Abstract:In 1824, Mary Randolph published The Virginia House-Wife, the first authentically American cookbook, reflecting her years of training in food production and a hard-won reputation as a cook. In the book, she included a recipe for a proto-cookie, the jumbal. This baked good developed in Europe in the Middle Ages and became a baking staple in England by the early seventeenth century. Imbedded in the simple recipe is a story of the development of crop production and foodways. Its ingredients reveal a complex history of cultural exchange, labor systems, human bondage, colonialism, and the development of an elaborate system of trade involving five continents. Its baking provides insight into questions of social class, gender roles, and female agency. As recipes for jumbals passed hand to hand and generation to generation, and from Britain to America, they followed social traditions and aided in the creation of an important genre: the cookbook. This seemingly simple recipe for a cookie grants an unusual entrée into many aspects of life in the long eighteenth century.
{"title":"The Jumbal: Cookies, Society, and International Trade","authors":"C. E. Hendricks","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1824, Mary Randolph published The Virginia House-Wife, the first authentically American cookbook, reflecting her years of training in food production and a hard-won reputation as a cook. In the book, she included a recipe for a proto-cookie, the jumbal. This baked good developed in Europe in the Middle Ages and became a baking staple in England by the early seventeenth century. Imbedded in the simple recipe is a story of the development of crop production and foodways. Its ingredients reveal a complex history of cultural exchange, labor systems, human bondage, colonialism, and the development of an elaborate system of trade involving five continents. Its baking provides insight into questions of social class, gender roles, and female agency. As recipes for jumbals passed hand to hand and generation to generation, and from Britain to America, they followed social traditions and aided in the creation of an important genre: the cookbook. This seemingly simple recipe for a cookie grants an unusual entrée into many aspects of life in the long eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49219588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The exhibition of extraordinary examples of female learning, often in the form of gifted girls, became fashionable in the eighteenth century among European aristocracy and courts. It was performed through elaborate rituals that brought together political and religious authorities, everyday society, and intellectuals, reinforcing the prestige of the girls' families and of the nation, in an age of strong cultural and political contestation. This essay considers the most celebrated Spanish female "prodigies" of the century in a comparative perspective, particularly in relation to their more widely researched Italian counterparts. My aim is to open up discussion regarding the ways in which female intellectual "exceptionality" was constructed in Europe in the eighteenth century: the different cultural, social, and political circumstances that shaped that exceptionality, the forces at work in defining it, and the possibilities and limits it offered to real women.
{"title":"Knowledge on Display: Aristocratic Sociability, Female Learning, and Enlightenment Pedagogies in Eighteenth-Century Spain and Italy","authors":"Mónica Bolufer","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The exhibition of extraordinary examples of female learning, often in the form of gifted girls, became fashionable in the eighteenth century among European aristocracy and courts. It was performed through elaborate rituals that brought together political and religious authorities, everyday society, and intellectuals, reinforcing the prestige of the girls' families and of the nation, in an age of strong cultural and political contestation. This essay considers the most celebrated Spanish female \"prodigies\" of the century in a comparative perspective, particularly in relation to their more widely researched Italian counterparts. My aim is to open up discussion regarding the ways in which female intellectual \"exceptionality\" was constructed in Europe in the eighteenth century: the different cultural, social, and political circumstances that shaped that exceptionality, the forces at work in defining it, and the possibilities and limits it offered to real women.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42362217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Thinking about a project like the effective decolonization of eighteenth-century studies demands a total remapping of the world. That can be difficult for any institution—and particularly so for institutions based on the consolidation of knowledge and the enforcement of disciplinary boundaries. And so, to decolonize eighteenth-century studies must entail more than just an intentional effort to reimagine the field by pursuing novel avenues of research, or studying new texts, geographies, or protagonists. Rather, this essay provides a call for action. By centering praxis, I articulate the insufficiency of gestures like making the field look nominally more diverse or the tokenistic inclusion of subjects of inquiry racialized as non-white. Without an actual, substantive commitment to return land, repair the world, and produce new material realities, decolonization will remain in the realm of the metaphorical. Thus, to enact change and to seek a reconfiguration of modes of sociality and the ethos of scholarship requires the enactment of self-reflexive criticism and a deep commitment to practicing liberation.
