James G. Basker

Standard Name: Basker, James G.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Fanny Holcroft
James Basker has reprinted this poem in his slavery anthology Amazing Grace.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
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Reception Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Reviews of this volume were somewhat lukewarm.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. “Introduction”. The Victim of Fancy, edited by Daniel Cook, Pickering and Chatto, 2009, p. xi - xxxi.
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Hannah More briefly summarizes the story of Quashi in a note to her Slavery: A Poem, 1788 (without mentioning his love for the white Matilda). James G. Basker

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Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93.
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66.
Basker, James G. “Johnson and Slavery”. Johnson After Three Centuries. New Light on Texts and Contexts, edited by Thomas A. Horrocks and Howard Weinbrot, Harvard University Press, 2011.
Barker, Anthony. “Poetry from the Provinces: Amateur Poets in the Gentleman’s Magazine in the 1730s and 1740s”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 241-56.
Basker, James G. “Radical Affinities: Mary Wollstonecraft and Samuel Johnson”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 41-55.
Ribeiro, Alvaro. “The Chit-Chat way: The Letters of Mrs Thrale and Dr Burney”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro et al., Clarendon Press, 1996, pp. 25-40.