The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Eron, Sarah; Kaul, Suvir; Aljoe, Nicole N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the Atlantic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003845263
• Artikelnr.: 69958112

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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