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A Play to Be Read: Authorship as Marriage in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett (1723) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Anaclara Castro-Santana
Abstract: A Wife to Be Lett (1723), Eliza Haywood's first original comedy, is often viewed as a casual early investment in drama more productively reoriented to novel writing. Taking a contrary view, this article shows how this early play is a sophisticated, self-reflective piece in which the author rehearses what became a recurrent motif in her writing: the unique hardships besetting women's authorship
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The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Zachary Tavlin
Abstract: This essay reconsiders Benjamin Franklin's pre-Revolutionary writings and his later Autobiography (1771–90) within the historical frame of the rise of fictionality, as charted by Catherine Gallagher and others. Before the novel took off in America, fictionality developed in shorter, nominally non-fictional forms. In this article, Franklin's essays, letters, and almanacs are read for their
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Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Erin Keating
Abstract: In this article, I argue that Sébastien Brémond (1646?–1705?) used his dedicatory paratexts to create a homosocial bond between the author and libertine members of the French faction at Charles II's court. Coupled with Brémond's use of the secret history genre and his North African settings that catered to the "Ottomanphilia" of the court during the 1670s, these paratexts situated Brémond
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A Critical Turn Inwards in The Woman of Colour (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Elizabeth Neiman
Abstract: This encounter with The Woman of Colour (1808) began with a 2019 call by Romantic Circles Pedagogies for essays on "Romantic" teaching. The COVID-19 pandemic intervened, as did a personal tragedy that was yet not my own. The essay I eventually wrote was reshaped by this tragedy, as were my reflections on the experimental assignment in life-writing that was to be the essay's focus. My tone
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England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 by Humberto Garcia (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Eun Kyung Min
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 by Humberto Garcia Eun Kyung Min (bio) England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 by Humberto Garcia Cambridge University Press, 2020. 366 pp. $114.95. ISBN 978-1108495646. In this ambitious
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Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy by Claude Willan (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Paul Keen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy by Claude Willan Paul Keen (bio) Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy by Claude Willan Stanford University Press, 2023. 328 pp. $80. ISBN 978-1503630864. The story of the rise of modern forms of literary authority has been told in many ways. Most accounts focus
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Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne by Rachel Carnell (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Nicola Parsons
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne by Rachel Carnell Nicola Parsons (bio) Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne by Rachel Carnell University of Virginia Press, 2020. 312 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-0813944425. At the end of 1710, Sarah Cowper reflected in her diary
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Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jolene Zigarovich (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Heather Meek
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jolene Zigarovich Heather Meek (bio) Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jolene Zigarovich University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 280 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978-1512823776. Early in Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Jolene Zigarovich provides
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Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen by Rita J. Dashwood (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Lise Gaston
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen by Rita J. Dashwood Lise Gaston (bio) Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen by Rita J. Dashwood Peter Lang, 2022. 284 pp. US $98.25. ISBN 978-1800797420. In the introduction, Rita J. Dashwood stakes her claim to the field, stating her book is the first "to consider the portrayal
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Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era by Hannah Doherty Hudson (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Elizabeth Neiman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era by Hannah Doherty Hudson Elizabeth Neiman (bio) Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era by Hannah Doherty Hudson Cambridge University Press, 2023. 284 pp. $110. ISBN 978-1009321969. The Minerva Press's visibility to Romantic studies dates back
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Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing by Neil Ramsey (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Matthew L. Reznicek
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing by Neil Ramsey Matthew L. Reznicek (bio) Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing by Neil Ramsey Cambridge University Press, 2023. 286 pp. $126.95. ISBN 978-1009100441. In the introduction to his important volume Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War
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Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to "Gentleman Jack," ed. by Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Ula Lukszo Klein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to "Gentleman Jack," ed. by Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda Ula Lukszo Klein (bio) Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to "Gentleman Jack" ed. Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda Cambridge University Press, 2023. 287 pp. $126.95. ISBN 978-1009280730. Decoding Anne Lister is the first