{"title":"Praxis is no Metaphor: Diasporic Knowledges and Maroon Epistemes to Repair the World","authors":"P. Marcos","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Thinking about a project like the effective decolonization of eighteenth-century studies demands a total remapping of the world. That can be difficult for any institution—and particularly so for institutions based on the consolidation of knowledge and the enforcement of disciplinary boundaries. And so, to decolonize eighteenth-century studies must entail more than just an intentional effort to reimagine the field by pursuing novel avenues of research, or studying new texts, geographies, or protagonists. Rather, this essay provides a call for action. By centering praxis, I articulate the insufficiency of gestures like making the field look nominally more diverse or the tokenistic inclusion of subjects of inquiry racialized as non-white. Without an actual, substantive commitment to return land, repair the world, and produce new material realities, decolonization will remain in the realm of the metaphorical. Thus, to enact change and to seek a reconfiguration of modes of sociality and the ethos of scholarship requires the enactment of self-reflexive criticism and a deep commitment to practicing liberation.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47535312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Book illustration is enjoying new interest. The Deserted Village attracted illustrators from the beginning. By the mid-nineteenth century, images of its rustic characters appeared regularly alongside the verse. During the final decades of the eighteenth century, three graphic artists reimagined Goldsmith's narrative as tragedy. Their transformations show the need for a term to describe the full interplay of verbal narrative and visual interpretation: the imagetext. James Gillray, John Keyse Sherwin, and Francis Wheatley each represent two characters from the poem, the bashful virgin and the dutiful daughter, as a single tragic heroine. In two pairs of freestanding prints, Gillray and Sherwin recast the then-and-now structure of the poem as a drama of displacement. These prints are imagetexts in a dual sense. They reflect a printing practice dating back to the sixteenth century of showing a text and an image in tandem, and they place the image in an independent collaborative relation. In a third print and then in related book illustrations, Francis Wheatley depicts the daughter as the prime victim of the trade in luxury. Like Sherwin, he represents an abandoned maiden as an allegorical figure of the land, following Charles Le Brun's decrees regarding how the passions should be depicted. These visual narratives reflect the academic theory of the sister arts as filtered through the lens of sensibility and indicate social commitments largely lost in the nineteenth-century illustration of the poem.
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Mellquist ([19]) warns that this "may risk alienating both policy professionals and members of CSOs from "the cause", with the policy produced becoming detached from the members whom CSOs are supposed to represent." Our next article likewise uses the ACF - supplemented by argumentative discourse analysis (ADA) - in a qualitative analysis of the "energy efficiency first" (EE1) principle as a new legal institute in European Union energy and climate policy. Welcome to the April 2023 issue of I Politics & Policy i ( I P&P i )! " Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy Revisited: The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Contemporary Government.". [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Politics & Policy is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Abstract:This essay frames Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad (1715–1720) as a key moment in the history of print culture and as a self-conscious reflection on a contemporary media shift in which Pope was a key actor. I contend that Pope's Iliad project works as part of a broader impulse to evaluate print and theorize its ethics by regulating and revaluing the oral, putting it under a polite and enlightened domain, and exposing those who manipulated rhetoric as slippery and untrustworthy, if also hypnotic and persuasive.
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Sarah R. Cohen, Cynthia Kok, Brittany Luberda, Sophie Tunney
Abstract:The mass movement of raw material in the eighteenth century determined industrial, agricultural, social, and visual environments. Using the global supply chain as an organizing principle, this essay examines how four raw materials shaped and were shaped by politics and society. Each of the four elements—silver, seeds, mother-of-pearl, and sugar—is addressed at one stage of its international circulation. Brittany Luberda begins by analyzing labor practices in the extraction of silver from the mines of Potosí during the Spanish colonization of present-day Bolivia. Sophie Tunney traces a material's journey across the sea, revealing the complexities of transporting living plants and the politics of French colonies. Cynthia Kok shows how mother-of-pearl shells, by-products of the pearl trade, were transformed by Netherlandish craftspeople into objects of value by adapting their existing expertise. Sarah Cohen then examines how two silver sugar casters made in the form of enslaved people were used to visualize the coerced labor that produced a sweet commodity for the global economy. Presented in a format that reflects the movement of a material from its excavation and transportation through to its manipulation and reception, we offer a model for investigating the life cycle of eighteenth-century material culture, which was itself multi-layered, interactive, and entangled with colonialist ambition.
