Investigation: The many lives of an indigenous saint
In St. François Xavier du Sault, a French Jesuit mission in New France (modern-day Canada) Holy Week, 1680, an already tiny at no more than...
Visiting the sins of fathers unto the third and fourth generation: A female gothic Exodus in Inchbald’s A Simple Story
In its odd two-part format reminiscent of Pamela’s continuing on well past P & B’s nuptials, Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story (1791) offers a titillating, then tamed, take on...
Objectivity/Subjectivity, Youth/Age, Africa/England in a 1778 letter by Ignatius Sancho
Ignatius Sancho was a man of many firsts: he was the first author of African descent in England to publish his correspondence (1784), an account...
Through a Glass Darkly: Colonial American Assimilation and the Suicide of a Dutch Notary
The book title Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America calls forward the apostle Paul's 1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV): "For now we see through a...
The New Atlantis, The Female Spectator, and Classical Dialogue for the Proto-Feminist Cause
Manley incorporates contemporaneous female Tory authors (in addition to her own self) such as Margaret Cavendish and prominently Aphra Behn in the dialogic character of...