moral
corruption in general, and dissimulation in particular.” While these ste-
reotypes made Jews seem familiar to most eighteenth-century French gen-
tiles, the relatively small number of Jews actually visible within the larger...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 134–136.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., and
the Gates of Hell and More’s clerical tone in her later writings (in chapter 8,
“The Contrast II: Bruising the Serpent’s Head, the Little Sister, and Christian
Professions Major objects that the religious dimension of literary and polite
culture in the eighteenth century has been overlooked...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 97–100.
Published: 01 September 2015
... circles of the religious establishment or state bureaucracy,
which had long generated the literary output of the Middle East. They com-
prised a new set of voices, propelled upwards by a “new social order” expressed
by the power and affluence of the provincial notablesa` ( yan), who were com-
ing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 110–121.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to the modern products of Latin Christendom
only) that we each have a choice as to whether we locate our notion of human
flourishing, of “fullness,” in the transcendental, or the immanent; in some
form of religious belief, or in a vague sense that some alien value yet inheres
in nature, as a glow...
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