...Ros Ballaster Duke University Press 2010 R The Economics of Ethical Conversation: The Commerce of the Letter in Eliza Haywood and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Ros Ballaster University...

...Michael R. Lynn Duke University Press 2006 Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France Michael R. Lynn Agnes Scott College...

... chivalry • Chivalry, Commerce, and Generosity: Godwin on Economic Equality Rowland Weston University of Waikato “But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators...

... of an antagonism between trade and commerce, and the criteria for gentility that the magazine proposed were sufficiently numerous, and of such a nature, as to open the door to determined and aspiring traders and lesser professionals. The Gentleman's Magazine 's synthesis of a hierarchical model with a generous...

... (and, indeed, commerce). 17 “Neoclassicism,” as an aesthetic ideal and an apologetics for empire, developed from comparisons made between eighteenth-century culture and ancient Greece and Rome—and Falconer now joins this collective conversation. We read that the personal circumstances of the poet cause...

... the revolutionary new thinking of commerce and industry. An influential formulation of these opposed positions was spelled out in 1968 by Isaac Kramnick in Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole, where Bolingbroke is portrayed as the chief ideologist for a Tory tradition...

...James Grantham Turner Laura J. Rosenthal. Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 2006). Pp. 270. $49.50. £28.50. ISBN 978-0-8014-4404-3 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay...

... the ‘sudden reverse of sentiment’ as the hand raised against another becomes the hand of the lady pressed to her forehead—convert anti-social commerce over things into the commerce of the sexes, changing Yorick’s solipsistic address to himself (‘thy hand is against every man, and every...

..., the power of the Druids has been quashed. Furthermore, Macpherson’s conjectural history attacks a second plank of Whig ideology — commerce — while rein- forcing the Jacobite-cum-patriot attack on the Whig economic revolution, even as his complete demonization of property and commerce goes beyond...

...Michael Keevak Porter David . The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England . ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. x + 230. 26 ills. $90 Yang Chi-ming . Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760 . ( Baltimore...

... the post-fire rebuilding as a missed opportunity, Ralph echoed the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor's argument that Wren's plans would have ensured that London “excell'd in Beauty and Accommodation,” as well as “Extent, Commerce, [and] wealthy and worthy Cittizens [ sic ].” 8 It was not only...

..., intellectuals and mer- chants in this rapidly expanding Atlantic seaport that by the second half of the eighteenth century had become heavily involved in the slave trade, Roscoe created wide-ranging projects that provide an illuminating example of how commerce, education, and the fi ne arts could combine...

... by Defoe, but in a way which bears no logic of correspondence with an alleged representation of homosexual desire. As we will see, Crusoe embodies Defoe’s beliefs that early modern commerce’s highest roles are (1) con- trolled by Providence, (2) performed by Germanic cultivators of New World riches...

... in bullion allows for a commerce between strangers in a way that paper money, based on credit, does not. What I especially like about the chapter is the way it spreads the idea of sociable profit, and the interdependence that goes along with it, beyond local and national borders. But this is the chapter...

... of Europe’s first imperial system—the premises then organizing a world system based on consump- tion. It alone proclaimed that the “interests” that moved commerce and politics were truly “appetites.” It alone declared that the appetites de- sired more than the pleasures...

... action to mitigate the disas- ter, although, ironically, the public’s enduring interest in the mutiny led to debate challenging the very social order that supporters of enlightenment and commerce were trying to protect. Two kinds of liberty are at issue: lib- erty under the law, implying duty, self...

... But Fergusson was no more interested in this commerce in goods than he was in exchanges of visitors; at least, their tradability was not what he cel- ebrated about these creatures when he made them the theme of “Caller [fresh] Oysters” (pp. 66–68). The poem was published in late...

.... The lack of reference to accusations of enthusiasm against Quakers, or for that matter Methodists, is puzzling, especially in a book with a transatlantic orientation. Quaker commerce and antislavery agitation might have proved an interesting complement, for exam- ple, to the book’s concerns...

... with matter, were reconfi gured to describe the circumstances of commercial imperil- ment in which Londoners found themselves.9 In the central section of this essay I look closely at Annus Mirabilis (1667), where Dryden self-consciously imposes a narrative about economic loss and wasted commerce...