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 Wrongs of Woman (1798), as well as other unfinished literary works of the long eighteenth century. We argue for the rereading of fragmented and unfinished work as a method of pluriversality and refusal of a singular, monumental, fixed and finished text. By accepting that the finished/unfinished binary of work is not true to creative processes, we refuse the fiction of finished work and argue to elevate those myriad fragmentary works that are currently considered critically inferior.
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{"title":"<i>Le Cinéma des Lumières: Diderot, Deleuze, Eisenstein</i> by Marc Escola","authors":"Guy Spielmann","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.562","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935366","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}
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 or produce, mainly due to inherited structures that prevent radical feminist scholarship from flourishing. This essay examines the Western scholarly reliance on white, hetero, Eurocentric thought and knowledge-production and describes how those power structures discourage new methods of scholarship. It looks to feminist and queer literary theorists and book historians for a paradigm of future scholarship that prioritizes ways of knowing outside the Enlightenment model.
{"title":"Deconstructing Reliance on Enlightenment Methods in Feminist Book Historical Scholarship","authors":"Micaela Rodgers","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.517","url":null,"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 or produce, mainly due to inherited structures that prevent radical feminist scholarship from flourishing. This essay examines the Western scholarly reliance on white, hetero, Eurocentric thought and knowledge-production and describes how those power structures discourage new methods of scholarship. It looks to feminist and queer literary theorists and book historians for a paradigm of future scholarship that prioritizes ways of knowing outside the Enlightenment model.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935646","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":"<i>What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century</i> by Kathleen Lubey","authors":"Jason S. Farr","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134936109","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":"<i>Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion</i> by Jacob Risinger","authors":"Julie Murray","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935360","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":"<i>Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642–1722</i> by Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson","authors":"Neil Ramsey","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935367","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":"<i>The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century</i>, ed. Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson","authors":"Willow White","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935361","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":"<i>Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës</i> by Devoney Looser","authors":"Rosetta Young","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935456","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":"<i>The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels</i> by Yoon Sun Lee","authors":"Alexander Creighton","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935363","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}
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 detractors mischaracterize the movement as dangerously zealous. This essay takes as a case study Richard Newton’s 1792 sketch The Blind Enthusiast, which caricatures prominent abolitionist William Wilberforce as an easily fooled fanatic. Biblical allusions show Newton’s debt to religious rhetoric, while political catchwords invoke key debates of the 1790s. The stereotype does not remain in the past, however. As this essay argues, the notion of the enthusiastic abolitionist troubles activism in the twenty-first century, too, impeding efforts toward more equitable futures.
{"title":"Abolitionist Visions and the Spectre of Enthusiasm","authors":"Rachael Isom","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.503","url":null,"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 detractors mischaracterize the movement as dangerously zealous. This essay takes as a case study Richard Newton’s 1792 sketch The Blind Enthusiast, which caricatures prominent abolitionist William Wilberforce as an easily fooled fanatic. Biblical allusions show Newton’s debt to religious rhetoric, while political catchwords invoke key debates of the 1790s. The stereotype does not remain in the past, however. As this essay argues, the notion of the enthusiastic abolitionist troubles activism in the twenty-first century, too, impeding efforts toward more equitable futures.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935433","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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