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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 •
The “Jewish Question” on Both
Sides of the Atlantic:
Harrington and the Correspondence
between Maria Edgeworth
and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 51–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Garritt Van Dyk Atlantic sugar production and European sugar consumption rose dramatically in the late eighteenth century. Despite this increase, there were two separate calls to refrain from consuming sugar in both Britain and France at the end of the eighteenth century. Demands for abstinence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
... at the center of continuing scholarly disputes concerning Cook’s death. This essay reconstructs King’s previously unknown American experience, suggests the formative effect of his activities on both sides of the Atlantic in the years just prior Cook’s third voyage, and proposes new approaches to reading his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 85–87.
Published: 01 September 2013
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Missionary, ed. Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese (Athens: Univ. of Georgia, 2010).
Pp. xii + 219. 5 ills. $39.95
J
In 1779, a man named Olaudah Equiano penned a letter to the Bishop of Lon-
don. Equiano became known throughout the Atlantic world for his battles...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 89–103.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of Abigail
and John Adams (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007). Pp. xx + 507. 29 ills. $35
Sarah M. S. Pearsall. Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth
Century (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008). Pp. 281. $110
Jeffrey H. Richards and Sharon M. Harris, eds. Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 221–225.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Maeve McCusker Christopher L. Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke Univ., 2008). Pp. xvi + 571. 17 ills. $27.95 paper Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay
Troubling Amnesia...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2015
...,
Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Toronto: Univ. of
Toronto, 2014). Pp. x + 349. 22 ills. $65
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Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock. New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the
Atlantic World...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 88–93.
Published: 01 September 2010
...
colonial enterprises around the globe, from the overreaching of the East India
Company and the exertion of British power in North America, to the excesses
of the West Indian plantation system.
Addressing responses to this last in her work on the Atlantic, Kriz assem-
bles a remarkable...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 90–95.
Published: 01 January 2008
... in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005). Pp. 284. 2 ills. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3891-5; Kate Davies. Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2005). £53. Pp. 331. 25 ills. ISBN 0-19...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 105–113.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Univ., 2006). Pp. xiii + 308. $65 hardcover. $23.99 paper Robert Mitchell. Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity (New York: Routledge, 2007). Pp. x + 266. $135 Ian Baucom. Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery...
Journal Article
“The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 138–143.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Revival (1961) has the literary historiogra-
phy of ballad study received such comprehensive treatment. Newman updates
Friedman and widens his perspective to include reception of the ballad within
a trans-Atlantic context addressed by folklorists but largely omitted by lit-
erary historiography...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., for instance, more land-bound poems like Joseph Addison's “A Letter from Italy” (1704) or John Dyer's The Ruins of Rome (1740). Perhaps more so, because he wrote when battles between the French and British navies in the Atlantic were at their height, and the war on the European continent and in venues...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 48–50.
Published: 01 September 2010
... fiction might have exerted on the minds
of its original readers?
George Boulukos’s useful and thoroughgoing study of representations
of the grateful slave in eighteenth-century British and black Atlantic texts
addresses these and other questions, with varying degrees of directness...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 7–23.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2014), 121–54; and Mohammed Ennaji, Slavery, the State, and Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2013). 17. For example, “Chief Black Eunuch” and “Chief White Eunuch” were both official...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 117–138.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
on the Mosquito Coast
Nicholas Rogers
York University, Toronto
The Mosquito Coast belongs to what is now Atlantic Nicaragua, a jagged
coastline of four hundred miles stretching from Cape Gracias a Dios...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 42–45.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Vincent Carretta Mallipeddi Ramesh . Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic ( Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia , 2016 ). Pp. xi + 265 . $49.50 Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., and the nonappearance of the promised poems and letters in print, those recovering PWP's archive in manuscript and print, including in handwritten fair copies and transcripts, broadsides and periodicals, on both sides of the Atlantic, have created new ways to engage with her time and her audiences...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and African Atlantic littoral of Crusoe s trav- els, as well as the spaces and places of his American island later (Tally, 46). Where Crusoe adventures, Defoe maps: the novel frequently presents Cru- soe s motion and even ocular surveys as hypotyposes (a rhetorical ¨gure by which something that is not present...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 109–113.
Published: 01 April 2021
...=c8>. 2. See Catherine Molineux, Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2012), and Kate Fullagar, The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1710 1795 (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 2012). 3. See Sylvia...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 115–119.
Published: 01 April 2014
... in Eighteenth-
Century Life 34.2 (2010): 114 – 21. Most monographs have narrower purviews,
concentrating on well-defined tropes or subgenres. In Freedom’s Empire (2008),
for instance, Laura Doyle insists on the influence of the “the liberty plot,” a
convention representing Atlantic crossings...
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