Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles

Recent articles from Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

Introduction: eco-historicism.
September 22, 2008... Climate has long been the third rail of professional historiography. Climatic determinism, with its roots in Hippocratic theory, figures among the great embarrassments of the early modern history of ideas: an intellectual adjunct to European imperialism and institutionalized racism....

"Casualties and disasters": Defoe and the interpretation of climatic instability.
September 22, 2008... Abstract The Great Storm of November 26-27, 1703, that struck Southern England and Wales became a benchmark throughout the eighteenth century for the destructive potential of Nature. This article examines Daniel Defoe's 1704 text The Storm, a compilation of reports of damage from across...

Traveling the world with a real friend: the eighteenth-century novel reconsidered.
September 22, 2008... Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia, eds. A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 550 + xiii pp. $199.95. [David] spent whole Days... wishing he could meet with a Friend that he could live with, who could throw off all separate ...

Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberg, eds. Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870.
September 22, 2008... STAFFAN MULLER-WILLE AND HANS-JORG RHEINBERG, EDS. Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007. 496 pp. $52. Deep passions among relatives, wayward kin attempting to claim inheritance, tasty strawberries, and...

Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefevre: Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology.
September 22, 2008... Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefevre Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007. 345 pp. $40.00. The goal of this study, as the authors note in the introduction, is an ambitious one: "to write a history of the most significant scientific...