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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Cecilia A. Feilla The College of William & Mary 2004
From “Sainted Maid” to “Wife in all her Grandeur”:
Translations of Heloise, 1687–1817
Cecilia A. Feilla
New York University
Due in large...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Clorinda Donato This study charts the resonance of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , known more commonly as Fanny Hill , in the Italian peninsula in the long eighteenth century. It discusses and compares four different editions of Italian translations of the novel as well as its...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Adam Potkay My design in this essay is twofold: first, I show the underappreciated poetic mastery of Dryden’s Lucretius translations. Second, I connect what Dryden does at the level of the poetic line with how he subtly refashions Epicurean philosophy for his era. Dryden’s Lucretius is less...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 59–72.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and the English Civil War. Jean-Paul Marat also appreciatively referred to this history, and hints such as these suggest that this work was quite well known in France before the Revolution, although a French translation was not published there until 1791-92. This paper provides an overview of Macaulay's influence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of his life, but he was also a translator, a textual scholar, a prodigious letter writer, and in the first major phase of his career, a love poet depicting young women in love, such as Sapho, Eloise, the Unfortunate Lady, and Belinda, often focusing on erotic rapture and death. From about 1728 until his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2015
... revealing differences between the two cultures. To illuminate that rich yet liminal cultural space in Macartney’s narrative, I draw on a parallel moment in Sino-British cultural relations in the years leading up to the Opium wars—George Chinnery’s painting, Rev. Morrison Translating the Bible in to Chinese...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... anxiety about bodily dissolution after death. And at this time, the religious connotation of the uncorrupted corpse becomes translated into the endorsement of preservation as a guarantee that the body and soul will be properly rejoined in the afterlife. In medical terms, surgical innovations demanded...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 56–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of Central and South America in the late seventeenth century. Exquemelin's sensationalized account captured considerable attention and was translated into multiple European languages, including German, Spanish, and English, in the ensuing years. Many scholarly treatments of his influential narrative have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... in zeitgeist, alter their consumption and reading practices of the text, but they also interpreted the poem by translating it into a range of different media such as furniture prints, porcelain designs, sculpture, and book illustrations. I shall examine different responses to Thomson's poem by discussing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 131–151.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Anthony Mandal “Mrs. Meeke” was the most prolific novelist of the Romantic period, publishing twenty-four novels and four translations between 1795 and 1823, eclipsing Walter Scott’s twenty-two titles. Yet until recently, scholars knew little about her, and she was misidentified for decades...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 20–28.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jaydeep Chipalkatti John Cleland’s novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill ) is a classic of eighteenth- century English erotica. This article contains a brief discussion of some of the linguistic and stylistic decisions taken by the author in his Marathi translation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and translated discourses, both abolitionist and revolutionary, into practice. The word “boycott” first appeared in 1880, during the conflict between Irish tenant farmers and wealthy landlords, when Captain Charles C. Boycott was subjected to economic ostracization for refusing to reduce rents. 11 The late...
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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
...Diana Solomon Widely translated and adapted in eighteenth‐century England, Don Quixote inspired some of the period's greatest fiction. Yet while literary adaptations of Cervantes's novel often render its humor “amiable” and accommodate it to polite society, dramatic adaptations instead accentuate...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 January 2023
.... Whereas patronage focused on exchanges resulting in mutual economic benefit, friendship typically involved disinterested, mutual service based on shared interests. Orrery seized on the notion of instrumentality inherent in friendship to exchange his patronal role for a place on the translation team Lennox...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 166–187.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jamie M. Bolker This essay explores how William Falconer's A Universal Dictionary of the Marine exemplifies the “rhetoric of the sea,” which operates according to an inclusive approach to maritime knowledge, which maritime authors adopted in an effort to translate into writing a unique, physical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Clares included not only printed works but also numerous manuscripts—many of them translations—that fostered a devotional culture drawing on diverse strands of continental Catholicism. Sister Cecily Joseph's prayer books, often highly miscellaneous in their contents, shed light on how manuscripts were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 114–121.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., 70).
This interplay between the familiar and the strange serves as a testing ground
for new narrative strategies in Spanish fiction, and it may also define an impor-
tant characteristic of the novel more generally. Alan Paterson, in “Translation
in the Formation of Genre: Edmund Spenser...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 56–62.
Published: 01 April 2021
... translations, will be found in the projected set. The Longman Dryden chose to omit the great translation of Virgil s Aeneid, and again, doubtless due to production costs, the Longman Pope will lack the central work of Pope s poetic oeuvre. While this remit must necessarily circumscribe how the poet must...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 98–116.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Ceremonies Nup-
tiales de toutes les Nations (Paris, 1680), first translated into English in 1685,
retranslated in 1687 as Matrimonial Customs; or, The Various Ceremonies, and
Divers Ways of Celebrating Weddings, Practised amongst all the Nations, in the
whole World...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 92–100.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of postcolonial literature
and theory produced by leading writers in France, the USA, the UK, Haiti,
and Martinique, spanning the period from 1798 to 2007; and 3) a compendium
of primary documents by white witnesses to the events of 1791 – 1804 in Saint-
Domingue, translated into modern American English...
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