{"title":"The Workplace of Enlightenment: Colin Campbell and the Repurposing of Paper","authors":"Philippe Bernhard Schmid","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12983","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies labour-saving technologies among eighteenth-century pupils, students, and academics by looking at the organisation of paper. The mathematician Colin Campbell of Achnaba (1644<i>–</i>1726), a minister of the Church of Scotland, repurposed the letters which were sent to him, turning them into notebooks by cutting up the paper and reusing the blank spaces for mathematical notes. Following the sources of Campbell's ‘letters-as-notebooks’, I suggest that the study of reuse should not only trace materials in households but also include their wider circulation in networks beyond the home. Campbell's workplace thus illuminates his mediating role as minister in the confessional culture of the early Scottish Enlightenment.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"119-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I Have a Dear, Dear Brother at Present on the Scene of Action’: Felicia Hemans's Experience of the Napoleonic Wars Between Home and the Battlefield","authors":"Séverine Angers","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12986","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how Felicia Hemans' experience of the Napoleonic Wars interacted with the military experiences of her brothers, both officers in service overseas, through an intimate dialogue between the scene of war and home. Their military experiences informed her affective responses to war and allowed her to critically question the political events of the day and to negotiate her sense of self as a sister, as a young woman and as a writer. In reading alongside the siblings' war writings, we can observe similar changing attitudes to the war as they reflect on its effect on the individuals who served and their relatives at home. Bringing the domestic sphere and the scene of war within the same frame gives a new perspective on Hemans's early poetry in considering it as a reflection of the wartime dynamics of a family negotiating the anxieties of having relatives in active military service.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"177-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queen Charlotte: Family, Duty, Scandal. By Natalee Garrett. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 2025. 390 p. £108.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-0232-28040-0.","authors":"Amanda Westcott","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12995","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"228-229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750","authors":"Daniel Rignall","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12988","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies. These provide an insight into contemporary understandings of the origins of the magistracy, as well as expectations of the magistrate's character and duties. The article therefore reveals the persistence of biblical, and specifically Hebraic, imagery in political and civic culture, with signs that this rhetoric was adapted to fit with eighteenth-century sensibilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"199-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1754-0208.12988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eleanor Coade and Horace Walpole's Gothic Gateway: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Business Practice","authors":"Caroline Stanford","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12985","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Artificial stone manufacturer Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) was the outstanding female entrepreneur of the eighteenth century, running her own successful business for some fifty years. Her name became a nationally recognized brand, and her firm's architectural and sculptural stoneware products are still ubiquitous. However, she remains almost entirely overlooked in any but architectural accounts. This paper contextualizes Coade's business practice against wider scholarship, taking Horace Walpole's 1769 commission for a pair of Gothic gate piers as a case study. Sir William Chambers's account of his subsequent visit to Coade's manufactory for Walpole provides a rare eye-witness account of business practice involving a woman in the Georgian period — an encounter that is strikingly ungendered.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"149-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1754-0208.12985","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts. Edited by Hannah Moss and Joe Bray. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2024. 544 p. £150 (hb). ISBN 978-1-3995-0041-8.","authors":"Jennifer Robertson","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"221-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rousseau's Politics of Taste. By Jared Holley. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2024. 240 p. £90 (hb). ISBN 978-1-39-952115-4.","authors":"Jason Neidleman","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"226-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol-West India Sugar Trade, 1783–1802. By Peter Buckles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2024. 232 p. £95.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-802-07883-1.","authors":"Hannah Smith","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12992","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"225-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night. Edited by Pamela F. Phillips. Abingdon: Routledge. 2023. xii + 263 p. £135.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-367-52967-3.","authors":"Yihong Zhu","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12991","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"224-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism. By Catherine Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. 495 p. £35.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-009-09885-4.","authors":"Christos Giannatos","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12990","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 2","pages":"222-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}