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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... The first of these modes is that of the philosophical experiment, most often presented as a utopian pedagogical fantasy in which a child and educator live apart from society and in which various educational approaches and techniques can be applied to the child without outside interference. We find examples...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 26–52.
Published: 01 April 2013
.... This essay analyzes the Telegraph ’s connections with the London Corresponding Society, and explores the limitations of utopian models of telegraphic communication through the case of reformers exiled to Australia. Despite the practical limitations of telegraphic transmission, the Telegraph demonstrates...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 150–156.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Adam R. Beach Loar Christopher F. . Political Magic: British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650–1750 . ( New York : Fordham Univ. , 2014 ). Pp. vii + 326. 5 ills . $45 Pearl Jason H. . Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel . ( Charlottesville : Univ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 140–150.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., of course, but
no more than the reputedly routine Tuesday that precedes it. Soni’s most fun-
damental contention is that “happiness” used to be ordinary language’s one
utopian term, broadcasting, even in everyday speech, the implacable idea that
people deserve to lead good lives, and not just...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 118–127.
Published: 01 September 2004
...-generation Zionists centuries later, Huguenot emigrants sought to create
an ideal state organized along new social lines with such utopian aspects as a
communal life style. The original grand-scale project to found a new nation,
the Isle of Eden, on one of the uninhabited Mascareigne islands east...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 115–119.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., and contingency, as well as desire, utopian idealism, more curiosity, and
less aggression. Ros Ballaster’s Fabulous Orients (2005), winner of the Rose
Mary Crawshay Prize, has reinvigorated interest in the Oriental tale, which,
she argues, began to distill three regions of the half-imagined East: Persia...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 10–30.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and
the future, for instance, inspired Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), and during
the eighteenth century inspired countless utopian narratives.15 Debates
about what is and what ought to be— reflecting notions of loss or cultural
deterioration as well as of optimistic belief...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 25–55.
Published: 01 January 2006
... heirs to
Scott’s utopian vision at Millenium Hall.
The sisters also add significantly to what we know about women’s
patronage. It has become clear that eighteenth-century women in the upper
ranks did exercise power and participate in the public sphere in a number
of important but informal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2007
... publics to the British nation, but whatever visions of Scottishness they
cultivated — a “merry old” Scotland; a rural, traditional Scotland; a commer-
cial, polite Scotland — were critical, aesthetic, sometimes utopian. They seem
artifi cial when placed against the grim program of Jacobite ambition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... children, his livestock, his land, and his political independence, he does no more than we would expect of Americans today. But some parts of his bucolic portrait, such as these lines from Letter II, don't fit the utopian ideal. I know I would not want to see a hornet land on my child's eyelid...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 143–153.
Published: 01 April 2012
... publicized by their avowed enemies.
I similarly felt that much of Shea’s discussion of Wieland’s utopian cos-
mopolitanism in his version of Diogenes’s Republic overstressed the passivity
of Diogenes as man of feeling and the depoliticization of what is, after all, a
model republic in a late...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 143–147.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., the colonial superintendent. Although British insti- tutions adopted Bell s system for educating the poor in the home country, Bell himself regarded attempts to diffuse literate skills throughout the lower orders as Utopian schemes (97). Yet Bell s pessimism was challenged by others who decried his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 62–80.
Published: 01 January 2007
... the quasi-
egalitarian government of a privateer, in which crews might vote in coun-
cil for a particular course of action, and that of utopian buccaneer com-
monwealths in the West Indies.20 The buccaneers had liberated themselves
from the shackles of governments and created an allegedly egalitarian...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2002
... boundaries of the world. Suzanne Kiernan
discusses a utopian deployment of exotic stories when she shows how the
fictional journey by Zaccaria Seriman was used as a tool to criticize and
comment on the abuses of contemporary Italy.
Anthropological interests...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Scott (1720 – 95),
author of the utopian novel Millenium Hall (1762) and sister of Elizabeth
Montagu. Pohl traces two contrasting faces of Scott that emerge in her
correspondence. Scott was a committed reformer, advocating both a belief
in Anglican philanthropy and the principles of social...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 130–136.
Published: 01 September 2014
... study explores the many ways in which ruins were viewed in a period
dominated by the aesthetic and cultural discourses of sensibility and of the
picturesque: at one extreme, with nostalgia, pessimism, and a sense of tragic
loss, and at the other, with utopian fervor, optimism, and hopeful idealiza...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 58–77.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
of the work.
Frequently included in surveys and bibliographies of utopian and
hodoeporetical writings, Seriman’s novel is a literary curiosity, historically
and generically. It must be acknowledged that few claims can be made for
it as literature in any narrow...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2006
...
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men of every country,” and he advances the claims of a “cosmopolitan” ori-
entation that Goldsmith’s other writings of the late 1750s and early 1760s
take very seriously.1 But while The Citizen of the World attempts to hold on
to a utopian sense of global community, it off ers a number...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 74–97.
Published: 01 April 2006
... ruined.” Accidents often accompanied displays, he
notes, and their cost could “nourish a hundred poor families for a year.” 41
This theme also appears in Mercier’s utopian novel, L’An deux mille qua-
tre cent quarante, where an important marriage is celebrated by having the
prince erect a public...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 3–24.
Published: 01 April 2005
...
was a Baconian empiricist but also a projector, a quantifi er but a dreamer
as well. He was a self-promoter and a land speculator whose sharp dealings
mired him in endless litigation, but he was also a social idealist and some-
time utopian who wished peace and plenty for all. Petty did a lot of his...
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