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During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
Addressing the diverse ways in which eighteenth-century
contemporaries of different nations and cultures created visual,
verbal, and material representations in various media. Focused on
conventions of technology, labor, and tolerance on the one hand,
and on artistic intentionality on the other hand, these essays also
address the implications of this past in our own research today.
The first section, "Representing Humans and Technology," opens with
the late Srinivas Aravamudan's presidential address, "From
Enlightenment to Anthropocene." This is followed by a panel of
essays on labor and industry, which includes Valentina Tikoff on
the overlap between welfare and the technical training of Spanish
orphans for warfare; Susan Egenolf on mythological representations
of industry; Susan Libby on the Encyclopedie's mechanical
representations of sugar production on the plantations; and Jon
Klancher on technological manuals. The second section, "Inside the
Artist's Studio," opens with Shearer West's ASECS/BSECS lecture on
"selfiehood" and eighteenth-century celebrity. This is followed by
papers on self-promoting self-representations-by painters in Wendy
Wassyng Roworth's essay on Angelica Kauffman's studio in Rome and
Francesca Bove's essay on George Morland's studio; and by a
self-promoting French society lady in Heather McPherson's essay on
Madame Recamier's portraits. This section concludes with Leith
Davis's essay on representations in the contemporary press of
Ireland and the Glorious Revolution. The final section addresses
emerging issues in two forums. The first reconsiders issues of
intentionality: participants include Stephanie Insley Hershinow,
Sarah Ellenzweig, Edmund J. Goehring, Thomas Salem Manganaro, and
Kathleen Lubey. The second section reconsiders issues of
tolerance-and the association of Enlightenment tolerance with
Voltaire during the recent Charlie Hebdo rallies in Paris.
Participants include Jeffrey M. Leichman, Reginald McGinnis, Jack
Iverson, Faycal Falaky, Ourida Mostefai, and Elena Russo.
The first section of this volume consists of a panel,
"Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms," introduced by Catherine
Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes
differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by Elena
Deanda on the Marquis de Sade as a quixotic figure; by Elizabeth
Franklin Lewis on English travelers' uses of Spanish cartography;
and by Aaron R. Hanlon on quixotism as a global heuristic, with
reference to the Pacific as well as the Atlantic. The second panel
in the volume, "The Habsburgs and the Enlightenment," is introduced
by Rebecca Messbarger. It includes essays by Rita Krueger on
conflicts between Maria Theresa's view of the Enlightenment and
that of her reigning children; by Julia Doe on Marie Antoinette's
promotion of a new nontraditional kind of opera at the French
court; by R. S. Agin on questions of judicial torture in Austrian
Lombardy; and by Heather Morrison on Habsburg efforts to compete
with other empires in botany as well as diplomacy. The third
section consists of individual essays: Michael B. Guenter on
Britain's subordination of science to imperial goals in the new
world; Richard Frohock on the critique of British imperialism in
John Gay's Polly; Jeffrey Merrick on the French Revolution's
failure to materially alter the legal status of sodomy and suicide;
Adam Potkay, comparing Rousseau and Adam Smith's views of pity and
gratitude; Jeff Loveland, on the methods used by Diderot to edit
the Encyclopedie; and Tamar Mayer, on Jacques-Louis David's use of
mirror reversibility in the composition of his painting, "Oath of
the Horatii."
The essays in volume 49 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
feature equal attention to multifarious aspects of
eighteenth-century culture and archives and to the theories,
pedagogies, and media that illuminate them. The place of
eighteenth-century studies in the university is a particular focus
of this volume. The Caribbean, Ireland, North America, Britain,
France, and Poland anchor the range of essays. Featuring the
President's Lecture and the Clifford Lecture, the first section
addresses issues of race, empire, slavery, and colonial rule in the
Caribbean, Americas, and Ireland. It also attends to recently
created archives of slaves' music and plantation layout and the
anti-racist methodologies scholars employ for researching and
teaching them. With a strong visual component, the second section
highlights the material culture of transportation on the ground and
in the air. It also details the business of manufactures and elite
collections in civil and court societies of England, France, and
Poland. The final section features current trends in theory that
illuminate new aspects of eighteenth-century studies. What does a
postcritical eighteenth century look like? How does a study of
multiple genres remake Irish studies? What is the role of
eighteenth-century studies in today's Humanities?
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular
form of conduct literature. They were marketed to and used by a
wide spectrum of society, from maidservants and apprentices,
through military officers and merchants, to gentlemen, parents and
children. This work presents the most influential manuals from both
sides of the Atlantic.
