Lauren Working
Biographic Data
| ID | 103555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Working |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Working |
| SIGNATURE | WORKING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9475-7498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Ship and Library: Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple, 1586–1636
The First General Assembly of Virginia: Deerskin, Ruffs and the View from Tsenacommacah
On a November evening in 1618, the newly appointed governor of Virginia, George Yeardley, dined with James I at the royal hunting lodge in Newmarket, speaking to the king about his plans to turn Virginia into the English civil society investors had long promised it might become. One of Yeardley’s primary tasks was to inaugurate what has become known as the First General Assembly, held in Jamestown in 1619 in the heart of a region that its Powhata…
The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580–1660, by Misha Ewen
Journal Article The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580–1660, by Misha Ewen Get access The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580–1660, by Misha Ewen (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022; pp. 224. $49.95). Lauren Working Lauren Working University of York, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Hi…
Not as a Poet, but a Pioner’: Fancy and the Colonial Gaze in William Davenant's Madagascar (1638)
In the late 1630s, the court poet William Davenant applied his literary energies to Madagascar, an island off the eastern coast of Africa: ‘Thus in a dreame, I did adventure out.../Betweene the Southern Tropick and the Line ’. While previous scholarship has highlighted the poem's ambiguous attitude towards empire, focusing on the rising interest in global travel and eastern diplomacy at Charles I's court, this article revisits the poem's genre an…
Means of Persuasion”: The Material Culture and Oppositional Politics of Two Counter-Reformation Female Agents, Jane Dormer and Luisa de Carvajal
Tobacco and the Social Life of Conquest in London, 1580–1625 – Addendum
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Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Elizabethan Globalism: England, China and the Rainbow Portrait, by Matthew Dimmock
In August 1592, Robert Cecil rode to Dartmouth by night, rushing to oversee the unloading of cargo from an immense Portuguese carrack, the Madre de Dios, captured by the English in the Azores. Pearls, silk, spices, oils and porcelain flooded the English market, the royal treasury and Cecil’s private cabinet. The smell of musk, Cecil wrote, perfumed everyone he crossed within seven miles of Exeter. Like the trail of incense leading Cecil to the sh…
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Tobacco and the Social Life of Conquest in London, 1580–1625
From its origins in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean to its transformation into smoke in a Jacobean chamber, tobacco entered drastically new contexts of use as it travelled from Indigenous America to the social spaces of early seventeenth-century London. This article draws on comparative anthropology and archaeology to explore how early colonization, particularly in Jamestown, influenced the development of smoking among the English political elit…
In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England. By Keith Thomas
The cover illustration of Keith Thomas’ kaleidoscopic study, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England, depicts civility in fine form. The painting portrays a tea party at Lord Harrington’s house in 1730s London, where its sitters demonstrate civility as the elite intended it to be. Men and women, their bodies hampered by stiff tailoring, seem trapped in convention, surrounded by polite domesticity in the form of ch…
Cannibalism & politics: The English Renaissance revisited
This article explores how anthropological approaches to Anglo-Native American exchanges in the 16th and 17th centuries - thinking through and beyond terms like 'cannibal' - can draw attention to different facets of encounter and shed light on the influence of indigeneity on English heritage. Using the Englishman Anthony Knivet's travels to Brazil in the 1590s as a case study, what emerges is the importance of interdisciplinary approaches which ac…
Locating Colonization at the Jacobean Inns of Court
Beyond charters, printed propaganda, and cosmographies, aspiring statesmen in Jacobean England engaged with Native Americans in commonplace books, poetry, court masques, and political debate. Rather than representing a remote ‘other’, this article contends that barristers and students of the law were fascinated by the perceived savagery of indigenous peoples because it allowed them to explore, interrogate, and define their own civility. The resul…
Tobacco and the Social Life of Conquest in London, 1580–1625
From its origins in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean to its transformation into smoke in a Jacobean chamber, tobacco entered drastically new contexts of use as it travelled from Indigenous America to the social spaces of early seventeenth-century London. This article draws on comparative anthropology and archaeology to explore how early colonization, particularly in Jamestown, influenced the development of smoking among the English political elit…
