...Jonathan Lamb Duke University Press 2006 Review Essay Cook and the Question of Naval History Jonathan Lamb Vanderbilt University Inga Clendinnen...

...Sandra Sherman The College of William & Mary 2004 “The Whole Art and Mystery of Cooking”: What Cookbooks Taught Readers in the Eighteenth Century Sandra Sherman University...

...Lance Bertelsen Unpublished letters in the Burke archive (Sheffield and Northampton) reveal that when Captain James Cook’s Resolution departed Plymouth in July 1776, Lieutenant James King harbored strong pro-American sympathies and that these sympathies were possibly shared by his fellow messmates...

...Lance Bertelsen The first descriptions of Hawaiian surfing were written by David Samwell, surgeon of HMS Discovery , and James King, second lieutenant of HMS Resolution , in the months bracketing Captain James Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay on 14 February 1779. In his journal entry for 22 January...

...Alexandra Cook The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26312-Cook.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:36 PM Page 181 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Exotic Botany Alexandra Cook...

...Daniel Cook Damrosch Leo . Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World . ( New Haven : Yale Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xi + 573 . $35 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay The Ehrenpreis Dilemma and the Lives of Swift...

...Stewart Cooke “You must get rid … of this Cold, as fast as possible, because we want you at Twickenham !,” cried Richard Owen Cambridge on 22 January 1785 while visiting the ailing Frances Burney at her home in St. Martin’s Street, London. There is little doubt that Cambridge did, indeed, want...

... Cook between 1772 and 1780. What the family called “Jemm’s Otaehitie Merchandize” included material objects, but also social connections, texts, and knowledge. This article outlines how these were used by James and Frances, their cousin Edward Francisco Burney, and Hester Thrale, to create real...

...-called Western modernity. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 31. Another outlying exemplar, of course, would be James Cook himself. He was born the son of a farm laborer and left school at the age of thirteen, which means he probably had less formal education than any of the other...

...Octavia Cox [email protected] Daniel Cook . Reading Swift's Poetry ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2020 ). Pp. 316 . $100 , £75 . Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Poets steal. Or, to put it politely, borrow. Jonathan Swift preposterously claimed...

... through possession. Bernard Smith begins his incisive study Imagining the Pacific in the ECL26302-intro.q4.jw 3/25/03 3:28 PM Page 4 4 Eighteenth-Century Life Wake of the Cook Voyages with a discussion of how the frequently grotesque medieval...

...Pamela Cheek Harriet Guest. Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges, and the Return to the Pacific (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. xx + 249. 32 b/w + 50 color ills. $99 Kay Dian Kriz. Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British...

...Beatrice Fink Spary E. C. . Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760 . ( Chicago : Univ. of Chicago , 2012 ). Pp. 366 . 20 ills. $ 40.50 Davis Jennifer J. . Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830...

... explains some of the height- ened interest. After weeks on blank, rolling seas, men such as Captain Cook and Joseph Banks wanted to observe, record, and reflect on every feature of onshore life. Also, the fact that explorers had already discovered the outlines...

..., and told such strange Stories” (xiv). Edward Cooke, a shipmate of Rog- ers, emphasizes the same dichotomy before presenting his own account of Selkirk: It would be no diffi cult Matter to embellish a Narrative with many Romantick Incidents, to please the unthinking Part of Mankind, who...

... group. La Boudeuse actually sailed within sight of the Great Barrier Reef on 5 June 768, but its route via today’s New Guinea and Indonesia took it too far north to come upon Terra Australis, which thus remained incognita until James Cook discovered it and explored its shores two years later.17...

... (London: C. Cooke, 1799). The same image appears in Cooke’s edition of 1794. Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum. nion’s assaulting of Hatchway happens “at the same hour, every night, for three months before,” making it more of a running gag than an expression of sudden...

... parts of Nuyt’s Land exceed it in sterility” (Flannery’s edition, p. 104). On his first visit Dampier met some people, but their ugliness and poverty amazed him. Compared with them the Hottentots were gentlemen who lived in opulence, he declared. Cook tried...

... Eighteenth-Century Life of enlightened discipline and cared for their crews. In this context, the Bounty mutiny had great impact. After James Cook’s successful voyages of exploration (1766 – 78), the Bounty expedition was Britain’s seminal, state- sponsored attempt to exploit the Pacifi c...

... on Captain James Cook. Seward makes a brief return in this chapter, as Bailes contrasts her poetic musings on Cook s exemplary life as a charitable British explorer with Williams s portrait. For Williams, Cook s death and legacy make him the friend of the human race, a figure who sees his explorations...