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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 52–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and more helpful categorization? For purposes of dramaturgic analysis we must confront a basic question. What is the source of action within the plot? Or in other words, why do the events that constitute the story take place? 19 This may seem a curious way to approach Handel, for whom plot...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2003
... by social prejudices against her sex (62, 72). Hays could have
taken her novel in the direction of the conventional sexual plot and warned
against novel-reading by having Emma succumb to the feigned heroic
actions of a lover promising to rescue her from her financial constraints, but
no such plot...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by means of surrogation a vacancy created by the absence of an original. Beyond ostensibly inanimate effigies fashioned from wood or cloth, there are more elusive but more powerful effigies fashioned from flesh. Such effigies are made by performance. They consist of a set of actions that hold open a place...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 47–62.
Published: 01 April 2001
... has been something of a model for Miller’s ellipses. And the
“Sterne” who fired up Bradbury’s imagination was partly responsible for
Bradbury’s writing of fiction/history (history/fiction) in the first place. This
is why the plot within the plot—the “Paper...
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Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 September 2022
... And this list excludes the many plays that allude to the novel, as well as other performance types, like the dance called “The Sancho Panza.” Several of these plays adapt not the main plot but two other tales from the novel: Middleton, Beaumont and Fletcher, Behn, Southerne, and Crowne stage the story...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 September 2017
... prior to art and reflected
in art. Author and reader enjoy approximately shared literary and cultural
bases if not necessarily shared attitudes toward them—within which edu-
cation and the quotidian suggest the relevance of specific codes for specific
actions. We acknowledge recognizable clues...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2018
... “active” orchestration entirely to the “irrepress-
ible” Silvia.26
For even though the prefatory “Argument” in Love-Letters summa-
rizes the driving action of the novel in conventional seduction plot termsÐ
“He persues it, she permits it, and at last yields; when being discover’d in
the criminal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2010
... to the plot, however, Zoroastro was a late addition to the libretto, created expressly for Handel's production—an addition calculated to appeal to London audiences. The image of Zoroaster (the obvious model for Zoroastro) was prevalent in London during the 1720s and 1730s, appearing prominently in popular...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 30–60.
Published: 01 April 2022
... not merely with the experience of marriage, but with the laws pertaining to it. Responding to her sister-in-law's observation that the couple's “Divisions do not come within the Reach of the Law for a divorce” (III.iii.424–25), Mrs. Sullen offers the following riposte: Law! What Law can search...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 106–111.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and forged through genital action” (17). Thus, key scenes in midcentury proto-pornographic fiction can take on disruptive properties and demonstrate that not all men and women at the time were appreciative of or in agreement with status quo sexual conventions. Or, as Lubey puts it, “Pornography protests...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 77–82.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the novel's loops and whirls. We would thus be better able to account, for instance, for the way that a given text can lie in obscurity, even for centuries, before unexpectedly becoming a source of inspiration for a writer halfway around the world. As Black explains, “If the novel has underwritten the self...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2012
...
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An exhilarating study of how views of the human body were transformed in
early seventeenth-century France, Erec Koch’s The Aesthetic Body shows that
the body in effect supplants the soul as source and site of passions and sensi-
bility. The emergent mechanistic conception of the body...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
... that
lands in Manfred’s courtyard is the first piece of an entire ghostly suit of
armor belonging to Otranto’s legitimate sovereign, who was murdered by a
usurper. Iconography and plot thus jointly declare Walpole’s debt to Ham-
let, a work so packed with body parts that, as John Hunt claims, it “looks...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 January 2015
...). Like ethnic jokes in general, these Irish jokes sought to stereotype and ridicule the population that they depicted, in this case, the London-Irish. But, as this essay illustrates, these comic representations can also serve as a rich source of information on the cultural, social, and economic life...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 131–151.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in the Bur-
ney ménage. Some of the nal mentions of Bessy come from just before
and after her death in
when it appears she had married a man named
“Benjamin Rawlings”—who proved to be yet another source of misery—in
November
If Meeke’s domestic life was a turbulent one, her literary life...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
... at the heart of that debate into a conflict of and within the self, commuting the public and political into the private and personal. Cato the remote becomes Cato the familiar. And, in turn, even as act 5 refrains from showing the suicide it also speaks against, it presents Cato in sentimental terms...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2007
... that the modern drama of divorce is
sometimes cast without a Lovelace.” “Divorce without a lover?” the grand-
father exclaims; “Why, it’s—it’s as unnatural as getting drunk on lemon-
ade.”22 Because Richardson features rape and not divorce as the shock-
ing domestic violation within his plot, this reference...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 85–103.
Published: 01 April 2013
... merges the two narratives and then entirely subsumes the eco-
nomic plot within the courtship plot, debunking two unstated postulations
of arguments for and against clandestine marriage made by both politi-
cians and novelists: first, that if a woman engages in appropriate court-
ship practices...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 113–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... add here to Grundy's vital insight is that popular women novelists have been marginalized not only because of their formulaic plots, but also because of the equally formulaic archival sources in which evidence of their lives has lingered. While it was the key that unlocked my reading of Ruthinglenne...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 1–42.
Published: 01 April 2000
... to the action of the play than as an integral
part of the plot. It appears that what Langendijk could take as common
knowledge in his Amsterdam audience remained for London theater-
goers the esoteric and sinister mysteries of a disreputable guild.
In Quincampoix, the movement of stock prices...
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