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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 (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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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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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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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
Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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in Computational Approaches to Manuscript Books: Quaker Correspondence and the History of Its Reconstruction
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. Copy of a letter from Richard Shackleton to Deborah Christy with penciled page numbers (top right) and pin holes (left margin) indicating previous collection, as well as a penciled note “omit” indicating editorial intervention, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), CSB Mss 4
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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
(right). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. Photography by Kandice Sharren.
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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
(right). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. Photography by Kandice Sharren.
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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 (2024) 48 (2): 100–105.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of intellectual property was a newly important category in the eighteenth century, thanks in large part to the 1710 Copyright Act. This piece of legislation allowed authors now to own the rights to their works, and to understand themselves as the owners of the same. As it did so, “authorship” expanded...
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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 (2024) 48 (3): 101–119.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of humanity and distancing the rational male from animal associations. Jemima's association with animals builds on both Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and her earlier Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). In both, she shows how women and working-class people are identified...
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