scholarly journals Notes on the Location of Happiness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Nyqvist
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Tropical Island ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Travel Accounts ◽  
At Home

This article explores the world making capabilities of travel writing (Goodman 1978; Youngs 2013). The premise is that literary products are key elements in the configuration of the world itself and that specifically authors of travel accounts mediate the world to their readership at home (Archetti 1994). By highlighting three different examples of travel writing, the article discusses the persistent notion of the tropical island as an actually existing paradise on earth. More specifically, the discussion focus around the notion that happiness exists in places to which one can travel to. The examples at hand are two eighteenth century travel logs one French and one English; Louise-Antoine de Bougainville’s from 1772 and William Bligh’s from 1792, while the third and final example is a contemporary Swedish travel piece written by Anders Mathlein and first published in 2001.

All That Glittered

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Alborn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
International Monetary System ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
British Society ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
The World ◽  
Origin Story ◽  
At Home

From the early eighteenth century into the 1830s, Great Britain was the only major country in the world to adopt gold as the sole basis of its currency, in the process absorbing much of the world’s supply of that metal into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers. During the same period, Britons forged a nation by distilling a heady brew of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, while preserving important features of its older social hierarchy. All That Glittered argues for a close connection between these occurrences, by linking justifications for gold’s role in British society—starting in the 1750s and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia—to contemporary descriptions of that metal’s varied values at home and abroad. Most of these accounts attributed British commercial and military success to a credit economy pinned on gold, stigmatized southern European and subaltern peoples for their nonmonetary uses of gold, or tried to marginalize people at home for similar forms of alleged misconduct. This book tells a primarily cultural origin story about the gold standard’s emergence after 1850 as an international monetary system, while providing a new window on British exceptionalism during the previous century.

Ambivalent Mobilities in the Pacific

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Halter
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Middlebrow Literature ◽  
Multiple Discourses ◽  
Travel Accounts ◽  
At Home

Australian travel writing of the interwar period expanded with the growth of tourism in the Pacific Islands and the development of publishing and literacy at home. This article focuses on how the Australian middlebrow imagination was shaped by the diverse travel accounts of Australian tourists, adventurers, executives, scientists, officials, and missionaries writing at this time. Many of their texts borrowed and blended multiple discourses, simultaneously promoting the islands as educational and exotic, and appealing to an Australian middlebrow readership. In this article I argue that not only was travel writing middlebrow in its content and style, but the islands themselves were a particularly middlebrow setting. This is evident in representations of the islander “savage” in the region of Melanesia, a prevalent theme in Australian travelogues. I argue that this middlebrow literature was characterized by ambivalent and often contradictory ideas about the civilized “self” and the savage “other.”

Tracing the Local: The Translator-Travellee in French Accounts of India

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Sanjukta Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Travel Accounts

This paper examines aspects of multilingual India as described in a few eighteenth-century French travel accounts of the subcontinent to underscore the interactional history of representation that the conventions of European travel writing have tended to elide, particularly in the context of the subcontinent. It draws on the notions of fractal and vertical in travel to examine vernacular-Sanskrit relations encountered by the travellers, and to render visible the role of the “translator-travellee” in embedding vernacular knowledge in international discursive networks. Rather than merely questioning the travellers’ often skewed and necessarily partial readings of India’s linguistic plurality, I approach these travel accounts as crucial for understanding the specificity of the region’s multilingualism, one that was largely incommensurable with the typology of language that the accounts seek to establish.

The Global Indies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley L. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Imaginative Geography ◽  
Colonial Policies ◽  
At Home

This book is a study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policy. The book weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, the book traces global histories of race, slavery, and class, from Boston to Bengal. It also reveals the empire to be pervasively present at home, in metropolitan scenes of fashionable sociability. The book reveals how the pairing of the two Indies in discourse helped produce colonial policies that linked them in practice. Combining the methods of literary studies and new imperial history, the book demonstrates how the imaginative geography of the Indies shaped the culture of British imperialism, which in turn changed the shape of the world.

