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Shadwell as Lord of Misrule: Dryden, Varronian Satire, and Carnival
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Kirk Combe The College of William & Mary 2000 Shadwell as Lord of Misrule: Dryden,
Varronian Satire, and Carnival
Throughout his literary criticism, Dryden instructs us how to read his
own creative works.1 It should...
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Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and Nationalist Spectacle in Behn's the Rover
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Adam R. Beach The College of William & Mary 2004
Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and
Nationalist Spectacle in Behn’s The Rover
Adam R. Beach
Ball State University
In the epilogue...
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Satiric Strategy in Ned Ward's London Writings
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 76–101.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Peter M. Briggs This essay examines three satirical works from the most productive decade of Edward (Ned) Ward's long writing career: The London Spy (1698-1700), The London Terraefilius , or, The Satyrical Reformer (1707-08), and The Secret History of Clubs (1709). All three of these colorful...
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Pope and Rapture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Robert A. Erickson The essay examines Pope's entire poetic career under the aspect of rapture, in all its many connotations and contexts. Though Pope's early amatory poems and his later satire are usually considered in isolation from each other, this essay explores their common preoccupation...
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Old & New Foundling Hospitals for Wit in the Age of the Digital Miscellanies Index
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 116–141.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Donald W. Nichol Literary miscellanies have long been popular. Richard Tottel's 1557 collection, Songes and Sonettes , gathered the works of various Tudor poets. In 1684, Jacob Tonson and John Dryden launched a miscellany that reached six volumes by 1709. By 1743, the time was ripe for a satirical...
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Revising Hospitality: Class, Ethics, and the Toadeater Guest
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 58–83.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of hospitality, this article contends that the term raises concerns about the ethical obligations of hosts and guests and the role reputation played in building social hierarchy. Simple satires of the toadeater as dependent guest reveal a fear over social mobility while novels present a sentimental exposé...
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“Law Enough to Set You Free”: Contract, Community, and Consent in the Comedies of George Farquhar
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 30–60.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Alex Feldman From his first play, Love and a Bottle (1698), to the masterpiece that crowned his career, The Beaux ’ Stratagem (1707), George Farquhar's oeuvre is traversed by legal motifs and legal scenarios, from satirical attacks upon the judiciary, to serious engagements with the law of contract...
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“I Had Not the Honour to Be Born in England”: Armstrong, Wilkes, and The Muncher's and Guzler's Diary
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2025
... simple satire on prognostication, Armstrong later revised it to respond to his disagreements with the politician John Wilkes, and to criticize English xenophobia and prejudice. Moreover, in The Muncher's and Guzler's Diary , Armstrong relies on aspects of what Srinivas Aravamudan has identified...
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“Women Should Become Thinner When They Are Pregnant”: Corpulency and Women's Reproductive Health in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 January 2025
... of satire, or a pathologized and useless body, but can also be fertile, autonomous, and even healthy. Ultimately, I will claim that the fat woman is more than just a cypher of medical opinion: she is also a discordant figure of criticism too. The anticipated barrenness of the corpulent woman often went...
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The Dynamics of Authorial Forgetting: The Case of James Robertson
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 January 2025
... a surprising amount of contemporary recognition both as a player and as a poet, he has now totally disappeared from literary history. I suggest how and why he lost his place in the canon and what value there is in reading his work today, especially as a signpost of the relative persistence of Augustan satire...
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Deformity Poems and Other Nasties
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Simon Dickie This essay discusses two categories of eighteenth-century comic verse that were mainstream in their time but are now almost forgotten. They have little or nothing to do with the satiric traditions that dominate critical attention. Part 1 explores a mass of comic verse tales, direct...
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The Literary Legacy of Sarah Harriet Burney
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., especially in relation to the family, which will be the focus of this critique. Burney wrote five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, a literary career that spanned almost five decades. Grounded in the domestic novel of manners with strong shades of satire, her fiction also incorporates elements...
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Knights Errant of the Distressed: Horace Walpole, Thomas Chatterton, and Eighteenth-Century Charitable Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., indignantly satirical reworking of the Good Samaritan parable at Walpole’s expense. I conclude with reflections on how Walpole and Chatterton’s disagreement affected later ideas of charity for impoverished authors, and on the ways in which individual charitable practices might be said to influence literary...
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Person, Animal, Thing: The 1796 Dog Tax and the Right to Superfluous Things
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 1–44.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Lynn Festa Drawing on Parliamentary debates, print polemics, and satirical prints, this essay traces the rhetorical erosion of seemingly categorical distinctions between human and animal, animate and inanimate, person and thing, in the controversy that arose around the 1796 imposition of a tax...
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William Dampier’s “Mixt Relation”: Narrative Vs. Natural History in A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 29–54.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., literary, and scientific spheres, Dampier’s style of composition became an easy target for satire. These vituperative and long-lasting critiques emphasized the awkwardness of Dampier’s method, but they also suggest the immense stakes of his project. Probing the limits of representation, Dampier...
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Eighteenth-Century Illustrations of the Novels of Tobias Smollett
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 18–62.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Julian Fung For most modern readers, Tobias Smollett’s novels are defined by violence and crude physical humor, both of which contribute to angry satire on society’s vices. By drawing attention to eighteenth-century illustrations in Smollett’s novels, I want to suggest that illustrators were...
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John Wolcot and “The Anecdotic Itch”: Peter Pindar, Biography, and Historiography in the 1780s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Dafydd Moore John Wolcot, under his nom de plume of Peter Pindar, was one of the most popular satirists of the late eighteenth century. Today his work is primarily known for his anti-ministerial satires during the 1790s and discussed in terms of its radical credentials in ways that have narrowed...
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Creative Destruction
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 71–80.
Published: 01 April 2015
...David Hill Radcliffe Marshall Ashley . The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770 . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xviii + 430. $59.95 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay
Creative Destruction...
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Reconfiguring the Idea of Eighteenth-Century Literature in a New Epoch: Moving from the Augustan to the Menippean
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2007
...John J. Burke, Jr. Howard D. Weinbrot, Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2005). Pp. 375. $60. ISBN 0-8018-8210-9 Howard D. Weinbrot, Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics (Newark...
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Rewritten and Reused: Imaging the Nabob through “Upstart Iconography”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 39–59.
Published: 01 April 2008
... satire, which is rather surprising, considering the
wealth of sources available and the popularity satirical prints enjoyed dur-
ing the period of the nabob. Graphic satire was an immediate and highly
effective method of expressing concerns in the eighteenth century, and the
years between 1776...
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