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Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 by Sam Hirst (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Jarlath Killeen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 by Sam Hirst Jarlath Killeen (bio) Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 by Sam Hirst Anthem Press, 2023. 248 pp. $110. ISBN 978-1839981531. In A Secular Age (2007), a monumental analysis of the religious landscape of modernity, sociologist Charles
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Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Manu Samriti Chander, Eugenia Zuroski
Abstract: In this introductory essay, we take issue with David Hume's distinction between "fiction" and "belief" by arguing that the relationship between these categories depends as much on existing structures of authority and power as it does on individual judgment or feeling. We then describe the objectives of the two-part ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions": to provide critical analyses
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The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Julianne Adams
Abstract: This article reads amatory fiction through the image of white women's tears, and it argues that amatory fiction assists in eighteenth-century racialization by idealizing a feminine affect that mobilizes passivity for status. A spectacle of sympathetic attention, white women's tears exemplify the affective work of white feminism, which singularly analyzes power through gender. Lacking intersectionality
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Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys; or, Why Sir Charles Grandison Is (a) No Wanker Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Rachel Gevlin
Abstract: This article links Samuel Richardson's final novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753) to the twenty-first-century Proud Boys in order to examine seriously the implications of two often overlooked aspects of both: Grandison's virginity and the Proud Boys' "No Wanks" policy. This policy, which limits members' masturbation, can serve to elucidate the sexual politics of Grandison, as both the modern-day
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Behn's White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Fauve Vandenberghe
Abstract: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) has elicited myriad contradictory readings based on its central ideologies about race and slavery. The ambivalence within the novel has made it a popular text to adapt or translate to produce a certain politics. This essay examines two twentieth-century Dutch-Surinamese translations of the novel: H.D. Benjamins's of 1919 and Albert Helman's of 1983. I contextualize
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The Fiction of Amatonormativity: Reactions to Queer Platonic Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Megan Cole
Abstract: Eighteenth-century literature is rife with intense female friendships, relationships that often challenge or supplant heteronormative bonds in women's lives. These connections can be productively identified as "queer platonic relationships" (QPRs) for the ways they resist heteropatriarchal norms. In this article, I trace the conflict between QPRs and amatonormativity—the social and political
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Romantic Hope and "Black Despair": A Brief History Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Taylor Schey
Abstract: Scholars coordinate the historical emergence of political hope with the French Revolution, Romanticism, and the secularization of inherited theological ideas. This essay argues that the conceptual development of political hope functioned as a technology of racialization. Drawing attention to how hope's theological opposite, despair, had become synonymous with racial slavery in the late eighteenth-century
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The Ameliorationist Trap: Reformist Capture and the Long Eighteenth Century Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Ryan Kaveh Sheldon
Abstract: This essay advances ameliorationism as a keyword and diagnostic concept for reappraising eighteenth-century anti-slavery writing and political thought; it also considers the implications of eighteenth-century abolitionism for contemporary abolitionist theory and practice. I argue that Anglophone Atlantic writing on the transatlantic slave trade and colonial plantation slavery is overwhelmingly
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Designing Truth between Manuscript and Publication: The Eighteenth-Century French Vision of Peru in Marmontel's Les Incas (1777) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Agnieszka Anna Ficek
Abstract: This essay interrogates the tensions between historical fact and colonial fiction in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas, ou le destruction de l'Empire du Pérou (1777). Through this study of deleted passages and publisher notes in the 1776 manuscript of the novel (Houghton Library, Harvard University), Marmontel's concern with verisimilitude, truth, and objective reality belies the fantasy
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Enlightenment and Exchange Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Fraser Easton
Abstract: This essay explores a link made in the late eighteenth century between social critique and economic progress. At the intersection of enlightenment and capitalist exchange a series of assumptions about social development and social tutelage are made. While national development driven by exchange was understood to homogenize people, and peoples, over time, I argue that this homogenizing effect
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A Collaborative Approach to Antiracist Pedagogy Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Nicole Hamblin, Carmen Faye Mathes
Abstract: This cowritten Reflections essay describes an upper-division seminar for honours and master's students that brought together established antiracist pedagogical principles (for example, decentering Britain) with a commitment to hands-on, in-class collaboration. This collaborative dimension buoyed the class's capacity to encounter both the challenges and insights that the antiracist framework
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Romanticism After Black Studies Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Thom Van Camp
Abstract: This course emerges from my individual research and seeks to bring students into an experimental project of co-reading. The course reading plan is structured by pairing canonical Romantic poets with writing by Black theorists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This course is designed for the graduate level and would also be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate students.
