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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Beatrice Fink The College of William & Mary 2001 Saint-John de Crèvecoeur’s
Tale of a Tuber
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to
add a useful plant...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Ashley Marshall Ormsby-Lennon Hugh . Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2011 ). Pp. 396 . $85 Walsh Marcus , ed. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift , Volume 1 : A Tale of a Tub and Other Works ( Cambridge...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Simon Dickie This essay discusses two categories of eighteenth-century comic verse that were mainstream in their time but are now almost forgotten. They have little or nothing to do with the satiric traditions that dominate critical attention. Part 1 explores a mass of comic verse tales, direct...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Seth Rudy Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift both believed, with varying degrees of self-assuredness, that some part of themselves would outlast their lives. They differed, however, as to precisely what would or could endure. From their earliest works, including Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Pope's...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 January 2000
... tales, narrated by
individuals whose disparate opinions are ironized by their juxtaposition.
At the core of letter 141 lies the ancient “ conte persan” of Anaïs, an
abused harem wife who wreaks posthumous revenge upon her husband.
But, like Roxane’s concluding tirade, Anaïs’ triumph is undermined...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... for readers from different social groups that introduced them to the complex- ity of works ranging from songs and popular tales to, in the late eighteenth century, short gothic tales. Despite the cheap format, chapbooks feature a diverse range of illustrations and visual apparatuses that functioned...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
... by the relatively small amount he left her at his
death (in
compared to her elder two sisters.13
Turning to her pen again to make ends meet, Burney started to publish
in the fashionable genre of the tale, in a series that she called Tales of Fancy.
Her rst tale written under this heading...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 48–73.
Published: 01 April 2006
... University
At the fi rst dawn of reason, nurses instill notions which are scarcely ever entirely
laid aside; at least it causes us some trouble to “root the old woman out of our minds.”
— The Rational Dame; or, Hints towards Supplying Prattle for Children (ca. 1796)
Old wives’ tale (also old wives...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 83–105.
Published: 01 April 2010
... celebrity as an author
and in keeping his name before London readers” (100). I am less convinced
than Karian that Swift’s authorship of A Tale of a Tub was widely known by the
end of 1708, but he makes a good case for crediting Curll with keeping some of
Swift’s work, if not his name, before...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 60–67.
Published: 01 April 2008
... – 28). In 1933, as part of a conscious pro-
gram of self-education, he reread Swift intensively, with special attention
to the poetry and the minor writings, such as “Polite Conversation” and
the Bickerstaff letters, but also to those texts that he had studied earlier,
in particular, to A Tale...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2007
... believe ought to be at the center of our
canon: Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (1704) and Pope’s The Dunciad in Four Books
(1743); the fi rst is to be a Menippean satire “by addition,” the second a Menip-
pean satire “by annotation.” To be sure, Swift and Pope have always been at the
heart of eighteenth...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 115–119.
Published: 01 April 2014
... that the East
impacted the West. Meanwhile, research on the novel has demonstrated the
porosity of national boundaries, making it easier to see the ingress of genres
such as the Oriental tale. The following paragraphs survey recent work in these
fields — Orientalism and the rise of the novel...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 115–120.
Published: 01 January 2022
... congregations, both in the Irish countryside at Laracor, and in the city of Dublin. He was good evening company in both Dublin and London. He wrote three of the most brilliant works of all time: A Tale of a Tub , A Modest Proposal , and Gulliver's Travels . He dashed off masterpieces like An Argument...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 126–139.
Published: 01 April 2013
...
Richardson’s Clarissa (1747 – 48) and the turn of the nineteenth century, Bin-
hammer pursues that question by examining Richardson’s novel against a mul-
titude of later works in four genres. These are:
1. The supposedly true seduction tales proffered in pamphlets written
to support...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
... commissioned frequently represented the work as a “chilling tale of sorrow,” an interpretation that emphasized the centrality of the sentimental, pathetic, and tragic poetic vignettes that Falconer introduced in the second edition of his work. 5 A review of the “corrected and enlarged” 1764 edition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., a London-based artistic culture sub-
verted a mournful Welsh tale of betrayal and loss, turning it into a cel-
ebration of the Saxon descent and the assimilation of the original Britons
into the Saxon, or English, line. In less than a century, a legend whose
purpose was to remind audiences...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 114–121.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Greene’s Cony-Catching Tales,” twists
this dynamic, arguing that Greene’s later works find “another world” close to
home, indeed, at home in a criminal subculture that proves “home” to be as
differentiated and polyvocal as foreign lands, with Greene, in effect, giving his
readers the thrills...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and popes of medieval history Hume partici-
pated, to some degree, in a standard Protestant practice—an example of
which can be found in Swift’s allegorical satire on brother Peter, stand-in
for the Roman or papal church in A Tale of a Tub (1704). But, thematically...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 January 2009
...)
The objects in Sterne’s life and fictions are little anchors in an eddying emo-
tional world, creating singular, though often eccentric, stability.
The third chapter, “Tales Told by Things,” considers the eighteenth-
century “it-narratives”—tales told by coins, watches, coats, canes, pincush-
ions...
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