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Abstract:This essay presents two objects of non-Western origin as examples of decolonial pedagogy, which highlights their "epistemic disobedience" or divergence from Western, settler-colonial knowledge practices, rather than subjecting them to inquiry through colonial lenses. It also advocates for incorporating Indigenous folkways into the curricula of colleges and universities that exist atop of Indigenous lands and waters.
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Abstract:The Spanish archival record is, perhaps unsurprisingly, relatively silent about the lives, experiences, and interactions of women in colonial San Luis and Apalachee. The gendered silence in the colonial archive is in part due to the lack of baptismal, marriage, and death records from Apalachee—in other words, the documents in which women are most likely to appear in Spanish colonial archives are missing for Apalachee. The archaeological and material records tell a different story. The ongoing archaeological excavations in Mission San Luis have uncovered a wealth of artifacts to help us reconstruct everyday life in the southern town. Although the European sites have been far more explored than the Apalachee ones, the archaeological findings help fill out, as well as complicate, a historical narrative focused on Spanish men. Correcting a male-centered focus requires not only writing stories of and about women, but also questioning the narratives and limitations produced by androcentric and un-gendered constructions of the past. This essay combines both historical documents and archaeological findings to offer a gendered reading of San Luis, its structures, and its everyday operations. It centers the life and experiences of women to explore the everyday contours of power in this early southern town.
摘要：西班牙的档案记录对殖民地圣路易斯和阿帕拉奇妇女的生活、经历和互动相对沉默，这也许并不奇怪。殖民档案中的性别沉默在一定程度上是由于缺乏阿巴拉契亚的洗礼、婚姻和死亡记录——换句话说，西班牙殖民档案中最有可能出现女性的文件对阿巴拉契亚来说是缺失的。考古和物质记录讲述了一个不同的故事。Mission San Luis正在进行的考古发掘发现了大量文物，帮助我们重建南部城镇的日常生活。尽管欧洲的遗址比阿巴拉契亚的遗址被探索得更多，但考古发现有助于填补以西班牙男子为中心的历史叙事，同时也使其复杂化。纠正以男性为中心的关注点不仅需要写关于女性的故事，还需要质疑过去以男性为核心和非性别结构所产生的叙事和局限性。本文结合了历史文献和考古发现，对圣路易斯及其结构和日常运作进行了性别解读。它以女性的生活和经历为中心，探索这个早期南方小镇的日常权力轮廓。
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Abstract:This essay argues that Ottobah Cugoano's 1787 abolitionist treatise, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, advances a critique of two political and literary tropes often associated with the abolitionist movement: humanitarian narrative and appeals to the law. Understanding these critiques allows us to recognize not only greater variety in abolitionist politics, but also abolitionism's general reluctance to treat slavery as an injustice requiring not amelioration, but rather remedy, restitution, and reparation. Cugoano's theory of slavery as a wrong highlights the international and intergenerational character of slavery's injustice. He argues that the historical and ongoing legal justification for slavery has effectively delegitimized the political authorities that sanctioned and supported the institution for centuries. Further, he imagines a revolutionary remedy for this injustice that would begin from a political recognition of slavery's impact on the globe.
摘要:本文认为，奥托巴·库戈诺(Ottobah Cugoano)在1787年的废奴论著《关于人类种族的罪恶和邪恶交易的思想与情感》(Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of Human Species)中，批判了与废奴运动相关的两种政治和文学修辞:人道主义叙事和诉诸法律。理解了这些批评，我们不仅可以认识到废奴主义者政治上的更大变化，还可以认识到废奴主义者普遍不愿意将奴隶制视为一种不公正，不需要改善，而是需要补救、恢复和赔偿。库戈亚诺关于奴隶制是错误的理论突出了奴隶制不公正的国际性和代际性。他认为，奴隶制的历史和持续的法律正当性已经有效地使几个世纪以来批准和支持该制度的政治当局失去了合法性。此外，他还设想了一种革命性的补救方法，这种方法将从政治上承认奴隶制对全球的影响开始。
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