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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2017
... doctrines. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 immigration Milan right of escheat borders Spain Austria •
Immigrants: Asset or Threat?
Foreigners, Property, and the Right of Escheat
in Enlightenment Milan...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 1–44.
Published: 01 April 2009
... on dogs. The passage of this seemingly slight piece of legislation created impassioned debates about the nature and welfare of animals, about the rights of individuals to possess or keep property, and about the way the kinship felt for animals tampers with the seemingly self-evident borders of kind...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 30–60.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., in contexts as varied as military impressment and spousal neglect. The period that followed the accession of William and Mary, in 1688, and the Bill of Rights to which they assented in 1689, is commonly regarded as being governed by contractual relationships between rational individuals, entering...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2018
... concentrate on the early (indeed, to my mind, originary) novelistic writings of Aphra Behn. For even if Behn did not voice her interest in the Rights of Woman as overtly or polemically as did Mary Wollstonecraft in her landmark feminist Vindication , so many of Behn’s narratives hinge upon the question...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 89–104.
Published: 01 April 2017
... an eidolon, “The Trifler,” whose lively voice recalls The Female Quixote 's chapter titles. As the periodical continues, the Trifler's individual voice gives way to an even livelier assortment of voices, which debate the Trifler's right to her “title”. In both works, Lennox explores the tension between...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Holland (1732–95). Each woman is of interest in her own right, but together, as I will argue, their scientific contributions add significantly to the ongoing investigation of the role that women played in developing Enlightenment science. Nonetheless, Lady Holland was able to appropriate...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Taylor Corse This essay examines the impassioned lecture on animal rights that John Dryden adapted from Ovid and included in Fables Ancient and Modern (1700). This lecture, which Dryden called “Of the Pythagorean Philosophy,” reflects many aspects of the contemporary debate about ethical eating...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... Be careful or they will cut your throat. Samuel Johnson is more temperate in his undated sermon. The regicide was a sign of destructive envy, both in its own right and because it ignored alternatives, like legal restraint upon the crown. Swift places the regicide in a political and national context. Johnson...
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in Picturing Political Power: Eighteenth-Century Korean Portraits in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2023
in military attire and the set of three versions of Oh Myeonghang's portrait: draft, half-length painting, and full-length painting. The other wall (to the right) served as a screen on which to project a video demonstration of the steps involved in creating an official portrait from draft to completion.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., an encumbrance on her rights
of widowhood, and, significantly, an infringement on the identity of “law-
monger” that she cultivates for herself. Her legal rights of self-sovereignty
and her rights to property are contingent upon her status as a widow. Thus,
when forced to choose between coverture...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2020
... subtends imperial theory. Literary and cultural scholars tend to think of the state of nature as a conceptual device political philosophers use to theorize the rise and development of paci¨c civic politics and rights from discussions of natural rights. We are accustomed to regarding John Locke and Jean...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 118–122.
Published: 01 January 2012
...,
however, was not monolithic, but divided into Ultramontanes, Jansenists (who
were allied to the parlements), and Gallicans. Nor did Louis XIV have abso-
lute power over the church in France. He was circumscribed by the rights and
privileges of his subjects: although the Sorbonne was a thorn in his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 92–114.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and “unpitying men” (4:260) and instruc-
tions to be “kind” to animals (4:265).8 The tendency in contemporary phys-
iological discourse to characterize sensibility as something animal further
blurred the line between humans and animals.
The modern debate over animal rights and the legal standing of ani...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 149–154.
Published: 01 January 2012
...,” irresponsible and irrational once unloosed from
his inherited ties. For Thomas Paine, he was a man free to define himself
on the basis of “the substantial ground, of character,” possessing inborn
natural rights rather than inert inherited ones.1
Wallace is surely right to claim that we...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 59–72.
Published: 01 April 2017
... University Press 2017 French Revolution American revolution republicanism equal rights French cuisine •
Catharine Macaulay’s French Connections
Karen Green
The University of Melbourne
While in prison, Jeanne...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 87–91.
Published: 01 September 2015
... gains on a “new and stable foundation” (70).
Assailed from the left as “aristocrats of the new regime,” and from the right
as “serpents hiding in the grass” that were a “thousand times more dangerous
than the Jacobins,” they pushed to no avail for a settlement that would preserve...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
... that two figures just right of center
are the Prince of Wales and Mary “Perdita” Robinson, his mistress. Grego’s
dependence on the passive voice (“understood to be intended,” “understood
to represent,” and “reported to be introduced”) is pervasive, enabling him
to make identifications without...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 99–123.
Published: 01 September 2003
... the highest perish
and I merely hug myself at the thought.
—Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)
For readers of Clarissa,the attitude expressed in this quotation may seem
familiar as resembling that of the novel’s chief villain, Lovelace. As tor-
mentor of Clarissa, Lovelace is a master conniver...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
... on behalf of women’s
educational and legal rights and in quest of their share of cultural influence.
Her third chapter covers Queen Anne’s highly politicized reign, when women
promoted the merits of both Tory and Whig parties, or, alternatively, urged
retreat from corrupting political concerns...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 237–251.
Published: 01 April 2001
...; the discontent to
which Tom Paine gave voice and direction in Rights of Man (two parts,
1791–92) was indeed widespread and potentially dangerous to the stabil-
ity of English society. To understand what More is doing in the Cheap
Repository Tracts, it is necessary to know...
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