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The Thirtieth of January Sermon: Swift, Johnson, Sterne, and the Evolution of Culture the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies James L. Clifford Lecture, 2008
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Howard D. Weinbrot The stern royalist Act of 12 Car. 2, c.30 in 1662 reprobated the “abominable” regicide of Charles I on 30 January 1649 (n.s.). The act mandated that on every 30 January every Anglican church or chapel in every parish in British dominions should read a sermon deploring the murder...
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“Cannot You Trust God for a Sermon?”: Anti-Methodists and the Rhetoric of Methodist Spirituality
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 76–98.
Published: 01 January 2019
...-Methodists rhetoric sermons eighteenth-century religion? Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...
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Laurence Sterne's Sermons and The Pulpit-Fool
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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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Sermons Collection, Folders 1 – 3. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Soc...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 4. Sermons Collection, Folders 1 – 3. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
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Before the Reporter's Notebook: The Oblong Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 134–158.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 4. Sermons Collection, Folders 1 – 3. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. ...
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Literary Sentimentalism and Post-Secular Virtue
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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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Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith on War and Acquiescence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Andrew Lincoln This essay considers works published by two women writers as Britain was preparing for hostilities against revolutionary France in 1793: a Fast Day sermon, Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation , published anonymously by Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith’s novel The Old Manor House...
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“A Truly Christian Hero”: Religion, Effeminacy, and Nation in the Writings of the Societies for Reformation of Manners
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 17–28.
Published: 01 January 2001
... and appearance
alone. They depended upon the solid inner qualities which were always
implicit in ‘manliness,’ such as courage, resolution, and tenacity.”6 John
Shower’s sermon delivered before an audience of the Society for Refor-
mation of Manners in 1697 gives us...
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Sterne Studies at the Tercentenary
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 128–133.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Brian Michael Norton Gerard W. B. ., ed. Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne . ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2010 ). Pp. 284 . CD enclosed . $62.50 Gerard W. B. , Taylor Derek , and Walker Robert G. ., eds. Swiftly Sterneward: Essays...
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Dynastic Uncertainty: Queen Anne Takes the Throne
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., or undiscovered poems, polemics, sermons, histories, newspapers, entertainments, and correspondence prove that the precise nature of Anne s right to the throne was a hotly contested topic (2). Though few works are given lengthy readings, and though most of the close readings are of verse, Hone s study does...
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The Promise and Problem of Habit in Austen's Mansfield Park
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., and Moore, in “Religion,” 318, have noted, Fanny's words here echo Bishop Butler, from Fifteen Sermons , Sermon III: “He has the Rule of Right within: What is wanting is only that he honestly attend to it” (48). 60. [Richard Whately], in his review of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion , Quarterly...
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Preserved Remains: Embalming Practices in Eighteenth-Century England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... that we
are not certain about the percentage of bodies embalmed, literary exam-
ples, the consistent publication of treatises, lectures, and sermons, as well
as the frequent circulation and display of preserved remains, provide indis-
putable evidence that embalming and its history were certainly...
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The Invention of the Wasteland: Civic Narrative and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 82–108.
Published: 01 January 2005
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the Fire. The image dominates sermons, poems, civic treatises, and offi -
cial proclamations from the period, which frame their descriptions of the
burned city in the language of the prophetic books of the Old Testament:
Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah.4 Nathaniel Hardy described the “houses of
God...
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Jane Austen and the Tradition of Masculine Benevolence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2021
... the activities of the male leaders of their parishes by teach- ing local children, visiting the sick, and providing food and clothing for the poor. This gender distinction is illustrated in sermons and conduct books and apparent in both Austen s family and her novels. In one such sermon, Butler describes...
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The Irish in London and “The London Irish,” ca. 1660–1780
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 14–40.
Published: 01 January 2015
... for the event.42
The yearly observation on 23 October of the 1641 uprising, with a
church service, sermon, and dinner, expressed solidarity and a degree of
organization among Irish Protestants in London. From 1708, as many as
200 Irish Protestant gentlemen might have joined the observances...
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Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in Hackney, Stoke Newington, and Newington Green
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2003
... (figure 1). As the address of the inaugural sermon to “their
Ministers and Youth” informs us, the majority of the students were not
intended for the ministry.33 In 1790, Thomas Belsham reported to the gov-
ernors that of forty-nine students, “Forty are upon their own...
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The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Meanwhile, religiously in·ected and moralistic advice to all women dinned the message that fashion was a special problem for the weaker sex. A woman s clothes could convict her of immodesty and vanity, dangerously stirring sinful passions in men. Sermons invariably urged reserve, decry- ing the display...
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(Re)Solving Sterne's Unsolvable Riddles and Mysteries: Two New Tools
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 142–149.
Published: 01 September 2009
... on
The Continuation of the Bramine’s Journal, facts, dates, places, biography, let-
ters, sermons, definitions, and literary allusions dominate those annotations.
In both cases, however, the sense of thoroughness is such that only a side-by-
side comparison with the Florida edition reveals that there has been...
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 55–58.
Published: 01 September 2015
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uncertain reigns of William III and Anne, to a Hanoverian society marked
by tolerance and ecumenism. In his most persuasive chapters, Weinbrot pre
sents detailed case studies that show this meliorist historical process at work.
He shows, for instance, how the rhetoric of 30th of January sermons...
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Absent Signifiers in Jane Austen: Toward an Archaeology of Morals
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
... and integrity from her “Higher and
Middle Classes” that can easily escape recognition by readers in today’s rela-
tively classless societies. But she was certainly not alone. Coleridge’s impor-
tant lay sermons expose their assumptions in their full titles: The Statesman’s
Manual; or the Bible the Best...
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