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Prizes

Emily Clark’s Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834 has won two prizes: the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize of the Southern Association for Women Historians for the best book in southern women’s history, and the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History from the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association. Clare A. Lyons was awarded SHEAR’s James Broussard Best First Book Prize for Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830. Michael A. McDonnell’s The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia has won the 2008 General History Prize, one of the New South Wales Premier’s History Awards.

Captivated by Sensibility

In Sensibility and the American Revolution, Sarah Knott argues that sensibility was one of the most important practical philosophies of the eighteenth century. In America, sensibility spawned a vibrant inclusive utopianism that worked to transform society and the people who constituted it. During the Revolutionary era, a new society grew out of a new idea of the self as “socially turned.” In this “sentimental project,” as Knott calls it, an openness to personal change was the means to unprecedented social reform. Knott defines sensibility as the human sensitivity of perception that comprises the fundamental link between self and society— a “sympathetic means of cohesion.” The self is made and expressed in social interaction by sensations of sympathy and fellow feeling. Although those of us who are familiar with sensibility tend to think of it as a largely literary phenomenon, as the turf of Scottish Common Sense thinkers, or as a quaint development in the history of medicine, its scope was far wider. Integrating literature, epistemology, economics, and physiology, sensibility was an extroverted philosophy. Its discourse urged readers to make theory into practice and to transform the world in profound ways. It helped a new kind of citizen create a new kind of government.

Lisa Voigt’s Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English New Worlds starts a fresh conversation about knowledge, authority, and textual practice by revealing just how porous the borders between nations and cultures were during the early modern period and just how expedient the motives were that governed the behaviors of those circulating among empires. Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Amerindians exchanged knowledge, texts, and bodies frequently if often quite reluctantly, producing an epistemological economy that shaped everything from the history of science to the history of the novel, from individual voyages to the course of empire. Voigt’s study begins in the Mediterranean and then moves to the Iberian New World, demonstrating that the flow of knowledge was not exclusively metropole-to-periphery. From there, she takes on American-born writers from Peru, Chile, and Brazil before turning to English writing about the New World and the debt it owes to Spanish and Portuguese models and sources. In much the same way her captives and other imperial representatives and their associated texts crossed boundaries and facilitated intercultural communication, Voigt’s study crosses disciplinary boundaries, enabling readers to see enlightening new connections among Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts, as well as the histories of empire, literature, and science.

Forthcoming

Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazotti have put together a formidable collection of essays entitled Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities, which is due out in spring 2009. The transplantation of peoples and cultures from the Old World to the New unites the otherwise heterogeneous experiences of the multiple colonial cultures in the early Americas, cutting across regional, imperial, and linguistic boundaries. Not surprisingly, the debate over“creolization”—the change of cultures and peoples moved from the Old World to the New— forms one of the most pervasive responses to America in European consciousness during the early modern period. This volume explores the consciousness of those defined as “creoles” in early modern empires by investigating the literary expressions of creole consciousness among the colonial literary elites in both Ibero- and British America from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection brings together leading scholars working in colonial American literatures written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English in order to explore the ideological, literary, and scientific constitution of various early modern notions about creolization and forms of creole subjectivity in colonial Latin and British America.

Mendy C. Gladden
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