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ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.

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Very happy to have my review of Laura Runge's "Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion" in such wonderful company (scroll down a whole bunch!)

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Legal Imaginaries across the Asia-Pacific: Vernacular laws and literatures | Humanitix Get tickets on Humanitix - Legal Imaginaries across the Asia-Pacific: Vernacular laws and literatures hosted by Network for Law, Arts and Humanities. Find event information.

I'm going to be talking about some new work at the "Legal Imaginaries" symposium at the ANU next week and looking forward to learning a lot from the interdisciplinary work on law and literature that is going on across Asia and the Pacific events.humanitix.com/legal-imagin...

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The cover of the October 2024 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal features a japanese artwork from the 18th century. In the artwork, a woman sits on the floor. She is wearing flowing robes and is reading some manuscript pages.

The cover of the October 2024 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal features a japanese artwork from the 18th century. In the artwork, a woman sits on the floor. She is wearing flowing robes and is reading some manuscript pages.

I sent the ECF October 2024 issue to the publisher: you know what that means!
Free to read new book reviews on the ECF journal website at McMaster University:
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ecf-36-4-oct...
#18thCentury
Thanks for reading ECF journal!

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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Fiction

These are the last few days of Managing Editor, Jacqueline Langille, as the ECF online voice (retiring!).
Signing off August 28th, with someone new taking over ECF social media in the fall.
Stay tuned for updates.
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Read ECF at @ProjectMUSE :
muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

26.08.2024 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."

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, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."

Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024:
"A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman
ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Read ECF @ProjectMUSE !

15.08.2024 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."

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, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."

Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024:
"A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman
ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Read ECF @ProjectMUSE !

15.08.2024 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Project MUSE - SΓ©bastien BrΓ©mond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity

A new ECF article in the July issue:
"SΓ©bastien BrΓ©mond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating
ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC

12.08.2024 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Project MUSE - SΓ©bastien BrΓ©mond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity

A new ECF article in the July issue:
"SΓ©bastien BrΓ©mond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating
ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC

12.08.2024 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

Another new article in ECF July 2024:
"The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin
ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Read ECF journal at Project MUSE !

31.07.2024 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

Another new article in ECF July 2024:
"The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin
ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Read ECF journal at Project MUSE !

31.07.2024 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm trying to identify a late 18th-century woman writer (probably a poet) whose surname was BURNET (listed in a text from 1786 alongside Jane Graham, A-L Barbauld, Hannah Moore, Anna Seward, Hannah Cowley).
Anyone know who this might be?
#18thCentury #18C

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#c18

29.07.2024 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Front Cover of the July 2024 issue of ECF journal: The image is called Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

Front Cover of the July 2024 issue of ECF journal: The image is called Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

New ECF article in the July 2024 issue:
"A Play to Be Read: Authorship as Marriage in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett (1723)," by Anaclara Castro-Santana
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 387-410
#18thCentury Please Read ECF journal at Project MUSE!

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Read ECF July 2024 online:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797
Reading ECF on Project MUSE enables the journal to keep publishing your work.
#18thCentury

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Exploring Gothic Sublimity in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho with Dr Sam Hirst
I take you on a deep dive into the sublime in Ann Radcliffe based on the second chapter of my book 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834... Exploring Gothic Sublimity in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho with Dr Sam Hirst

If you missed my latest talk on Gothic Sublimity and the work of Ann Radcliffe, you can find it here!

It's based on chapter 2 of my book 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic' which has been short-listed for the Alan Lloyd Smith prize for Gothic scholarship!

youtu.be/9HCCr4Wvfjo

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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Fiction-Volume 36, Number 3, July 2024

While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797
Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Fiction-Volume 36, Number 3, July 2024

While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797
Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

17.07.2024 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The image on the front cover of the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction is entitled Young Woman with a Book, by Miyagawa (Katsukawa) Shunsui (mid-18th century). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

The image on the front cover of the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction is entitled Young Woman with a Book, by Miyagawa (Katsukawa) Shunsui (mid-18th century). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

Reminder:
The ECF special issue Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1 and Part 2 are available to read at Project MUSE:
Part 1: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979
Part 2: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC

11.07.2024 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fabulous poem!

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Discarded, white-clay smoking pipes, many with broken stems, likely from the early eighteenth century.

Discarded, white-clay smoking pipes, many with broken stems, likely from the early eighteenth century.

Just because it's Tuesday, I'm reposting a Material Fictions article:
"Eighteenth-Century Pipes and the Erasure of the Disposable Object," by Samuel Diener
muse.jhu.edu/article/715155
#18thCentury
Read ECF journal at Project Muse !

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Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration?
We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles.
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca
#18thCentury
Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com
ReadECF @ProjectMUSE
muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

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Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration?
We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles.
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca
#18thCentury
Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com
ReadECF @ProjectMUSE
muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

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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 protagonist, and Ianthe, a woman of African descent enslaved to Violenta's family, work together across statuses to dispatch an abusive patriarch. However, Ianthe engages in this labour neither for the sake of Violenta nor to attack the system of gendered and economic violation that results in Violenta's wrongful ruin, but to liberate herself from enslavement. This micro-critical reflection suggests that the text offers a prequel of contemporary discourses on gendered and racial rage. Whose rage is politically consequential or imaginatively possible? ...

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 protagonist, and Ianthe, a woman of African descent enslaved to Violenta's family, work together across statuses to dispatch an abusive patriarch. However, Ianthe engages in this labour neither for the sake of Violenta nor to attack the system of gendered and economic violation that results in Violenta's wrongful ruin, but to liberate herself from enslavement. This micro-critical reflection suggests that the text offers a prequel of contemporary discourses on gendered and racial rage. Whose rage is politically consequential or imaginatively possible? ...

A short FlashbackFriday trip to 2023:
"Troubling White Femininity: Revisiting Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720)," by Kirsten T. Saxton
ECF 35.4, October 2023, pp. 485-496
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
Please Read ECF at Project MUSE !
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3,  shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3, shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals:
utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3
Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version!
On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link.
Get your read on!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC

02.07.2024 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3,  shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3, shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals:
utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3
Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version!
On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link.
Get your read on!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC

02.07.2024 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Project MUSE - Puppets, Waxworks, and a Wooden Dramatis Personae: Eighteenth-Century Material Culture and Philosophical History in William Godwin’s <i>Fleetwood</i>

An ECF article from Material Fictions just because it's Tuesday: "Puppets, Waxworks, and a Wooden Dramatis Personae: Eighteenth-Century Material Culture and Philosophical History in William Godwin’s /Fleetwood/," by Emma Peacocke muse.jhu.edu/article/704848
#ReadECF #18thCentury

25.06.2024 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A list of Common mistakes in choosing article keyphrases: such as (1) Using single-word terms; (2) Choosing terms or phrases that are too broad and not focused on your work – such as β€œeighteenth-century studies,” ...

A list of Common mistakes in choosing article keyphrases: such as (1) Using single-word terms; (2) Choosing terms or phrases that are too broad and not focused on your work – such as β€œeighteenth-century studies,” ...

Tips from the University of Toronto Press about writing an article abstract: text begins with "Any article that is going to appear online needs a well-written abstract to accompany it." ...

Tips from the University of Toronto Press about writing an article abstract: text begins with "Any article that is going to appear online needs a well-written abstract to accompany it." ...

Reminder:
At submission, the ECF editors do *not* require Chicago Manual of Style formatting.
Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Please follow the abstract tips especially, since a convincing abstract can persuade a scholar to peer review your manuscript.
#18thCentury

19.06.2024 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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