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Second Nature and the Sonic Sublime

Miranda Stanyon
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9273041
Published: 01 September 2021
... between habit and the sublime. It focuses not on that eighteenth-century “cultivar,” the natural sublime, but on sonic sublimity, exploring on one hand overwhelming sounds, and on the other a conceptualization of sound itself as a sublime phenomenon stretching beyond audibility to fill all space...
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The Problematics of “Evidence” in Historical Scholarship and Criticism

Robert D. Hume
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4130765
Published: 01 September 2017
... is sufficiently limited or conflicted that no sound judgment can be rendered. When we get down to (5) indeterminacy, the reason is usually either complete lack of necessary evidence or fatally contradictory evidence. To fail to admit the inadequacy or unreliability of evidence is to build on rotten foundations...
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Clamoring for Liberty: Alehouse Noise and the Political Shoemaker

Peter Denney
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3841408
Published: 01 April 2017
...Peter Denney Sound played a crucial role in plebeian politics in the eighteenth century, with singing, shouting, clapping, and other kinds of acoustic expression conveying a range of meanings. However, historians have mostly neglected the acoustic dimensions of popular political discourse...
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Of Reef Tackles and Halyards: “Marine Language” and the Technologies of Immediacy in William Falconer's The Shipwreck

Janet Sorensen
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394883
Published: 01 April 2023
... at the aural level, particularly through the poem's language and the inclusion of odd-sounding “sea phrases,” that “Mem'ry” supplants aesthetics in this poem. The speaker defends the use of the forbidding technical language needed to name parts of the mechanical apparatus of a large merchant ship, arguing...
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The Battlefield as Enlightened Space: War, the Senses, and the Emotional Soldier, ca. 1790–1840

Eleanor Morecroft
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 69–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-9273006
Published: 01 September 2021
... Back, Groping Forward: Rethinking Sensory History,” Rethinking History 15 (2011): 601–16; Ramsey, “Listening To War: Sound and Noise in Romantic Era Military Writing,” Republics of Letters 5 (2017): 1–12; Mark M. Smith, Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History...
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Bardic Internationalism

Jeff Strabone
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 120–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3629420
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jeff Strabone Mulholland James . Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730–1820 . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xi + 217 . $65 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay Bardic...
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Lucretius, Englishman: Meter, Mortalism, and Love in Dryden’s Translations from De Rerum Natura

Adam Potkay
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 1–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-7725705
Published: 01 September 2019
..., or art of making sound imitate sense. Dryden, in his preface to Sylvae, justif ies the liberties he has taken as a translator, contending that while he has cut some passages and enlarged others, his translations are of a piece with their originals, so that were each of his ancient poets living...
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Poetic Mourning in the Darkness of Solitude: Echoing Conversations in the Poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Thomas Gray

James Morland
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 46–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11309305
Published: 01 September 2024
... the previous stanza now provides a certain comfort for the mourner by echoing the remembrance of the “Dear lovely Youth,” with Rowe reinforcing the power of poetry in populating a mournful solitude with sounds that recall the absent. After the death of her husband, Thomas Rowe, in 1715, Rowe turned...
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Transcendent Ephemera: Performing Deep Structure in Elegies, Ballads, and Other Occasional Forms

Dianne Dugaw
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8218591
Published: 01 April 2020
... har- monic joining of voices until the final cadence. William Lawes s Elegie of 1638 tumbles to its end in a fleeting texture of polysemantic soundings and counter- soundings. On their new occasion in 1648, these rebounding voices resonate with urgency, now published to be sung in memory...
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Introduction

Michael Edson, Bridget Keegan
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 3–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394844
Published: 01 April 2023
... of sound and hearing, to allow readers to apprehend the sailors’ fate more fully, to make their distant tragedy viscerally present, and to engender sympathy. Sorensen also shows how, paradoxically, the unfamiliar “terms of art,” both their meaning and their “uncouth” sound, allow Falconer to make...
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“Set His Image in Motion:” John Dennis and Early Eighteenth-Century Motion Imagery

