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Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is
a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters
of on-going dialogues about British identity during the
Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an
allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this
book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due
to its fluid, volatile, and subversive impulses and expressions.
The imperial establishment-codified in the logics of the
corporation, the academy, the cathedral, the theater, as well the
private parlor or garden-derives its power and sustainability from
scripting and then championing a solid resistance to precisely
those subversive elements which threaten or undermine the
foundations of order and liberalism in civil society. Choudhury
argues that imperial Britain can best be understood in terms of
this culture's investment in spatial alignments which celebrated a
radial interface with remote points of commercial interest. The
volume contends Daniel Defoe, Arthur Onslow, David Garrick, Joseph
Banks, Daniel Solander, Hans Sloane, Francis Barber, Samuel
Johnson, Charles Burney, George Frideric Handel were not merely
part of a dazzling line-up of the architects of empire. In
retrospect, their contributions and various engagements reflect
remarkably modern patterns of the corporatization of culture and
this culture's dependence on, and thus its collusion with,
commerce.
Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is
a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters
of on-going dialogues about British identity during the
Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an
allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this
book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due
to its fluid, volatile, and subversive impulses and expressions.
The imperial establishment-codified in the logics of the
corporation, the academy, the cathedral, the theater, as well the
private parlor or garden-derives its power and sustainability from
scripting and then championing a solid resistance to precisely
those subversive elements which threaten or undermine the
foundations of order and liberalism in civil society. Choudhury
argues that imperial Britain can best be understood in terms of
this culture's investment in spatial alignments which celebrated a
radial interface with remote points of commercial interest. The
volume contends Daniel Defoe, Arthur Onslow, David Garrick, Joseph
Banks, Daniel Solander, Hans Sloane, Francis Barber, Samuel
Johnson, Charles Burney, George Frideric Handel were not merely
part of a dazzling line-up of the architects of empire. In
retrospect, their contributions and various engagements reflect
remarkably modern patterns of the corporatization of culture and
this culture's dependence on, and thus its collusion with,
commerce.
Written in honor of Dale K. Van Kley, leading specialist on
religion and politics in the Old Regime and the French Revolution,
these essays examine how Jansenist belief shaped enlightenment
ideas, cultural identities, social relations and politics in France
throughout the long eighteenth century. Van Kley's work has invited
scholars to think beyond the traditional parameters of the
Enlightenment and to consider how religious faith functioned in the
broader context of Old Regime, Revolutionary, and
post-Revolutionary France. In different ways, each essay challenges
the idea of an inherent opposition between faith and Enlightenment,
which likewise equates modernity with secularization. The authors
within this volume address two main questions. Firstly, how did
religious belief continue to shape identities and experiences in
the long eighteenth century? Secondly, how does this narrative of
enduring religious belief in eighteenth-century France help
historians rethink the Enlightenment and the French Revolution? The
various methodologies used by the contributors illustrate how
belief, Enlightenment, and Revolution coexisted and indeed
co-mingled in different contexts: politics and political culture,
the social and cultural history of ideas, and the history of
material culture.
Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency
within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France.
Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material,
Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers,
religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who
should control the female convent and women religious?" These
sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy,
among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families,
conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of
potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and
sexuality.The cloister operated as a symbol of despotism, the
equivalent of the Sultan's seraglio or the King's Bastille. Before
1770, lawyers and magistrates praised nuns as the personification
of virtuous Christian women, often victims vulnerable to those who
would use them to further their own political ends. After 1770, men
of letters evaluated nuns according to more secular norms, and
concluded that the convent had no purpose in society, except as a
reminder of the problems inherent in the Old Regime. Choudhury
elaborates on how nuns were not always passive entities, mere
objects to be shaped by the political needs of others. But because
they relied on men in order to make their voices heard, the place
of women religious in the public sphere was a complex one based on
negotiations between female action and male subjectivity. During
the French Revolution, whatever support they had enjoyed was lost
as republicans and moderates began to see nuns as potentially
disruptive to the social order, family life, and revolutionary
values.
This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the
writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great
Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of
Inchbald's biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918-2013), the
contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context
around Inchbald's life and work, with essays ranging from the
Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture,
theater history, literary analyses, to historical investigations,
the essays not only present a fuller picture of cultural life in
Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but also reflect a
range of disciplinary perspectives. The collection concludes with
the final scholarly presentation of the late Professor Jenkins, a
study of the eighteenth-century English newspaper The World
(1753-1756).
Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness,
1650-1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and
analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing,
thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent
authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat
elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650-1850 delivers a
comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the
first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its
pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions,
providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely
shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no
exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will
travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of
worldmaking and other worlds-on the Enlightenment zest for the
discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds,
envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays
in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers
through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around
European gardens, over the high seas, across the American
frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into
the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further
enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews
evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship.
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial
in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France,
accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction,
heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the
last witchcraft trial in early modern France, the Cadière affair
was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when
magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical power.
Mita Choudhury’s examination of the trial sheds light on two
important phenomena with broad historical implications: the
questioning of traditional authority and the growing disquiet about
the role of the sacred and divine in French society. Both
contributed to the French people’s ever-increasing disenchantment
with the church and the king. Choudhury builds her story through an
extensive examination of archival material, including trial
records, pamphlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence
from witnesses. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint offers new
insights into how the eighteenth-century public interpreted the
accusations and why the case consumed the public for years,
developing from a local sex scandal to a referendum on religious
authority and its place in French society and politics.
This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the
writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great
Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of
Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the
contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context
around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the
Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture,
theater history, literary analyses and to historical
investigations, the essays not only present a fuller picture of
cultural life in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but
also reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives. The collection
concludes with the final scholarly presentation of the late
Professor Jenkins, a study of the eighteenth-century English
newspaper The World (1753-1756).Â
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