{"title":"African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by David Hackett Fischer (review)","authors":"J. Oldfield","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42907796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journey to Italy by Marquis de Sade (review)","authors":"Clorinda Donato","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43838570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terror: The French Revolution and Its Demons by Michel Biard and Marisa Linton (review)","authors":"Noah Shusterman","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48764988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Things That Didn't Happen: Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678–1743 by John McTague (review)","authors":"Nicholas Seager","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47644283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Scholars of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe have identified terrestrial concepts like land enclosure as keys to understanding Crusoe's colonial practices. Building on the field of oceanic humanities, however, I argue that Crusoe's claim to the island derives from his understanding of the sea as open to possession. Specifically, this article argues that Crusoe uses the island's distance from European maritime routes to mark it a claimable space outside European sovereignty. He also appropriates indigenous seafaring knowledge and maritime networks before converting the island into his own overseas colony by plying imperial routes of traffic and trade.
{"title":"Colonizing Land by Sea: Oceanic Trade and Travel in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe","authors":"Stephen Fragano","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe have identified terrestrial concepts like land enclosure as keys to understanding Crusoe's colonial practices. Building on the field of oceanic humanities, however, I argue that Crusoe's claim to the island derives from his understanding of the sea as open to possession. Specifically, this article argues that Crusoe uses the island's distance from European maritime routes to mark it a claimable space outside European sovereignty. He also appropriates indigenous seafaring knowledge and maritime networks before converting the island into his own overseas colony by plying imperial routes of traffic and trade.","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44212043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carrie Shanafelt’s Uncommon Sense is part of a recent resurgence in Bentham studies, driven by the ongoing, decades-long work of the Bentham Project at University College London on a complete critical edition of Bentham’s work, including previously unpublished works. The volume Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality (edited by Philip Schofield, Catherine Pease-Watkin, and Michael Quinn), published in 2014, is a startling read. It is difficult not to believe that the mid-late twentieth-century reception of Bentham via Foucault would have been very different had Foucault had access to these manuscripts. In contrast to the stern utilitarian picture of Bentham popularized by Dickens’s Gradgrind, or the disciplinary panopticist picture of Foucault, this volume reveals Bentham as an astonishing sexual radical, not just in terms of his proposals for legal reforms but in the promotion of the joys of sexual exuberance. (Louis Crompton published some of Bentham’s work on sexuality in 1978, in the Journal of Homosexuality, but it seems to have received little attention at the time.) Shanafelt’s book is the result of an encounter with Bentham’s work on sexuality and an attempt—perhaps the first—to locate it within his larger intellectual project of reform.
{"title":"Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste by Carrie D. Shanafelt (review)","authors":"Stella Sandford","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Carrie Shanafelt’s Uncommon Sense is part of a recent resurgence in Bentham studies, driven by the ongoing, decades-long work of the Bentham Project at University College London on a complete critical edition of Bentham’s work, including previously unpublished works. The volume Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality (edited by Philip Schofield, Catherine Pease-Watkin, and Michael Quinn), published in 2014, is a startling read. It is difficult not to believe that the mid-late twentieth-century reception of Bentham via Foucault would have been very different had Foucault had access to these manuscripts. In contrast to the stern utilitarian picture of Bentham popularized by Dickens’s Gradgrind, or the disciplinary panopticist picture of Foucault, this volume reveals Bentham as an astonishing sexual radical, not just in terms of his proposals for legal reforms but in the promotion of the joys of sexual exuberance. (Louis Crompton published some of Bentham’s work on sexuality in 1978, in the Journal of Homosexuality, but it seems to have received little attention at the time.) Shanafelt’s book is the result of an encounter with Bentham’s work on sexuality and an attempt—perhaps the first—to locate it within his larger intellectual project of reform.","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45491534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gombrowicz, with a tiny but pivotal detour through Lyotard (on Wittgenstein), to set up Beckett, Bartoszyńska stakes Form with a capital “F” as “a kind of fiction within reality, defined by language” (111), or “some kind of abstract realm [that] turns out to be an illumination of forces at work in reality itself” (113), “the sinister physical force of Form,” whereby “Józio increasingly submits to Form,” leading to “Józio’s entrapment in Form” (111). I had not known the Polish texts before reading this book, but I will read Ferdydurke now—not for its global formalism but definitely for its pupa Form.
