Manushag N Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3429757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manushag N Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manushag N |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9981-2740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Reception after 1900
This chapter honours the considerable challenge of attempting to sum up the critical reception of an author whose oeuvre is both compendious and disputed. It contemplates the gradual shift of focus in the twentieth century from biographical to literary criticism in the many attempts to wrestle Defoe into something comprehensible. As a reliable touchstone amid the many twentieth-century attribution wars, Robinson Crusoe has and continues to domina…
Africa and the Levant in Defoe’s Writings
Daniel Defoe viewed Africa and the Middle East with a mixture of fear and uncertainty: fear of the threat posed to European Christianity by Islam in northern Africa and the Levant, and uncertainty about the unchartered regions of sub-Saharan Africa. But Defoe also wrote about these parts of the world with a sense of opportunity, anticipating prospects of British trade and colonialism. This chapter analyses Defoe’s call for commercial and intellec…
The Quick and the Dead (and the Transported)
In most nations that still execute prisoners—including the U.S.—it is illegal to execute a pregnant person. In English common law, women have been permitted to “plead the belly” in one form or another since the 14 th century, and this fact is sometimes misconstrued by anti-choice and forced-birth advocates as evidence of a long legal tradition of protection for the lives of fetuses. In fact, it is merely evidence of a long history of legal incons…
Introduction: Conversations on Abortion Rights and Bodily Autonomy in the Eighteenth Century and Today
This piece serves as an introduction to the discussions of bodily autonomy and reproductive rights, revised from roundtable presentations held at ASECS 2023. This collection of essays contributes to the resounding responses of frustration and anger toward the overturning of Roe v. Wade . The collection was written and presented by eighteenth-century scholars who have a comprehensive knowledge of the eighteenth-century legal, social, and medical h…
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century
Provides new perspectives on women’s print media in the long eighteenth century This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women’s magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century. While this period witnessed the birth of modern periodical culture and its ability to shape aspects of society from the popular to the political, most studies have traditionally obscured the very active role women’s voices and wo…
Pirates on Stage
T he literary reception of pirate adventures, as rehearsed in the first chapter, implicated the degree to which historical documentation was already infiltrated by fictional narratives that penetrated even the records of court trials. Attending to the playwrights, the players, and the performances, the present chapter delineates further transformations as the pirate tales were adapted for the stage. The playwrights and players will be reviewed in…
British Pirates in Print and Performance
Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print
Srinivas Aravamudan
New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Periodical Studies
The State of the Field in periodical studies is perhaps best characterized as ‘ripening’. This essay examines foundational and recent studies of 18th‐century periodicals taken as their own genre; when used as supporting texts in cultural studies inquiries; and when studied because of their relationship to canonical writers, such as Addison, Steele, Johnson, Haywood, and Dunton. It suggests that due to the era of the digital humanities, the time i…
New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Periodical Studies
The State of the Field in periodical studies is perhaps best characterized as ‘ripening’. This essay examines foundational and recent studies of 18th‐century periodicals taken as their own genre; when used as supporting texts in cultural studies inquiries; and when studied because of their relationship to canonical writers, such as Addison, Steele, Johnson, Haywood, and Dunton. It suggests that due to the era of the digital humanities, the time i…
New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Periodical Studies
The State of the Field in periodical studies is perhaps best characterized as ‘ripening’. This essay examines foundational and recent studies of 18th‐century periodicals taken as their own genre; when used as supporting texts in cultural studies inquiries; and when studied because of their relationship to canonical writers, such as Addison, Steele, Johnson, Haywood, and Dunton. It suggests that due to the era of the digital humanities, the time i…
Srinivas Aravamudan
Pirates on Stage
T he literary reception of pirate adventures, as rehearsed in the first chapter, implicated the degree to which historical documentation was already infiltrated by fictional narratives that penetrated even the records of court trials. Attending to the playwrights, the players, and the performances, the present chapter delineates further transformations as the pirate tales were adapted for the stage. The playwrights and players will be reviewed in…
British Pirates in Print and Performance
Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century
Provides new perspectives on women’s print media in the long eighteenth century This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women’s magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century. While this period witnessed the birth of modern periodical culture and its ability to shape aspects of society from the popular to the political, most studies have traditionally obscured the very active role women’s voices and wo…
Critical Reception after 1900
This chapter honours the considerable challenge of attempting to sum up the critical reception of an author whose oeuvre is both compendious and disputed. It contemplates the gradual shift of focus in the twentieth century from biographical to literary criticism in the many attempts to wrestle Defoe into something comprehensible. As a reliable touchstone amid the many twentieth-century attribution wars, Robinson Crusoe has and continues to domina…
Africa and the Levant in Defoe’s Writings
Daniel Defoe viewed Africa and the Middle East with a mixture of fear and uncertainty: fear of the threat posed to European Christianity by Islam in northern Africa and the Levant, and uncertainty about the unchartered regions of sub-Saharan Africa. But Defoe also wrote about these parts of the world with a sense of opportunity, anticipating prospects of British trade and colonialism. This chapter analyses Defoe’s call for commercial and intellec…
The Quick and the Dead (and the Transported)
In most nations that still execute prisoners—including the U.S.—it is illegal to execute a pregnant person. In English common law, women have been permitted to “plead the belly” in one form or another since the 14 th century, and this fact is sometimes misconstrued by anti-choice and forced-birth advocates as evidence of a long legal tradition of protection for the lives of fetuses. In fact, it is merely evidence of a long history of legal incons…
Introduction: Conversations on Abortion Rights and Bodily Autonomy in the Eighteenth Century and Today
This piece serves as an introduction to the discussions of bodily autonomy and reproductive rights, revised from roundtable presentations held at ASECS 2023. This collection of essays contributes to the resounding responses of frustration and anger toward the overturning of Roe v. Wade . The collection was written and presented by eighteenth-century scholars who have a comprehensive knowledge of the eighteenth-century legal, social, and medical h…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Literature (2 works)