This thesis addresses how female beauty was understood in the eighteenth century and aims to build on and expand the existing scholarship from Robert Jones, Tita Chico, Tassie Gwilliam, G. J. Barker-Benfield and Naomi Baker, amongst others. Each of these scholars has discussed v…
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This thesis examines the reading lives of eighteenth-century English men and women. Diaries of the middling sort and the gentry show that reading entwined daily routines and long-term aspirations. This life-writing also demonstrates that readers performed and contextualised read…
This thesis examines the origins, aftermath and legacy of the Birmingham Priestley Riots of 1791. Since the 1950s, the historiographical elevation of the crowd has generated a renewed interest in popular protest. The Priestley Riots have proved to be a prominent focal point, wit…
Research into the material culture of the household and the domestic interior has increased rapidly during recent years. It has primarily focused on the appearance and use of domestic space leaving household management and maintenance a neglected area of study. Furthermore the r…
In recent years, Gothic literary studies have increasingly acknowledged the role played by Shakespeare in authorial acts of appropriation. Such acknowledgement is most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares (eds. Drakakis and Townshend, 2008) and Shakespearean Gothic (eds. De…
This dissertation introduces the work of the eighteenth-century Particular Baptist London minister Benjamin Wallin. After providing an overview of Wallin’s life and ministry, the dissertation turns to an examination of his teaching and preaching. Benjamin Wallin was a known clos…
Despite inspiring a rich and varied literature from historians of Europe and North America, topics related to everyday life have remained an obscure and neglected field of Middle Eastern social history. As part of the effort to recreate the long-forgotten habits, tastes, and per…
This project argues that the British "financial revolution" ushered in a new way of conceptualizing time based in mathematic innovations of the seventeenth-century. As it was employed in financial instruments and government policies, mathematics' spatialized representation of ti…
This dissertation explores how gender and sexuality were regulated through the legal and social scrutiny of illicit sex in mid-eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia. It examines the legal encounters between the central government, local kadi courts and Ottoman subjects in order to…
Through a case study of eighteenth-century Cairo, this dissertation examines the cultural and intellectual roles of the sciences in the early modern Ottoman milieu on the eve of widespread direct European political involvement in the region. Most studies of Islamic science end w…
Black captives and voyagers comprised the vast majority of all eighteenth-century Atlantic migrants, yet the migration history of the British Atlantic largely ignores them. The oversight holds hostage the development of a more global understanding of transatlantic dislocation. T…
This dissertation analyzes popular spy narratives written during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as a means of speculating on the nature of the relationship between clandestinity and truth-telling in the early English novel (c. 1684-1750). Turning to the nove…
This project centers on the city of Patna in northeastern India, today the capitol of the state of Bihar. Because of its status as a provincial center for British colonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Patna does not represent a major facet of the stu…
European narratives of travel to Africa multiply greatly in the eighteenth century. By the end of the century, as the slave trade is winding down and projects for colonizing sub-Saharan Africa are gearing up, most of these travel narratives are highly conventionalized: open almo…
This study reveals how Enlightenment writers use exotic encounters, real and imagined, as a stage for criticizing their home culture and for examining the limitations on their ability—through literature—to step outside of that home culture. If self-critique is the ultimate goal …
This dissertation examines the genre, narrativity and use of humor in Colonel José Cadalso's 1774 work Cartas marruecas (Moroccan Letters). The Moroccan Letters consists of a fictitious correspondence carried on between three people: Gazel Ben-Aly, a Moroccan youth traveling in …
Liberalism originated and developed during the progressive expansion of European overseas empires. Through its early history, the ideology was utilized both to reinforce and attack imperial endeavors. Even where liberal ideas bolstered imperial projects, the ideology often coexi…
This dissertation examines the socioeconomic history of Kütahya, an inland town in western Anatolia, with a specific emphasis on the transformation that took place in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth century. However, it is not a socioeconomic history of an urban center …
My dissertation focuses on the two best-known works by Clara Reeve, the novel The Old English Baron (1777) and the critical treatise The Progress of Romance (1785), reading The Progress of Romance as Reeve's effort to outline a feminine, Christianized narrative tradition to serv…
Kingship in 19ᵗʰ century Ethiopia has received little attention. This study documents the evolution of kingship in the region of Shewa through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The research methodology is based upon indigenous, visual documentation, that traces the histor…