Sara Landreth
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 59–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3337911
Published: 01 January 2016
... is a tendency toward stasis. In this case, the poet in question fails to trigger vivid imaginings of the sights and sounds associated with natural movement.26 Parnell contrasts these “cold Endeavours” with poems in which “bold Description paints the Walls within, / Her pencil touches, and the World...
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Pope-Bashing by Papists? A Curious Censoring of Alexander Pope's Letters by the Mexican Inquisition

Frieda Koeninger
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 45–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-26-2-45
Published: 01 April 2002
.... 193), García judges Pope’s propositions to be “at least ill-sounding and offensive to pious ears” (fol. 146r). Similarly, García Bravo finds sacrilegious another letter to Lady Mary. She is in Constantinople, and Pope has just commented that as he follows...
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“The Simple Urge to Correct”

Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 125–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1895247
Published: 01 January 2013
... realized by Swift and Sterne in the next generation. But it was as a scholar that Bentley was most transformative. Bentley’s Horace drew an impassioned defensive reaction from men of let- ters who sounded the alarm that “pedantic barbarians were inside the gates” (134). Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot...
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Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies

Louise Curran
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3695927
Published: 01 January 2017
... of earth’s mould . . . ​/ I never heard till now” (ll. 243–63)—which recalls to him the songs of his mother Circe that could “take the prisoned soul, / And lap it in Elysium” (ll. 255–56). The second section—“At last a soft and solemn breathing sound . . . ​/ Under the ribs of death”—is the Attendant...
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“The March of Intimacy”: Dr. Burney and Dr. Johnson

Peter Sabor
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 38–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4384527
Published: 01 April 2018
... French horns being played during a funeral procession, he observed: “This is the ‹rst time that I have ever been a¦ected by musical sounds” (Boswell’s Life, These and other such remarks suggest that Johnson would have taken little interest in Burney’s activities as an organist, composer...
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Raising the Roof: Hymn Singing, the Anti-Methodist Response, and Early Methodist Religiosity

Brett C. McInelly
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 80–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1548045
Published: 01 April 2012
....57 Citing the composer Charles Avison (1709 – ​70), William Riley, in ­Parochial Music Corrected (1762), stresses the effect of music on its listeners: “The Force of Sound in alarming the Passions is prodigious. . . . By the Musi- cian’s Art, we are often carried into the Fury of a Battle...
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“Extraneous Bodies”: The Contagion of Live-Tooth Transplantation in Late-Eighteenth-Century England

Mark Blackwell
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-28-1-21
Published: 01 January 2004
... of healthy teeth for mastication, but insistently call attention to their impor- tance for how one speaks— which has social implications— and for what is usually dubbed “the ornament of the mouth” or “the ornament of the face.”12 Taking the health benefits of sound teeth for granted, Fauchard emphasizes...
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Suzanne Simonin. La Religieuse de Diderot (1966)

Jacques Rivette
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-25-1-64
Published: 01 January 2001
... and the Société Nouvelle de Cinéma. Adapted from the novel La Religieuse by Denis Diderot. Screenplay, Jean Gruault and Jacques Rivette; Dialogue, Jean Gruault; Director of Photography, Alain Levent; Cameraman, Claude Zidi; Sound Engineer, Guy Villette; Sound Effects, Michel Fano...
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Introduction

Alan J. Singerman
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 65–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-25-1-65
Published: 01 January 2001
... and the Société Nouvelle de Cinéma. Adapted from the novel La Religieuse by Denis Diderot. Screenplay, Jean Gruault and Jacques Rivette; Dialogue, Jean Gruault; Director of Photography, Alain Levent; Cameraman, Claude Zidi; Sound Engineer, Guy Villette; Sound Effects, Michel Fano...
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Pour un Spectateur Distant

Marc Buffat
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 68–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-25-1-68
Published: 01 January 2001
... and the Société Nouvelle de Cinéma. Adapted from the novel La Religieuse by Denis Diderot. Screenplay, Jean Gruault and Jacques Rivette; Dialogue, Jean Gruault; Director of Photography, Alain Levent; Cameraman, Claude Zidi; Sound Engineer, Guy Villette; Sound Effects, Michel Fano...
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