{"title":"Rêves de citoyens: Le républicanisme dans la littérature Suisse romande du XVIIIe siècle by Helder Mendes Baiao (review)","authors":"P. Vincent","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"320 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49424380","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":"Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Dimensions of Satire and Solemnity by Shane Herron (review)","authors":"Scott Nowka","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"308 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49052909","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}
Framed by two personal and intergenerational diplomatic events surrounding ongoing treaty negotiations in Aotearoa New Zealand, Sensitive Negotiations asks readers to move beyond the aesthetic implications of poetic quotation to consider not only the political and legislative but also the ethical demands made by the repetition of lines of Romantic poetry across the settler colonies. Employing her own citational bookends—“It’s all diplomacy. It’s all a negotiation”—Nikki Hessell explicitly challenges Romantic scholars, particularly those working in settler colonies, to pay attention to the “living legacies of the poetry we study” and to ask ourselves, “At what price our aesthetics?” (xv, 221, 19, 59). Such a challenge requires us to study and teach the settler colonial history and its ongoing injustices that are entwined within Romanticism, while it also encourages us to move beyond the fetishization of artistic individuality and originality. Emphasizing the “rhetorical sovereignty” of Indigenous diplomatic agents from the nineteenth century onwards, Hessell situates the citation of Romantic poetry within the “petitioning and treating culture[s]” of Indigenous community (4).1 This situatedness of Romantic poetry within Indigenous-settler diplomatic history treats poetic citation as a “boundary marker” that troubles both the genre of diplomacy and Romantic authenticity (1), allowing Hessell to build on Manu Samriti Chander’s work in rethinking our critical understandings of imitation and derivativeness.2 Treating poetry as a diplomatic text, Hessell reframes, for instance, the “unoriginality” of Mississaugas Ojibwa writer George Copway’s Running Sketches (1851) to demonstrate instead how, if read within its “wider Indigenous diplomatic history,” Copway’s frequent quotations of Byron’s Childe Harold (1812–18) are illustrative of a purposively jarring collage meant to juxtapose and thus align bureaucratic reportage with poetic citation (107). Flipping the analytical lens, Hessell shows how Copway deploys Byron as a “useful diplomatic text,” thereby rescuing Running Sketches from Bernd C. Peyer’s critical censure of banality (107).3
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{"title":"The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism by Mark Canuel","authors":"J. Kantor","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45661389","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":"Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 by Franz J. Potter","authors":"Emma McEvoy","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43758195","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 Lady's Museum (1760–61) "by the Author of The Female Quixote" was an important early magazine primarily edited and written by the influential eighteenth-century author Charlotte Lennox. In this essay, we describe our theoretical and methodological approaches to editing, publishing, teaching, learning, and thinking with Lennox and our teams of co-workers in the Lady's Museum Project, the first critical and digital social edition of the periodical (at Ladysmuseum.com). We update this proto-feminist text in an intersectional feminist bibliographical praxis designed to encourage teamwork, flatten user/editor relationships, and create a dynamic audio and visual version of the text to accommodate multiple learning modes. This essay highlights the social edition as a counterpublic and posits Lennox's notion of "trifling" as a digital humanities methodology.
{"title":"\"A Numerous and Powerful Generation of Triflers\": The Social Edition as Counterpublic in Charlotte Lennox's the Lady's Museum (1760–61) and the Lady's Museum Project (2021–)","authors":"Kelly Plante, Karenza Sutton-Bennett","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.287","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Lady's Museum (1760–61) \"by the Author of The Female Quixote\" was an important early magazine primarily edited and written by the influential eighteenth-century author Charlotte Lennox. In this essay, we describe our theoretical and methodological approaches to editing, publishing, teaching, learning, and thinking with Lennox and our teams of co-workers in the Lady's Museum Project, the first critical and digital social edition of the periodical (at Ladysmuseum.com). We update this proto-feminist text in an intersectional feminist bibliographical praxis designed to encourage teamwork, flatten user/editor relationships, and create a dynamic audio and visual version of the text to accommodate multiple learning modes. This essay highlights the social edition as a counterpublic and posits Lennox's notion of \"trifling\" as a digital humanities methodology.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"287 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41402067","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:How can so exemplary a heroine of sensibility as Sidney be so brutally punished in an apparently typical conduct fiction like Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761)? This essay locates one cause for the novel's unsatisfying effect in the hostility depicted between the sexes, which undermines the novel's conduct-fiction moral code. Through close reading informed by queer theory and social history, I argue that all the major characters experience relationships poisoned by conflicting loyalties and interests—in familial bonds, homosocial friendships between pairs of both men and women, and heterosexual affairs. The emotional dysfunctionality of these social relations reflects the eighteenthcentury cultural confusion over such issues as the social value of sensibility, the nature of sentimental friendship and its relationship to same-sex relations and to heterosexual unions. The account of these toxic rivalries suggests that this novel offers a satirical critique of conduct fiction because the genre endorses an antifeminist ideology predicated on gender division.
