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Figure 1. Diagram and parts of a ship from John Smith's Sea Grammar (London: Richard Mount, [1705]), foldout illustration, between 18 and 19. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.

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in William Falconer and the Rhetoric of the Sea > Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. Diagram and parts of a ship from John Smith's Sea Grammar (London: Richard Mount, [1705]), foldout illustration, between 18 and 19. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. More
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The Private Sublime in Public Discourse: War Poetry of the American Revolution

John Richardson
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8718699
Published: 01 September 2020
..., both in the later eighteenth century and the present day. It focuses specifically on two poets who formulated the private sublime: Freneau in the 1781 British Prison-Ship and Ann Eliza Bleecker in the poems that she wrote after her daughter’s death in 1777. While Freneau’s poetry emphasizes terror...
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William Falconer: Sailor, Poet, Lexicographer

William Jones
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 13–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394857
Published: 01 April 2023
... work of nautical reference until the end of the sailing ship. Largely forgotten through the 20th century, Falconer's work is now being recognised as a significant and unique contribution to our understanding of the literature, and indeed the world view, of the eighteenth century. This essay traces his...
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The Visual Anatomy of Falconer's The Shipwreck , 1762–1818

Sandro Jung
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394923
Published: 01 April 2023
... the poem and other visual paratext. In addition to providing a detailed study of the editions, including their marketing and pricing, it focuses on interpretive shifts in the illustrations—from exclusively ship- and shipwreck-related iconography, to the expression of human concerns, especially in terms...
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Indolence and Illness: Scurvy, the Irish, and Early Australia

Killian Quigley
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 139–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3841432
Published: 01 April 2017
... was established, by ships' surgeons and others, via reference to theories of constitution, which had their roots in Hippocratic thought but were revitalized and revised in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century maritime and colonial contexts. In the literature of colonial Australia, indolence, illness...
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Of Reef Tackles and Halyards: “Marine Language” and the Technologies of Immediacy in William Falconer's The Shipwreck

Janet Sorensen
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394883
Published: 01 April 2023
... catastrophe, and, on the other, a sense of immediacy produced by the poem's representations of the desperate struggle for life aboard that distant ship. In Falconer's best-selling poem, the speaker frets over the challenge of making remote, unseen sailors present to readers on land. To meet this challenge...
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William Falconer's “Sons of Neptune”: The Merchant Service, the Royal Navy, and The Shipwreck

Julia Banister
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394896
Published: 01 April 2023
... the details in The Shipwreck , biographers suggest that Falconer moved at the age of seventeen to become a second mate on a ship trading in the Levant, the waters between North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. As Jones notes, “To be appointed to a second Mate's berth at the age of seventeen was rare...
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Britannia and the Weight of Empires Past: The Instance of Falconer's The Shipwreck

Suvir Kaul
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394870
Published: 01 April 2023
... to cast off. While the winds are not favorable, boats rowed by sailors tow the ship away from port, but not long after, looming dark clouds presage a storm. The ship sails past Cretan landmarks—Mount Ida, the Isle of Standia (now Dia), the cape of Freschin—and the ship's pilots make their calculations...
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Appendix: A Bibliography of Poems Written by Sailors, Those Who Served at Sea, or Ascribed to Sailors

Bridget Keegan
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 261–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394975
Published: 01 April 2023
...Bridget Keegan [Robert Gambol?], The Beauties of the Universe, a Poem. By a Gentleman of the Navy . London: Printed and Sold by J. Roberts. Anon. The Sailor: or, a Sketch of the Seaman's Art in Working a Ship: In a Dialogue between a Captain and his two Mates. [In verse.] To which...
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William Falconer and the Rhetoric of the Sea

Jamie M. Bolker
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 166–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394936
Published: 01 April 2023
...Figure 1. Diagram and parts of a ship from John Smith's Sea Grammar (London: Richard Mount, [1705]), foldout illustration, between 18 and 19. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. ...
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Britannia 's “Gallant Crew”: Sailor Poets and the Legacy of William Falconer

