Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a909456
Reviewed by: The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsay Eckert, and: Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës by Devoney Looser Stephanie Insley Hershinow Lindsay Eckert, The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers ( Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell Univ. Press, 2022). Pp. 258; 6 b/w, 3 color illus. $120.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Devoney Looser, Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës ( New York: Bloomsbury, 2022). Pp. 576; 16 pp. insert. $30.00 cloth. How did Romantic writers imagine their readers? How did Romantic readers imagine those writers? Scholars working in book history and on print culture, on celebrity and on reception have illuminated our understanding of the relationships between artists, their intimates, and their admirers. It is no longer considered anachronistic to talk of the "fandoms" that grew around certain illustrious figures; rather, historicizing such subcultures is understood to be a mission worthy of serious study. The two books under consideration in this review tackle these questions via different genres and at different scales. Lindsay Eckert's The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is a monograph, a study of the thorny subject of "familiarity" in Romantic-era writing and culture. Devoney Looser's Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës is a biography—the first, somehow—of Jane and Maria Porter, prolific writers whose names were well known in Regency parlors as both celebrated authors and as subjects of rumor and speculation. Eckert offers an expansive view of the era, treating both the usual suspects (like Wordsworth and Byron) and those less often analyzed in their own right (like Lady Caroline Lamb or Hazlitt-as-novelist). Zooming in on a single case, Looser shapes the scattered but extensive correspondence between Jane and Maria Porter into an immersive account that tracks a single family but also, given the sisters' many famous and infamous correspondents, opens up to capture their broader milieu. Read together, [End Page 107] Looser and Eckert give us a complex, enticing picture of Romantic celebrity—one that expands the terrain beyond the stories we're used to. Eckert argues that successful authorship in the Romantic era depended on the careful navigation of challenging expectations about how best to establish connections—in and outside of the printed text—between authors and readers. One way to think of Eckert's study is as a prehistory of parasocial relationships (though this is not a term she employs). Social media has, as countless op-eds have warned us, encouraged fans to foster unhealthy relationships to celebrities they have never actually met (and likely never will meet). The seemingly direct access granted by social media can appear to flatten hierarchies (or, put more optimistically, to d
书评:熟悉的极限:作者和浪漫的读者林赛·埃克特，和:姐妹小说家:开拓性的波特姐妹，谁铺平了道路奥斯汀和Brontës由Devoney松散斯蒂芬妮·英斯利·赫什诺林赛·埃克特，熟悉的极限:作者和浪漫的读者(刘易斯堡，宾夕法尼亚州:巴克内尔大学出版社，2022)。页。258;6 b/w, 3色灯。布$120.00，纸$34.95。Devoney Looser，姐妹小说家:开创性的波特姐妹，为奥斯汀和Brontës铺平了道路(纽约:布鲁姆斯伯里出版社，2022年)。页。576;16页插入。布30.00美元。浪漫主义作家如何想象他们的读者?浪漫主义读者是如何想象这些作家的呢?研究书籍历史、印刷文化、名人和接待的学者们阐明了我们对艺术家、他们的密友和崇拜者之间关系的理解。谈论围绕某些杰出人物形成的“狂热”不再被认为是不合时宜的;相反，将这些亚文化历史化被认为是一项值得认真研究的任务。在这篇评论中考虑的两本书通过不同的体裁和不同的尺度来解决这些问题。林赛·埃克特的《熟悉的极限:作者和浪漫的读者》是一本专著，研究了浪漫主义时代写作和文化中“熟悉”这个棘手的主题。Devoney Looser的小说姐妹:开创性的波特姐妹，为奥斯汀和Brontës铺平了道路，这是一本传记——不知怎么的，第一本——简和玛丽亚波特的传记，多产的作家，他们的名字在摄政时期的客厅里众所周知，既是著名的作家，也是谣言和猜测的对象。埃克特对那个时代提供了一个广阔的视角，他既研究了通常被怀疑的人物(如华兹华斯和拜伦)，也研究了那些很少被单独分析的人物(如卡罗琳·兰姆夫人或作为小说家的黑兹利特)。《松散》聚焦于一个单一的案例，将简和玛丽亚·波特之间零散而广泛的通信，塑造成一种沉浸式的叙述，既追踪了一个家庭，又考虑到这对姐妹之间有许多著名和臭名昭著的通讯者，从而开阔了视野，捕捉到了她们更广阔的环境。