EH.N: CfP: Book collection, cultural conceptions of and responses to commerce in the eighteenth century

[Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz]

My name is Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, and I am an assistant 
professor of English at New Jersey City University. Having recently 
taken over the editorship of a collection (for AMS Press) of literary 
and historical essays on cultural conceptions of and responses to 
commerce in the eighteenth century (1660-1815), I am currently 
seeking essays to round out the collection. The book is slated for 
release in June 2009, so a polished draft of the essay would be 
needed by mid August.

As you will see in the TOC below, most of the essays in the 
collection so far deal with a rather narrow Anglo (U.S. and British) 
worldview, though one covers Germany and another Spain. They also 
focus mainly on the latter half of the century. I am interested in 
broadening the range of the collection in every way, so many topics, 
but especially discussions of commerce in eighteenth-century India, 
China, and the Ottoman Empire (or anywhere outside of Europe for that 
matter), which blend the historical with the literary historical 
would be most welcome.

Table of Contents:
Albunasser, "Imagined Geographies and the Commercial Gaze: Rasselas 
and the Dystopias of Travel"
Marmor, "The Dream that Shapes Reality: A New Aesthetics and the 
Language of Consumption in the age of Werther"
Crawford, "'As Useful to the Monarchy, as Spices are to the Republic 
of Holland': Economic and Scientific Visions of American Nature in 
the Spanish Atlantic World (1742-1790)"
Thomas, "Taxing Tobacco and the Metonymies of Virtue: The Poetics of 
Thomson, Browne, Byrd and Cooke"
Boulware, "'Traders, Pedlars, and Idle Fellows': Community Boundaries 
and Collective Identity in the Southeastern Deerskin Trade"
Czechowski, "Markets, Morals and Merchants: What 'Women Know Best' in 
Colman's Inkle and Yarico: An Opera"
Shaw, "Selling the King's Shilling: Military Prints and the 
Commercial Gaze, 1756-1819"
Strong, "Pamela's Vestimentary Virtue"
Hwang, "Praising and Puffing: Jane Austen and the Art of Advertising"
Rotenberg-Schwartz, "Commercial Gazes and the Poetic Prospect of Peace"
Neiman, "The Working Women Writers of the Minerva Press, 1790-1820: 
the Circulation of 'Copper Coin,' the Re/production of 'Minervas'

Abstracts, queries or expressions of interest should be directed to 
me at either: mrotenberg at njcu.edu or 201-200-3096.

Thank you.

Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz
Assistant Professor of English
New Jersey City University
201-200-3096
mrotenberg at njcu.edu