{"title":"Toxic Love: Gender and Genre in Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph","authors":"Barbara M. Benedict","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.235","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:How can so exemplary a heroine of sensibility as Sidney be so brutally punished in an apparently typical conduct fiction like Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761)? This essay locates one cause for the novel's unsatisfying effect in the hostility depicted between the sexes, which undermines the novel's conduct-fiction moral code. Through close reading informed by queer theory and social history, I argue that all the major characters experience relationships poisoned by conflicting loyalties and interests—in familial bonds, homosocial friendships between pairs of both men and women, and heterosexual affairs. The emotional dysfunctionality of these social relations reflects the eighteenthcentury cultural confusion over such issues as the social value of sensibility, the nature of sentimental friendship and its relationship to same-sex relations and to heterosexual unions. The account of these toxic rivalries suggests that this novel offers a satirical critique of conduct fiction because the genre endorses an antifeminist ideology predicated on gender division.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"235 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43257336","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:This essay rethinks a digital humanities approach to literary-historical research by arguing that data is more compatible with narrative than has been heretofore suggested. Taking Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48) as its case study, it examines enumeration as a form of literary characterization in the British novel, a process that conveys meaning through an accounting of time spent in everyday life. This approach to character proposes it is through writing, quantifying, and reviewing that character manifests, rather than as a divulgence of privacy or interiority.
{"title":"Clarissa, by the Numbers: Novel Experience and the Aesthetics of Quantification","authors":"Stephanie Insley Hershinow","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.215","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay rethinks a digital humanities approach to literary-historical research by arguing that data is more compatible with narrative than has been heretofore suggested. Taking Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48) as its case study, it examines enumeration as a form of literary characterization in the British novel, a process that conveys meaning through an accounting of time spent in everyday life. This approach to character proposes it is through writing, quantifying, and reviewing that character manifests, rather than as a divulgence of privacy or interiority.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"215 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46970364","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:This article draws on critical Indigenous theories to locate previously marginalized knowledge systems in Mungo Park's Travels in The Interior Districts of Africa (1799). Park's text abounds with descriptions of jilla keas, "singingmen," and other examples of West African literary cultures (written and oral). I argue that an Indigenous-centered method of reading allows us to locate the Mande knowledges that not only informed Park's mediations of orality but also attempted to resist and reimagine oral culture in the face of increasing colonial presence in West Africa. This article offers possibilities for the critical recovery of Indigenous knowledges within colonial texts. I find a possible reason for Park's detailed engagement with West African oral cultures by locating Travels within a body of Scottish Romantic writing, highlighting the significance of his friendship with Walter Scott in shaping a strong interest in orality.
{"title":"\"We were amused by an itinerant singing-man\": Print, Writing, and Orality in Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa","authors":"A. Sood","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.193","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article draws on critical Indigenous theories to locate previously marginalized knowledge systems in Mungo Park's Travels in The Interior Districts of Africa (1799). Park's text abounds with descriptions of jilla keas, \"singingmen,\" and other examples of West African literary cultures (written and oral). I argue that an Indigenous-centered method of reading allows us to locate the Mande knowledges that not only informed Park's mediations of orality but also attempted to resist and reimagine oral culture in the face of increasing colonial presence in West Africa. This article offers possibilities for the critical recovery of Indigenous knowledges within colonial texts. I find a possible reason for Park's detailed engagement with West African oral cultures by locating Travels within a body of Scottish Romantic writing, highlighting the significance of his friendship with Walter Scott in shaping a strong interest in orality.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"193 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45030841","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":"Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste by Carrie D. Shanafelt","authors":"Christopher Nagle","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48481289","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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