Recently added articles from The Eighteenth Century:
The Rhetoric of Disclosure in James Thomson's The Seasons; or, On Kant's Gentlemanly Misanthropy
Apr 01, 2008; Desroches, Dennis ...... the sun appears. In order to disappear. It is there, but as the invisible source of light, in a kind of insistent eclipse, more than essential, producing the essence-Being and appearing-of what is. One looks at it directly on pain of blindness and death. -Jacques Derrida1 I ....
Space and the Representation of Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Advice Literature
Apr 01, 2008; Roulston, Chris ... The eighteenth century is a particularly rich period for analyzing the relationship between gender and social space. On the one hand, this era marks the beginnings of modern urban society, with its coffeehouses, its salons, and the emergence of newspaper and print culture. Over the course of the ...
Locke's Pineapple and the History of Taste
Apr 01, 2008; Silver, Sean R ... (ProQuest: ... denotes "strike-through" in the original text omitted.) The problem with empiricism, the argument goes, is that it doesn't know that it is an ideology. Its mistake is to assume that the objects of sensation can be isolated from the cultural background of experience, that ...
The Inhospitable Muse: Locating Creole Identity in James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane
Apr 01, 2008; Randhawa, Beccie Puneet ... Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them, short of hanging. -Samuel Johnson on West Indian slave owners1 James Grainger's self-proclaimed "West Indian georgic," The Sugar-Cane (1764), is perhaps best remembered for the circumstances of ...
Virtuous Foundlings and Excessive Bastards
Apr 01, 2008; Francus, Marilyn ... Virtuous Foundlings and Excessive Bastards In Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England (Ohio State, 2005), Lisa Zunshine works through the issues of illegitimacy, class, and gender in eighteenth-century England with efficiency and insight. For a comparatively ...