{"title":"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen (review)","authors":"J. Doerfler","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43404132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article uses Richard Ligon's opening figure of clay pots found by colonizers on Barbados to develop a theory of the emblematic combustibility figured in the natural history he writes of the island. Clay pots need to be tempered to withstand firing, but, as Ligon states, colonizers don't have this knowledge of tempering, and the bricks they try to make to establish plantations keep exploding. I use the idea of this combustibility to trace various forms of multispecies violence inherent in the mono-cultural practices Ligon records. From racial slavery to ecocide to land dispossession, this violence registers in emblems that demonstrate an epistemological commitment to that violence, as well as the work of erasure and forgetting necessary for upholding the accumulation of wealth, power, and the fantasy of white innocence inherent in the history of the plantation complex.
{"title":"\"The True Temper of It\": Combustibility and Emblematic Representation in Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados","authors":"A. Knutson","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article uses Richard Ligon's opening figure of clay pots found by colonizers on Barbados to develop a theory of the emblematic combustibility figured in the natural history he writes of the island. Clay pots need to be tempered to withstand firing, but, as Ligon states, colonizers don't have this knowledge of tempering, and the bricks they try to make to establish plantations keep exploding. I use the idea of this combustibility to trace various forms of multispecies violence inherent in the mono-cultural practices Ligon records. From racial slavery to ecocide to land dispossession, this violence registers in emblems that demonstrate an epistemological commitment to that violence, as well as the work of erasure and forgetting necessary for upholding the accumulation of wealth, power, and the fantasy of white innocence inherent in the history of the plantation complex.","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49146008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Place of Maps in Early American History","authors":"Nathan Braccio","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43485594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines the relationship between Christian theology, environmental aesthetics, and environmental justice in colonial America. As opposed to the work of secular writers from the early republic like J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Thomas Jefferson, the Christian environmental aesthetics of Jonathan Edwards and John Woolman have potential to address questions of environmental justice in American literary history, such as tenant exploitation, African enslavement, and Indigenous displacement. Edwards, however, worked in a pastoral literary tradition, which limited his ability to imagine environmental justice due to his commitment to the doctrine of election. Woolman, on the other hand, worked in a tradition of agrarian jeremiad that was able to connect a Christian theology of creation with a concern for those marginalized by agrarian capitalism. This article reconfigures the standard account of pastoral and agrarian writing in American literature, foregrounding how Christian environmental aesthetics can both fail and succeed in imagining environmental justice.
摘要：本文探讨了殖民地美国基督教神学、环境美学和环境正义之间的关系。与J.Hector St.John de Crèvecoeur和Thomas Jefferson等共和国早期世俗作家的作品不同，Jonathan Edwards和John Woolman的基督教环境美学有可能解决美国文学史上的环境正义问题，如租户剥削、非洲奴役和土著流离失所。然而，爱德华兹从事的是田园文学传统，由于他致力于选举学说，这限制了他想象环境正义的能力。另一方面，伍尔曼的工作传统是农业革命，这种革命能够将基督教的创造神学与对那些被农业资本主义边缘化的人的关注联系起来。本文重新建构了美国文学中田园和农业写作的标准描述，揭示了基督教环境美学在想象环境正义方面的失败和成功。
{"title":"Environmental Aesthetics and Environmental Justice in Jonathan Edwards's Personal Narrative and John Woolman's Journal","authors":"J. Miller","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the relationship between Christian theology, environmental aesthetics, and environmental justice in colonial America. As opposed to the work of secular writers from the early republic like J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Thomas Jefferson, the Christian environmental aesthetics of Jonathan Edwards and John Woolman have potential to address questions of environmental justice in American literary history, such as tenant exploitation, African enslavement, and Indigenous displacement. Edwards, however, worked in a pastoral literary tradition, which limited his ability to imagine environmental justice due to his commitment to the doctrine of election. Woolman, on the other hand, worked in a tradition of agrarian jeremiad that was able to connect a Christian theology of creation with a concern for those marginalized by agrarian capitalism. This article reconfigures the standard account of pastoral and agrarian writing in American literature, foregrounding how Christian environmental aesthetics can both fail and succeed in imagining environmental justice.","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49331455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legacy Book in America, 1664–1792 ed. by Roxanne Harde and Lindsay Yakimyshyn (review)","authors":"T. Harvey","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48486666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A History of American Puritan Literature ed. by Kristina Bross and Abram van Engen (review)","authors":"Teresa A. Toulouse","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45513993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noble Savage Sees a Therapist","authors":"Leanne Howe","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48033914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article argues that the manuscript poem "On the Death of Love Rotch" recently recovered from a Quaker commonplace book kept in 1782 can be confidently attributed to Phillis Wheatley (Peters). The attribution of the poem provides crucial new evidence for Wheatley's early presence and influence in Nantucket, New Bedford, and Newport; supplies new evidence for how her poems first appear in these regions that map onto Quaker ministerial routes; and bares traces of her poetic and political influence on these hotbeds for early abolitionist efforts. In addition to placing Wheatley physically closer to Obour Tanner and others in the Newport community before the Revolution, the poem's presence points toward other communities of color Wheatley engaged with, including New Guinea and Philadelphia, and the possibility that she wrote an elegy for a Black woman named Rose. Combined the article not only makes a case for the expansion of the Wheatley canon but also demonstrates how attribution studies can inform knowledge of the author's life, location, activities, public contributions, and influence on the larger cultural climate.
{"title":"\"On the Death of Love Rotch,\" a New Poem Attributed to Phillis Wheatley (Peters): And a Speculative Attribution","authors":"W. Roberts","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that the manuscript poem \"On the Death of Love Rotch\" recently recovered from a Quaker commonplace book kept in 1782 can be confidently attributed to Phillis Wheatley (Peters). The attribution of the poem provides crucial new evidence for Wheatley's early presence and influence in Nantucket, New Bedford, and Newport; supplies new evidence for how her poems first appear in these regions that map onto Quaker ministerial routes; and bares traces of her poetic and political influence on these hotbeds for early abolitionist efforts. In addition to placing Wheatley physically closer to Obour Tanner and others in the Newport community before the Revolution, the poem's presence points toward other communities of color Wheatley engaged with, including New Guinea and Philadelphia, and the possibility that she wrote an elegy for a Black woman named Rose. Combined the article not only makes a case for the expansion of the Wheatley canon but also demonstrates how attribution studies can inform knowledge of the author's life, location, activities, public contributions, and influence on the larger cultural climate.","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47803700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire by Brandon Mills, and: Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization by Robert Murray (review)","authors":"E. Eure","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46077488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950 by Elizabeth A. Williams (review)","authors":"Travis A. Weisse","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41445464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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