一起读，卢泽和埃克特为我们描绘了一幅浪漫主义名人的复杂而迷人的画面——它扩展了我们所熟悉的故事之外的领域。埃克特认为，在浪漫主义时代，成功的创作依赖于对如何最好地在作者和读者之间——在印刷文本内外——建立联系的挑战期望的谨慎导航。看待埃克特的研究的一种方式是将其视为准社会关系的史前史(尽管这不是她使用的术语)。正如无数专栏文章警告我们的那样，社交媒体鼓励粉丝与他们从未见过的名人建立不健康的关系(很可能永远不会见面)。社交媒体提供的看似直接的访问似乎可以使等级扁平化(或者，更乐观地说，民主化)，允许前所未有的进入艺术家的个人生活，使私人生活公开。我们已经学会称这些关系为“副社会”，尽管这个词是1956年由D. Horton和R. R. Wohl创造的，但它感觉只适合21世纪。埃克特揭示了这个概念的一个更早的谱系，展示了浪漫主义作家如何通过培养与读者的亲密印象来塑造自己的名人，同时，试图避免被指责为不得体的过度熟悉。以那些给拜伦写信的粉丝为例。他的诗歌似乎以一种新的方式回应了观众的反应，不仅产生了个人通信或直接针对读者的外观，而且将这种表面上的通信转化为艺术。埃克特向我们展示，这个诗意的项目之所以大胆，主要是因为它打破了社会和阶级界限的限制，而这些界限是熟悉理论试图控制的。埃克特提到了“熟悉度”，这是一个过度确定的术语，在这个时期，它的多重棘手的价码同样有用。这个术语比乍看起来要复杂得多。“熟悉”一词不仅可以让人联想到家庭生活的亲密，还可以描述一种假设老朋友之间的轻松交谈的写作风格。(“熟悉的信”就是这种风格的例证，但各种印刷体裁越来越吸引……
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a909452
Joseph Roach
It Is Now Time for Music Joseph Roach (bio) What an extraordinary honor it is to be remembered so generously for a book about the persistence of forgetting. My gratitude wells up proportionately. Each of the distinguished contributors remembers something of horizon-expanding importance that I forgot to know: Lisa Freeman, that the neologism glocal would have more clearly expressed the geohistorical relationships I had in mind, had I thought to use it; Kathleen Wilson, that performance—transportable, adaptable, irresistible—both proselytized for the British Empire and fomented resistance to it across all the oceans of the world, "from the Caribbean to the bay of Bengal, and the South Atlantic to the China Sea"; Elizabeth Dillon, that a walk in Ralph Waldo Emerson's footsteps along the "Freedom Trail" across America's oldest park traverses a regional palimpsest of hemispheric racial violence; Amy Huang, that our mapping of the transoceanic flows of cultural substitutions must include Asian peoples; and Daniel O'Quinn, that Jessye Norman's Dido verifies Afro-diasporic surrogation. Perspicaciously, O'Quinn queries my omission of the haunting curse that Virgil's Dido puts on the departing Aeneas and his descendants, calling on her avenger to rise from her bones. My excuse is as abject as it is pertinent to the occasion: I forgot. Indeed, none of these or other similarly recovered memories should ever be taken for granted. "What Americans mean by 'history,''' James Baldwin wrote, "is something that they can forget."1 Today, when the latest instant newsfeeds reenact scenarios of the Enlightenment's greatest failure, scholars of performance, past and present, have it in their power to challenge such refractory postponements of racial reckoning. In the Prologue to her transformative Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833 (2022), for instance, Kathleen Wilson remembers what generations of theater historians forgot: the "good ship Charming Sally," which famously [End Page 41] delivered the first professional acting company to American shores in 1752, was a slaver. Daniel O'Quinn navigates another quadrant of the same sea of tears when he evokes the cries of the drowning jetsam in NourbeSe Philip's Zong! Did their avengers arise from their bones? Do they still? Will they always? And Amy Huang maps an oceanic Asian current that runs so far and so deep, reminding her senior colleagues not to forget that the next wave of scholarly research in the field is already building even as ours crests. Anyone's memory can fail, but forgetting to remember differs from remembering to forget. Forgetting to remember might arise from unconscious repression, inattention, infirmity, or, as is so often the case, intractable cluelessness. Remembering to forget, by contrast, requires volition. I remembered to forget the Puritans, for instance, as Elizabeth Dillon points out. But the best antidote to forgetting, a