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Romantic Movements Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Andrew McInnes
Abstract: This Reflections essay considers antiracist theory and practice and its impact on Romantic Studies today as displayed in a master's-level module aimed at introducing the use of theory to postgraduate students of nineteenth-century studies. Alongside these concerns, the reflection considers what it means to feel "Romantic" today, as well as the role and usefulness of discomfort in postgraduate
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Race-Making and Romanticism: Notes on Pedagogy and the Position of Whiteness Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Taylor Schey
Abstract: Recent discussions often conflate the project of developing an antiracist Romantic studies with the project of discovering an antiracist Romanticism, the elements of which could be culled from its revolutionary texts and radical figurations. This essay considers the risks of this conflation and the critical investments it protects. First, I discuss how and why some scholars are liable to
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Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Ula Lukszo Klein (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Robin Runia
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Ula Lukszo Klein Robin Runia (bio) Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Ula Lukszo Klein University of Virginia Press, 2021. 258 pp. $32.50. ISBN 978-0813945514. Sapphic Crossings offers a timely
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African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment by Rebekah Mitsein (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Steven W. Thomas
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment by Rebekah Mitsein Steven W. Thomas (bio) African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment by Rebekah Mitsein University of Virginia Press
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Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie DeGooyer (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 David Hollingshead
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie DeGooyer David Hollingshead (bio) Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie DeGooyer Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 216 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1421443928. Let me begin with an unequivocal endorsement: anyone interested
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British Romanticism and Denmark by Cian Duffy (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Andrew McKendry
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: British Romanticism and Denmark by Cian Duffy Andrew McKendry (bio) British Romanticism and Denmark by Cian Duffy Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $110. ISBN 978-1474498227. The historical episode at the heart of British Romanticism and Denmark is an irresistible invitation to intellectual curiosity and scholarly
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Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Ann Campbell (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Elizabeth Porter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Ann Campbell Elizabeth Porter (bio) Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Ann Campbell Bucknell University Press, 2022. 176 pp. $28.95. ISBN 978-1684484232. Ann Campbell's monograph offers a
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Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730 by Wolfram Schmidgen (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Emma Major
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730 by Wolfram Schmidgen Emma Major (bio) Infinite Variety: Literary Inventinwho serves as a surrogate mothero, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730 by Wolfram Schmidgen University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 288 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978-0812253290
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English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660–1800 ed. by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Angelina Del Balzo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660–1800 ed. by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie Angelina Del Balzo (bio) English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660–1800, ed. Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie University of Delaware Press, 2022. 298 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1644532607. I am tempted to begin this review with an anecdote, a tried-and-true way
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The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism by Corrinne Harol (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Philip Connell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism by Corrinne Harol Philip Connell (bio) The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism by Corrinne Harol Cambridge University Press, 2022. 252 pp. $114.95. ISBN 978-1009273480. At first glance, there appear to be two striking anachronisms
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Croire aux vampires au siècle des Lumières. Entre savoir et fiction par Stella Louis (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Emmanuelle Sempère
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Croire aux vampires au siècle des Lumières. Entre savoir et fiction par Stella Louis Emmanuelle Sempère (bio) Croire aux vampires au siècle des Lumières. Entre savoir et fiction par Stella Louis Classiques Garnier, 2022. 268 p. €32. ISBN 978-2406118978. La question que se pose Stella Louis dans cet ouvrage n'est pas tant celle
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Des femmes: Observations du préjugé commun sur la différence des sexes by Louise Dupin (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Angela Hunter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Des femmes: Observations du préjugé commun sur la différence des sexes by Louise Dupin Angela Hunter (bio) Des femmes: Observations du préjugé commun sur la différence des sexes by Louise Dupin, ed. Frédéric Marty Classiques Garnier, 2022. 546 pp. €45. ISBN 978-2406131830. French saloniste Louise Dupin (1706–99) is an overlooked
