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Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction Eighteenth-Century Fiction 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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Colonies, traite et esclavage des Noirs dans la presse à la veille de la Révolution 1er janvier 1788-16 juin 1789 par Carminella Biondi (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Lise Andries
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Colonies, traite et esclavage des Noirs dans la presse à la veille de la Révolution 1er janvier 1788-16 juin 1789 par Carminella Biondi Lise Andries (bio) Colonies, traite et esclavage des Noirs dans la presse à la veille de la Révolution 1er janvier 1788-16 juin 1789, par Carminella Biondi L'Harmattan, 2022, 3 tomes. Tome
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Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770–1820 by Margaretmary Daley (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Wendy C. Nielsen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770–1820 by Margaretmary Daley Wendy C. Nielsen (bio) Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770–1820 by Margaretmary Daley Boydell & Brewer, 2022. 310 pp. £99. ISBN 978-1640140974. The debate over the English canon during the past three decades has been productive
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Singing through the Pain: Murat Riffing on Montaigne Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Scott M. Sanders
Abstract: In this essay, I explore how Henriette-Julie de Murat (1668–1716), during a long period of exile, creates an authorial identity intended to interact with her cousin Menou as well as her captors. By focusing on Murat's literary relationship with Menou, I investigate how Murat's correspondence undermines her captors' attempts to control her expressions of desire and affection toward women.
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Mercier's Clinic: Public Health Utopianism in L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Andrew Billing
Abstract: The eighteenth-century medical Enlightenment in France saw fierce conflicts between inoculistes and anti-inoculistes, attacks from philosophes and surgeons on the privileges and dogmas of elite academic doctors, and attempts by reformers to improve medicine, hospitals, and sanitation. In this article, I show that Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (1771) intervenes
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Troubling White Femininity: Revisiting Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Kirsten T. Saxton
Abstract: In this essay, I use Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720) to examine how my own scholarly reading practices more broadly reflect and have helped shape a primarily cis-gendered, overwhelmingly white feminist critical history of amatory fictions of the long eighteenth century. I have previously read Manley's text primarily as a study in feminist rage: Violenta, the virtuous white
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Fictions of Character Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Nicola Parsons, Amelia Dale
Abstract: This essay asks what happens to theorizations of literary character when we consider the formally complex treatment of character within the pornographic or otherwise disreputable texts that proliferate across eighteenth-century print. Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1760–94), a catalogue of women involved in London's sex trade, is a piece of character writing; its characters are the
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Abolitionist Visions and the Spectre of Enthusiasm Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Rachael Isom
Abstract: By modern definitions, an "enthusiast" is a fan, but, in the eighteenth century, an enthusiast was a fanatic, and the word's associations with religious heterodoxy made it a devastating weapon in the political arena. Critics often used this pejorative rhetoric to target anti-slavery activists. The charge of enthusiasm, while accurate in recognizing abolitionists' energetic vision, helped
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Sexualized Racial-Colonial Grotesque in the Company Archives Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Shruti Jain
Abstract: Building on Michel Foucault and Ann Laura Stoler's recontextualizing of the Foucauldian theory of sexuality, I propose the category of the "sexualized racial-colonial grotesque" to unravel the double of Warren Hastings's crime of corruption that Edmund Burke indexes onto his construction of Munny Begum. Throughout the infamous impeachment proceedings, 1787–95, Burke is deeply disturbed by
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Eighteenth-Century Literary Fragments: Queering the Fiction of "Finished" Work Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Lucien Darjeun Meadows, Leia Lynn
Abstract: One of the most accepted fictions in literature is that a work will, at some point in its existence, be completed. In this essay, we queer that assumption, challenging its tenets through examining taxonomies and eighteenth-century categorizations alongside Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (1797; published 1816), John Keats's Hyperion (1820), and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria: or, The
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Deconstructing Reliance on Enlightenment Methods in Feminist Book Historical Scholarship Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Micaela Rodgers
Abstract: Historically, canonical novels have been written primarily by men either for other men or for the "education" of women to encourage conformity to patriarchal standards. Yet, throughout much of the eighteenth century, novels written by and for women outsold most materials written by their male counterparts. Nevertheless, scholarship on the female writer and reader has been difficult to find
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Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642–1722 by Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Neil Ramsey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642–1722 by Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson Neil Ramsey (bio) Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642–1722 by Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $80. ISBN 978-0228005407. Besieged offers an innovative and highly
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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës by Devoney Looser (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Rosetta Young
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës by Devoney Looser Rosetta Young (bio) Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës by Devoney Looser Bloomsbury, 2022. 576 pp. $40. ISBN 978-1635575293. The claim at the heart of