Volume 44 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture acknowledges
recent changes in the field of eighteenth-century studies while
reaffirming SECC's commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that
unite the wide array of fields in history, literature, art history,
women's and gender studies, political science, musicology, dance,
theater, and religious studies. With contributions from Kelly E.
Battles, Adam R. Beach, Samara Anne Cahill, Jonathan Blake Fine,
Lucas Hardy, Julie Candler Hayes, Paul Kelleher, Rachael
Scarborough King, Heidi E. Kraus, Teresa Michals, Andrew M. Pisano,
and Yann Robert, this collection of essays highlights new research
in disability studies, debates on slavery and literary history, and
analyses of literary genre and form.
The volume's first section treats the politics of genre: Maria
Soledad Barbon on the colonial politics of panegyric in Peru;
Amanda Johnson on Thomas Jefferson's use of Ossianic romance;
Catherine M. Jaffe on the gender politics of translation in a
Spanish novel; Cecilia Feilla on French Revolutionary politics in
London harlequinades; and Rebecca Tierney-Hynes on the economics of
comedic form in Susanna Centlivre's plays. The volume's second
section, on textual materialisms, includes Daniel Leonard on
fetishism and figurism in Charles de Brosses; Beth Fowkes Tobin on
the notebooks of the naturalist Dr. Richard Pulteney; Betty Joseph
on capitalism and early English fictional treatments of China and
India; Dwight Codr on hairs and sneezes in Pope's Rape of the Lock;
John Greene on magic lanterns and peepshow boxes in Rousseau's
Reveries; Sara Munoz-Muriana on mirrors and gender in Spanish
comedy; and David Mazella on cultivation and improvement in Swift's
Gulliver's Travels.
A fascinating look at communication in the eighteenth century. This
volume addresses questions of communication in several media, from
the oral, printed, and visual to the physical. It encompasses
essays featuring France, Germany, Early America, Scotland, and
Britain more generally. The first section, "Manuscript
Communications," opens with Dena Goodman's presidential address on
the secret history of learned societies. It is followed by a panel
on manuscript and print circulation introduced by Colin Ramsey,
which includes essays by Ryan Whyte, Chiara Cillerai, and Jurgen
Overhoff. This section concludes with an essay by Carla J. Mulford
on Benjamin Franklin's electrification of London politics. The
second section, "Arts and Manufactures," opens with David Shields's
Clifford Lecture on the flavors of the eighteenth century. It
contains essays by Hanna Roman on Buffon's language of heat and
Jason Pearl on the perspective of aerostatic bodies and concludes
with essays by Matthew Mauger and Michael C. Amrozowicz on the
languages of physical disciplines and social organization. The
final section, "Devotion and Other Passions," begins with essays on
silence and spectacle as means of convening the passions, by Adam
Schoene and Anne Vila respectively, and it concludes with a forum
introduced by Laura M. Stevens on Enlightenment representations of
devotion. This section includes presentations by Clare Haynes,
Penny Pritchard, Jennifer L. Airey, Sabine Volk-Birke, Megan E.
Gibson, Laura Davies, and Theresa Schoen and an afterword by Emma
Salgard Cunha.
This exploration of seminal French theoretical writings approaches
them as coherent philosophical fictions and brings to light their
contradictory political, social and pedagogical implications and
their complex historicity.;Because Lacan, Barthes, Foucault and
Derrida have been so innovative and challenging in the different
disciplines they worked with, their writings have been widely and
selectively pillaged. But, as they well knew, ideas, methods,
structures and styles of writing are never "neutral" or "innocent";
they always have pedagogical, social and political consequences.
Pillaging does not neutralize those consequences; it merely allows
them to operate unchosen, unquestioned and unchecked.;By replacing
them in very various French contexts, this book indicates important
differences between the situation of university intellectuals in
France and those in England or America. Eve Tavor Bannet not only
sheds new light on influential theoretical texts; she also raises
questions about academic writing and about the intellectual's role
in the university and in the modern world.;Eve Tavor Bannet is the
author of "Scepticism, Society and the Eighteenth Century Novel".
This exploration of seminal French theoretical writings approaches them as coherent philosophical fictions and brings to light their contradictory political, social and pedagogical implications and their complex historicity.;Because Lacan, Barthes, Foucault and Derrida have been so innovative and challenging in the different disciplines they worked with, their writings have been widely and selectively pillaged. But, as they well knew, ideas, methods, structures and styles of writing are never "neutral" or "innocent"; they always have pedagogical, social and political consequences. Pillaging does not neutralize those consequences; it merely allows them to operate unchosen, unquestioned and unchecked.;By replacing them in very various French contexts, this book indicates important differences between the situation of university intellectuals in France and those in England or America. Eve Tavor Bannet not only sheds new light on influential theoretical texts; she also raises questions about academic writing and about the intellectual's role in the university and in the modern world.;Eve Tavor Bannet is the author of "Scepticism, Society and the Eighteenth Century Novel".
Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the
Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of
that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the
dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and
printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and
circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what
contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she
reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of
transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson
Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler,
Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson
Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt.
The long tradition of mixta-genera fiction, particularly favoured
by women novelists, which combined fully-transcribed letters and
third-person narrative has been largely overlooked in literary
criticism. Working with recognized formal conventions and typical
thematic concerns, Tavor Bannet demonstrates how
narrative-epistolary novels opposed the real, situated,
transactional and instrumental character of letters, with their
multi-lateral relationships and temporally shifting readings, to
merely documentary uses of letters in history and law. Analyzing
issues of reading and misreading, knowledge and ignorance,
communication and credulity, this study investigates how novelists
adapted familiar romance plots centred on mysteries of identity to
test the viability of empiricism's new culture of fact and
challenge positivism's later all-pervading regime of truth. Close
reading of narrative-epistolary novels by authors ranging from
Aphra Behn and Charlotte Lennox to Frances Burney and Wilkie
Collins tracks transgenerational debates, bringing to light both
what Victorians took from their eighteenth-century forbears and
what they changed.
The market for print steadily expanded throughout the
eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to
ensure that ordinary people knew how to read and use printed
matter. Reading is and was a collection of practices, performed in
diverse but always very specific ways. These practices were spread
down the social hierarchy through printed guides. Eve Tavor Bannet
explores guides to six manners or methods of reading, each with its
own social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical
functions, and each promoting a variety of fragmentary and
discontinuous reading practices. The increasingly widespread
production of periodicals, pamphlets, prefaces, conduct books,
conversation-pieces and fictions, together with schoolbooks
designed for adults and children, disseminated all that people of
all ages and ranks might need or wish to know about reading, and
prepared them for new jobs and roles both in Britain and America.
The recently developed field of transatlantic literary studies has
encouraged scholars to move beyond national literatures towards an
examination of communications between Britain and the Americas. The
true extent and importance of these material and literary exchanges
is only just beginning to be discovered. This collection of
original essays explores the transatlantic literary imagination
during the key period from 1660 to 1830: from the colonization of
the Americas to the formative decades following political
separation between the nations. Contributions from leading scholars
from both sides of the Atlantic bring a variety of approaches and
methods to bear on both familiar and undiscovered texts. Revealing
how literary genres were borrowed and readapted to a different
context, the volume offers an index of the larger literary
influences going backwards and forwards across the ocean.
Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the
Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of
that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the
dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and
printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and
circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what
contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she
reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of
transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson
Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler,
Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson
Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt.
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Emma Corbett (Paperback)
Samuel Jackson Pratt; Edited by Eve Tavor Bannet
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R845
Discovery Miles 8 450
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Set both in England and in America, Emma Corbett is the moving
story of a family torn apart by the American revolutionary war.
Edward Corbett and Henry Hammond are brought up together and go on
to marry each other's sisters, but fight on opposite sides in the
war. Emma Corbett, Edward's sister, follows Henry to Pennsylvania.
Disguised as a man, she fights for the British before finding Henry
and saving his life, but the war and its aftermath have tragic
consequences for all four young people. This powerful epistolary
novel was a transatlantic best-seller, in part because both sides
of the conflict are fully represented-as are the miseries and
terrible costs of war. Appendices include contemporary reviews as
well as contemporary writings on heroism, sensibility, and women
and war. A series of personal letters between Pratt (writing as
Courtney Melmoth) and Benjamin Franklin, for whom he worked in
France, are also included.
Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth
century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms
of polite conduct and communication, which helped to connect and
unify different regions of the British Atlantic world, even as they
fostered and helped to create very different local and regional
cultures and values. By teaching secret writing, they also enabled
transatlantic correspondents to communicate what they needed
despite interception, censorship and the practice of reading
private letters in company. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people
knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionises
our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels,
periodicals, and other kinds of writing in manuscript and print
which used the letter form. This lively, interdisciplinary book
will change the way we read and interpret eighteenth-century
letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world.
Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth
century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms
of polite conduct and communication, which helped to connect and
unify different regions of the British Atlantic world, even as they
fostered and helped to create very different local and regional
cultures and values. By teaching secret writing, they also enabled
transatlantic correspondents to communicate what they needed
despite interception, censorship and the practice of reading
private letters in company. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people
knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionises
our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels,
periodicals, and other kinds of writing in manuscript and print
which used the letter form. This lively, interdisciplinary book
will change the way we read and interpret eighteenth-century
letters and think about the book in the Atlantic world.
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