Bridget Keegan
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 188–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394949
Published: 01 April 2023
... voyage of a navy ship protecting British merchant vessels. 5 What his poem lacks in elegance, it makes up for in practical details of the seaman's life. Its documentary features render it of interest to historians, particularly on the subject of Barbary piracy and the kidnapping of Englishmen...
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Mutinous Behavior on Voyages to the South Seas and Its Impact on Eighteenth-Century Civil Society

Margarette Lincoln
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 62–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2006-008
Published: 01 January 2007
... exploitation of the Pacifi c, par- ticularly at British attempts to open up trade with America’s northwest coast, we discover that mutiny proved a severe obstruction that had to be sensitively represented in published accounts. In 1788, when merchants instructed John Meares to take two ships from China...
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Black Seamen and Soldiers

Vincent Carretta
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 150–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/000982601-2774121
Published: 01 September 2014
...Vincent Carretta Costello Ray . Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships . ( Liverpool , Liverpool Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xxiv + 248. 15 ills. $99.95 Gilbert Alan . Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence...
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Presenting “Truth” in Early Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives: The Case of Leendert Hasenbosch

Shef Rogers
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 21–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-8793923
Published: 01 January 2021
... Eighteenth-Century Life sailor and ships involved.3 Unfortunately, Koolbergen died in 2002. His scholarship was translated into English along with further information in Alex Ritsema s 2006 book, a work in turn revised in 2010 after links to a third version of the diary and extracts from the ship s logs were...
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Spaced Out: Early Modern French Travel Literature

Beatrice Fink
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 118–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-28-3-118
Published: 01 September 2004
... travel account. It is a richly doc- umented critical edition, the very first, of a well-known work by the celebrated navigator Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, who proudly refers to himself as the first French captain of a French ship of the line to have sailed around the earth. What both works have...
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Cook and the Question of Naval History

Jonathan Lamb
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 98–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2005-005
Published: 01 April 2006
... expensive to maintain and had always owed such quantities of money that its credit was shaky, and the interest it paid on its loans corre- spondingly heavy. The immediate reason for Charles I’s loss of his crown and his head was ship money, a tax he tried to levy for the improvement of the fl eet...
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Introduction

Michael Edson, Bridget Keegan
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 3–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394844
Published: 01 April 2023
... with increasing numbers of plates designed by notable artists, Jung shows how these illustrations offered cues to interpreting Falconer's poem. Later editions dropped the diagram of the ship and the map of the voyage that had featured in early, authorial editions. In their place, publishers added illustrations...
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Rescaling Falconer's The Shipwreck : Time, Labor, and the Problem of Immersion

Michael Edson
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 106–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-10394909
Published: 01 April 2023
... from an Episode, of Palemon & Anna. . . . Then he read various Characters of the Ship's Company, which are given with much energy & discrimination. 1 Digby points to an overlooked element in early responses to The Shipwreck . As scholars have shown, early readers generally praised...
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Revolutionary Sympathy on Cook’s Resolution : The Transatlantic Education of Lieutenant James King, 1766-76

Lance Bertelsen
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/000982601-2773975
Published: 01 September 2014
... in our mess that my assistance is not at all necessary to keep the Scotch Doctor in perfect good order as to Politics, I heard an extraordinary discourse between this Doct. & the Ships barber who joins to that occu­ pation the business of a shoe maker carpenter sail maker & a perfect good Seaman...
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“Distance Getting Close”: Gesture, Language, and Space in the Pacific

David Paxman
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 78–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-26-3-78
Published: 01 September 2002
... voyage accounts. George Forster, who accompanied his father, J. R. Forster, ECL26307-Paxman.q4.jw 3/25/03 3:32 PM Page 82 82 Eighteenth-Century Life on Cook’s second voyage, recorded the actions of a Maori chief of New Zealand coming on board the ship...
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