...). Like ethnic jokes in general, these Irish jokes sought to stereotype and ridicule the population that they depicted, in this case, the London-Irish. But, as this essay illustrates, these comic representations can also serve as a rich source of information on the cultural, social, and economic life...

... the formation of stereotypes about ethnically specific identity, such as the licentious Tahitian or warrior Maori. Stripping the exotic of its manneristic varnish and embedding it in contemporary argu- ments, conflicts, and contradictions brought back to life the ambiguous...

... French culture simultaneously made them strange and foreign. This com- bination of recognizability and inscrutability, claims Schechter, perpetu- ated the national conversation about Jews. The stereotype that especially made Jews stand out among the various subaltern groups in eighteenth- century...

... London Irish might be appropriate at this time. Up until quite recently, if one was looking for information on this ethnic grouping, one might be directed toward John Denvir’s The Irish in Britain (1892), John Archer Jackson’s The Irish In Britain (1963), and, more recently, Donald M. MacRaild’s...

..., for there was no other way. Especially in the usually tri- umphalist circumstances of European impact on American Indian societies, that other was often at first created as a pejorative stereotype. As the sixteenth- century Scot quoted above said, that is what people usually did, especially to other Europeans whom...

... and topical debate on the history of ethnic identities. Sometimes identities spring from historical events, but sometimes not; in either case, the stereotypes that developed through the eighteenth century have been long-lasting. So what are the virtues of Englishness...

... susceptible to Jewish stereotypes, but the first to invent the forms by which such stereo- types could be inspected and perhaps overturned.”2 In Harrington, Maria Edgeworth examined the ways in which popular plays and novels of the period, including her own prior writings, perpetuated anti-Semitic...

...Nicholas Rogers The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26309-Rogers.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:33 PM Page 117 Caribbean Borderland: Empire, Ethnicity, and the Exotic...

.... Palmyra was a trading city in Persia (modern day Syria) at the outposts of the Roman empire. Its inhabitants were ethnically Semitic, but their culture reflected Greco-­Roman and Persian elements. In 270 AD, Palmyra’s King Odenathus and his eldest son were assassinated by a kins- 34 Eighteenth...

... of colonial stereotype, as Claire O’Halloran has noted, that Irish antiquarians were resisting in the attempts to emphasize an Ireland of Saints and Scholars.29 Macpherson attempts to locate in his Highland past the values that make it a basis for main- land pan-Celtic British identity...

... on Poland’s combination of ethnic rigidity and heterogeneity, a vital issue for the English, especially in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland. South sneers that “the Inhabitants of this Country have the same Origin with the Muscovites, Bohemians, Croatians, Moravians, Silesians, Cassabi...

.... 74 Eighteenth-Century Life Swift begins as Said’s prototype, but he hardens into a stereotype because he goes in directions that Said will not tolerate: Swift more than approaches a moral relativism, and comes very close indeed to a radi- cal skepticism hard to distinguish from...

... communi- ties and speculates on their possible causes. Emphasizing the differences in readings brought on by race, gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, a reception study does not see different readings as a problem to be solved, nor does it seek to decide which readings recapture authorial...

... character- ization fits comfortably with the longstanding stereotype of the supersti- tious Catholic. For the Anglican chaplain Samuel Marsden, who arrived in New South Wales in 1794, Catholicism and industriousness were basically antonymous: “Was the Catholic religion tolerated,” Marsden wrote...

... that it was pri- marily a century of warfare that created among Britons a sense of cultural unity, “a mass British patriotism transcending the boundaries of class, ethnicity, occupation, sex and age.”6 Thus, one of the most important military transformations in terms...