是时候听音乐了约瑟夫·罗奇(传记)能因为一本关于遗忘的持久性的书而被如此慷慨地记住，这是一种非同寻常的荣誉。我的感激之情相应地涌起。每一位杰出的贡献者都记得一些我忘了知道的、具有拓展视野的重要性的东西:丽莎·弗里曼(Lisa Freeman)，如果我想到要使用新词“全球的”(glocal)，它会更清楚地表达我心目中的地理历史关系;凯瑟琳·威尔逊(Kathleen Wilson)的表演——可移动、适应性强、不可抗拒——既为大英帝国传教，又在世界各大洋煽动对它的抵制，“从加勒比海到孟加拉湾，从南大西洋到中国海”;伊丽莎白·狄龙(Elizabeth Dillon)认为，沿着拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生(Ralph Waldo Emerson)的足迹，沿着“自由之路”穿越美国最古老的公园，穿越了一个半球种族暴力的地区性重写本;Amy Huang，我们对跨洋文化更替的描绘必须包括亚洲人;和丹尼尔·奥奎因，杰西·诺曼的黛朵证实了非洲侨民的代入。很明显，奥奎因质疑我遗漏了维吉尔笔下的狄多对即将离去的埃涅阿斯和他的后代施加的挥之不去的诅咒，呼唤她的复仇者从她的骨头中复活。我的借口很卑鄙，但又很应景:我忘了。事实上，这些或其他类似的恢复记忆都不应该被视为理所当然。“美国人所说的‘历史’，”詹姆斯·鲍德温写道，“是他们可以忘记的东西。今天，当最新的即时新闻重现启蒙运动最大失败的场景时，研究表演的学者，无论是过去的还是现在的，都有能力挑战这种难以接受的种族清算推迟。例如，在凯瑟琳·威尔逊(Kathleen Wilson)的《帝国的变革漫步者:1656年至1833年(2022年)英国帝国省的戏剧和权力表演》的序言中，她记得几代戏剧历史学家忘记的事情:“迷人的莎莉号好船”是一艘奴隶船，它在1752年向美国海岸运送了第一个专业表演公司。丹尼尔·奥奎因(Daniel O'Quinn)在唤起《诺贝斯·菲利普的宗》(nourbeese Philip's Zong)中落水的快艇的哭声时，在同一泪水之海的另一个象限进行了导航!他们的复仇者是从他们的骨头里冒出来的吗?他们还在吗?他们会一直这样吗?Amy Huang绘制了一幅亚洲洋流的地图，它跑得如此之远，如此之深，提醒她的资深同事不要忘记，即使在我们的研究达到顶峰时，该领域的下一波学术研究也已经开始了。任何人的记忆都会衰退，但是忘记记忆和记住忘记是不同的。忘记记忆可能是由于无意识的压抑、注意力不集中、身体虚弱，或者通常是由于顽固的无知造成的。相反，记住忘记需要意志。例如，正如伊丽莎白·狄龙指出的那样，我记得忘记了清教徒。但是，正如丽莎·弗里曼(Lisa Freeman)在引言中引用《死亡之城》(Cities of the Dead)所强调的那样，遗忘的最佳解药存在于表演的“审美触感”中，无论是现场体验还是生动再现。同样，狄龙的《新世界戏剧:大西洋世界的表演公地》(2014)和威尔逊的《漫步的玩家》的封面艺术都来自牙买加Jonkonnu的节日场景，由Isaac Mendes Belisario在1833-37年拍摄，令人瞠目。“古柯，或演员男孩”在狄龙面前炫耀着他的东西:飘逸的羽毛、假发和鞭子衬托着他从白色面具下露出来的黑脸，讽刺地向17世纪牙买加的创始英国领主鞠躬，与伟大的莎士比亚作家托马斯·贝特顿同时代，他在《奥赛罗》中的表演震撼灵魂。“红衫女郎”(The Red Set Girls)为威尔逊表演了旋转舞:旋转着粉红色的阳伞，扬起白色的衬裙，向草垛状的“绿衣杰克”(jack -in- green)致敬。名义上，这个角色与英国的五一庆祝活动有关，牙买加杰克，也被称为Pitchy Patchy，与西非的Egungun假面舞者更相似这些神秘的、移动的、棚屋形状的雕像调解了生者和祖先死者之间的关系，以肯定他们的精神凝聚力，蔑视流散和种族灭绝。作为反表演的帝国漫步者，上演了一部仍在上演的新世界剧，咕咕、皮奇、红套……
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a909462
Reviewed by: Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731–1814 by Sean D. Moore Matthew Sangster Sean D. Moore, Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731–1814 ( Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019). Pp. 288; 21 b/w illus. $91.00 cloth. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries argues convincingly that "the African slave was the property that created the sovereign, virtuous, agrarian white civic republican" (15). It achieves this by bringing to light forms of exploitation that both subsidized and informed eighteenth-century literary culture. The book constructs its argument by considering interconnected material and ideological spheres, examining the sources of wealth that allowed well-to-do subscription library members access to expensive cultural luxuries alongside analyzing literary works that were held in and circulated from such libraries. An extensive preface and introduction work in concert to set out the book's principal contentions and parameters. In the introduction, the careful discussions of historiography and the commitment to clarity of argument are particularly impressive. Each of the five chapters features "an introduction, an explication of its major literary text for analysis, a history of the library it explores, and evidence of reading books in the library's particular socio-cultural contexts" (xiii). The first chapter examines the Salem Social Library (founded in 1760) alongside Oroonoko, considering both Aphra Behn's original fiction (1688) and John Hawkesworth's 1759 play. The second chapter reads Alexander Pope's use of slavery metaphors and his defenses of the status quo in Windsor Forest (1713) and the Essay on Man (1733–4) in the context of the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island (founded in 1747). The third chapter pairs Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and the [End Page 127] New York Society Library (founded in 1754), focusing particularly on possessive