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Reading with Austen by The Burney Centre (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Sarah Raff
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reading with Austen by The Burney Centre Sarah Raff (bio) Reading with Austen, an online resource produced by The Burney Centre, Montreal, Canada https://www.readingwithausten.com Edward Austen Knight was the third eldest brother of Jane Austen. As a boy, he attracted the favour of childless relations Thomas and Catherine
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Ignatius Sancho's London: Recovering Black Communities in the 18th Century (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Taylor Schey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Ignatius Sancho's London: Recovering Black Communities in the 18th Century Taylor Schey (bio) Ignatius Sancho's London: Recovering Black Communities in the 18th Century, an online resource via Northeastern University, https://dcrn.northeastern.edu/ignatius-sanchos-london/ Researchers, historians, and critics interested in
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My Life's Travels and Adventures: An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland by Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Elizabeth Zold
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: My Life's Travels and Adventures: An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland by Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa Elizabeth Zold (bio) My Life's Travels and Adventures: An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland by Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa, ed. and trans
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Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Manu Samriti Chander, Eugenia Zuroski
Abstract: In this introductory essay, we take issue with David Hume's distinction between "fiction" and "belief" by arguing that the relationship between these categories depends as much on existing structures of authority and power as it does on individual judgment or feeling. We then describe the objectives of the two-part ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions": to provide critical analyses
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Refusing Settler Georgics Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Katarina O'Briain
Abstract: This essay recovers and seeks to refuse a harmful and enduring eighteenth-century fiction: settler georgic, an imperial mode that North American settlers used to foreclose refusal, naturalize British understandings of cultivation and use, and figure violent dispossession as both inevitable and in the past. Tracing this history helps to show the damage that such logics continue to do as well
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Born That Way: Asexuality and Kinship in "The History of Mrs Selvyn" Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Abigail Zitin
Abstract: This article expands the critical account of queer orientations in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762) to include not only sapphic eroticism but also asexuality. In the inset narrative "The History of Mrs Selvyn," Scott focuses on Mrs Selvyn's mother, Lady Emilia Reynolds, who is all too eager to punish herself for having conceived a child out of wedlock. I generate a threefold close reading
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An Alternative Revolution: Isabelle de Charrière's Politics of Care Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Tracy L. Rutler
Abstract: How does patriotism shape societies? What might it look like if patriotism were aligned with care rather than violence? In this article, I analyze Dutch-Swiss author Isabelle de Charrière's novel Trois femmes (1797) through the lens of care ethics, particularly Sarah Clark Miller's notion of a "duty to care." Charrière's novel examines the limits of Enlightenment theories of moralism (especially
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Police Time: Equiano, Blackness, and Custody Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kaushik Tekur Venkata
Abstract: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789) highlights the role that police power plays in restricting Black people from accessing "liberal time," a conception of temporality that is teleological and invests individuals with potential for growth and development. The literary component of this temporality is the genre of autobiography and Bildungsroman. I argue that police power, through
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Refusing the Fictions of Unmarked Whiteness: Challenging Human Rank, Race, and History Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Patrícia Martins Marcos
Abstract: The 2017 inauguration of a statue in Lisbon, Portugal, to the seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary in colonial Brazil, Father António Vieira, offers an opportunity to discuss history writing as a narrative genre. The statue epitomizes the naturalization of Portugal's imperial narrative genres of history writing, instantiating their recapitulation into the future. Vieira's statue exposes
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On Noongar Boodjah: George Vancouver's Colonial Fictions Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ryan D. Fong
Abstract: This essay reads Captain George Vancouver's account of his 1791 landing on the southwestern coast of what is now known as Australia through the theorizations and analyses of Indigenous theorists and scholars to expose the colonial fictions that undergird his actions and rhetoric. I then focus on the rhetoric and critical posturing of the settler colonial academy, especially within white-dominated
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Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Arif Camoglu
Abstract: This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu's The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning the Ottoman Empire. Montagu's racially marked depictions of women in Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her capacity to identify and sympathize with the oriental
