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...John Bergin Many Catholics migrated from Ireland to other European countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Those who settled in Catholic regions of Europe are relatively well known, but little attention has been paid to an Irish Catholic community that appeared in London...

... garrison in Gibraltar, White received specimens of birds — including a flamingo, which he donated to the Royal Society’s museum — insects, fish, and plants, and valuable data, particularly evidence of migrations. White made good use of the information he collected from his correspondents. In a letter...

... the form of mapping, moral punishment, or a private sublime style displayed in intensely emotional lyric accounts. The terrible destructiveness of warfare, distant or near, migrates into the expression of personal feeling, so that the speaker s experience is part of the war, and the beautifully terrible...

... to the Houghton migration was most felt, however, was not Library, Harvard University. Oxford but London, the city at the heart of the new commercial order and of the empire that was emerging in the late seventeenth century. And, as I will argue here, it is that city’s history, and the migrant Irish...

..., in Ireland’s case, the great famines of the mid nineteenth century and the subsequent mass migration that fol- lowed in their wake.7 Such conceptions of the Irish diaspora appear to have colored the views of historians of eighteenth-century London. Dorothy George’s discussion of the Irish in her chapter...

... and satire, and thus misrepresent trends in eighteenth-century comedy more broadly. This article turns the spotlight on how popular dramatic adaptations and imitations of the novel, such as those by D'Urfey, Bullock, and Pilon—which, as examples of “character migration,” audiences would have received...

... is information and vice versa” (41). Similarly, Steven Newman’s account of the migrations of Robert Burns’s songs leads him to suggest that Burns has the best claim to being considered a “global poet” (57). Newman seeks to “localize” Burns to understand why his widely read poetry differs from the “marginal...

... cen- tralization, the new Poor Law, increased migration, and other factors helped undermine parish life. Yet as the parish gradually overlapped with new admin- istrative units, it eventually lost its potency. Snell’s book is a story, then, of the power and eventual fall of the parish in everyday...

... Wakley’s assessment, influenced as it was by anti-Irish prejudice, reminds us that Johnson’s connection with Ireland continued to shape him long after he had migrated. Furthermore, Johnson himself provided clues in the Tour that suggest his relationship to Ireland remained important—in more...

... stuck into a burning candle finally fell out. By tracing Behn's exposure to slavery in Surinam to examples of bondage performed on the London stage, Ingrassia combines Behn's biography with her own close reading to make clear exactly how the language of captivity migrated from the colonial outskirts...

...” somewhere in between.5 Associated with Platonic philosophy was the doctrine of trans- migration and the principle of plenitude or gradation between different Anna Barbauld’s “The Mouse’s Petition” 95 elements of creation. Harrison’s research indicates that “anachronistic Pla- tonic...

... records of births and deaths, imperfect though they were, Graunt was able to open up a new and intriguing perspective on life in London — its birth and death rates, its overall population (fi gured three diff erent ways), the relative rise and fall of diff erent causes of death, the rate of migration...

..., it was not an “either/ or” situation with the migration of texts from handwriting into print texts; in the long eighteenth century, authors also deftly drew print sources into their manuscripts to create hybrids. Exploring how manuscript volumes continued to be a viable part of the literary ecology of a time...

... in eighteenth-­ century London, Maifreda and Quigley consider changing contexts prompted by the movement of people, both within and beyond Europe. Increased migration of Europeans during the eighteenth century presented new challenges in thinking about the social and economic benefits that might...

... for the majority of the population was one of “famine, migration, religious oppression, economic crises, and rural agitation. . . . For all the fun of Dunkin's poem, then, its ‘exemplarity’ also needs to be set against such contexts” (4). Haslett's introduction lucidly outlines the ways in which literature...

... that are associated with the text’s two protagonists, such as society’s migration towards Piccadilly and Hyde Park Corner, the addition of shops to showrooms, the expansion of contracting and collaboration, the influence of Duquesnoy — can be seen in operation as early as the 1690s. John Nost I, who...

... and social justice—and specifically pornography and feminism—may not always have been antithetical (8). In keeping with its thesis, What Pornography Knows follows an innovative structure, one that tracks a midcentury bawdy novel— The History of the Human Heart (1749)—as it migrates from its point...

... Crusoe in connection with the General Naturalization Act of 1709 and the vast migration of Palatine refugees from Germany, which followed the bill, DeGooyer argues that Defoe has Crusoe naturalized in order to purchase a plantation in Brazil as a warning against the detrimental economic consequences...

... and trade, cultural relations, intel- lectual exchange, religious ties, tourism, migration, maritime connections, and military service all receive treatment. As the diverse list of subjects under con- sideration indicates, this is a remarkably ambitious book, which is informed by the author’s...

... to invoke both Ancients and Moderns. Marcus Walsh s chapter recounts the migration away from the sequential progress of the history of a life, the structural logic of narrative, or the ordered chronology of history in scholarly documentation, toward the validating appeal at criti- cal points to authentic...