This essay analyzes De Quincey’s use of the figure of tea to construct the distinction between England and “the orient.” The instability of tea as a figure in early 19th-century British culture yields uncanny effects at the heart of De Quincey’s orientalist vision of selfhood.

This paper describes the intervention of the #BIPOC18 collective in eighteenth-century studies. Drawing on Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s model of the “undercommons” to describe the emergence of online academic “backchannels” to hegemonic field formations, it details a few material ways forward toward anticolonialist transformation of…[Read more]