...Ashley Brookner Bender This essay examines the correlation between property and identity in William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer and William Congreve’s The Way of the World . Both playwrights emphasize this connection between property and identity by using containers as stage properties. Often...

...Anne M. Thell Published in collaboration with the Royal Society of London in 1697, William Dampier’s A New Voyage Round the World was the most popular and influential travel account of the first half of the eighteenth century. Yet despite the astonishing success of New Voyage within commercial...

...James Grehan Sajdi Dana . The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant . ( Stanford : Stanford Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xv + 293 . $60 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay The World...

...Clive Probyn Duke University Press 2008 R Blindness and Insight: The World, the Text (of  Jonathan Swift), and the Criticism of Edward Said Clive Probyn Monash University...

...David S. Shields The College of William & Mary 2001 The World I Ate: The Prophets of Global Consumption Culture How can one explain the transformation of values in the West at the end of the eighteenth century, when...

...Bruce P. Lenman The College of William & Mary 2003 Review Essay Shrinking World Rather than Expanding Europe? Bruce P. Lenman University of St Andrews Anthony Pagden, ed...

...Amanda Vickery Religion and the Georgian world of goods are rarely discussed in tandem. The modern history of consumerism is secular in conceptualization. The booming literature on the Georgian world of goods has engaged only glancingly with religious ideas. A series of prejudices about...

...Peter M. Briggs Dunton's journalistic Athenian Mercury and his proto-novel A Voyage Round the World , both from 1691, imply through their strategies of presentation significantly different ideas of authorship. Experimenting with a participatory format that paired readers' questions on a variety...

... sensationalism for its failure to capture women's real‐world subjugation; thus, an “anti‐gothic gothic” perspective characterizes her depiction of the dark realities of Enlightenment society. The animals that feature in Maria are likewise anti‐gothic gothic animals. Important signifiers in gothic texts, animals...

... conventional valuations, and on the other, offered rich opportunities both for both self-advancement and the advancement of learning. Writers show that Sloane’s activities recast the natural world as a storehouse stuffed with collectibles and collecting as an ambiguous but national practice of imperialistic...

..., represented particularly by the Society of Dilettanti, which researched the sacramental character of sexuality in the pagan world. I argue, however, that such work more often perpetuated an ideology of sexual restraint than of freedom. The antiquarians discerned two different myths of Eros: that of the divine...

... themes through an understanding of Cleopatra's wager with Antony. That wager is crucial because Reynolds represents the moment at which it was won, and because Fisher is thereby asked to represent a female sexuality inextricable from the world of high-stakes gambling so important to the mid eighteenth...

...Ruth Scobie In the world of Frances Burney’s fiction, the South Seas do not seem to exist. Burney’s characters do not discuss the latest discoveries, read accounts of Pacific islands, dine with Oceanic natives, or admire, collect, or copy curiosities from Tahiti, New Zealand, or Hawaii. Yet members...

... to introduce the works of this author to a new audience. After giving an overview of her life and career, the paper will look at each novel in turn, finding structures and patterns that shape Burney’s world and her fiction. The Literary Legacy of Sarah Harriet Burney...

.... Specifically, I will examine the relationship between literary lutes and the natural world, charting the shifts from Neoplatonic notions of musica mundana , to the dendrological seventeenth-century understanding of material origins, to the descriptive conventions associated with the warbling of neoclassical...

..., including Cleland’s interests in ancient and medieval history, and their bearing on eighteenth-century culture. Hal Gladfelder’s Fanny Hill in Bombay (2012) has drawn intriguing parallels between Fanny and the empowered Druidesses who occupy Cleland’s idealized Celtic world. Proceeding from this point, I...

... of the people is entangled with estrangement, monstrosity. and suffering. The novel appeared in a postwar world of ruins, dismembered bodies, and revenants that formed around a newly heightened awareness of the living forces and traumas that compose war. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020...

... the natural and social worlds than they had known before, which led to more empirical comparing, more systematic speculation, and more secular self-questioning. Most scholarship on Enlightenment and Pacific voyaging, however, focuses on relatively elite or well-educated thinkers who were already on the path...

... 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...

... manner, as a retort to theories advanced by Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, that insects were noxious and overabundant in America. Insects played a key role in the late eighteenth-century controversy Antonio Gerbi called “the Dispute of the New World,” in which...