{"title":"The Jumbal: Cookies, Society, and International Trade","authors":"C. E. Hendricks","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1824, Mary Randolph published The Virginia House-Wife, the first authentically American cookbook, reflecting her years of training in food production and a hard-won reputation as a cook. In the book, she included a recipe for a proto-cookie, the jumbal. This baked good developed in Europe in the Middle Ages and became a baking staple in England by the early seventeenth century. Imbedded in the simple recipe is a story of the development of crop production and foodways. Its ingredients reveal a complex history of cultural exchange, labor systems, human bondage, colonialism, and the development of an elaborate system of trade involving five continents. Its baking provides insight into questions of social class, gender roles, and female agency. As recipes for jumbals passed hand to hand and generation to generation, and from Britain to America, they followed social traditions and aided in the creation of an important genre: the cookbook. This seemingly simple recipe for a cookie grants an unusual entrée into many aspects of life in the long eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49219588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge on Display: Aristocratic Sociability, Female Learning, and Enlightenment Pedagogies in Eighteenth-Century Spain and Italy","authors":"Mónica Bolufer","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The exhibition of extraordinary examples of female learning, often in the form of gifted girls, became fashionable in the eighteenth century among European aristocracy and courts. It was performed through elaborate rituals that brought together political and religious authorities, everyday society, and intellectuals, reinforcing the prestige of the girls' families and of the nation, in an age of strong cultural and political contestation. This essay considers the most celebrated Spanish female \"prodigies\" of the century in a comparative perspective, particularly in relation to their more widely researched Italian counterparts. My aim is to open up discussion regarding the ways in which female intellectual \"exceptionality\" was constructed in Europe in the eighteenth century: the different cultural, social, and political circumstances that shaped that exceptionality, the forces at work in defining it, and the possibilities and limits it offered to real women.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42362217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Praxis is no Metaphor: Diasporic Knowledges and Maroon Epistemes to Repair the World","authors":"P. Marcos","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Thinking about a project like the effective decolonization of eighteenth-century studies demands a total remapping of the world. That can be difficult for any institution—and particularly so for institutions based on the consolidation of knowledge and the enforcement of disciplinary boundaries. And so, to decolonize eighteenth-century studies must entail more than just an intentional effort to reimagine the field by pursuing novel avenues of research, or studying new texts, geographies, or protagonists. Rather, this essay provides a call for action. By centering praxis, I articulate the insufficiency of gestures like making the field look nominally more diverse or the tokenistic inclusion of subjects of inquiry racialized as non-white. Without an actual, substantive commitment to return land, repair the world, and produce new material realities, decolonization will remain in the realm of the metaphorical. Thus, to enact change and to seek a reconfiguration of modes of sociality and the ethos of scholarship requires the enactment of self-reflexive criticism and a deep commitment to practicing liberation.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47535312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Illustration and The Deserted Village","authors":"T. Erwin","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Book illustration is enjoying new interest. The Deserted Village attracted illustrators from the beginning. By the mid-nineteenth century, images of its rustic characters appeared regularly alongside the verse. During the final decades of the eighteenth century, three graphic artists reimagined Goldsmith's narrative as tragedy. Their transformations show the need for a term to describe the full interplay of verbal narrative and visual interpretation: the imagetext. James Gillray, John Keyse Sherwin, and Francis Wheatley each represent two characters from the poem, the bashful virgin and the dutiful daughter, as a single tragic heroine. In two pairs of freestanding prints, Gillray and Sherwin recast the then-and-now structure of the poem as a drama of displacement. These prints are imagetexts in a dual sense. They reflect a printing practice dating back to the sixteenth century of showing a text and an image in tandem, and they place the image in an independent collaborative relation. In a third print and then in related book illustrations, Francis Wheatley depicts the daughter as the prime victim of the trade in luxury. Like Sherwin, he represents an abandoned maiden as an allegorical figure of the land, following Charles Le Brun's decrees regarding how the passions should be depicted. These visual narratives reflect the academic theory of the sister arts as filtered through the lens of sensibility and indicate social commitments largely lost in the nineteenth-century illustration of the poem.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47162847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Note from the Editors","authors":"D. Brewer, C. Lake","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Mellquist ([19]) warns that this \"may risk alienating both policy professionals and members of CSOs from \"the cause\", with the policy produced becoming detached from the members whom CSOs are supposed to represent.\" Our next article likewise uses the ACF - supplemented by argumentative discourse analysis (ADA) - in a qualitative analysis of the \"energy efficiency first\" (EE1) principle as a new legal institute in European Union energy and climate policy. Welcome to the April 2023 issue of I Politics & Policy i ( I P&P i )! \" Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy Revisited: The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Contemporary Government.