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Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel by Elahe Haschemi Yekani (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alpen Razi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel by Elahe Haschemi Yekani Alpen Razi (bio) Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel by Elahe Haschemi Yekani Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 300 pp. OA online. ISBN
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Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion by Jacob Risinger (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Julie Murray
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion by Jacob Risinger Julie Murray (bio) Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion by Jacob Risinger Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp. $35. ISBN 978-0691203430. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries offer a rich vein for scholars studying the history of emotion and
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Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750 by Catherine Ingrassia (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Cynthia Richards
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750 by Catherine Ingrassia Cynthia Richards (bio) Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750 by Catherine Ingrassia University of Virginia Press, 2022. 314 pp. $39.50. ISBN 978-0813948096. Metaphors of freedom and captivity have long been, to purposefully mix my
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Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities ed. by Jeremy Chow (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Charlee Bezilla
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities ed. by Jeremy Chow Charlee Bezilla (bio) Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities, ed. Jeremy Chow Bucknell University Press, 2022. 262 pp. $38.95. ISBN 978-1684484287. In recent years, scholarship exploring early modern and eighteenth-century subjects through the wide lens of
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Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775–1800 by Linda Van Netten Blimke (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Leah M. Thomas
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775–1800 by Linda Van Netten Blimke Leah M. Thomas (bio) Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775–1800 by Linda Van Netten Blimke Bucknell University Press, 2022
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The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels by Yoon Sun Lee (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alexander Creighton
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels by Yoon Sun Lee Alexander Creighton (bio) The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels by Yoon Sun Lee University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 264 pp. $65. ISBN 978-1512823400. As a narratological category, plot has struggled to recover from twentieth-century
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British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Katherine G. Charles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis Katherine G. Charles (bio) British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis Cambridge University Press 2022 276 pp. $114.95. ISBN 978-1108837361. The arrival of a new satire
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The "Lady's Magazine" (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History by Jennie Batchelor (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Bethany E. Qualls
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The "Lady's Magazine" (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History by Jennie Batchelor Bethany E. Qualls (bio) The "Lady's Magazine" (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History by Jennie Batchelor Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 320 pp. OA online. ePub 978-1474487672; PDF 978-1474487665. We should be thankful Jennie
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Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890 by Wendy C. Nielsen (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Sibylle Erle
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890 by Wendy C. Nielsen Sibylle Erle (bio) Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890 by Wendy C. Nielsen Routledge, 2022. 262 pp. $170. ISBN 978-1032231679. This book identifies many "misconceptions about how life began" (3), casting a wide net across
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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Willow White
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson Willow White (bio) The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson University
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What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century by Kathleen Lubey (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Jason S. Farr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century by Kathleen Lubey Jason S. Farr (bio) What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century by Kathleen Lubey Stanford University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $28. ISBN 9781503633117. In What Pornography Knows, Kathleen Lubey refutes
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Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French Literature par Scott M. Sanders (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Nathalie Vuillemin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French Literature par Scott M. Sanders Nathalie Vuillemin (bio) Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French Literature par Scott M. Sanders University of Virginia Press, 2022. 236 pp. $85. ISBN 978-0813947327
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Le Cinéma des Lumières: Diderot, Deleuze, Eisenstein by Marc Escola (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Guy Spielmann
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Le Cinéma des Lumières: Diderot, Deleuze, Eisenstein by Marc Escola Guy Spielmann (bio) Le Cinéma des Lumières: Diderot, Deleuze, Eisenstein by Marc Escola Éditions Mimésis, 2022. 252 pp. €12. ISBN 978-8869763304. In his 1943 essay "Diderot Wrote about Cinema" ["Дидро писал о кино" / "Didro pisal o kino"], noted Russian director
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Figuring Jettison in Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Kevin MacDonnell
Abstract: The jettison of enslaved people occurred with shocking regularity during the transatlantic slave trade. While this practice has been cited as a quintessential symbol of Black abjection within contemporary scholarship on the African and Black diaspora, it was also formative to the inception of Black literary culture. In this article, I track the representation of jettison across the earliest
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"The Spirit of Contradiction": Ownership and Irony in Jane Collier's An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Phillip James Martinez Cortes