individualism. The fourth chapter considers Charles Johnstone's Chrysal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea (1760 and 1765), reading the politics of the it-narrative through the lenses of the Charleston Library Society (founded in 1748) and the South Carolina practice of using enslaved people to back paper money. The final chapter considers the Library Company of Philadelphia (founded in 1731) alongside Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789). This chapter pays particular attention to generic mixing and to the uses Equiano made of the work of Philadelphia-based abolitionist Anthony Benezet, whose books representing African civilizations in a positive light were compiled in part using Library Company holdings. Moore marshals an entirely persuasive case that all five libraries he examines—and by implication most other early American subscription libraries—were founded and supported b
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a909458
Reviewed by: Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism by Gregory Claeys Jason Pearl Gregory Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism ( Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2022). Pp. 608. $39.95 cloth. The latest book by Gregory Claeys gives an impression of summation and culmination. At over 600 pages, it returns to and reexamines many of the texts and topics that Claeys, a historian of radical and socialist thought, has spent a lifetime researching. His work across five decades as author and editor has helped us to see the significance of social idealism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dystopia: A Natural History (2016), itself over 500 pages, examines the history of the concept in both creative literature and actual political regimes—that is, governments that have made real the sorts of scenarios that writers have only imagined. The book discussed here, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, is likewise bleak in tone, despite its concern with speculations we might think of as positive or optimistic. Indeed, for Claeys, it will take the boldest aspirations—the kind that are sometimes dismissed as unrealistic—to address what are in fact our realest problems. The bulk of the book is a survey of utopian ideas and practices, with a chapter at the end that distills useful lessons and applies them to the climate crisis. Historically, Claeys starts in ancient Sparta and ends with the counterculture of the 1960s, giving ample attention to debates over luxury in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and the United States. Thematically, he moves from literature and political philosophy to cultural movements and governmental institutions, finding worthwhile, though admittedly dated, proposals for equity and sustainability in an array of sources that go far beyond the parameters of Thomas More's Utopia (1516). This range is the strength of the book: in my view, no one but Claeys could have covered the subject so knowledgeably, so expansively. In some ways, despite the focus on consumption and the environment, Utopianism for a Dying Planet is a good introduction to the subject of utopia in general. Part 1, "Towards a Theory of Utopian Sociability," is composed of a meditation on the meaning of utopia; an excavation of its mythical background; and a [End Page 117] commentary on various theoretical models. In chapter 1, Claeys gives a broad and compound but nonetheless minimally complicated definition, so that "utopia consists in any ideal or imaginary society portrayed in any manner" (19). It has taken a number of forms: a text, a religion, a mental state, the very notion of progress, the experience of pleasure. At the same time, it is more than an empty placeholder or mere suggestion that things could be otherwise. Claeys insists, against theorists such as Fredric Jameson, on the details of plans and projects, however farfetched, and argues for the practical utility of even fantastical literature. Chapter 2 looks at th
