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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 51–77.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Denise Amy Baxter Duke University Press 2006
Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the
Visual Culture of the French Revolution
Denise Amy Baxter
University of North Texas
Je tenais les...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 56–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
... that the horror of piracy, which consists of atrocities concealed and advanced through discursive manipulation, is also the horror of imperialism generally. Duke University Press 2009 R
Exquemelin’s Buccaneers: Violence, Authority,
and the Word in Early Caribbean...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 31–56.
Published: 01 September 2012
... persecution and mutual terrorizing that ensue evoke the relation between sodomy and blackmail. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 R
The Arrest of Caleb Williams:
Unnatural Crime, Constructive Violence,
and Overwhelming Terror...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 18–62.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Julian Fung For most modern readers, Tobias Smollett’s novels are defined by violence and crude physical humor, both of which contribute to angry satire on society’s vices. By drawing attention to eighteenth-century illustrations in Smollett’s novels, I want to suggest that illustrators were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 88–112.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of Lovelace's own self-willed death at length. The following consideration of Lovelace's “gloomy scheme of death” reveals the violence necessary for performances of masculinity in the early to mid-eighteenth century and suggests that the duel is at the heart at such efforts at self-display. 25. “Some...
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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
... characteristics of Sancho and employ physical violence and cruelty to women and lower characters, showing that low comedy thrived in not only marginalized genres like jestbooks and comic illustrations, but also popular drama. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Don...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 101–119.
Published: 01 September 2024
... eighteenth‐century society, and animals are an integral part of that picture. The social world she recreates is one of deeply entrenched hierarchical violence that permeates all levels of society and radically affects the experiences of both women and animals. [email protected] Copyright...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., a titmouse and a bullfinch, which he painted from dead specimens. Their appearance troubles the glorification of global expansion on display in these canvases, reminding viewers of the violence and death that underwrote European expansion into colonial territories. I argue that Bogdani's birds are uneasily...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 69–87.
Published: 01 September 2021
... understanding of war. Even as they represented battlefield violence and death with visceral intensity, they understood battlefield space itself to be grounded in affective practices associated with enlightened modes of virtue, sensibility, and civility. There the chaos and horror of conflict gave way to duty...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 150–156.
Published: 01 April 2016
... with
the work of Behn, Defoe, and Swift in his study, which aims to demonstrate
how fictions of “cultural contact” from 1651 onward into the mid eighteenth
century “redeploy tropes from histories of contact and exploration to explore
the question of how sovereign powers might best harness violence...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 January 2001
... about gallantry. Often overlooked in
studies of civility, female writers of the eighteenth century voice consider-
able dissent from the general opinion on gallantry. In particular, they
question the degree to which men have forsaken violence, as well...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (3): 73–102.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Burney, Maria
Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1998. Pp.
261. $39.95. ISBN 0-814327222
Barbara Zonitch. Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels
of Frances Burney. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. Pp...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 114–120.
Published: 01 January 2021
... then marked the entry with a set of crossed bones, sketched 1 1 5 in the margin.1 His terse account, with its shocking violence and blunt con- clusion, seems to me to convey the resignation of a practitioner unable to put up much of a fight against the accidents that his contemporaries agreed were inevitable...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 88–93.
Published: 01 September 2010
... what Pratt called
the contact zone seek to compensate, via an array of strategies, for the violence
of encounter and colonialism?
One way of responding to this question is to tease apart the contradic-
tory strands of colonial discourses that reaffirm British and European cultural...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 1–7.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of sardonic wit why this attraction to conict, violence, and anguish? And isn t war an awfully curmudgeonly topic? I soon came to understand, of course, the embar- rassing unfamiliarity that engendered this response. As the essays in this issue demonstrate, new theories about war and its representation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 20–42.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of authority in order to coerce a child or young
girl who had been entrusted to their care, especially if these men had also
committed rape or used other types of violence. In this respect early mod-
ern notions underlying judicial practice closely resemble modern ones...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 119–139.
Published: 01 September 2020
... the military- scal state, such as the Bank of England the East India Company.19 Like other Britons who did not go to war, these people were subject to the fears gener- ated by invasion threats, but were in practice more likely to be harmed by the violence of their compatriots than by the weapons of a foreign...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 32–46.
Published: 01 April 2001
... for violence.
In 1751, as Hume was taking notes for his History of England (1754–62),
he wrote to a friend: “I have frequently had it in my Intentions to write a
Supplement to Gulliver, containing the Ridicule of Priests.”2 Hume’s biog-
rapher, Ernest Campbell...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 92–98.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in the Eighteenth Century (2002), which Gikandi
does not cite. Similarly, Gikandi’s interest in “the inescapable relation between
the planters’ striving for high culture and the deployment of violence as a
mode of containing what was considered to be the danger of Africa” (xiv) has
been investigated...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 110–114.
Published: 01 September 2007
... the Force to drive him to so horrid a Violence” (1719; quoted from
34). One wishes Marsden had unpacked this extraordinary statement, for its
assumptions that women enjoy rape and drive men to it are closely related to
the theatrical spectacles of eroticized female suff ering on which the rest...
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