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"Endeavouring" and Other Eighteenth-Century Fictions Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Nikki Hessell
Abstract: The terminology we use in eighteenth-century studies needs to encompass both the period's and the field's global reach. James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour provides a starting point for considering the terms that were used to imagine the eighteenth-century Pacific from Great Britain, the importance of refusing eighteenth-century fictions in and from the Pacific, and the need to expand our critical
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"A Hundred Different Ways of Being in Love": Emma, Queer Austen, and Asexuality Studies Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Leigh-Michil George, Lillian Lu
Abstract: In ACE: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (2020), Angela Chen writes, "Aces draw attention to sexual assumptions and sexual scripts—around definition, feeling, action—that are often hidden and interrogate the ways that these norms make our lives smaller. Aces have developed a new lens that prioritizes what is just over what is supposedly natural." This
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Fanfiction Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Emily C. Friedman
Abstract: Using the popular adoption of "fanfiction" as it applies to eighteenth-century fiction, this essay calls for a closer attention to terminology from the established field of fan studies. By doing so, we may be able to better understand our own period's relationship to creative output, the commercial print marketplace, and the making of celebrity.
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British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830 ed. by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 David Alff
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830 ed. by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon David Alff (bio) British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830, ed. Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon Bucknell University Press, 2023. 214 pp. $150. ISBN 978-1684483969. I once designed a general education course called "Literature
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Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth Century Collections Online by Stephen H. Gregg (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Tonya Howe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth Century Collections Online by Stephen H. Gregg Tonya Howe (bio) Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth Century Collections Online by Stephen H. Gregg Cambridge University Press, 2021. Open Access (12 2020). Online ISBN 978-1108767415. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767415
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Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage by Jane Wessel (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Leslie Ritchie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage by Jane Wessel Leslie Ritchie (bio) Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage by Jane Wessel University of Michigan Press, 2022. 228 pp. $75. ISBN 978-0472133079
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies by Laura R. Kremmel (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 James Robert Allard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies by Laura R. Kremmel James Robert Allard (bio) Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies by Laura R. Kremmel University of Wales Press, 2022. 272 pp. £70. ISBN 978-1786838483. When it comes to their health, many people are at best uncomfortable
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Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century ed. by Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Louise Voll Box
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century ed. by Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons Louise Voll Box (bio) Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons University of Delaware Press, 2022. 240 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1644532331. This edited volume of eight chapters focuses on visual
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Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature ed. by Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Alexandra M. Macdonald
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature ed. by Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin Alexandra M. Macdonald (bio) Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature, ed. Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin Cambridge University
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Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts by Rori Bloom (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Allison Stedman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts by Rori Bloom Allison Stedman (bio) Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts by Rori Bloom University of Nebraska
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Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism by Orrin N.C. Wang (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Lindsey Eckert
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism by Orrin N.C. Wang Lindsey Eckert (bio) Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism by Orrin N.C. Wang Fordham University Press, 2022. 234 pp. $32. ISBN 978-0823298488. This book demands as much from its readers as it offers them in return. While the
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The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Pam Perkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert Pam Perkins (bio) The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert Bucknell University Press, 2022. 258 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1684483907. In this fascinating analysis of Romantic-era readership and reading practices, Lindsey
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American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Wendy Lucas
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch Wendy Lucas (bio) American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 288 pp. $69.95. ISBN 978-0812253795. In American Fragments