{"title":"Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus by Charlotte Sussman (review)","authors":"Alison Bashford","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Gombrowicz, with a tiny but pivotal detour through Lyotard (on Wittgenstein), to set up Beckett, Bartoszyńska stakes Form with a capital “F” as “a kind of fiction within reality, defined by language” (111), or “some kind of abstract realm [that] turns out to be an illumination of forces at work in reality itself” (113), “the sinister physical force of Form,” whereby “Józio increasingly submits to Form,” leading to “Józio’s entrapment in Form” (111). I had not known the Polish texts before reading this book, but I will read Ferdydurke now—not for its global formalism but definitely for its pupa Form.","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42555452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Show Me the Bibliography: Indigeneity and the Eighteenth Century","authors":"Alice Te Punga Somerville","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49311946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Regardless, Mark Peterson’s history is a richly detailed biography, one that will inspire future generations of readers and historians to consider seriously the intertwined nature of the politics of history and memory. To be sure, this monograph demonstrates the importance of local history, independent of national narratives or myth-making. With The City-State of Boston, Peterson successfully rescues Boston from the annals of history, giving readers a compelling biography of a town that reads like an individual’s life story. Over time, that person whose life embodied best the free, distinctive character of Boston went by many names. At one time, for instance, the city-state was known by the name of Winthrop, Sewall, and Belcher. Later, the city would answer to Mather, Shirley, and Wheatley. Before the city-state faded from memory into history, it likely would have recognized itself by yet another, but, alas, that name has been forgotten, as history tends to distort memory (623–638).
{"title":"The Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas (review)","authors":"M. Burgess","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Regardless, Mark Peterson’s history is a richly detailed biography, one that will inspire future generations of readers and historians to consider seriously the intertwined nature of the politics of history and memory. To be sure, this monograph demonstrates the importance of local history, independent of national narratives or myth-making. With The City-State of Boston, Peterson successfully rescues Boston from the annals of history, giving readers a compelling biography of a town that reads like an individual’s life story. Over time, that person whose life embodied best the free, distinctive character of Boston went by many names. At one time, for instance, the city-state was known by the name of Winthrop, Sewall, and Belcher. Later, the city would answer to Mather, Shirley, and Wheatley. Before the city-state faded from memory into history, it likely would have recognized itself by yet another, but, alas, that name has been forgotten, as history tends to distort memory (623–638).","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45879091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","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 Nuu-chah-nulth ancestral belongings assembled on the third voyage of James Cook and a set of eighteenth-century watercolor albums produced in London by Sarah Stone. The translation of Mowachaht/Muchalaht material heritage from Nootka Sound (Vancouver Island) into watercolor image-proxies allows us to follow their storied social lives: their cultural significance prior to leaving their homelands and shorelines; their position in the collection and display of "artificial curiosities" at Sir Ashton Lever museum in Leicester Square, London; their replication by Stone, an artist who tested the boundaries of watercolor as a gendered "polite" art; and their present-day meanings for Nuu-chah-nulth creators and the descendants of those who met Cook in 1778. By attending to the various elisions between object and image, this research explores the potential of historic ethnographic archives and collections to produce a multiplicity of readings across various communities of knowledge, cultures, and time periods.
{"title":"Shoreline and Paper's Edge: Nuu-chah-nulth Emissaries in the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Centuries","authors":"J. Lum","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the relationship between Nuu-chah-nulth ancestral belongings assembled on the third voyage of James Cook and a set of eighteenth-century watercolor albums produced in London by Sarah Stone. The translation of Mowachaht/Muchalaht material heritage from Nootka Sound (Vancouver Island) into watercolor image-proxies allows us to follow their storied social lives: their cultural significance prior to leaving their homelands and shorelines; their position in the collection and display of \"artificial curiosities\" at Sir Ashton Lever museum in Leicester Square, London; their replication by Stone, an artist who tested the boundaries of watercolor as a gendered \"polite\" art; and their present-day meanings for Nuu-chah-nulth creators and the descendants of those who met Cook in 1778. By attending to the various elisions between object and image, this research explores the potential of historic ethnographic archives and collections to produce a multiplicity of readings across various communities of knowledge, cultures, and time periods.","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44148600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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