... on eighteenth-­century British political thought. As J. G. A. Pocock (1962, 233) notes, “Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, every major piece of either historical or legal thinking involved, if it did not consist in, the adoption of an attitude towards the ‘ancient constitution...

... of English at Portland State University, where he teaches eighteenth-century British literature, literary theory, and science fiction. He holds a PhD from Duke University and is the author of essays in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Colloquy , and elsewhere. He is at work on a book...

... of knowing (5). With much success and while leaving open a provocative ques- tion I ll address at the end of this review Chico argues that seventeenth- and eighteenth- century British natural philosophers relied on figuration and other lit- erary practices not just to persuade others of empirical...

... excerpted. Shelley’s poetry was popular with multiple generations of British radicals, from the Chartists to the late-century Socialists. Queen Mab, the source material for “Winter Night,” was a favorite Shelleyan text for politically radical readers throughout the century. The poem had little...

...Robert Markley Arguably the most influential account of South and Southeast Asia published in Britain before the mid-eighteenth century, Alexander Hamilton's New Account of the East-Indies (1727) has been ignored or marginalized by recent historians of the British East India Company. Hamilton spent...

... is Perceiving: James Thomson and John Clare," both from Poetry, Language and Politics, build upon his earlier studies of the subject in eighteenth-century British poetry and painting, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare and The Dark Side of the Landscape...

... Alan . “Britain and Latin America.” The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Nineteenth Century . Ed. Porter Andrew . Vol. 3 . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1999 . 122 - 45 . Latour Bruno . Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society . Cambridge...

... will be of great interest to scholars of the literature and intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and particularly to those of us who identify as political progressives. [email protected] Mark Canuel , The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism , Oxford : Oxford...

... that, for centuries, had legitimized British social arrangements transforms the system and helps make new social arrangements possible; the identification of aristocratic power with a mode of 22See Armstrong and Tennenhouse's discussion of supplementarity in The Imaginary Puritan (22-23, 153...

... developments—especially the marketing of global imperialism, which accompanied British colonial expansion following the partitioning of Africa at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.2 An influential part of this commodification of leisure travel is the literature of tourism—the descriptive prose...

... . Houndsmills : Macmillan , 1995 . 235 - 60 . Stone Lawrence . “The Results of the English Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century.” Three British Revolutions . Ed. Pocock J.G.A. . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1980 . 23 - 108 . Taylor Charles . Sources of the Self: The Making...

... on the western Indian Ocean, Timo- thy Davies examines the epistolary network that supported British private trade of the eighteenth century also to show the importance of intra-­Asian relations and networks. British merchants were dependent on Asian (and Armenian) partners and intermediaries...

.... Introduction. The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England. Ed. Mark Blackwell. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007. 9-14. Print. Brown, Bill. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. THE CULTURAL...

... to the rediscovery of these writers but also exemplify the relevance of the Christian afterlife to other currents in British culture. For Rowe, perhaps the most zealous in her anti-libertinism and most desirous of angelic being, God is a feminized spirit. Stewart explores Rowe's gender politics of the spirit realm...

... of the Cagliostro affair, undoubtedly served as historical reference for the British writers of Gothic romance. Given what Linda Colley has described as the centrality of Protes- tantism to a late eighteenth-century sense of British national identity4, there are at least two factors at stake in Gothic...

... to a knowledge of another person's character that is often termed “belief.” The author elaborates the complex role belief plays in British empiricist texts by John Locke and David Hume and in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century treatises on evidences directly influenced by empiricist philosophy, where one...

...Nicole Reynolds COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2008 WORKS CITED Archer John . The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842 . Cambridge : MIT P , 1985 . Austen Jane . Northanger Abbey . Ed. Grogan Claire . Peterborough : Broadview...

... by Richard J. Dunn. New York: Norton. Citations refer to the 2001 edition.  . 1850. “Charlotte Brontë’s 1850 Preface to Wuthering Heights.” British Library, Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians, www.bl.uk/collection -­items/charlotte-­bronts-­1850-­preface...

... she said.” Wheeler’s dialogues, like Wordsworth’s “Rural Architecture,” expose and destabilize the historical connections that British culture had established between the London metropolis and intelligence, complexity, and significance.23 III. Revising Eighteenth-­Century Theories of “Rural...

... British self was constructed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was “not so much homogeneity and centralisation at home, as a sense of dissimilarity from those without,” particularly surrounding religious identity, that connected Britons (Colley 2005 : 17). Seeking stability amid rapidly...