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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Sophie Thomas Brodey Inger Sigrun . Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility . ( New York : Routledge , 2008 ). Pp. xxiv + 274. 39 ills. $95 Jung Sandro . The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 34–50.
Published: 01 September 2021
...’ War, which made London the center of an extensive global empire. Through an examination of proposals for and accounts of urban improvements as well as works that look to a future moment when visitors survey London's faded glories, this essay considers how imagining London in ruins—a trope thus far...
FIGURES
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Crèvecœur's book weighed in to promote the North American colonies. In the collection of manuscript essays Crèvecœur presented to London publisher Davis and Davies in 1781, some described plagues ruining crops, or swarms biting colonists, but these texts were passed over, and not published until the 1920s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the people is entangled with estrangement, monstrosity. and suffering. The novel appeared in a postwar world of ruins, dismembered bodies, and revenants that formed around a newly heightened awareness of the living forces and traumas that compose war. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Suvir Kaul Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762) contains substantial passages in which the poet surveys the Greco-Roman cities and ruins visible to sailors as they sail past landmasses in the Mediterranean. This survey of past and present is a reminder of the changing fortunes—the rise and fall...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 82–108.
Published: 01 January 2005
... persons, its buildings in ruin, its crowds dispossessed: “The peo-
ple who now walked about the ruines, appeared like men in some dis-
mal desart, or rather in some great Citty, lay’d waste by an impetuous and
cruel Enemy,” John Evelyn wrote in his Diary.2 Evelyn was giving a term
to the new...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 54–60.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Juliet Shields Kenneth McNeil. Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus: Ohio State Univ., 2007). Pp. 228. $41.95. ISBN 0-8142-1047-3 Matthew Wickman. The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Philadelphia...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and reinforced,
Zenobia is about how religious belief is inculcated and reinforced.
Palmyra and its queen, Zenobia, became a European sensation in 1753,
the year that Robert Wood and James Dawkins published their archeo-
logical study The Ruins of Palmyra otherwise Tedmor in the Desart [sic].11...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of the third chapter, which breathes new
life into this pairing of texts by examining their representations of trees and
ruins. While it is Johnson’s concern with Scottish emigration that ties the
chapter to the major themes of Essential Scots, it is Swenson’s exploration of
arboreal aesthetics...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 90–117.
Published: 01 September 2004
... inspired by the paintings
of Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Poussin and by scenes of ancient ruins
viewed by visitors to Italy, was intended to complement the Palladian style
that was the latest trend in the architecture of stately homes.6 Innovative
designers such as William Kent not only departed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2003
... Binhammer
University of Alberta
Many young girls, from morning to night, hang over this pestiferous reading, to
the neglect of industry, health, proper exercise, and to the ruin both of body and of
soul. The increase of novels will help to account for the increase...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 January 2018
...
needs to be rediscovered, like some newly unearthed ruin of the pastÐ of just
the sort he depicted in his famous etchings. But as Heather Hyde Minor dem-
onstrates in her stimulating, wide-ranging Piranesi’s Lost Words, there is still
much to learn about this fascinating character.
Minor’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 127–141.
Published: 01 September 2009
... volume 3 has twelve,
including a final page-and-a-half-long chapter that ties up loose ends with
its treatment “of Some Antiquities, which, from their ruined State, are more
inconsiderable.” Although some of the finer lines and crisp detail in the draw-
ings have blurred or disappeared altogether...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 66–89.
Published: 01 September 2004
...; the vicinity of the clouds, the thunder of the explosions in
the slate quarries, the dreadful solitude, the distance of the plain below,
and the mountains heaped on mountains that were piled around us,
desolate, and waste, like the ruins of a world which we only had survived,
excited...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of the Acropolis,
as published by Stuart and Revett in their first volume of The Antiquities of
Athens (1762), and the Drawing Room ceiling taken from the Temple of
the Sun, depicted earlier by Robert Wood in his Ruins of Palmyra (1753).31
Walpole probably also admired...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 158–164.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of political interests, the
Opposition of the 1730s and 1740s—“Cobham’s Cubs”—erected monuments
to themselves here that would probably not stand the test of time: a head-
less Walpole statue, for example, dominates the Temple of Modern Virtue,
which was itself a ruin. Yet in general, “Old Whigs...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 76–96.
Published: 01 September 2005
... are not as securely classical as might be supposed: the ruins,
the blasted tree, the solitary bardlike fi gure, the Latin mottos, light, dark,
the fragments of broken architecture showing the transience of physical
monuments (“Roma aeterna a skull, a cobweb. Again, there are certain...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 37–43.
Published: 01 January 2009
...
the bringer of peace and plenty to a land ruined since the Norman conquest
by rapine, civil war, and foreign imbroglio. This involves an understanding
of classical and Renaissance literary sources much more comprehensive than
is provided even by the Twickenham edition—and Rogers adds vastly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 January 2022
...): 74–85, especially 82ff., and Elizabeth MacArthur, “Textual Gardens,” 336ff. 74. This approach found favor outside of Britain as well: the various buildings at Catherine the Great's garden at Tsarskoe Selo—the Ruined Tower, the Turkish Pavilion, the Red Cascade, etc.—are arranged so as to tell...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
... not blame the
architects of this ruin; instead, they reflect upon “the Triumph of unstable
Fortune.” Even when they do turn their attention to the defeated Crœsus,
an obvious candidate for blame, their speeches remain fatalistic:
A fatal Glory fires ambitious Man,
That is for ever...
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