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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Lori Branch Anderson Misty G. . Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xii + 279. 12 ills . $65 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 143–147.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Nicholas Hudson R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725815 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 4 3 Handwriting, the Self, and Society in the Eighteenth Century Nicholas Hudson University of British Columbia Aileen Douglas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Dana Y. Rabin The College of William & Mary 2003 ECL27106-Rabin.q4.jw 4/14/03 10:56 AM Page 85
Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century
English Criminal Trials, 1730–1800...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 111–142.
Published: 01 April 2012
... conventional valuations, and on the other, offered rich opportunities both for both self-advancement and the advancement of learning. Writers show that Sloane’s activities recast the natural world as a storehouse stuffed with collectibles and collecting as an ambiguous but national practice of imperialistic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 119–135.
Published: 01 April 2016
... personal narrators who together recalled a fragmented history of their youth. This self-representation was harlequin-like—insistently informal, by turns irreverent or extravagant or facetious, based entirely on their changing whims. The eccentric world of their novel existed only as they imagined...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 88–112.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that Lovelace's fatal duel with Morden is a covert form of self-destruction, one that allows him to disguise and ultimately escape his sufferings while maintaining his masculine honor and reputation. While many critics have focused on Clarissa's suicide in Richardson's novel, few have considered the nature...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Jane Lim If John Locke established the self‐enclosed, paternal household as the basis of a new liberal state that fosters self‐governing individuals, this Enlightenment model of family unit is disrupted in gothic fiction that posits claustrophobic homes as the primary locus of terror. Yet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Seth Rudy Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift both believed, with varying degrees of self-assuredness, that some part of themselves would outlast their lives. They differed, however, as to precisely what would or could endure. From their earliest works, including Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Pope's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Marilyn Roberts During the long eighteenth century, benevolence was thought to be the greatest of all virtues. In her later novels especially, Jane Austen emphasized its primacy, showing that benevolence must be taught, practiced, and perfected through rigorous self-analysis and the repudiation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Abigail Williams; Anna Marar This paper will focus on the Chronicles of John Cannon, a ploughboy turned exciseman and writing master living in the Somerset levels who described himself as a “Tennis Ball of Fortune.” Cannon's story of self‐education and writerly self‐fashioning took striking...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
... anecdotes to larger concerns about English self-representation and the political authority that it alternately appeased and resisted. Specifically, the essay will follow Angelo from an anecdote he tells about George III at a Royal Academy exhibition, through an account of the constitutional crisis of 1783...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 72–96.
Published: 01 January 2013
... the dialogic personal practice of philosophy with the characters of three modern Socratics, producing an aestheticized theory of enthusiastic self-characterization in which the philosopher can only perform “true enthusiasm” by multiplying himself into different characters. Copyright 2012 by Duke University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2015
... be identified with either. Instead, Macartney adopts a skeptical, self-conscious position with regard to his diplomatic and intellectual limitations in dealing with the Qing. Critical analysis of his narrative’s literary qualities, as well as manuscripts in the Charles W. Wason Collection at Cornell University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
... our understanding of his achievement and interests. This essay reads three of Wolcot's key poems from the 1780s in terms of his focus on the use of anecdote in writing history and biography, and his self-conscious interest in writing about great men. In A Poetical and Congratulatory Epistle to James...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and imagined costumes for self-promotion, and to assert expertise, fashionability, and cosmopolitanism. Celebrations of James Burney’s adventures in Oceania, however, were disturbed by his recollections of violent scenes in New Zealand, which were so traumatic that he could only mention them in whispers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
... with the challenges of representing war, which he explores in studying Uncle Toby and Trim’s miniature fortifications, as well as the story of Le Fever, and the various sympathetic reactions, some of which are self-promotional, to death. Sterne places two modes of representing war in counterpoint — a “distancing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the natural and social worlds than they had known before, which led to more empirical comparing, more systematic speculation, and more secular self-questioning. Most scholarship on Enlightenment and Pacific voyaging, however, focuses on relatively elite or well-educated thinkers who were already on the path...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... are essentially situational rather than plot driven. They use dramatic situations over and over (e.g., supplication, deliverance, abduction, remorse, enmity of kinsmen, self‐sacrifice). Handel is far more concerned with intense expression of emotion than with telling a story. In all four types of Handelian opera...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
... conveyed to Austen through eighteenth‐century divines who saw them as compatible with their Anglican theology. Like Aristotle, Austen emphasizes habit as crucial to an ethic that defines virtue not as self‐denial, but as fulfillment within a well‐governed polis , or, in her case, within an idealized estate...
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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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