J Boucher was an Anglican clergyman who served parishes in Maryland and Virginia and was a tutor to Washington’s stepson before he fled to England in 1775 as a frightened loyalist. By 1797, when he published a book entitled A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution, he had come to appreciate what a momentous event both he and the world had experienced. America had created the very idea of revolution and had influenced the French Revolution. In fact, said Boucher, the French Revolution was the “acknowledged and most distinguished offspring” of the American Revolution. “In point of principle,” he could not see “a shade of difference between the American Revolution and the French rebellion.”1 Boucher, of course, exaggerated. The two revolutions were very different. But in at least one respect, the American Revolution did resemble the French Revolution. It saw an end to the private ownership of public power and a transformation in the meaning of property.2 In the old society of the North American colonies in the British Empire, people conceived of property in traditional, proprietary terms. When people talked about property in public—such as property qualifications for the suffrage or
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relying on them as he did to cook and buy provisions, garden seeds, and supplies. Although this book deals with white authors’ elision of the knowledge and labor of enslaved people, Klein’s conclusion is optimistic. These “unsettling absences,” she suggests, allow for the emergence of “the most expansive version of the archive of the early United States” (163). In order to use this archive, Klein urges interaction between archivists, texts, and technologies to expose and reckon with the limits of knowledge. An Archive of Taste makes a persuasive case for heeding this call.
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G at the dawn of the academic year, a season both forward-looking and recursive at the institutions of New England and beyond, when old traditions are made new. In this issue, we are pleased to introduce two special features and a first-of-its-kind book review that we believe carry forward the essential work of the Quarterly and enliven the conversation it represents with new perspectives. This issue contains the first of three sets of papers delivered on September 17, 2022, at the American Political Cultures Forum, a symposium co-sponsored by the Quarterly and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Distinguished historians Gordon Wood and Wim Klooster commence this three-part feature with papers on insurgent, emergent forms of equality in the Revolutionary period. They are introduced by the event’s organizer, historian Richard Brown, longstanding member of both our Editorial Board and Board of Directors. We are grateful for this opportunity to feature the work of such an eminent assemblage of scholars and eager to publish selections on the nineteenthand twentieth-century political cultures of New England in the next two issues. We thank our partners at the MHS and look forward to future collaborations. We also offer herein the first installment of a periodic feature we have titled “New England Now,” which will examine exhibitions, performances, and other public history projects that revisit and reinterpret aspects of New England history for contemporary audiences. Written by scholars working in museums, the creative arts, digital humanities, as well as in academia, these projects draw on the research in our fields but reach beyond the peer-reviewed essay to illuminate what matters about
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to the beginning of the explosion of creativity in the Black Caribbean” (6). None of the essays actually addresses Hurston as this kind of mediating figure. That oversight speaks to a larger question that the volume does not answer. What exactly is gained by reading contemporary Caribbean women writers within the context of earlier African American women’s literature, and vice versa? Several of the essays gesture toward pedagogy with references to the challenges of teaching these texts, and Jefferson-James’s conclusion discusses the value of pairing Toni Morrison with early African American literature. A second iteration of this project might address teaching more fully by providing, for example, full lesson plans and assessment strategies. Overall, this is a good volume that would be especially useful secondary reading in undergraduate classrooms.
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{"title":"Charlotte at Sea: An Atlantic Odyssey on the Eve of Revolution","authors":"Thomas M. Truxes","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00991","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48879149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A four o’clock in the morning on Sunday, November 10th, 1872, artist James Wells Champney scurried to the rooftop of the Studio Building on Tremont Street in Boston’s Beacon Hill. A fire had begun shortly before midnight in the nearby downtown area, and the flames were a sight to behold. With pencil and brush, Champney recorded what he saw. (Fig. 1) In a fluid wash of monotone ink, Champney captured the smoke-filled air and billowing flames while frenzied pencil strokes articulated nearby rooftops and fellow spectators. From Champney’s vantage point, the conflagration threatened Old South Meeting House and the Boston Evening Transcript building on Washington Street. Firefighters managed to save Old South later that evening, but the Transcript Building became one of several hundred structures devoured by the Great Boston Fire. Champney’s ink wash drawing offers a view similar to what would have been seen from the rooftop of the Boston Athenæum at 10 1⁄2 Beacon Street, just three stories high at the time. The Athenæum’s building survived the fire by a mere two blocks, but the event still impacted the institution. Today, a century and a half later, the Athenæum holds one of the most significant collections related to the Great Boston Fire. Revisiting the Ruins: The Great Boston Fire of 1872, a special exhibition that ran from April 7 through July 29, 2023, in the Athenæum’s new Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery, looks critically at the ways artists, photographers, reporters, and
1872年11月10日，星期天，凌晨4点，艺术家詹姆斯·威尔斯·钱普尼急匆匆地来到波士顿灯塔山Tremont街的工作室大楼的屋顶。午夜前不久，附近的市中心地区发生了一场大火，火焰非常壮观。钱普尼用铅笔和毛笔记录下了他所看到的一切。(图1)钱普尼用单调的墨水流畅地描绘了烟雾弥漫的空气和翻滚的火焰，而疯狂的铅笔画则描绘了附近的屋顶和观众。从Champney的有利位置来看，大火威胁到华盛顿街的Old South Meeting House和Boston Evening Transcript大楼。当晚晚些时候，消防队员设法拯救了Old South，但成绩单大楼成为被波士顿大火吞噬的数百座建筑之一。钱普尼的水墨画提供了一种类似于从灯塔街10 1 / 2号波士顿atheneum屋顶上看到的景色，当时只有三层楼高。雅典æum的建筑在火灾中仅幸存了两个街区，但这一事件仍对该机构产生了影响。一个半世纪后的今天，雅典æum拥有与波士顿大火有关的最重要的藏品之一。2023年4月7日至7月29日，一场名为“重访废墟:1872年波士顿大火”的特别展览在雅典美术馆新设的诺玛·让·卡尔德伍德画廊举行
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{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Richard Brown","doi":"10.1162/tneq_e_00992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_e_00992","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46901856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States","authors":"Rachel B. Herrmann","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48565299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1890, Samuel D. Warren II and Louis D. Brandeis published a Harvard Law Review article advancing the idea that individuals have a “right to privacy.” Their essay became a touchstone for countless twentieth-century legal rulings, including Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), a named precedent in Roe v. Wade (1973). As Justine S. Murison explains in Faith in Exposure, the Warren–Brandeis essay maintained that privacy deserves legal protection as a set of feelings bound up with marriage, domesticity, and one’s authentic self, a formulation that crystallized the tremendous value that Americans had come to give privacy over the previous century. This understanding of privacy was thoroughly secular, as it associated a person’s true self not with religion or the soul but with a sacrosanct domesticity and a complex yet self-contained individuality. Giving expression to long-simmering American cultural beliefs, the essay effectively codified privacy as “sacredness in a secular key” (210). Faith in Exposure elaborates on the Warren–Brandeis article in its final chapter, but readers who turn to that discussion first will grasp more quickly the still-relevant legal stakes of this book’s cultural and literary history of privacy. The book’s core argument is that under American secularism, privacy came to function as a powerful locus of meaning associated not simply with discrete spaces such as the home or church but with “an affect and a performance of an authentic—and authentically moral—self” (24). Building on Saba Mahmood’s claim that
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