thing) and a perceiving mind, modeled on the various other kinds of involvements—between lord and dependent, suitor and potential spouse, or merchants and investments—that the eighteenth century calls ‘interest’” (105). Subsequently, when he turns to The Interesting Narrative in more detail, he demonstrates that Equiano effectively deploys all the available meanings of “interest” and “interesting”—political, affective, and economic—in order to solicit readers’ attention and sympathy and to convince them that these meanings are inherently complementary, perhaps even fungible. As the book artfully concludes, “The Interesting Narrative succeeds because it seeks out every kind of interest it can get” (123). Likewise, Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century succeeds along similar lines, with a brief conclusion that brings Sider Jost’s own interesting narrative up to date by considering the status of “interest” in such contemporary phenomena as Meg Wolitzer’s novel The Interestings (2013) and the Goodreads rating system.
{"title":"Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond by Laura J. Rosenthal (review)","authors":"Bridget Orr","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.316","url":null,"abstract":"thing) and a perceiving mind, modeled on the various other kinds of involvements—between lord and dependent, suitor and potential spouse, or merchants and investments—that the eighteenth century calls ‘interest’” (105). Subsequently, when he turns to The Interesting Narrative in more detail, he demonstrates that Equiano effectively deploys all the available meanings of “interest” and “interesting”—political, affective, and economic—in order to solicit readers’ attention and sympathy and to convince them that these meanings are inherently complementary, perhaps even fungible. As the book artfully concludes, “The Interesting Narrative succeeds because it seeks out every kind of interest it can get” (123). Likewise, Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century succeeds along similar lines, with a brief conclusion that brings Sider Jost’s own interesting narrative up to date by considering the status of “interest” in such contemporary phenomena as Meg Wolitzer’s novel The Interestings (2013) and the Goodreads rating system.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"316 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46076453","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 presents a material-semiotic reading of the Irish mantle to develop a new, formal analysis of subjective interiority in Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels. The mantle's material functions of concealment and physical defense in medieval Ireland, alongside its imperial and nationalist adaptations in the writings of Edmund Spenser and Joseph Cooper Walker, evince the garment's complex narrativity. Informed by new materialist theory, this article uses the mantle's material and semiotic articulations, from its violent history and gendered adaptations in the early nineteenth century, to adapt Deidre Lynch's model of deep character in the British novel to Irish fiction. Through the allusion to colonial violence, the mantles in Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809) structure a deep interiority that is unique to Irish character. The mantle both signals and conceals the depths of Irish subjectivity within the text, confounding reader-character intimacy. Edgeworth's mantles demand a revised model of deep character for the Irish context.
{"title":"Edgeworth's \"Great Coat\": A Material-Semiotic Reading of the Irish Mantle and Novelistic Interiority","authors":"Colleen Taylor","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.261","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article presents a material-semiotic reading of the Irish mantle to develop a new, formal analysis of subjective interiority in Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels. The mantle's material functions of concealment and physical defense in medieval Ireland, alongside its imperial and nationalist adaptations in the writings of Edmund Spenser and Joseph Cooper Walker, evince the garment's complex narrativity. Informed by new materialist theory, this article uses the mantle's material and semiotic articulations, from its violent history and gendered adaptations in the early nineteenth century, to adapt Deidre Lynch's model of deep character in the British novel to Irish fiction. Through the allusion to colonial violence, the mantles in Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809) structure a deep interiority that is unique to Irish character. The mantle both signals and conceals the depths of Irish subjectivity within the text, confounding reader-character intimacy. Edgeworth's mantles demand a revised model of deep character for the Irish context.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"261 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46631784","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":"Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano by Jacob Sider Jost (review)","authors":"Evan Gottlieb","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"314 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42833396","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":"Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book by Helen Williams","authors":"Paul Baines","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.1.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47220768","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":"The Early Caribbean Digital Archive","authors":"Kerry. Sinanan","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.1.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45101016","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":"Narrative, Catastrophe and Historicity in Eighteenth-Century French Literature by Jessica Stacey","authors":"Daniel Rosenberg","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.1.178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45903236","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":"Founded in Fiction: The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States by Thomas Koenigs","authors":"Xine Yao","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.1.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45154940","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:In this essay, I employ Saidiya Hartman's method of critical fabulation to read The Woman of Colour as a fictional archive, which brings Dido, the enslaved maid of protagonist Olivia Fairfield, to the forefront of the novel. Critical fabulation requires listening for both the silences of the novel and the moments when Dido speaks out. Dido's insistence on claiming her presence within a variety of spaces—a ship, a London household, a large English estate—represents an ontological alternative to traditional notions of agency inherited from the European Enlightenment. Recognizing that our present moment exists within the time of slavery, Hartman's critical fabulation invites us to consider what radical ways of being are contained within Dido's words as well as the gaps and opacities of The Woman of Colour.
{"title":"Reading Slantwise: Dido in The Woman of Colour (1808)","authors":"Sofia Prado Huggins","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this essay, I employ Saidiya Hartman's method of critical fabulation to read The Woman of Colour as a fictional archive, which brings Dido, the enslaved maid of protagonist Olivia Fairfield, to the forefront of the novel. Critical fabulation requires listening for both the silences of the novel and the moments when Dido speaks out. Dido's insistence on claiming her presence within a variety of spaces—a ship, a London household, a large English estate—represents an ontological alternative to traditional notions of agency inherited from the European Enlightenment. Recognizing that our present moment exists within the time of slavery, Hartman's critical fabulation invites us to consider what radical ways of being are contained within Dido's words as well as the gaps and opacities of The Woman of Colour.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"27 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41631680","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":"Organic Supplements: Bodies and Things of the Natural World, 1580–1790, ed. Miriam Jacobson and Julie Park","authors":"Cassidy C. Turner","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.1.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48283357","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":"Digital Grainger: An Online Edition of The Sugar-Cane (1764) (review)","authors":"M. A. Miller","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.1.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.1.150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"150 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45847282","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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