GA answers:
- "flaws were found with Hawkesworth's morals, theology, geography, and with the excessive payment he had received": can we expand on these criticisms? The article is quite short, and the criticism sounds like a significant part of the response to it, but we get almost no details.
- See Wallis and Beaglehole.
- Do modern sources that refer to it have anything interesting to say about its representations and accuracies or inaccuracies, or its biases, or anything of that sort?
- see Binney and Edwards!
Bonus sources:
- Pearson, W. H. (1973). "Hawkesworth's Voyages". In Brissenden, R.F. (ed.). Studies in the Eighteenth Century II. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442632448-015. ISBN 978-1-4426-3244-8.
- mentions 20th century criticism about Hawkesworth supporting noble savage primitivism; Pearson defends H against the charge
- Gascoigne, John (2010). "Pacific Exploration as Religious Critique". Parergon. 27 (1): 143–162. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0210. ISSN 1832-8334.
- interesting bits about "Providence" and sexual morals and contrast/influence Diderot/Voltaire
- Spate, O. H. K. (1988). "Seamen and Scientists: The Literature of the Pacific, 1697-1798". In Macleod, Roy; Rehbock, Philip F. (eds.). Nature in its Greatest Extent. University of Hawaii Press. doi:10.1515/9780824890766-004. ISBN 978-0-8248-9076-6.
- use also for Observations! sex. providence. explorer as hero (from Pearson?) check citations
- Kaufmann, Sebastian (2016-12-01). "Reconstruction--Fiction--Transfer: Imparting Ethno-aesthetic Knowledge in John Hawkesworth's Report on Cook's First Voyage to the South Pacific (1768–1771)". Transfers. 6 (3): 65–82. doi:10.3167/TRANS.2016.060306. ISSN 2045-4813.
- fictitious I. not giving for previous reading.
- Craciun, Adriana (2013-06-01). "Oceanic voyages, maritime books, and eccentric inscriptions". Atlantic Studies. 10 (2): 170–196. doi:10.1080/14788810.2013.785190. ISSN 1478-8810.
- strahan
- Abbott, John Lawrence (1982). John Hawkesworth : eighteenth-century man of letters. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-08610-7.
- biography. pp 137–186 deal with the Voyages.