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Book SynopsisThe essays in volume 49 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture feature equal attention to multifarious aspects of eighteenth-century culture and archives and to the theories, pedagogies, and media that illuminate them. The place of eighteenth-century studies in the university is a particular focus of this volume. The Caribbean, Ireland, North America, Britain, France, and Poland anchor the range of essays. Featuring the President's Lecture and the Clifford Lecture, the first section addresses issues of race, empire, slavery, and colonial rule in the Caribbean, Americas, and Ireland. It also attends to recently created archives of slaves' music and plantation layout and the anti-racist methodologies scholars employ for researching and teaching them. With a strong visual component, the second section highlights the material culture of transportation on the ground and in the air. It also details the business of manufactures and elite collections in civil and court societies of Eng
Table of ContentsPresident's Lecture: Marie-Antoinette in Maine: Royalty, Revolution, and the Fictions of History, by Sue Lanser
RACE AND EMPIRE
Clifford Lecture: Crusoe's Absence, by Barbara Fuchs
Race and Empire Caucus Prize Essay: Follow me your guide: John Singleton's Definition of the West Indies, by Kimberley Takahata
PANEL: Slavery in the Caribbean: Archives and Representations
Introduction, by Kelly Wisecup
The Slave as Cultural Artefact: the case of Mary Prince, by Kerry Sinanan
Representing Sexual Violation in the Archive of Caribbean Enslavement, by Jennifer Reed
Digital Performance and the Musical Archive of Slavery: Like Running Home', by Mary Caton Lingold
FORUM: Addressing Structural Racism in the Eighteenth-Century Curriculum
Introduction, by Sue Lanser
Teaching Eighteenth-Century British Literature Beyond the Pale, by Rebekah Mitsein
Critical Race Theory and the Multicultural French Enlightenment, by Christy Pichichero
Teaching Eighteenth-Century Black Lives, by Kathleen Lubey
The Uses and Limits of Archives in Decolonial Curricula, by Deanna Koretsky
MATERIAL CULTURE
TRANSPORT
The Matter of the Carriage in Frances Burney's Evalina, by Mary Crone-Romanovski
Accidents, Risk Management, and Driving Culture, 1780–1820, by Bridget Donnelly
Fanny Burney and the Tea Table Wars: Negotiating Agency at Windsor and at Court, by Susan Kubica Howard
Memories Lighter than Air: The Visual and Material Culture of Balloons in Eighteenth-Century France, by Hyejin Lee
MANUFACTURES
PANEL: Art, Alchemy, and Rivalry: the Eighteenth-Century Manufactory
Introduction, by Tara Zanardi
Of the Greatest Extent: Territory and the Matter of Size in Louis XIV's Savonnerie Carpets, by Sarah Grandin
Courtly Figures: Collecting Meissen and the Creation of National Identity in the Court of Augustus II and beyond, by Agnieszke Anna Ficek
EMERGING ISSUES
FORUM: The Postcritical Eighteenth Century
Introduction, by Joseph Drury
Critique and its Explosions, by Jeffrey Galbraith
Theory Attachment, by Sarah Tindall Kareem
Romance after Critique, by Scott Black
Formalism, Compositionism, Affect, by Wendy Anne Lee
Posthistorical Austen and the Future of Literary Studies, by Jason Solinger
FORUM: The New Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Introduction, by Rebecca Barr
Digital Bibliography and the Irish Book Trades, by Justin Tonra
Imperial Analogues in Early Irish Fiction, by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Archive Fever: The interaction of Print, Manuscript, and Oral Literary Cultures, by Moyra Haslett
A New Stage for Eighteenth-Century Irish Theater Studies, by David O'Shaughnessy
FORUM: Defending the Humanities: Making a Case for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Introduction, by Peggy Thompson
Bringing the Humanities Home (via the Eighteenth Century), by Linda Zionkowski
Health and Humanities, by Sandra M. Gustafson
Strategizing as a "Faculty of Letters": Advocating Eighteenth-Century Studies Curriculum on a Budget, by Heather King
Expanding Access to Knowledge: How Enlightenment Ideals Can Strengthen Public Support for the Humanities, by Scott St. Louis
