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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Janet Sorensen [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The power of the shipwreck motif in William Falconer's The Shipwreck derives in part from an oscillation between, on the one hand, the tragic distance of the spectator or reader from the unfolding...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 106–133.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Michael Edson Reading, like sailing, is a durational experience: reading takes place in time and, if a poem is lengthy enough, reading can thwart absorption and make one notice time passing. Reading time therefore offered William Falconer in The Shipwreck (1762) an overlooked resource for tactfully...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Julia Banister One month after the publication of his poem on merchant seafaring, The Shipwreck (1762), William Falconer left merchant sailing to become a junior officer in the Royal Navy. In the midcentury, many commentators believed that the Royal Navy's sailors were superior to merchant sailors...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Suvir Kaul Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762) contains substantial passages in which the poet surveys the Greco-Roman cities and ruins visible to sailors as they sail past landmasses in the Mediterranean. This survey of past and present is a reminder of the changing fortunes—the rise and fall...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Sandro Jung This article offers an account of all illustrated editions of William Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762), including anthologies such as John Roach's Beauties , that were produced up to the end of the handpress period. It examines both the illustrations of specific scenes or moments from...
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Figure 1: D. Dodd, “Frontispiece,” engraved by A. Birrell, The Shipwreck (London: J. Wenman, 1781). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 4: T. Stothard, “[Palemon Dying],” engraved by J. Neagle, The Shipwreck (London: Cadell and Davies, 1796). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 5a: W. Anderson, “Sailing from Candia,” W. Taylor, The Shipwreck (London: J. Cundee, 1803). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 6: N. Pocock, “[Palemon Dying],” engraved by J. Fittler, The Shipwreck (London: W. Miller, 1804). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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![R. Westall, “[The Consultation],” engraved by E. Finden, The <span class="search-highlight">Shipwreck</span> (L...](https://dup.silverchair-cdn.com/dup/Content_public/Journal/eighteenth-century-life/47/2/10.1215_00982601-10394923/1/s_ecl10394923figure9.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=wVlbSg4jKFdnkvyT~aVocqxJEvm72QX~hZyVcAcEp9s0dRCghubLFFBD-Dsf8oteQ4uqwyVEBw8f1auav5XklGYJIthtNuF68F~defwoKqaBK4tYa-4z6C19ygJLt9sF1TDNFW52Kd2BmAD~ovUYVfmpoUyIi5YOPI1uyJ9R3uD1yi4dhDmViCnYis5qhiDtlV-GjSJQUOo7B-wC3UxbQaxVQAXRO5Q9T00FDkULTUMyXrK1-q6vRGF8sMirNsV~sN4QnB7euDpan2F02hTzoT2LBURJ~9HqsTy-~Mpxqfjviy0f7u24kPG0Tkn60cT2PqWbashll22OUZ7lTHR~jg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 9: R. Westall, “[The Consultation],” engraved by E. Finden, The Shipwreck (London: J. Sharpe, 1819). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 13–45.
Published: 01 April 2023
...William Jones William Falconer (1732–1770) suffered a catastrophic shipwreck as a young man, which became the subject of his celebrated poem The Shipwreck (1762), with revised and extended editions in 1764 and 1769. He is also the compiler of the Dictionary of the Marine which remained the standard...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and conflict. In this article, I examine the polemical nature of Robinson Crusoe ’s spatial experience and constructions, maritime and insular. Most readers know Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe for the shipwreck and the island. This sells short the novel’s formal spatial design, which contrasts its hero’s early...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 188–215.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Bridget Keegan The essay examines the history of poetry written by sailors from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. William Falconer's The Shipwreck (1762, 1764 and 1769) inspired many seamen to turn poet and to write about their experiences at sea. Falconer's influence is seen in how...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 3–12.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., Falconer, who had survived one shipwreck in 1749 and made his literary career with a poem inspired by that shipwreck, died by shipwreck too. At his death, Falconer was the most famous sailor poet and naval lexicographer of the era. The son of an Edinburgh wigmaker, Falconer went to sea at fourteen...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 216–260.
Published: 01 April 2023
... later published in 1762 under the title, “Written at Sea; by the Author of The Shipwreck .” Falconer finished the poem in October of that year while aboard the Royal George in Portsmouth. This lyric of five stanzas in the published version is addressed to “A Nymph,” but in the drafts it is “To Cleora...
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Figure 5b: W. M. Craig, “The Helmsman struck with Lightning,” engraved by T. Wallis, The Shipwreck (London: J. Cundee, 1803). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., on Saturday, November 2nd, 1861: a poem . Scarborough: J. Wrigley. Anon. The Rock and Other Poems . London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer. Ismay, William John. The Life-Boat. A Companion Poem to Falconer's “Shipwreck.” Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Griffith and F. [email protected]...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 8: J. Thurston, “[Palemon taking his farewell from Anna],” engraved by L. Clennell, The Shipwreck (London: Cadell and Davies, 1808). Reproduced from a copy in the author's collection.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 166–187.
Published: 01 April 2023
... “by which they have been able to shape their course through a trackless ocean, are rendered useless by ignorance of the channel through which they are to enter the harbour; and mariners, who have escaped all former dangers of the voyage, are often shipwrecked upon some sunken rock, or unknown shoal...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
... was The Shipwreck (
which
was based on geographical details provided by James, whose naval career
Ruth Scobie describes in detail elsewhere in this collection. In her second,
separately titled Country Neighbours (
the narrator is a spinster, like
Burney herself, who comments with asperity on her family...
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