Abstract: Jane Collier’s An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753) satirizes British law’s ideology of absolute property, which prescribes that an owner holds dominion over their property and implicitly dispossesses others of any right to this owner’s property. Her satire invites scrutiny into how the eighteenth-century British household re-encodes this absolutist ideology’s dispossession
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Intellect versus Politeness: Charlotte Lennox and Women's Minds Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Karenza Sutton-Bennett
Abstract: Charlotte Lennox published The History of Harriot and Sophia as an experiment, a serialized novel in her periodical The Lady’s Museum (1760–61). As a proto-feminist, Lennox used her works to represent a cohort of activist, intellectual women who were ready to challenge the pre-conceived notions of separate masculine and feminine knowledge. Lennox used textual and visual representations to
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The Long, Melancholy Shadow of Walter Charleton's The Ephesian Matron Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Laura Alexander
Abstract: This essay considers the gendered association between rebellious wives and mental illness in the long eighteenth century; it provides a literary and medico historical context for understanding recent legal arguments made against women. The late seventeenth-century natural philosopher and satirist Walter Charleton (1619–1707), who wrote The Ephesian Matron (1659, republished in 1668), influences
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The Long Eighteenth Century Does Not Support an Anti-Abortion Argument Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Kathleen Tamayo Alves
Abstract: This essay provides a brief response to a New York Times guest opinion essay entitled “What Makes a Fetus a Person?,” which cites John Locke in the argument to support the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The NYT piece infers the Lockean theory of property as a means of undermining the argument for a person’s right to an abortion. Locke did write about procreation and politics, but only to support
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On Novel-ty; Or, The Lies of the Novel, or How three scholars on Twitter simultaneously recognized the necessity of diagnosing a strain in literary criticism that reiterates the origin myths that have given us a century of bogus formal critique Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Hermes Trismegistus
Abstract: Whilst others have tried to capture my supposed life in T——m S——y, a spurious work that could not indeed capture the depth nor breadth of my spirit and genius, this work is firstly dedicated to the mute, inglorious academic and/or (un)dead authors longing to be free. This essay understands both author ship and the theory of the novel (... and keywords like Ian Watt and Eighteenth Century
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Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century by Bethan Roberts, and: "The Excursion" and Wordsworth's Iconography by Brandon C. Yen, and: William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism: A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of "The Hurricane" by Paul Cheshire (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Lawrence Evalyn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century by Bethan Roberts, and: “The Excursion” and Wordsworth’s Iconography by Brandon C. Yen, and: William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism: A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of “The Hurricane” by Paul Cheshire Lawrence Evalyn (bio) Charlotte
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Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City by Betsy Klimasmith (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Rochelle Raineri Zuck
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City by Betsy Klimasmith Rochelle Raineri Zuck (bio) Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City by Betsy Klimasmith Oxford University Press, 2021. 228 pp. $90. ISBN 978-0192846211. The city occupies a central yet contested place in American literature
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Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature by Tracy L. Rutler (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Chris Roulston
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature by Tracy L. Rutler Chris Roulston (bio) Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature by Tracy L. Rutler Voltaire Foundation/Liverpool University Press, 2021. 304pp. £65. ISBN 978-1800859807. While
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Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–1742 by Melissa Mowry (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Leah Orr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–1742 by Melissa Mowry Leah Orr (bio) Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–1742 by Melissa Mowry Oxford University Press, 2021. viii+250pp. $80. ISBN 978-0192844385. Melissa Mowry’s new book tackles one of the great axioms of eighteenth-century
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Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century by Rosalind Powell (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Annika Mann
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century by Rosalind Powell Annika Mann (bio) Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century by Rosalind Powell Manchester University Press, 2021. 296pp. £80. ISBN 978-1526157041. Perception and Analogy is an erudite survey
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Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850 by Porscha Fermanis (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Ina Ferris
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850 by Porscha Fermanis Ina Ferris (bio) Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850 by Porscha Fermanis Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 312pp. $110. ISBN 978-1474481885. Porscha Fermanis’s stimulating book has two principal objectives:
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Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising by Leith Davis (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Daniel Cook
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising by Leith Davis Daniel Cook (bio) Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising by Leith Davis Cambridge University Press, 2022. 299pp. £75. ISBN 978-1316510810. Readers
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British Romanticism and Peace by John Bugg (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Paula Yurss Lasanta
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: British Romanticism and Peace by John Bugg Paula Yurss Lasanta (bio) British Romanticism and Peace by John Bugg Oxford University Press, 2022. 240pp. $80. ISBN 978-0198839668. International conflicts marked the Romantic era in Britain—the American Revolutionary Wars (1775–83), the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and