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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 1–50.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Iain Gordon Brown Duke University Press 2006
Water, Windows, and Women:
The Signifi cance of Venice for Scots in the
Age of the Grand Tour
Iain Gordon Brown
National Library...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 58–77.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of
Knowledge and form of Government of their extraordinary Inhabitants; trans-
lated from an English Manuscript,Zaccaria Seriman’s diffusely titled Italian
novel-cum-treatise on the European experience of the exotic, was published
in Venice in 1749.1 Better known, however...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2021
... because they hear there are fine Cour- tisanes in Venice. . . . And thus, by a false aiming at breeding abroad, they return with those diseases which hinder them from breeding at home. 8 As one might predict, real- life Grand Tourists do not write home about, or in most cases even record, their sexual...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 136–165.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... Venice and the Grand Tour, 1670–1830 (New Haven: Yale Univ., 1996).
Pp. 137. $45. ISBN 0-30006-911-1
Brian Dolan. Ladies of the Grand Tour. (London: HarperCollins, 2001). Pp. 352. $27
paper. ISBN 0060185430
Bernard D. Frischer and Iain Gordon Brown, eds. Allan Ramsay and the Search for
Horace’s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 105–109.
Published: 01 September 2013
... quotes Shaftesbury’s comment in his essay “Sen-
sus Communis” in which he imagines an Ethiopian “transported on a sudden”
to Paris or Venice during the carnival where everyone wears a mask and cos-
tume. She rightly observes that this individual is cast in the role of the moral-
ist who laughs...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., Conn. & London: Praeger, 2001). Pp. viii +
208. $62.50. ISBN 0-275-97180-5
Eglin, John. Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660–1797
(N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001). Pp. x + 262. $45. ISBN 0-312-23299-3
Evelyn, John. Elysium Britannicum...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., for the whole of the work, on literary
representations of Jews, particularly Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Her
treatment of Jacob utilizes Shylock’s most famous speech while it reverses
Shylock’s character to establish Jacob’s own. Michael Ragussis believes that
Edgeworth understands the “critical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
... this openness, its capacity to spread and multiply into pseudo-households, that engenders terror in Zofloya . Instead of detaining its heroine in a gothic castle, in Zofloya , the home is unbolted, inviting nonfamily members to enter and prompting family members to scramble along the roads of urban Venice...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Shakespearean
plays were largely performed in an adapted form. Extracts from these adap-
tations are inconsistently attributed in the miscellanies, suggesting an early
cultural flexibility concerning what constitutes a Shakespeare play. The
Merchant of Venice...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 153–155.
Published: 01 January 2009
... the Grand Duke of Tuscany), interest in van der Heyden has
lagged behind Canaletto, who supplied English grand tourists with his cel-
ebrated mementoes of Venice.
Thanks to Peter Sutton, whose groundbreaking scholarship has enlight-
ened us about many other Dutch topics, including genre subjects...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 101–108.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of the Enlightenment, Volumes I & II (Chicago &
London: Fitzroy Darborn, 2001). Pp. 1481 total. $285. isbn 1-57958-246-x
Delon, Michel. Le savoir-vivre libertin (Paris: Hachette, 2000). Pp. 250. 120 francs.
isbn unavailable.
Elgin, John. Venice...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
....30 A playbill of the performance of Merchant of Venice
seen by Austen on 5 March 1814 is accompanied by her letter to her sister
describing Edmund Kean’s performance as Shylock that night.31 This same
case also includes small souvenir objects that reinforce the emerging culture
of celebrity...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 82–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., olives, walnuts, or from fish liver or animal fat. It was used for domestic purposes and in many places for street lighting, and had to be carefully stored, since it too was easily set alight. Oil was responsible for the largest fire in eighteenth-century Venice, in 1789, when a store caught fire...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 36–40.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to a number of directions for further research.
(Robin Middleton’s masterful 1982 review of recent literature still provides a
key starting point for such endeavors.)3 Piranesi returned to Venice, the city of
his birth, in 1744, and again in 1745, remaining there until August 1747. Draw-
ings...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2016
... regional bishops and the disposition of valuable church property
and other assets. A believer in compromise and peaceful negotiation, Benedict
settled long-standing conflicts with Sardinia, Spain, Venice, Austria, and the
Kingdom of Naples. In one of the most appealing chapters in the book, Johns...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 72–84.
Published: 01 January 2003
... as The Merchant
of Venice, with its sinister Jewish moneylender demanding his pound of
flesh. Successfully revived in 1741 after a long period of neglect, this became
one of the main sources for English attitudes toward Jews in the mid-
eighteenth century and contributed...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 74–97.
Published: 01 April 2006
... and elsewhere. Pyrotechnics, by the late fi fteenth and sixteenth
centuries, found their way into civic and religious festivals. The Compa-
gnie delle calze sponsored displays, along with masquerades, ballets, and
banquets, during carnival in Renaissance Venice. In 1469, the explosions
got so out...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 127–141.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Revett’s proposal was taken up by Sir James Gray, at that time
the British ambassador to Venice. Gray recommended the project to the Soci-
ety of Dilettanti, which was actively seeking a project to establish its reputation
as a serious sponsor of antiquities. The Society’s existing reputation—Horace...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... A Summer Voyage to the Gulph of Venice, in the Southwell frigate, Captain Manly, Junr. Commander. An irregular ode. The First Poetical Present ever made by the author to the Right Honourable the E —— of C —— d. London: Printed for L. Loyd, well-known for obliging the public with the freshest and most...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of Thomas Otway’s Venice
Preserv’d, the discussion that ensues constitutes the most extensive literary
discussion in any of Richardson’s novels. It also dramatizes Richardson’s
view that responding to representations of suff ering as if they were real is
morally misguided. Clarissa’s observations...
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