A Letter from Percival Stockdale to Granville Sharp Esq. Suggested to the Authour [sic], by the Present Insurrection of the Negroes, in the Island of St. Domingo
A Letter from Percival Stockdale to Granville Sharp Esq. Suggested to the Authour [sic], by the Present Insurrection of the Negroes, in the Island of St. Domingo

Author: Percival Stockdale

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781379341291

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T109753 Page 22 signed and dated: Nov.6th, 1791. With a half-title. Durham: printed by L. Pennington. Sold in London, by W. Clarke; Shepperson and Reynolds; T. and J. Egerton; T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and T. Vernor, [1791?] xi, [1],28p.; 8°

Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods
Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods

Author: Andrew O'Malley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-29

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3319947370

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The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s newly established children’s book market, but also with the figure of the child as it was employed for a variety of purposes in literatures for adult readers. Embracing a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives and considering a variety of contexts, these essays explore childhood as a trope that gained increasing cultural significance in the period, while also recognizing children as active agents in the worlds of familial and social interaction. Together, they demonstrate the varied experiences of the eighteenth-century child alongside the shifting, sometimes competing, meanings that attached themselves to childhood during a period in which it became the subject of intensified interest in literary culture.

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition

Author: B. Carey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-05-25

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230522602

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Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual culture in the 'long' Eighteenth-century. The book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by both philosophers and by authors such as Aphra Behn. It considers self-representation in the works of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, James Williams and Mary Prince. The final section reads literary and cultural texts associated with the abolition movements of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, moving beyond traditional accounts of the documents of that movement to show the importance of religious writing, children's literature and the relationship between art and abolition.