Sandiford, Keith A. The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. Cambridge University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Helena Wells | It was issued by Cadell and Davies
, with title-page reference to The Step-Mother and a quotation from Akenside
on virtue as a source of happiness. HW
's preface, composed while living in Westminster... |
Education | Janet Schaw | No facts are known for certain about JS
's education, but she seems to have been well-read. She took an informed interest in cultural customs, climate and landscape, and natural-world and scientific innovation. It seems... |
politics | Janet Schaw | Keith A. Sandiford connects her assumption of the inferiority of black people to the similar feelings of David Hume
. Sandiford, Keith A. The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. Cambridge University Press. 93 |
Residence | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The exiled JJR
travelled from Paris to London in company with the philosopher David Hume
, who had invited him to Britain at the urging of some of Rousseau's supporters in France. Buchan, James. “How Rousseau invented reality TV”. The Guardian, p. Review 10. Review 10 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Anne Porden | |
Education | Kathleen Nott | Meanwhile KN
read for herself outside the syllabus while she was at Oxford, particularly Dante
and French literature, and composed intellectual biographies of philosophers like Hume
and Kant
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 66465 (24 February 1999): 23 Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 6 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Kathleen Nott | From early adolescence KN
tried to write poetry. Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8 Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 9 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Montagu | Portraits of EM
include one by Allan Ramsay
, done in 1762, which shows her as an intellectual (she has been reading Hume
's History). Though her body is wrapped in expensive lace, her... |
Publishing | Jean Marishall | Marishall then turned to Edinburgh's Canongate Theatre
, only to have Foote
(who had become manager there in November 1770) waste a whole season promising to put it on soon. In the end, after... |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM
set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume
(who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 19 |
Literary responses | Sophia Lee | Some reviewers expressed unease about the blending of history with fiction; but even they felt no embarrassment at commending Lee in the same breath and in the same terms as her sources, William Robertson
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia King | |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
says that her first publication, hastily written and apparently unidentified, consisted of two little tales, which fell dead-born from the press. Since this phrase is borrowed from David Hume
, it sets herself in... |
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