Markman Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markman Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markman |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5918-855X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World 1650–1789
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century
Defoe and Colonialism
Daniel Defoe defended colonial endeavour throughout his writing career, including in his periodical journalism and his surveys of global trade. In his outlook, colonialism serves a commercial purpose and yields profits for promoters and their countries, but it also organizes the world into hierarchies of civilization and barbarism. The defence and promotion of colonial projects preoccupied Defoe in his non-fiction writing, particularly in tracts …
Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century
This article examines the newsletter‐writing practices of the Hardwicke circle, the intellectual coterie centred on Philip Yorke, 2nd earl of Hardwicke (1720–90), and Thomas Birch (1705–66). It begins by examining the ‘Weekly Letter’ written between Birch and Yorke from 1741–66 (BL, Add. MS 35,396‐35,400). This comprised a letter written by Birch every Saturday when Yorke was not in London, describing the political and literary events of the week…
The History of Gothic Fiction
The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key novels by authors such as Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho), Austen (Northanger Abbey), Wollstonecraft (The Wrongs of Woman), Lewis …
'The cane-land isles'
In the period of the first British Empire, the island was formulated as a paradox: the independence implied by a geography of land surrounded by water was surmounted by an archipelagic sense of co-dependence and imperial purpose, mediated through culture and commerce. After the eighteenth century the notion of the island is most easily recognised as a mental image of withdrawal, isolation and insulation. Amidst a tide of historical accounts and g…
Time and the Essay: The Spectator and Diurnal Form
Published six times a week, Addison and Steele’s The Spectator (1711–12) offered readers a daily essay, and some advertisements, on the two sides of a half-folio sheet costing one penny. This chapter explores the diurnal production and reception of The Spectator . In their daily sequence, each diurnal essay is an adventure in thought located in a fixed chronological relationship with the others but taking a new and unanticipated direction. Readin…
Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality
Thomas Birch's ‘Weekly Letter’ (1741–66): Correspondence and history in the mid-eighteenth-century Royal Society
Thomas Birch (1705–66), Secretary of the Royal Society from 1752 to 1765, and Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke (1720–90), wrote a ‘Weekly Letter’ from 1741 to 1766, an unpublished correspondence of 680 letters now housed in the British Library (Additional Mss 35396–400). The article examines the dimensions and purposes of this correspondence, an important conduit of information for the influential coterie of the ‘Hardwicke circle’ gathered …
An introduction to the coffee-house: A discursive model
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual
The History of Gothic Fiction
An introduction to the coffee-house: A discursive model
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century
The History of Gothic Fiction
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual
An introduction to the coffee-house: A discursive model
Thomas Birch's ‘Weekly Letter’ (1741–66): Correspondence and history in the mid-eighteenth-century Royal Society
Thomas Birch (1705–66), Secretary of the Royal Society from 1752 to 1765, and Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke (1720–90), wrote a ‘Weekly Letter’ from 1741 to 1766, an unpublished correspondence of 680 letters now housed in the British Library (Additional Mss 35396–400). The article examines the dimensions and purposes of this correspondence, an important conduit of information for the influential coterie of the ‘Hardwicke circle’ gathered …
Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality
'The cane-land isles'
In the period of the first British Empire, the island was formulated as a paradox: the independence implied by a geography of land surrounded by water was surmounted by an archipelagic sense of co-dependence and imperial purpose, mediated through culture and commerce. After the eighteenth century the notion of the island is most easily recognised as a mental image of withdrawal, isolation and insulation. Amidst a tide of historical accounts and g…
Time and the Essay: The Spectator and Diurnal Form
Published six times a week, Addison and Steele’s The Spectator (1711–12) offered readers a daily essay, and some advertisements, on the two sides of a half-folio sheet costing one penny. This chapter explores the diurnal production and reception of The Spectator . In their daily sequence, each diurnal essay is an adventure in thought located in a fixed chronological relationship with the others but taking a new and unanticipated direction. Readin…
The History of Gothic Fiction
The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key novels by authors such as Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho), Austen (Northanger Abbey), Wollstonecraft (The Wrongs of Woman), Lewis …
Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century
This article examines the newsletter‐writing practices of the Hardwicke circle, the intellectual coterie centred on Philip Yorke, 2nd earl of Hardwicke (1720–90), and Thomas Birch (1705–66). It begins by examining the ‘Weekly Letter’ written between Birch and Yorke from 1741–66 (BL, Add. MS 35,396‐35,400). This comprised a letter written by Birch every Saturday when Yorke was not in London, describing the political and literary events of the week…
Defoe and Colonialism
Daniel Defoe defended colonial endeavour throughout his writing career, including in his periodical journalism and his surveys of global trade. In his outlook, colonialism serves a commercial purpose and yields profits for promoters and their countries, but it also organizes the world into hierarchies of civilization and barbarism. The defence and promotion of colonial projects preoccupied Defoe in his non-fiction writing, particularly in tracts …
Edward Long and Other Animals: The Orangutan and Race-Making in the Late Eighteenth Century
Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World 1650–1789
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