Rebekah Mitsein
@rebekahmitsein.bsky.social
Teacher and scholar of 18th-century literature and culture at Boston College. Britain, Africa, New England, Caribbean.
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
Realism and the Novel: A Global History, ed. Paul Stasi, is out with Cambridge. Includes top notch scholarship by top notch scholars on the realist novel and also a chapter on the #c18th by me. #c18 #18thc
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July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Realism and the Novel: A Global History, ed. Paul Stasi, is out with Cambridge. Includes top notch scholarship by top notch scholars on the realist novel and also a chapter on the #c18th by me. #c18 #18thc
www.cambridge.org/in/universit...
www.cambridge.org/in/universit...
You won't be surprised that Sale and his ilk lodged this accusation at M himself. Page 47.
June 19, 2024 at 2:25 AM
You won't be surprised that Sale and his ilk lodged this accusation at M himself. Page 47.
Possibly a reference to al-Ghazali? In the intro to his c18 trans of the Quran, Sale quotes al-Ghazali via Pococke critiquing people who unscrupulously claim divine revelation, "saying, It hath been thus said to us, and We have thus spoken." Page 177 of the 1734 edition.
June 19, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Possibly a reference to al-Ghazali? In the intro to his c18 trans of the Quran, Sale quotes al-Ghazali via Pococke critiquing people who unscrupulously claim divine revelation, "saying, It hath been thus said to us, and We have thus spoken." Page 177 of the 1734 edition.
Eighteenth-Century Irish Studies friends, my wonderful colleague Colleen Taylor's book, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is now out at Oxford UP! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
April 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Eighteenth-Century Irish Studies friends, my wonderful colleague Colleen Taylor's book, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is now out at Oxford UP! global.oup.com/academic/pro...