... of [Falconer] not letting well alone.” 6 Reviewers and non-sailor readers going back to Digby have agreed that a freight of unnecessary new language sank the 1764 and later poems. I would like to connect these criticisms about length to larger concerns about time, labor, and immersive reading in the mid...

...Jennie Batchelor The College of William & Mary 2004 “Industry in Distress”: Reconfiguring Femininity and Labor in the Magdalen House Jennie Batchelor University of Southampton Relieving...

... and the many figures involved in a mother's labor. A critically significant and insightful work, Fox's Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England provides scholars with the most holistic picture of this process in the era to date, with the voice of the laboring mother at its center Giving Birth offers...

... at the Age of Maturity) to become our future Sailors, and our future Grena- diers? Is it by the Labour of such as these, that all the Emoluments of Peace are to be procured us, and all the Dangers of War averted from us? Fielding goes on to envision a grotesque...

... and labor. Crusoe’s adventures as a shipwright allow Defoe to explore and complicate the boundaries between civilized and “savage” in his novel, and to imagine the possibilities of a new colonial dispensation of labor marked by collaboration between indigenous and European workers. Copyright © 2019...

... specialized labor with an aesthetic of domestic privacy. In Memoirs of Doctor Burney , Burney collapses this separation, using her professional abilities in combination with her own intimate, domestic experience. From this, she constructs a public version of her father, Charles Burney, as a polite, sociable...

...—of powerful city-states and empires. The poem's primary theme is the peril faced by sailors on trading voyages, on which they provide the labor, face the dangers, but earn few of the profits. By invoking the Greco-Roman past, however, Falconer also warns his readers of the human costs of commercial...

... sailor poets write about maritime labor and practices such as impressment and how they represent the beauties and threats of the ocean environment. They also share stylistic features, notably an emphasis on “terms of art” specific to shipboard life. Sailor poets provide key insights into important...

... declaration also invokes and sets aside the hierarchy of head and hand. His hands are not the low partners to his mind: the manual event is the significant event. Furthermore, Crusoe’s labor is very distant from the curse of Eden. It is productive rather than punitive. In this paper, I will suggest...

... from The Citizen of the World and the depiction of the political shoemaker in Cato’s Letters.13 With the subdivision of labor and desocialization of work proceeding apace in the late eighteenth century, this tradition spoke to the ingrained prejudices, customary expec- tations, and current...

... and visual culture generally. Next follow two essays on the Shipwreck 's early and subsequent receptions. In the first, “Rescaling Falconer's The Shipwreck : Time, Labor, and the Problem of Immersion,” Michael Edson investigates an oddity of early responses to The Shipwreck : while none of the three...

.... Mill (16). In fully developed neoclas- sical theory, prices are no longer imagined to measure quantities of labor, or any other physical quantity. They are instead psychological effects: they reflect “the distinct calculations of different minds” (15). Only when economic life...

...Kathrin Levitan Carolyn Steedman. Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. 263. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87446-5. $32.99 paper. ISBN 978-0-521-69773-6 K. D. M. Snell. Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity, and Welfare...

... with, the self is not as composed as Locke would like to imagine. In essence, Locke discusses two types of property regarding citizenship: one that the individual accumulates through “labor,” and one that is intrinsically his own and no one else's. But what qualifies one to practice labor, either manual...

... costs us nothing. And that, which their mean envy calls loquacity in us, is only a readiness of ideas, and an ease of delivery, which they in vain labour, for years, to attain” (p. 46). In her query, “Whether the Men are better quali- fied to govern than Women...

... for her ideas by looking first at some aspects of the eighteenth-century’s Poor Laws. As we shall see when we look at More’s Tracts, the stories are largely directed at helping the poor so that they can continue to work. This connection between relief and labor...

... Islands, Riddell suggests, are spaces of industry that evince the collective powers of white Britons and eschew the labor of slaves. Riddell s natural histories emphasize the islands productive capacities: they produce medicine, not disease; in her accounts, the colonies success in the sugar trade...

... the burden it imposes on the rest of society.” 8 From this perspective, the Dublin system for badging beggars was an early form of labor law with the primary objec- tive of putting the able-bodied to work and, by proxy, render the idle poor productive and reduce the costs associated with their upkeep...

... and the other Society Islands, to Tonga and Vanuatu (the Friendly Islands), to New Zealand. Guest argues that they charted the progression of sociability and civility almost by latitude and longitude. Gender served as the primary term in the voyagers’ classifcation of the societies and forms of labor...

... implied by this visual evidence, as well as by depictions of Black attendants elsewhere in the book. 4 Furthermore, questions remain about where these ideas about labor, trade, consumption, and racial difference originated and coalesced. Answering these questions would clarify the ways in which food...