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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Lisa O'Connell Recent scholarly work by Jürgen Habermas, Judith Butler, and others posits a new cultural domain that is simultaneously religious and secular. Drawing on the sermons of John Tillotson and the fiction of Henry Fielding, this paper examines literary sentimentalism in this “post-secular...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., a project that staked its claims for the cultural and moral efficacy of the theater on an avowedly emulative (and sentimental) model of drama. And I argue that Addison's belated insistence on his protagonist's all-too-humanness works to sentimentalize the character and so paradoxically opens up the very...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 157–161.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Brian Michael Norton Chandler James . An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema . ( Chicago : Univ. of Chicago , 2013 ). Pp. xxi + 430 . $45 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay Sentimental...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 99–123.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Heather Zias The College of William & Mary 2003 Who Can Believe? Sentiment vs. Cynicism in Richardson’s Clarissa Heather Zias West Virginia University You actually accept a law...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 37–41.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Leah Orr Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Johns Alessa , ed. Reflections on Sentiment: Essays in Honor of George Starr ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2016 ). Pp. vii + 215 . $75 ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 36–67.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Keith Johnston Montesquieu's climatological theory of character played an important role in English musical criticism in the third quarter of the eighteenth century and helped form an intellectual basis for an English critique of Italian comic opera in the sentimental mode. Critics like Joseph...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
... sentimental tales about hunchbacks in love. Both professionals and amateurs seem to have used them as technical exercises—as a way of amusing themselves and showing off their skill at mimetic versification. As such, deformity poems illustrate the everyday uses of verse in this culture: they were written...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Melvyn New Because Laurence Sterne suggested that sermons should come from the heart and should be practical rather than polemical, his own sermons have often been read as products of a sentimental and secular midcentury ethos, moral essays without theological meaning. However, the appearance...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
... pro-French sentiment; Jacobite themes of exile and lost love are also present. Haywood glorifies the victories and conquests of Charles XII of Sweden, who was a Jacobite hero, and who acts as a surrogate for Charles Edward Stuart in the novel. In that part of the novel concerned with love and amorous...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 18–62.
Published: 01 January 2014
... grumpy attack upon humankind, many other kinds of scenes, such as sentimental or gently humorous ones, were also illustrated. In this article, I propose that paying attention to what these illustrators thought important will open up new ways of approaching these texts. Copyright 2013 by Duke University...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 1–44.
Published: 01 April 2009
.... At a moment in which sentimental humanitarian concern with the rights and interests of animals had reached new heights, the taxation of dogs seemed to reclassify the animal as a thing and to draw into question the relation between humans and their ostensible best friends. Although proponents of the bill...
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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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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
... methods from folklore, musicology, and literary study. The formats of the ephemera, and their performative modes seemingly identify these expressions as impermanent; at the same time, examining them collectively, we recognize an ironic gesture for lasting universal human sentiment and meaning...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the tragic-sentimental mode that characterizes a large number of these illustrations. The illustrations will not be discussed in isolation but will be related to how artists at various exhibitions in that period engaged with Falconer's work and made present various aspects of it. In its comprehensive...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Gordon M. Sayre J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur's Letters from an American Farmer includes memorable scenes in which the farmer revives bees he has rescued from the craw of a king bird, and welcomes a hornet's nest inside his house. As I will argue, the book represented insects in a sentimental...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Cynthia Wall Lynn Festa. Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006). Pp. 300. $55. ISBN 0-8018-8430-6 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay Not Just Another Pretty Commodity...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 114–124.
Published: 01 January 2010
...: From Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” to Modern Brain Science (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 194. $18. ISBN 0-226-30980-0 Brycchan Carey. British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760 – 1807 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Pp 240. $69.95. ISBN...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., on the lecture circuit, and in the sentimental novel. Beginning with a chapter that discusses public speech in the eighteenth century and that tracks efforts to reform oratorical delivery, Goring shows how displays of genuine feeling became key markers of oratorical success in James Fordyce’s 1753 An Essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 97–101.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of the eighteenth century. The Problem of Profit explains how this ideal of sociable profit, with another form he names “affective finance,” was constructed alongside theories of sentimentality. He traces its presence in a range of literary genres, from georgic poetry and the sentimental novel, to periodical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 156–160.
Published: 01 January 2009
...- pathetic engagement with the characters; what caricature we do find in these illustrations, such as those of Dr. Slop, is mild. These sentimental and natural- istic representations overlap in the 1920s and ’30s, with a new, modernist line of 158 Eighteenth-Century Life more abstract and self...