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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
... pro-French sentiment; Jacobite themes of exile and lost love are also present. Haywood glorifies the victories and conquests of Charles XII of Sweden, who was a Jacobite hero, and who acts as a surrogate for Charles Edward Stuart in the novel. In that part of the novel concerned with love and amorous...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Adam Komisaruk Critics from the eighteenth century to the present have largely agreed in portraying Erasmus Darwin as an apostle of sexual liberation. One of Darwin’s career-long themes, that erotic love unifies the visible universe and the invisible, reaches its apotheosis in The Botanic Garden...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
... themes through an understanding of Cleopatra's wager with Antony. That wager is crucial because Reynolds represents the moment at which it was won, and because Fisher is thereby asked to represent a female sexuality inextricable from the world of high-stakes gambling so important to the mid eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Lorna Clark The recovery of the works of early English women writers is an ongoing project, and should include those of Sarah Harriet Burney (1772–1839). One of her novels has recently appeared in a scholarly edition and the rest will soon follow. Common themes and motifs can be found in her work...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 23–40.
Published: 01 September 2019
... to 1770 (1809) and its composition following her mastectomy in 1811. Many of the themes in “Consolatory Extracts” suggest that Burney’s memorializing of Susan is similarly borne out in her fictional works, particularly her unfinished tragedy Elberta (1785–1814) and her novel The Wanderer (1814...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 74–97.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Andrew Rudd In this article, I examine how notions of charity shaped eighteenth-century literature. I begin by examining Horace Walpole’s philanthropy, which I argue belied his posthumous reputation for miserliness, and proceed to trace the theme of charity in Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 96–118.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Neil Ramsey Although Frankenstein has long been read in relation to revolutionary politics, there has been little specific discussion of the themes of suffering and the trauma of war in the novel, concerns that were central to much of Mary Shelley’s writing. Taking inspiration from Ahmed Saadawi’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
...—of powerful city-states and empires. The poem's primary theme is the peril faced by sailors on trading voyages, on which they provide the labor, face the dangers, but earn few of the profits. By invoking the Greco-Roman past, however, Falconer also warns his readers of the human costs of commercial...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and political compromise, which becomes a major theme of the Dunciad in Four Books . [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Alexander Pope The Dunciad in Four Books Colley Cibber library heterotopia “Everything begins ‘in’ a library: in books, writings...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2018
... was to reinforce national traditions through her arts and stir pride for them in her plays. Simultaneously, her themes and characters demonstrate that England’s future strength as a center of empire depended upon the talents of those formerly marginalized—in particular, provincials and women artists. This essay...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of colonialist expropriation. The conference theme of Dark Enlightenments spoke directly to the tension between the universal and the particular that shaped the event. This was certainly fortuitous and we are still trying to work out the complexity of the attendant ironies. Inaugurated deep in the print age...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2025
... in Emotions, Medicine, Democracy, Memory, Genocide, Peace, and more—over forty such topics in all, mapping key themes of human culture most typically from a humanist, rather than, say, an anthropological perspective. Each topic has six print volumes ranging over a long durée, with specific volumes entitled...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 April 2008
... at the National
University of Australia in 1966, the thirteenth at the University of Otago
in April 2007.
Taking as its theme “Rewriting the Long Eighteenth Century,” the
Seminar included presentations on art, music, drama, philosophy, history,
and literature. Although all essays collected here focus...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2014
...). Here,
the author presents such a tight knot of themes and ideas that the chapter
could almost be untangled into a separate book. We are introduced to the
realities of Russian private serf theater, to the theatrical cross-class dressing,
to Catherine the Great’s contribution to such pursuits...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 January 2020
... on a single author or theme does not pay anymore; comprehensive guides expand a book s potential buyers across all subfields in a discipline. Some of these recent handbooks are affordable, but others are expensive enough to deter individual purchasing. To return production costs, these handbooks primarily...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 97–105.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of scholarly projects that take nonmarital or illicit sexual-
ity as their field, as mined from legal records, reform treatises, and “porno-
graphic” fiction. The most innovative studies have looked beyond the direct
and obvious theme of sexuality itself, to ask what else did prostitution mean...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 96–102.
Published: 01 April 2007
....
In her last four chapters, which do not engage with the theme of making
up, Hyde grapples with the issue of “gender play” in Boucher’s pastorals and
mythologies. In that regard, chapter four discusses the relation of cross-dressing
and gender transgression in the novels, theater, and operas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 108–114.
Published: 01 September 2016
... with the comtesse de
Boufflers into the “stuff of a sentimental novel” (561n20).
Avoiding a Mossner-type fantasy, Harris develops a narrative theme
against the backdrop of the long-standing tendency to see A Treatise of Human
Nature (1740) as culmination and end point of Hume’s thought. Having made...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.
Published: 01 September 2021
... These subjects reflected the array of objects listed in her Musaeum Catalogue. 21 Her print collection also included prints that shared many of the themes and subjects that commonly appeared on the walls of print rooms. These included allegorical prints; contemporary French and Italian scenes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 94–98.
Published: 01 September 2010
... these sources, are also documented in sermons,
tracts written in support of philanthropy or to promote specific charities, such
as the Foundling Hospital, and in various types of fiction, including poems,
songs, novels, and children’s literature.
Of the many themes that this cornucopia of sources...
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