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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 69–87.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and heroism, this work typifies what has come to be known as “military Enlightenment.” This essay examines a selection of military texts and images that represent soldiers’ sensory and emotional experience of the wartime spaces of battlefield and bivouac: the anonymous Journal Kept in the British Army (1796...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 20–45.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Scarlet Bowen The College of William & Mary 2004
“The Real Soul of a Man in her Breast”:
Popular Opposition and British Nationalism in
Memoirs of Female Soldiers, 1740 – 1750
Scarlet Bowen...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 150–153.
Published: 01 September 2014
... . ( Chicago : Univ. of Chicago , 2012 ). Pp. xvi + 369 . $30 Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay
Black Seamen and Soldiers
Vincent Carretta
University of Maryland
Ray Costello...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
...John Richardson The martial literature of the eighteenth century shows an increasing preoccupation with atrocity. By the middle decades of the century, writers imagining war routinely include narratives in which cruel enemy soldiers brutally mistreat and kill innocent civilians. The development...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Dianne Dugaw This essay considers our response to printed ephemera, analyzing British examples of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, specifically elegies, broadside ballads, and the life story and advertised theatrical performing of the eighteenth-century female soldier Hannah Snell, using...
Includes: Multimedia, Supplementary data
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The article traces Crèvecœur's interactions with Buffon and with Raynal, who were variously rivals and mentors to him, as well as examining how the French-American soldier, farmer, author, and diplomat survived two revolutions and laid down principles today associated with sustainable agriculture. gsayre...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
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was to become the most admired poetic celebration of Marlborough’s vic-
tory at Blenheim, The Campaign, and in 1707, had published an anonymous
pamphlet urging a massive increase in the levy of English soldiers to crush
Louis XIV and protect British commercial interests.7 In their periodicals,
Addison...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
... with populations, thereby harnessing the overall productive capacities of life (History of Sexuality, 140).30 War is an arena in which this relation between the individual body and the popu- lation acquires a central importance, as the soldier must function as the liv- ing embodiment of the nation. His service...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 43–61.
Published: 01 September 2001
... reward for Life does yield” would not attract
the common soldier and that few would be lured by the duty to serve “a
generous Queen” who “loves her Subjects,” despite the recent success of
the Danube campaign (Works, 2:122 and 41). The common soldier was
more...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
... on 1 February, included a wide- ranging investigation of the corrupting eects of warfare upon Brit- ish society, and gave special attention to the conscience of a soldier at war.2 Smith s poem The Emigrants, nished in May 1793, contained a denuncia- tion of the evils of war.3 The two writers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 24–45.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Sancho wrote to his friend Mrs. Cocksedge com-
plaining, “I awake to fears of invasion, to noise, faction, drums, soldiers,
Eighteenth-Century Life
Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2002 © 2002 by The College of William & Mary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 30–50.
Published: 01 September 2020
... warned not to feed them. Everything was taken by the parliamentary soldiers including a dish of breastmilk for the baby. Four sons were forced to move to Ireland, includ- ing Swift s father, driven thither by their su³erings. 12 Swift s birth in Ire- land is a direct consequence of the Civil Wars...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 January 2020
... deplored by Spateman.4 Tristram Shandy, a book of the subsequent war the Seven Years War (1756 63) is also concerned with the challenges of representing war. But rather than trying to fashion a new mode of it, Laurence Sterne uses the strange story of two invalided soldiers from King William s War...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 75–95.
Published: 01 September 2020
... constructions trench language, trench dictionary, or trenchese that unite war with words. Atkinese a variety deemed distinctive of Tommy Atkins, the prototypical British soldier is a further example. For the First World War, words for words about war (or specic aspects of it) exhibit marked...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 120–124.
Published: 01 January 2009
... the
reorganization of knowledge systems, produced new conceptions of political
sovereignty, and widened the horizons of imaginative writing and art. As hun-
dreds of thousands of people left Britain, their experiences as sailors, soldiers,
traders, and colonists generated volumes of formal and anecdotal reports...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of the futility of conflict. Plax argues that Watteau’s paintings,
in the face of repeated military defeats, helped construct an alternative model
of heroism in which the viewer could take pride in the French soldier’s grace
and gallantry, and his sensible choice to make belle retraite an alternative...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 117–138.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., Realejo, and
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120 Eighteenth-Century Life
Leon.Sir Henry Morgan was not alone in praising Miskito guides for
their expertise in eluding Spanish soldiers amid the forts and islands of
Lake Nicaragua...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 54–60.
Published: 01 January 2009
... that supposedly had
been preserved by Highlanders’ geographic separation from civilized, com-
mercial society. In McNeil’s account, highlandism thus oscillated between per-
ceptions of Highlanders as anachronistic barbarians and as Britain’s most loyal
soldiers and subjects.
Scotland, Britain...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 January 2015
... listed occupations for poor
Irish migrants at that time is that of servant, though soldiering, the marine
trades, shoemaking, tailoring, and laboring were also represented.18 If, at
one level, the joke books express the dominant culture’s contempt for these
poor Irish, at another level, they tell...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 28–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
... soldiers
but also savants who established the Institut d’Égypte. As Spieth remarks,
“The order counted within its ranks a cross-section of the intellectual elite
of Bonapartist France: generals, Egyptologists, engineers, artists, architects,
linguists, composers, and natural scientists” (21...
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