N. la. Marr and the National Origins of Soviet Ethnogenetics

Slavic Review ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 826-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Slezkine
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Type ◽  
State Language

Whatever about the soundness of de Selby's theories, there is ample evidence that they were honestly held and that several attempts were made to put them into practice.Flann O'Brian, The Third PolicemanThe world consists of nations. Nations are communities united by a common name, state, language, territory, culture, and physical type. Nations are defined by their origins. Yet the origins of the name, state, language, territory, culture, and physical type may have nothing to do with each other. Such was the Great Ethnological Predicament, discovered and sometimes discussed by eighteenth-century scholars as they pursued Jean Le Rond D'Alembert's “art of reducing, as far as possible, a great number of phenomena to a single one which can be regarded as the principle of them.”

scholarly journals Vides exemplars. Terciàries carmelitanes a El Carmelo Esmaltado de Roque Alberto Faci (1743)

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Cristina Gimeno-Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Third Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The World ◽  
Religiosity And Spirituality

Resum: Carmelo Esmaltado con tantas brillantes estrelles, cuantas flores terceras, fecundas de frutos de virtud y religión, cultivó y fijo en el cielo de la Santa Iglesia la venerable Orden Tercera de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, és el títol de l’obra que el carmelita aragonès Roque Alberto Faci (1684-1744) va publicar el 1743. El llibre és un tractat per als membres de la tercera ordre del Carmel en què trobem diverses biografies de terciàries carmelites. El que pretendrem a partir de l’anàlisi de la obra i les biografies, és fixar el paper de les terciàries al món carmelita. Per això, analitzarem l’objectiu de l’autor tenint en compte la religiositat i espiritualitat del segle XVIII i la projecció de la Il·lustració. Paraules clau: Carmel, Dones, Religiositat, Seglar, Terciaris Abstract: Carmelo Esmaltado con tantas brillantes estrelles, cuantas flores terceras, fecundas de frutos de virtud y religión, cultivó y fijo en el cielo de la Santa Iglesia la venerable Orden Tercera de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, is the title of the book wrote by the aragonian carmelite Roque Alberto Faci (1684-1744) published in 1743. The issue is a treaty for the members of the Third Order of Carmel where we can find several biographies of the carmelites woman of third order. What we pretend by analyzing their work and biography is to set the role of the woman of the third order in the world Carmel. For that, we aimed copyright considering religiosity and spirituality of the eighteenth century and the projection of the Enlightenment.   Keywords: Carmel, Woman, Religiosity, Secular, Tertiary

Piety and Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Williams
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Church History ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Biblical Commentary ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
At Home ◽  
Print Market

This chapter considers how books about history, science, or religion were shared. Library catalogues and diaries show that the borrowing, selling, and reading of sermons, histories, and travel writing dwarfed that of literary works. Records of books sold in parts show that the largest genre available in this form was history, followed by geography, topography, and travel, then biblical commentary, church history, and treatises on morality. The expanding print market created newly accessible formats across many areas of intellectual enquiry, and the display of generalist knowledge about historical figures, botany, or astronomy was a prominent part of polite accomplishment for both men and women. Eighteenth-century readers consumed nonfiction works together at home—for piety, self-improvement, and entertainment.

Between the Cloister and the World: The Franciscan Third Order of Colonial Querétaro

1992 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Belanger
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Third ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
The World ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
Mission Church ◽  
The City

“The womb of the Province” is how one eighteenth-century resident described Querétaro, for within that city the Franciscans of the Province of San Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacán supported not only the friary of Santiago el Grande with its Spanish and Indian parishes, but also the pioneering College of Santa Cruz, the convents of Santa Clara and Santa Rosa de Viterbo for women, the seminary of the Province, the mission church of San Sebastián, and the friary and shrine of Nuestra Señora de Pueblito. The city additionally served as the seat of the Provincial chapter. Friars and nuns at these various foundations directed over twenty associations of laity organized into confraternities, or cofradíos. Poised delicately between those who were professed Franciscans (male and female, of the First and Second Orders, respectively), and the lay confraternities affiliated with the monasteries, was the Third Order, an institute which has defied classification.

Narrating Travel, Narrating the Self: Considering Women‘s Travel Writing as Life Writing

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë Kinsley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dorothy Richardson ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
Women's Travel ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Travel Accounts

This article considers the ways in which eighteenth-century womens travel narratives function as autobiographical texts, examining the process by which a travellers dislocation from home can enable exploration of the self through the observation and description of place. It also, however, highlights the complexity of the relationship between two forms of writing which a contemporary readership viewed as in many ways distinctly different. The travel accounts considered, composed (at least initially) in manuscript form, in many ways contest the assumption that manuscript travelogues will somehow be more self-revelatory than printed accounts. Focusing upon the travel writing of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Katherine Plymley, Caroline Lybbe Powys and Dorothy Richardson, the article argues for a more historically nuanced approach to the reading of womens travel writing and demonstrates that the narration of travel does not always equate to a desired or successful narration of the self.

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