J Shields
Biographic Data
| ID | 4299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Shields |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Shields |
| SIGNATURE | SHIELDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6953-4666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Polite Fictions of Slavery: British Anti-slavery in the 1830s
This chapter explores the transformation of British responses to slavery during the 1830s through the writing of Frances Trollope. In this decade, Britons declared the abolition of colonial slavery as proof of their superior morals and impeccable manners. Trollope’s travel narrative Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) and anti-slavery novel Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1838) participated in the reconstruction of racism as a peculiarly America…
Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World
This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen…
Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850
Recovers a comparative literary history of migration This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and ninete…
Those Lousy Scots
Book Review| January 01 2018 Those Lousy Scots! Swenson, Rivka. Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2016). Pp. xviii + 329. 16 ills. $100 Juliet Shields Juliet Shields University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 130–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4261352 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835
'Nation and Migration' provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture.
From English Empire to British Atlantic World
Rhetorical comparisons between the Celtic peripheries and American colonies appear frequently in the debates surrounding American Independence. British writers such as Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson regarded England’s political relationships with its Celtic peripheries as precedents that might help to resolve Parliament’s conflicts with the American colonies, and as models of how to balance imperial and local forms of government. In the years fo…
Marine Le Pen and the 'New' FN: A Change of Style or of Substance
The electoral challenge of the far right is an enduringly problematic feature of contemporary French politics. In the first rounds of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, the Front National (FN) under new leader Marine Le Pen attracted a combined total of ten million votes, bringing its ultra-nationalist policies to the centre of national political debate. This article examines the FN's impact on these elections and its implications…
Situating Scotland in Eighteenth‐Century Studies
This essay surveys general trends in book‐length studies of 18th‐century Scottish literature and culture to examine how moving Scotland from the peripheries to the centre of 18th‐century studies has transformed our understandings of the field. It describes three categories or phases of scholarship – canon formation, contextualization and comparison, and methodological reflection – and suggests what kind of work remains to be done in each category…
Savage and Scott-ish Masculinity in The Last of the Mohicans and The Prairie: James Fenimore Cooper and the Diasporic Origins of American Identity
This essay reassesses James Fenimore Cooper's literary relationship to Walter Scott by examining the depiction of Scots in The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and The Prairie (1827). Read as companion texts, these novels represent the imperial migrations of Scots as a cause of Native Americans' unfortunate, but for Cooper seemingly inevitable, eradication. They also trace the development of an American identity that incorporates feudal chivalry and s…
Highlandisms: The Expanding Scope of Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
Book Review| January 01 2009 Highlandisms: The Expanding Scope of Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Kenneth McNeil. Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus: Ohio State Univ., 2007). Pp. 228. $41.95. ISBN 0-8142-1047-3Matthew Wickman. The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. 252. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3791-7 Juliet Sh…
People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture, by David Lyle Jeffrey
Statistical models for carbon monoxide in El Paso, Texas
This study was conducted to develop a statistical model that would enable decision‐makers, planners, and the general public to use existing large quantities of ambient air carbon monoxide (CO) data in establishing an effective air quality management program for El Paso, Texas. Two models, a General Linear Model (GLM) and a 20‐term Quadratic Model (QM) were produced. Both models predict well for periods of up to two years. The models enable the us…
Carbon monoxide levels in El Paso, texas: 1975–1980
This study was performed to develop a methodology for effectively utilizing large amounts of data collected in ambient air monitoring in the decision‐making processes involved in air quality management. Using statistical analysis techniques, the historical profiles and relationships for carbon monoxide (CO), traffic and meteorological parameters in El Paso, Texas, were examined for 1975–1980. Data from the Texas Air Control Board (TACB), the Texa…
Marine Le Pen and the 'New' FN: A Change of Style or of Substance
The electoral challenge of the far right is an enduringly problematic feature of contemporary French politics. In the first rounds of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, the Front National (FN) under new leader Marine Le Pen attracted a combined total of ten million votes, bringing its ultra-nationalist policies to the centre of national political debate. This article examines the FN's impact on these elections and its implications…
Carbon monoxide levels in El Paso, texas: 1975–1980
This study was performed to develop a methodology for effectively utilizing large amounts of data collected in ambient air monitoring in the decision‐making processes involved in air quality management. Using statistical analysis techniques, the historical profiles and relationships for carbon monoxide (CO), traffic and meteorological parameters in El Paso, Texas, were examined for 1975–1980. Data from the Texas Air Control Board (TACB), the Texa…
Statistical models for carbon monoxide in El Paso, Texas
This study was conducted to develop a statistical model that would enable decision‐makers, planners, and the general public to use existing large quantities of ambient air carbon monoxide (CO) data in establishing an effective air quality management program for El Paso, Texas. Two models, a General Linear Model (GLM) and a 20‐term Quadratic Model (QM) were produced. Both models predict well for periods of up to two years. The models enable the us…
People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture, by David Lyle Jeffrey
Savage and Scott-ish Masculinity in The Last of the Mohicans and The Prairie: James Fenimore Cooper and the Diasporic Origins of American Identity
This essay reassesses James Fenimore Cooper's literary relationship to Walter Scott by examining the depiction of Scots in The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and The Prairie (1827). Read as companion texts, these novels represent the imperial migrations of Scots as a cause of Native Americans' unfortunate, but for Cooper seemingly inevitable, eradication. They also trace the development of an American identity that incorporates feudal chivalry and s…
Highlandisms: The Expanding Scope of Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
Book Review| January 01 2009 Highlandisms: The Expanding Scope of Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Kenneth McNeil. Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus: Ohio State Univ., 2007). Pp. 228. $41.95. ISBN 0-8142-1047-3Matthew Wickman. The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. 252. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3791-7 Juliet Sh…
Situating Scotland in Eighteenth‐Century Studies
This essay surveys general trends in book‐length studies of 18th‐century Scottish literature and culture to examine how moving Scotland from the peripheries to the centre of 18th‐century studies has transformed our understandings of the field. It describes three categories or phases of scholarship – canon formation, contextualization and comparison, and methodological reflection – and suggests what kind of work remains to be done in each category…
Marine Le Pen and the 'New' FN: A Change of Style or of Substance
The electoral challenge of the far right is an enduringly problematic feature of contemporary French politics. In the first rounds of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, the Front National (FN) under new leader Marine Le Pen attracted a combined total of ten million votes, bringing its ultra-nationalist policies to the centre of national political debate. This article examines the FN's impact on these elections and its implications…
Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835
'Nation and Migration' provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture.
From English Empire to British Atlantic World
Rhetorical comparisons between the Celtic peripheries and American colonies appear frequently in the debates surrounding American Independence. British writers such as Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson regarded England’s political relationships with its Celtic peripheries as precedents that might help to resolve Parliament’s conflicts with the American colonies, and as models of how to balance imperial and local forms of government. In the years fo…
Those Lousy Scots
Book Review| January 01 2018 Those Lousy Scots! Swenson, Rivka. Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2016). Pp. xviii + 329. 16 ills. $100 Juliet Shields Juliet Shields University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 130–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-4261352 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850
Recovers a comparative literary history of migration This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and ninete…
Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World
This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen…
The Polite Fictions of Slavery: British Anti-slavery in the 1830s
This chapter explores the transformation of British responses to slavery during the 1830s through the writing of Frances Trollope. In this decade, Britons declared the abolition of colonial slavery as proof of their superior morals and impeccable manners. Trollope’s travel narrative Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) and anti-slavery novel Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1838) participated in the reconstruction of racism as a peculiarly America…
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