Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English

Sarah Eron is a Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she specializes in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the long eighteenth century (1660–1830). Her work entertains cross-disciplinary questions that motivate the broader fields of cognitive literary studies, disability studies, and the history of science. She is the author of Mind over Matter: Memory Fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen (2021) and Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment (2014). Her articles have appeared in Studies in Romanticism; Studies in the Novel; Eighteenth-Century Novel; Eighteenth-Century Studies; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Victorian Poetry; and Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly.Nicole N. Aljoe is a Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is the Co-Director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London, and the Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. Her research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literatures. The author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709–1836 (2012) and co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014) as well as A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (2018), she has written essays that have appeared in African American Review, American Literary History, Anthurium, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Early American Literature, and Women’s Studies.Suvir Kaul is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics (2015); Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies (2009); Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century (2000); and Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: Ideology and Poetics in Eighteenth-Century England (1992). He has edited The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India (2001) and co-edited Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005). He teaches eighteenth-century British literature and culture; South Asian writing in English; and critical theory, including postcolonial studies.

• IntroductionSarah Eron, Nicole N. Aljoe, and Suvir KaulPart IEmpire1. Empire, Racial Capitalism, and British CultureSuvir Kaul 2. Asian Empires before British HegemonyAshley L. Cohen 3. The Problem of IndigeneityAlex Wagstaffe and Eugenia Zuroski Part IICaribbean and Transatlantic Studies4. Early Caribbean Anglophone LiteratureCassander L. Smith 5. Piracy in the CaribbeanManushag N. Powell 6. Slave Voices and the Archives of the CaribbeanNicole N. Aljoe Part IIINation7. The Cultural Making of “Great Britain”Leith Davis8. Scotland in an Anglo-centric NationJanet Sorensen9. Irish and Anglo-Irish WritingJames WardPart IVClass Relations and Political Economy10. The MasterlessCharlotte Sussman11. Land, Labor, LiteratureJohn Goodridge and Bridget Keegan Part VThe State Church and its Challengers12. Dissenting ReligionsMisty G. Anderson 13. SecularizationCorrinne Harol 14. Religious TolerationDavid Alvarez Part VILegal and Human Rights 15. Literature and the LawMelissa J. Ganz 16. Theories of ConsentKathleen Lubey Part VIIWriting Race and Racial Identities17. Writing “Race” in the Anglophone AtlanticRyan Hanley 18. The Jewish Presence in Literature and CultureLaura J. Rosenthal19. Early Black Writers: Belinda Sutton’s ChildhoodsBrigitte Fielder Part VIIIGender, Queer and Trans Studies20. Queering and Transing the Eighteenth CenturyThomas A. King 21. Sapphic RelationsUla Lukszo Klein 22. The Challenge of Trans TheoryDeclan Kavanagh Part IXWomen’s Writing23. Writing Women in the Age of Phillis: Gender and its DiscontentsSusan S. Lanser 24. Feminisms: Intersectionality in Domestic FictionVictoria Barnett-Woods and Karen LipsedgePart XDisability Studies25. Defining DisabilityD. Christopher Gabbard 26. Disability and SexualityJason S. Farr 27. Rereading Disability with RaceEmily B. Stanback Part XISpectacle and Performance28. The Cultures of PerformanceDaniel O’Quinn29. Public SpectacleJean I. Marsden30. Theories and Practices of PerformanceEmily Hodgson AndersonPart XIILiterature, Philosophy, Theory31. Literature and PhilosophySean Silver 32. Affect TheorySarah Tindal Kareem 33. Materialism and Theories of MatterJess Keiser Part XIIIScience and Culture34. Eighteenth-Century Science and CultureTita Chico35. Natural ScienceDanielle Spratt36. Mind, Brain, and the Rise of Cognitive Literary StudiesSarah EronPart XIVEco-critical and Post-Humanist Studies37. Posthuman EcologiesLucinda Cole 38. Humans, Machines, AutomatonsJoseph Drury