The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English

Author:   Sarah Eron ,  Nicole N. Aljoe ,  Suvir Kaul
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   580
Publication Date:   25 March 2024
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Author:   Sarah Eron ,  Nicole N. Aljoe ,  Suvir Kaul
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   2.790kg
ISBN:  

9781032221106


ISBN 10:   1032221100
Pages:   580
Publication Date:   25 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction Sarah Eron, Nicole N. Aljoe, and Suvir Kaul Part I Empire 1. Empire, Racial Capitalism, and British Culture Suvir Kaul 2. Asian Empires before British Hegemony Ashley L. Cohen 3. The Problem of Indigeneity Alex Wagstaffe and Eugenia Zuroski Part II Caribbean and Transatlantic Studies 4. Early Caribbean Anglophone Literature Cassander L. Smith 5. Piracy in the Caribbean Manushag N. Powell 6. Slave Voices and the Archives of the Caribbean Nicole N. Aljoe Part III Nation 7. The Cultural Making of “Great Britain” Leith Davis 8. Scotland in an Anglo-centric Nation Janet Sorensen 9. Irish and Anglo-Irish Writing James Ward Part IV Class Relations and Political Economy 10. The Masterless Charlotte Sussman 11. Land, Labor, Literature John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan Part V The State Church and its Challengers 12. Dissenting Religions Misty G. Anderson 13. Secularization Corrinne Harol 14. Religious Toleration David Alvarez Part VI Legal and Human Rights 15. Literature and the Law Melissa J. Ganz 16. Theories of Consent Kathleen Lubey Part VII Writing Race and Racial Identities 17. Writing “Race” in the Anglophone Atlantic Ryan Hanley 18. The Jewish Presence in Literature and Culture Laura J. Rosenthal 19. Early Black Writers: Belinda Sutton’s Childhoods Brigitte Fielder Part VIII Gender, Queer and Trans Studies 20. Queering and Transing the Eighteenth Century Thomas A. King 21. Sapphic Relations Ula Lukszo Klein 22. The Challenge of Trans Theory Declan Kavanagh Part IX Women’s Writing 23. Writing Women in the Age of Phillis: Gender and its Discontents Susan S. Lanser 24. Feminisms: Intersectionality in Domestic Fiction Victoria Barnett-Woods and Karen Lipsedge Part X Disability Studies 25. Defining Disability D. Christopher Gabbard 26. Disability and Sexuality Jason S. Farr 27. Rereading Disability with Race Emily B. Stanback Part XI Spectacle and Performance 28. The Cultures of Performance Daniel O’Quinn 29. Public Spectacle Jean I. Marsden 30. Theories and Practices of Performance Emily Hodgson Anderson Part XII Literature, Philosophy, Theory 31. Literature and Philosophy Sean Silver 32. Affect Theory Sarah Tindal Kareem 33. Materialism and Theories of Matter Jess Keiser Part XIII Science and Culture 34. Eighteenth-Century Science and Culture Tita Chico 35. Natural Science Danielle Spratt 36. Mind, Brain, and the Rise of Cognitive Literary Studies Sarah Eron Part XIV Eco-critical and Post-Humanist Studies 37. Posthuman Ecologies Lucinda Cole 38. Humans, Machines, Automatons Joseph Drury

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Sarah Eron is a Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she specializes in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the long eighteenth century (1660–1830). Her work entertains cross-disciplinary questions that motivate the broader fields of cognitive literary studies, disability studies, and the history of science. She is the author of Mind over Matter: Memory Fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen (2021) and Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment (2014). Her articles have appeared in Studies in Romanticism; Studies in the Novel; Eighteenth-Century Novel; Eighteenth-Century Studies; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Victorian Poetry; and Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly. Nicole N. Aljoe is a Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is the Co-Director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London, and the Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. Her research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literatures. The author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709–1836 (2012) and co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014) as well as A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (2018), she has written essays that have appeared in African American Review, American Literary History, Anthurium, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Early American Literature, and Women’s Studies. Suvir Kaul is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics (2015); Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies (2009); Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century (2000); and Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: Ideology and Poetics in Eighteenth-Century England (1992). He has edited The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India (2001) and co-edited Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005). He teaches eighteenth-century British literature and culture; South Asian writing in English; and critical theory, including postcolonial studies.

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