\". [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Politics & Policy is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45715316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pope and the Reformation of the Oral: The Iliad in the History of Mediation","authors":"Andrew Black","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay frames Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad (1715–1720) as a key moment in the history of print culture and as a self-conscious reflection on a contemporary media shift in which Pope was a key actor. I contend that Pope's Iliad project works as part of a broader impulse to evaluate print and theorize its ethics by regulating and revaluing the oral, putting it under a polite and enlightened domain, and exposing those who manipulated rhetoric as slippery and untrustworthy, if also hypnotic and persuasive.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45735926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah R. Cohen, Cynthia Kok, Brittany Luberda, Sophie Tunney
{"title":"Raw Movement: Material Circulation in the Colonial Eighteenth Century","authors":"Sarah R. Cohen, Cynthia Kok, Brittany Luberda, Sophie Tunney","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The mass movement of raw material in the eighteenth century determined industrial, agricultural, social, and visual environments. Using the global supply chain as an organizing principle, this essay examines how four raw materials shaped and were shaped by politics and society. Each of the four elements—silver, seeds, mother-of-pearl, and sugar—is addressed at one stage of its international circulation. Brittany Luberda begins by analyzing labor practices in the extraction of silver from the mines of Potosí during the Spanish colonization of present-day Bolivia. Sophie Tunney traces a material's journey across the sea, revealing the complexities of transporting living plants and the politics of French colonies. Cynthia Kok shows how mother-of-pearl shells, by-products of the pearl trade, were transformed by Netherlandish craftspeople into objects of value by adapting their existing expertise. Sarah Cohen then examines how two silver sugar casters made in the form of enslaved people were used to visualize the coerced labor that produced a sweet commodity for the global economy. Presented in a format that reflects the movement of a material from its excavation and transportation through to its manipulation and reception, we offer a model for investigating the life cycle of eighteenth-century material culture, which was itself multi-layered, interactive, and entangled with colonialist ambition.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41565364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two #BIPOC Objects: Cultivating Epistemic Disobedience in the Undergraduate Classroom","authors":"Pichaya Damrongpiwat","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay presents two objects of non-Western origin as examples of decolonial pedagogy, which highlights their \"epistemic disobedience\" or divergence from Western, settler-colonial knowledge practices, rather than subjecting them to inquiry through colonial lenses. It also advocates for incorporating Indigenous folkways into the curricula of colleges and universities that exist atop of Indigenous lands and waters.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43356570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Making and Unmaking of San Luis, an Apalachee-Spanish Town in Florida","authors":"Alejandra Dubcovsky","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Spanish archival record is, perhaps unsurprisingly, relatively silent about the lives, experiences, and interactions of women in colonial San Luis and Apalachee. The gendered silence in the colonial archive is in part due to the lack of baptismal, marriage, and death records from Apalachee—in other words, the documents in which women are most likely to appear in Spanish colonial archives are missing for Apalachee. The archaeological and material records tell a different story. The ongoing archaeological excavations in Mission San Luis have uncovered a wealth of artifacts to help us reconstruct everyday life in the southern town. Although the European sites have been far more explored than the Apalachee ones, the archaeological findings help fill out, as well as complicate, a historical narrative focused on Spanish men. Correcting a male-centered focus requires not only writing stories of and about women, but also questioning the narratives and limitations produced by androcentric and un-gendered constructions of the past. This essay combines both historical documents and archaeological findings to offer a gendered reading of San Luis, its structures, and its everyday operations. It centers the life and experiences of women to explore the everyday contours of power in this early southern town.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41700488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Something Else Ought Yet to be Done\": Ottobah Cugoano's Critical Abolitionism","authors":"Allison Cardon","doi":"10.1353/sec.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that Ottobah Cugoano's 1787 abolitionist treatise, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, advances a critique of two political and literary tropes often associated with the abolitionist movement: humanitarian narrative and appeals to the law. Understanding these critiques allows us to recognize not only greater variety in abolitionist politics, but also abolitionism's general reluctance to treat slavery as an injustice requiring not amelioration, but rather remedy, restitution, and reparation. Cugoano's theory of slavery as a wrong highlights the international and intergenerational character of slavery's injustice. He argues that the historical and ongoing legal justification for slavery has effectively delegitimized the political authorities that sanctioned and supported the institution for centuries. Further, he imagines a revolutionary remedy for this injustice that would begin from a political recognition of slavery's impact on the globe.","PeriodicalId":39439,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42345775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}