{"title":"Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster (review)","authors":"Marcie Frank","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"483 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41379972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The Suicide, A Comedy (1778) by George Colman (the Elder) is a sophisticated comedic response to the scourge of fashionable suicide in late eighteenth-century Britain. The play simultaneously operates on two comedic planes: (1) it aims the purgative power of contemptible and socially aversive satire at the bon-ton by insinuating the scandalous suicide of high-profile aristocrat John Damer (1744–76); and (2) the reformation of Tobine—the middle-class protagonist who aspires to fashionable self-destruction—invests in the socially rehabilitative and compassionate humour of sentimental comedy. Two comedic strategies are aimed at two different audiences, with both strategies working to reinforce middle-class values. The result is a comedy that merges two kinds of laughter to form a benign affective antidote to interclass suicidal contagion. This comedic antidote functions as an early demonstration of the positive value of narratives that depict the overcoming of suicidal intent—or what modern sociologists call the Papageno effect.
{"title":"Pity the Fool: Satire, Sentiment, and Aristocratic Vice in George Colman’s The Suicide","authors":"E. Parisot","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.393","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Suicide, A Comedy (1778) by George Colman (the Elder) is a sophisticated comedic response to the scourge of fashionable suicide in late eighteenth-century Britain. The play simultaneously operates on two comedic planes: (1) it aims the purgative power of contemptible and socially aversive satire at the bon-ton by insinuating the scandalous suicide of high-profile aristocrat John Damer (1744–76); and (2) the reformation of Tobine—the middle-class protagonist who aspires to fashionable self-destruction—invests in the socially rehabilitative and compassionate humour of sentimental comedy. Two comedic strategies are aimed at two different audiences, with both strategies working to reinforce middle-class values. The result is a comedy that merges two kinds of laughter to form a benign affective antidote to interclass suicidal contagion. This comedic antidote functions as an early demonstration of the positive value of narratives that depict the overcoming of suicidal intent—or what modern sociologists call the Papageno effect.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"393 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47297920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers, ed. Serena Dyer and Chloe Wigston Smith","authors":"Sally Tuckett","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.490","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48217965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enlightenment Virtue, 1680–1794, éd. James Fowler et Marine Ganofsky","authors":"Rotraud von Kulessa","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45727028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783–1836 by J. Louise McCray (review)","authors":"N. Williams","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"501 - 503"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45777396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walter Scott and Short Fiction by Daniel Cook (review)","authors":"Evan Gottlieb","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"485 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42790757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Organized as a diffuse collection of vignettes, Delariver Manley’s The New Atalantis (1709) has proven challenging to approach as a discrete work. In this essay, I engage Atalantis as a romance and argue that the text is structurally unified by patterns of repetition, in particular the repetition of a narrative that I term “the seduction-betrayal fantasy.” The topos of political seduction-betrayal was widespread in early eighteenth-century Tory historiography as a means of acknowledging the failures of the Stuart monarchy while displacing blame away from monarchs onto others in their orbits. Yet it was frequently difficult for historians to “prove” that political seduction-betrayal had occurred. I argue that Manley addresses this challenge in Atalantis by pairing vignettes concerning political treachery with structurally analogous vignettes about well-known sexual seduction-betrayals. These sets of dyads invite readers to interpret controversial episodes from political history through paradigms generated by strategically selected stories of sexual wrongdoing. However, they also enable Manley to inject moments of ambivalence into her Tory secret history.
摘要:曼利(Delariver Manley)的《新亚特兰大人》(The New atlantis, 1709)是一部散漫的小插图集，作为一部独立的作品来处理具有挑战性。在这篇文章中，我把《阿塔兰提斯》当作一部浪漫小说，并认为文本在结构上是由重复的模式统一的，尤其是我称之为“诱惑背叛幻想”的叙事的重复。政治诱惑-背叛的话题在18世纪早期的托利党史学中广泛存在，作为承认斯图亚特王朝失败的一种手段，同时将君主的责任转移到他们的轨道上的其他人身上。然而，历史学家往往很难“证明”政治诱惑背叛已经发生。我认为曼利在《亚特兰大》中解决了这一挑战，他将关于政治背叛的小插曲与结构上类似的关于众所周知的性诱惑-背叛的小插曲配对。这些二元组合邀请读者通过精心挑选的性犯罪故事所产生的范式来解读政治史上有争议的事件。然而，它们也使曼利能够在她的保守党秘密历史中注入矛盾的时刻。
{"title":"“A True Landmark to Warn”: Seduction-Betrayal and the Recognition of History in Delarivier Manley’s The New Atalantis","authors":"Kay Chronister","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.3.269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.269","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Organized as a diffuse collection of vignettes, Delariver Manley’s The New Atalantis (1709) has proven challenging to approach as a discrete work. In this essay, I engage Atalantis as a romance and argue that the text is structurally unified by patterns of repetition, in particular the repetition of a narrative that I term “the seduction-betrayal fantasy.” The topos of political seduction-betrayal was widespread in early eighteenth-century Tory historiography as a means of acknowledging the failures of the Stuart monarchy while displacing blame away from monarchs onto others in their orbits. Yet it was frequently difficult for historians to “prove” that political seduction-betrayal had occurred. I argue that Manley addresses this challenge in Atalantis by pairing vignettes concerning political treachery with structurally analogous vignettes about well-known sexual seduction-betrayals. These sets of dyads invite readers to interpret controversial episodes from political history through paradigms generated by strategically selected stories of sexual wrongdoing. However, they also enable Manley to inject moments of ambivalence into her Tory secret history.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"269 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44245995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victor, ou l’Enfant de la forêt by François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, ed. Łukasz Szkopiński","authors":"M. Tilby","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.3.373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43164944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution, ed. Maria O’Malley and Denys Van Renen","authors":"J. Eacott","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.3.368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45330531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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