In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Exorcising the Ghosts of Racial Capitalism from the South Sea Bubble: Pent-up Racist Liquidity and the Recent Four-Year Stock Surge

Sean Moore
pp. 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0081
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Special Collection Essays

Fortune and Folly: A Pandemic Reminiscence

Nina L. Dubin, Meredith Martin, Madeleine C. Viljoen
pp. 13-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0082
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The South Sea Bubble Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Melissa Banta, Laura Linard
pp. 23-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0083
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Articles

Between Independence and Impunity: The Theory of Proto-Central Banking After the Crisis of 1720

Trevor Jackson
pp. 33-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0084
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The Greater Fool: Paper, Illusion, and Time in Representations of the South Sea Bubble

Thea Goldring
pp. 53-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0085
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The “Secret Lady” of the South Sea Bubble: Honor, Uncertainty, and the Incognita Plot

Morgan Vanek
pp. 77-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0086
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“Give Their Service for Nothing”: Bubbles, Corruption, and their Effect on the Founding of Georgia

Karen Auman
pp. 101-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0087
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Commercial Theologies and the Problem of Bubbles: The Pennsylvania Land Company and the Quaker Debate on Financial Ethics

Kristen Beales
pp. 121-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0088
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Succeeding while Failing: The Tapestries of Jacob Christoph Le Blon that Never Were, 1725–1733

Dominic Bate
pp. 143-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0089
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Lyric Abstraction: Robert Burns as Editor and Exciseman

Joshua Swidzinski
pp. 169-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0090
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Special Issue Reviews

The Problem of Profit: Finance and Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Michael Genovese (review)

Natalie Roxburgh
pp. 187-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0091
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The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society by Francesca Trivellato (review)

Daniel Jütte
pp. 190-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0092
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Review Essay

Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic by Marina MacKay (review)

Ala Alryyes
pp. 193-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0093
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Multiple Title Reviews

Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Kevin Patrick Siena, and: Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb (review)

Harold J. Cook
pp. 203-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0094
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Pirates: A New History, From Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr, and: Captain Singleton ed. by Manushag N. Powell (review)

Benjamin D. VanWagoner
pp. 207-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0095
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Single Title Reviews

What Was History Painting and What Is It Now? ed. by Mark Salber Phillips and Jordan Bear (review)

John Zarobell
pp. 213-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0096
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The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia ed. by Caryl Clark and Sarah Day-O’Connell (review)

John A. Rice
pp. 215-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0097
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Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination by James Porter (review)

Tili Boon Cuillé
pp. 218-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0098
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Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks by David Yearsley (review)

Matthew Dirst
pp. 220-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0099
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Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform by Margaret R. Butler (review)

Mark Darlow
pp. 223-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0100
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Faust: A Tragedy, Part I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (review)

Jessica C. Resvick
pp. 225-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0101
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La morale sensitive de Rousseau: Le livre jamais écrit by Marco Menin (review)

Christopher Kelly
pp. 227-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0102
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Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century by Benjamin Hoffmann (review)

Mary Helen McMurran
pp. 230-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0103
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway (review)

Bryan C. Rindfleisch
pp. 232-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0104
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Material Witnesses: Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia by Camille Wells (review)

Gabrielle M. Lanier
pp. 235-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0105
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Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World by Edward B. Rugemer (review)

Trevor Burnard
pp. 237-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0106
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Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature by Anne M. Thell (review)

Roger Maioli
pp. 239-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0107
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Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830 by John Owen Havard (review)

Miriam Wallace
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0108
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Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century by Pamela L. Cheek (review)

Deborah Kennedy
pp. 244-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0109
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How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to 20th Century by Lydia Edwards (review)

Jessica Banner
pp. 246-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0110
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Reading History in Britain and America, c. 1750–c. 1840 by Mark Towsey (review)

Lindsay DiCuirci
pp. 248-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0111
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Everywhere and Nowhere: Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Mark Vareschi (review)

Darryl P. Domingo
pp. 250-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0112
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Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century by Christina Lupton (review)

Jesse Molesworth
pp. 253-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0113
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Book Received

Books Received

pp. 257-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0114
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