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Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2023.a905170
Chris Magra
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a900657
C. Hsieh, Devin Leigh, Kay Chronister, Arif Camoglu, Hilary Havens, Claude Willan, K. Alves, Eun Kyung Min, Bradley Craig, Misty G. Anderson, Elizabeth Dill, Keenan Burton, Charlotte Trinquet du Lys, Hal Gladfelder, Elena Deanda-Camacho, William Selinger, Carrie Shanafelt, Nora Nachumi, Jordan Green, Antonio T. Bly, Mark Vareschi
Abstract:Chinese Landskips, a set of twelve prints published between 1750 and 1760, has been regarded as exemplifying the fashion of chinoiserie, continuing the process of pastiche and disseminating imaginary views of China. This article proposes another interpretation by situating these prints in the contexts of printed topographical views and illustrated geography books. An analysis of Chinese Landskips and the illustrations in The Geographical Magazine (1782–83) reveals that the strategies that made the images appear authoritative and credible to eighteenth-century visual habits were more important than the question of whether or not they were pastiche.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a900677
Mark Vareschi
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a900673
Carrie D. Shanafelt
realize, not only from our current world, but also from the very question we are naturally prone to ask of it—the question of the origins of modern party democracy. Perhaps in scholarship as in parliamentary politics there is value to having both Tories and Whigs. Thanks to The Persistence of Party, we can at least be hopeful that future theories and grand narratives about modern party politics will be better attuned to the history of party in eighteenth-century Britain.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a900671
Elena Deanda-Camacho
of Enlightenment polemic and exchange. By giving us a nuanced and detailed portrait of Bianchi as a medical and socio-cultural gadfly or rebel, she underlines the radicalism of his non-judgmental account of the Vizzani case, and by extension of his treatment of broader questions about the relations between the body, identity, and desire. One significant discovery Donato has made in this regard is the long-lost text of a Discorso on love between men that Bianchi delivered in Bologna to the curiously named Accademia dei Diffettuosi (Academy of the Defective) in 1719, twenty-five years before writing the Breve Storia. This “apology for same-sex love” (59), as Donato calls it, suggests that Bianchi’s interest in dissident or prohibited forms of desire, and the sexual or gender identities these may create or express, was not incidental but of long standing. Inasmuch as it has never been published, it would have been very useful to have included this text in full (in Italian and English translation) as a fourth appendix, especially as an entire chapter is devoted to it.
启蒙运动的辩论和交流她细致入微地描绘了比安奇作为一个医学和社会文化上的牛头或反叛者的形象，强调了比安奇对维扎尼一案的非评判性叙述的激进性，并延伸了他对身体、身份和欲望之间关系的更广泛问题的处理。多纳托在这方面的一个重要发现是，比安奇于1719年在博洛尼亚交给名为“缺陷学院”(Accademia dei Diffettuosi)的《男人之间的爱情》的失传已久的文本，这比安奇写《短暂的故事》早了25年。多纳托称之为“为同性之爱道歉”(59)，这表明比安奇对不同意见或被禁止的欲望形式的兴趣，以及这些形式可能创造或表达的性或性别认同，不是偶然的，而是长期存在的。由于它从未出版过，如果将全文(意大利语和英语翻译)作为第四附录，特别是作为一整章专门讨论它，将是非常有用的。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2023.a900672
William Selinger
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