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Locating Colonization at the Jacobean Inns of Court
Beyond charters, printed propaganda, and cosmographies, aspiring statesmen in Jacobean England engaged with Native Americans in commonplace books, poetry, court masques, and political debate. Rather than representing a remote ‘other’, this article contends that barristers and students of the law were fascinated by the perceived savagery of indigenous peoples because it allowed them to explore, interrogate, and define their own civility. The resul…
Locating Colonization at the Jacobean Inns of Court
Beyond charters, printed propaganda, and cosmographies, aspiring statesmen in Jacobean England engaged with Native Americans in commonplace books, poetry, court masques, and political debate. Rather than representing a remote ‘other’, this article contends that barristers and students of the law were fascinated by the perceived savagery of indigenous peoples because it allowed them to explore, interrogate, and define their own civility. The resul…
Cannibalism & politics: The English Renaissance revisited
This article explores how anthropological approaches to Anglo-Native American exchanges in the 16th and 17th centuries - thinking through and beyond terms like 'cannibal' - can draw attention to different facets of encounter and shed light on the influence of indigeneity on English heritage. Using the Englishman Anthony Knivet's travels to Brazil in the 1590s as a case study, what emerges is the importance of interdisciplinary approaches which ac…
In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England. By Keith Thomas
The cover illustration of Keith Thomas’ kaleidoscopic study, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England, depicts civility in fine form. The painting portrays a tea party at Lord Harrington’s house in 1730s London, where its sitters demonstrate civility as the elite intended it to be. Men and women, their bodies hampered by stiff tailoring, seem trapped in convention, surrounded by polite domesticity in the form of ch…
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Elizabethan Globalism: England, China and the Rainbow Portrait, by Matthew Dimmock
In August 1592, Robert Cecil rode to Dartmouth by night, rushing to oversee the unloading of cargo from an immense Portuguese carrack, the Madre de Dios, captured by the English in the Azores. Pearls, silk, spices, oils and porcelain flooded the English market, the royal treasury and Cecil’s private cabinet. The smell of musk, Cecil wrote, perfumed everyone he crossed within seven miles of Exeter. Like the trail of incense leading Cecil to the sh…
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Tobacco and the Social Life of Conquest in London, 1580–1625
From its origins in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean to its transformation into smoke in a Jacobean chamber, tobacco entered drastically new contexts of use as it travelled from Indigenous America to the social spaces of early seventeenth-century London. This article draws on comparative anthropology and archaeology to explore how early colonization, particularly in Jamestown, influenced the development of smoking among the English political elit…
Means of Persuasion”: The Material Culture and Oppositional Politics of Two Counter-Reformation Female Agents, Jane Dormer and Luisa de Carvajal
Tobacco and the Social Life of Conquest in London, 1580–1625 – Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Not as a Poet, but a Pioner’: Fancy and the Colonial Gaze in William Davenant's Madagascar (1638)
In the late 1630s, the court poet William Davenant applied his literary energies to Madagascar, an island off the eastern coast of Africa: ‘Thus in a dreame, I did adventure out.../Betweene the Southern Tropick and the Line ’. While previous scholarship has highlighted the poem's ambiguous attitude towards empire, focusing on the rising interest in global travel and eastern diplomacy at Charles I's court, this article revisits the poem's genre an…
The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580–1660, by Misha Ewen
Journal Article The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580–1660, by Misha Ewen Get access The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580–1660, by Misha Ewen (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022; pp. 224. $49.95). Lauren Working Lauren Working University of York, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Hi…
Between Ship and Library: Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple, 1586–1636
The First General Assembly of Virginia: Deerskin, Ruffs and the View from Tsenacommacah
On a November evening in 1618, the newly appointed governor of Virginia, George Yeardley, dined with James I at the royal hunting lodge in Newmarket, speaking to the king about his plans to turn Virginia into the English civil society investors had long promised it might become. One of Yeardley’s primary tasks was to inaugurate what has become known as the First General Assembly, held in Jamestown in 1619 in the heart of a region that its Powhata…
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