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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Giulia Pacini As they debated the pros and cons of grafting, eighteenth-century French agronomists, philosophers, novelists, and poets negotiated the tensions and contradictions that surfaced between their nostalgia for a `”natural” society, and their dreams of perpetual innovation, culture...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of that population during that period, documenting its resilience and energy as it mapped itself onto the landscape of that city. To recover this information, however, requires a different mode of reading, one that focuses on the “ground,” or background detail of the joke, rather than its “figure,” the material...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 3–19.
Published: 01 September 2017
... reading surface reading literary history OHEL •
Big Books, Big Data,
and Reading Literary Histories
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Texas A&M University
A large work is difficult because it is large...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 156–160.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., draw a reader’s
attention to their surface even as the linguistic text demands that the reader
ignore that surface and explore an abstract representation of ideas and a fic-
tional reality—a depth implied beneath the surface. The nature of Sterne’s
interests in these surfaces and depths...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 150–155.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., scholarship on the Romantic period has achieved much
of its critical force by returning to, and revising, the work of M. H. Abrams.
Marjorie Levinson, for instance, finds in Natural Supernaturalism (1971) and
other major essays that Abrams’s readings of Wordsworth’s poetry travel only
within...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 106–113.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Richard
Hurleston (active 1763 – 77) and William Tate (1748 – 1806). In descriptive prose
that is a joy to read, she hones in on Wright’s innovations, such as capturing
the effects of fire, lamp, and candlelight, or building up layers of warmer, but-
tery yellows and hot red facial tones...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90.
Published: 01 April 2005
... En-
gland at times makes it diffi cult to decide where one person’s parts end
and another’s begin. The wig’s physical nature — the way it shuttles among
diff erent individuals, recomposing the body and its surfaces — erodes the
boundaries that set the individual subject off from the world...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 124–129.
Published: 01 September 2010
... our clothes?
Could such an approach permit our biographer to descend from the sartorial
surface to our subjective being? Could a biographer interpret our hairstyles
and hemlines to make sense of the broad contour of our lives? In the case of
Caroline Weber’s sartorial biography of Marie...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 23–56.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., by disclosing their
true and first principles. (1:iv)
However, the reader’s experience of the text is not one we might expect
after reading the introduction, which positions the reader as a pupil study-
ing models while referring to theories that explain why the works he is
viewing...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
... paintings is nevertheless necessary in order to place the non-native birds in England, and to demonstrate the congruity and geniality of their collocation with the exotics. However, the distance in the exactitude and care of their rendering illuminates not only this surface intention, but also its flat...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 68–80.
Published: 01 April 2008
....
Said’s reading of Swift both illustrates and enables a theory of the
public intellectual that is oppositional and deeply seductive: Said tends to
see the oppositional as more interesting, if not always right and good. The
question here is what sort of interpretation his reading imposes in order...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 88–92.
Published: 01 April 2024
... erosion of male British identity” that the colonial enterprise threatened (158). Ingrassia then adds a postscript that leaps ahead to the mention in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice of the flogging of a militiaman, reiterating once more how the language of captivity lies just barely under the surface...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... actually marks the poem’s crowning satiric censure of
publicly displayed femininity in both form and content. The reader learns
that she is a surface covering a vacuum not by seeing a picture of the
queen, but by reading Pope’s poem, the lesson of which confirms...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of two different
takes, depending on whether we read “Floods” as minatory bodies of wa-
ter (which is how they figure in the line cited above) or purely neutral
ones, as in this from Windsor Forest: “And sullen Mole, that hides his diving
Flood” (Poems, p. 207). One could as easily envisage Pope...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 109–114.
Published: 01 January 2022
... in their respective “allegoric histories” (148) of Britain under the Stuart dynasty, Windsor-Forest and Robinson Crusoe . In its essentials, this mode of reading will be nothing new to scholars familiar with Annabel Patterson's classic Censorship and Interpretation (1984). In Patterson's telling, the obscurity...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 81–115.
Published: 01 April 2001
...
considered stylistically distinct from his English successors in that he
thought primarily in terms of surface rather than volume and never
reached their level of complexity or grandeur. As John Summerson puts
it,
Wren had little feeling for the pure...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 April 2024
... that included the evolution of the modern long poem (as distinct from the epic) and the rise of a corresponding meditative style of blank verse. (6) This framework for reading eighteenth-century poetry has two effects. First, its tug-of-war structure allows for a cleverly contrarian survey of blank verse...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
... courtesans, he then reads Fisher’s parlor trick as a “pres-
ent” whose only real beneficiary is the bank. Because the note is promis-
Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra 4 9
sory, in other words, it follows that only the Bank of London will have
profited from its...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... MEDIATE database (Raynal was included in thirty-nine percent). Buffon was more widely read or purchased by wealthy bourgeois and upper-class library collectors than by the broader public. See Alicia C. Montoya, “Enlightenment? What Enlightenment? Reflections on Half a Million Books (British, French...
Journal Article
“The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 138–143.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of collective forms seem to
surface in this chapter. Certainly, a notable disappointment in the discussion of
Romanticism is the dismissively brief treatment of Felicia Hemans. Acknowl-
edged here as “the most deeply and widely read in the burgeoning archive
of popular song and associated critical...
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