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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 56–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... rebels who usurp, but ultimately cannot control, the authoritative word. Exquemelin also examines language produced by officials of empire, such as Spanish priests, English governors, and state sovereigns. Drawing parallels between their deceptive language and that of the buccaneers, Exquemelin indicates...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 150–156.
Published: 01 April 2016
... with the work of Behn, Defoe, and Swift in his study, which aims to demonstrate how fictions of “cultural contact” from 1651 onward into the mid eighteenth century “redeploy tropes from histories of contact and exploration to explore the question of how sovereign powers might best harness violence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 January 2007
... University of Manchester London Be it Remembred That Sir Dudley Ryder Knight Attorney General of our present Sovereign Lord the King who for our said present Sovereign Lord the King in this behalf prosecuteth in his proper person Cometh here into the Court of our said present Sovereign Lord...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 77–82.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of the relationship between sovereignty and symbolic logic that reveals the radically contingent nature of the law. Alice in Wonderland “is a book that insistently juxtaposes wordplay and the ambiguity of the signifier to death sentences and the whim of the sovereign—that makes, indeed, of this juxtaposition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 149–154.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., mixed, in various genres (not just novels), drawn together, in part, by their shared experience of the revolutionary project, of realizing themselves as sovereign subjects at a time of unprecedented political strife and transformation. As mentioned, Kelly’s The English Jacobin Novel is one...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2017
... could move, even to reject rules or to recreate them for their own personal advantage. “A Sort of Civil Death” The right of escheat, present in some of the most important European states before the French Revolution, was stricto sensu the sovereign’s right to confiscate the property...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., whether he sees himself as a lonely shipwreck or as a sovereign, Defoe brings into play a tradition that helped to smooth out such contradictions, and whose bene- ¨ciaries included explorers, pro¨teers, and monarchs. Analyzed by Puritans and Catholics alike, furthermore, this body of law, with its...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... de Vattel summed up the standard understanding of the day in a treatise of the 1750s, Some con‰ne this term [civil war] only to a just insurrection of subjects against an unjust sovereign, to distinguish this law- ful resistance from rebellion, which is an open and unjust resistance ; Vat- tel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 99–123.
Published: 01 September 2003
... with the dictates of right reason” (Bobbio, 135). For Hobbes, the authority to interpret and implement the natural law “dependeth not on the books of Morall Philosophy,” but on the ruling sov- ereign (191). In granting the sovereign the sole authority to implement natural law, Hobbes severs the connection...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 96–102.
Published: 01 April 2007
... in demand among enlightened connoisseurs, including Jean-François Leriget de la Faye, the presumed patron of Dance before a Fountain (89 – 90), and among the sovereigns of Europe, with Louis XV and Frederick the Great at the top of the list. Lancret’s obscurity is also baffl ing because he...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 69–82.
Published: 01 April 2002
... grand prince, une Reception digne de Lui” (p. 3). These reformulations of the discourse of welcome restructure the image of the sovereign’s divine persona and of the ceremonial body that engages in the ritual, and imply that the most secure throne depends on the love...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 33–54.
Published: 01 September 2015
... works that, despite being penned by canonical authors, have fallen into obscurity or critical dis­repute: Jonathan Swift’s Ode to the Athenian Society (1692) and Aphra Behn’s Pindaric on the Death of our Late Sovereign (1685). I have deliberately Reconsidering...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
... purity is at stake, here Count Ardolph goes after the mother, intimating that it is her virtue that stands for the family's integrity. By compromising marital fidelity, then, the stranger threatens both the property and sovereign right of the “hospitable unsuspecting host” (9); he not only takes away...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2007
... in the transatlantic world of clubs, embodied in the species of clubs that pretended that they were sovereign states, that the politics of shared pleasure might be the grounds of a national community. Dr. Alexan- der Hamilton, the Scots founder of the Tuesday Club in Annapolis, Maryland, even elaborates...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... In effect, self-­love is converted into a sense of common interest, which amounts to the redirection of the will and passions. Whether mechanics, even in met- aphoric extension, plays the role in the constitution of Hobbes’s sovereign, which, Koch suggests, is debatable. His remarks on conatus...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 110–121.
Published: 01 September 2013
... sphere, and the sovereign people” (Secular Age, 481). Anyone interested in the eighteenth century will at this point naturally prick up his ears. Taylor’s history segments into four rough periods: the Axial Age to 1500; from there to the start of the long eighteenth century; the Enlightenment...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 118–122.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the invitation to the Prince of Orange, suggested that James’s elder daughter Mary, the Princess of Orange, should be sole successor, which was rejected. On 3 February William showed his hand by insisting that he would settle for nothing less than the Crown in his own right, with Mary as joint sovereign...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 47–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., but sufficient as well: the good man, in other words, is a happy man, regardless of his circumstances.46 Harris begins his inquiry, in the manner of the classical philosophers, by seeking to define the “Sovereign Good,” or summum bonum, which he then uses to evaluate various forms of life...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 97–101.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of coins, though based on a real substrate of bullion, must be negotiated between subjects. This means that value is intersubjective, based neither on a metaphysical intrinsic value of silver, nor on the mere authority of the sovereign. What is important about specie is that its neutral substrate...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., that the ordinary criminal was potentially a monster, was not the case until the nineteenth century. As Foucault proposes, crime ceased to be understood as principally an attack upon sovereign authority; instead, crime became associated with disciplin- ary power and the productivity of the body (Abnormal, 82 90...