THE DECLINE OF ENGLISH VERSE SATIRE IN THE MIDDLE YEARS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Any survey of the effects of the possession and use of firearms among the Tswana and, to the north of them, the Ndebele and Shona peoples, must start with a brief investigation of firearms among the Khoikhoi and the mixed Khoikhoi-white groups. The latter were in some respects the vanguard of the expansions of the white frontier in southern Africa. They originated in unions between Khoikhoi and white hunters, traders and farmers, and probably never existed without firearms; from an early date they also acquired horses. In the middle years of the eighteenth century the Khoikhoi-whites and the Khoikhoi peoples, whose economic basis and political structure had been broken by various aspects of white settlement amongst them, were being armed by the whites to take part in commando expeditions against the San. There is evidence that some Khoikhoi trekked from the colony to avoid this service.

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Suvir Kaul. Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia. 2000. Pp. vii, 337. $19.50 paper. ISBN 0-8139-1968-1.

Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies ◽

10.2307/4054767 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 491-492

Author(s):

James Thompson

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

English Verse ◽

Long Eighteenth Century

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Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie’s General History

Commerce, finance and statecraft ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781784992965.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 155-168

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Economic Change ◽

Historical Writing ◽

Middle Years ◽

Commercial Development ◽

Economic Progress ◽

Economic Statecraft ◽

History Of

The middle years of the eighteenth century saw a shift in the historiography of commerce as Enlightenment-era historians became increasingly preoccupied with tracing processes of long-term economic change. As a result, individual incidents in England’s economic past came to be conceived not just as evidence of monarchical prudence or virtue, but rather as sections in a narrative of national commercial development. Chapter eight addresses the contribution to this approach made by William Guthrie in his General History of England (1744–51). The first part of the discussion explores the Tacitean and Harringtonian approaches to history that Guthrie employed when working as a political journalist in the 1740s. Part two looks at how these ideas shaped his historical writing.

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The Eighteenth Century Pioneers in French Costume Reform

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s0040557400008966 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 37-47

Author(s):

Marvin Carlson

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Middle Years ◽

Historical Accuracy ◽

Major Shift ◽

Informal Approach

In the middle years of the eighteenth century a major shift took place in France concerning the idea of appropriate stage costume. The traditional dress of high classicism, with its helmets and high plumes for the men, large hoop skirts for the women, and elegant, symmetrical, and highly artificial dress for both began to be challenged by leading critics and artists, who sought—for greater realism, greater historical accuracy, or greater ease and beauty of movement on stage—a more relaxed and informal approach to stage dress.

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Some Aspects of Female Resistance to Chattel Slavery in Low Country Georgia, 1763–1815

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x00020902 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 603-622 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Betty Wood

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Black Women ◽

American South ◽

Female Resistance ◽

Middle Years ◽

Chattel Slavery ◽

Low Country ◽

The American South

Although often differing dramatically in their methodologies and conclusions, most studies of the slave societies of the American South either draw to a close by the middle years of the eighteenth century or begin their story only in the 1820s and 1830s. Moreover, whilst some scholars have differentiated between particular patterns of black behaviour, as for example between African- and country-born slaves, field hands and domestic slaves, until quite recently comparatively little interest has been shown in delineating the ways in which black women perceived and responded to their status and condition.

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‘Translated Verse’

10.1093/oso/9780198754824.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Estelle Haan

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Target Language ◽

Source Text ◽

Intellectual Discourse ◽

Relevant Today ◽

English Verse ◽

Long Eighteenth Century ◽

And Function

This chapter discusses a cluster of English verse translations of Milton’s Poemata that emerged in the long eighteenth century. Focusing on versions by Symmons, Cowper, and, to a lesser degree, Strutt and others, it foregrounds a variety of contexts—biographical, literary, discursive—that engendered, it is argued, an intellectual discourse on translational methodology that is still relevant today. It is a discourse, moreover, that raises a host of important theoretical questions: about the nature and function of translation; the viability of rendering a neo-Latin source text in a target language; the potential ‘fetters’ that, in Drydenesque terms, might constrain ‘the Verbal Copyer’, or perhaps the quasi-liberating fluency, described by Venuti as the ‘fluent strategy’, attendant upon recourse to verse as translational medium.

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