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ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Very happy to have my review of Laura Runge's "Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion" in such wonderful company (scroll down a whole bunch!)
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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
I'm going to be talking about some new work at the "Legal Imaginaries" symposium at the ANU next week and looking forward to learning a lot from the interdisciplinary work on law and literature that is going on across Asia and the Pacific events.humanitix.com/legal-imagin...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
I sent the ECF October 2024 issue to the publisher: you know what that means! Free to read new book reviews on the ECF journal website at McMaster University: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ecf-36-4-oct... #18thCentury Thanks for reading ECF journal!
The cover of the October 2024 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal features a japanese artwork from the 18th century. In the artwork, a woman sits on the floor. She is wearing flowing robes and is reading some manuscript pages.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
These are the last few days of Managing Editor, Jacqueline Langille, as the ECF online voice (retiring!). Signing off August 28th, with someone new taking over ECF social media in the fall. Stay tuned for updates. #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF at @ProjectMUSE : muse.jhu.edu/journal/324
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024: "A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF @ProjectMUSE !
Abstract: This encounter with The Woman of Colour (1808) began with a 2019 call by Romantic Circles Pedagogies for essays on "Romantic" teaching. The COVID-19 pandemic intervened, as did a personal tragedy that was yet not my own. The essay I eventually wrote was reshaped by this tragedy, as were my reflections on the experimental assignment in life-writing that was to be the essay's focus. My tone, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024: "A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF @ProjectMUSE !
Abstract: This encounter with The Woman of Colour (1808) began with a 2019 call by Romantic Circles Pedagogies for essays on "Romantic" teaching. The COVID-19 pandemic intervened, as did a personal tragedy that was yet not my own. The essay I eventually wrote was reshaped by this tragedy, as were my reflections on the experimental assignment in life-writing that was to be the essay's focus. My tone, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
A new ECF article in the July issue: "Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Project MUSE - Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
A new ECF article in the July issue: "Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Project MUSE - Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Another new article in ECF July 2024: "The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF journal at Project MUSE !
The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Another new article in ECF July 2024: "The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF journal at Project MUSE !
The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
I'm trying to identify a late 18th-century woman writer (probably a poet) whose surname was BURNET (listed in a text from 1786 alongside Jane Graham, A-L Barbauld, Hannah Moore, Anna Seward, Hannah Cowley). Anyone know who this might be? #18thCentury #18C
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
New ECF article in the July 2024 issue: "A Play to Be Read: Authorship as Marriage in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett (1723)," by Anaclara Castro-Santana muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 387-410 #18thCentury Please Read ECF journal at Project MUSE!
Front Cover of the July 2024 issue of ECF journal: The image is called Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
Read ECF July 2024 online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797 Reading ECF on Project MUSE enables the journal to keep publishing your work. #18thCentury
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
If you missed my latest talk on Gothic Sublimity and the work of Ann Radcliffe, you can find it here! It's based on chapter 2 of my book 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic' which has been short-listed for the Alan Lloyd Smith prize for Gothic scholarship! youtu.be/9HCCr4Wvfjo
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Exploring Gothic Sublimity in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho with Dr Sam Hirst
I take you on a deep dive into the sublime in Ann Radcliffe based on the second chapter of my book 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797 Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Fiction-Volume 36, Number 3, July 2024
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797 Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Fiction-Volume 36, Number 3, July 2024
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Reminder: The ECF special issue Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1 and Part 2 are available to read at Project MUSE: Part 1: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979 Part 2: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
The image on the front cover of the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction is entitled Young Woman with a Book, by Miyagawa (Katsukawa) Shunsui (mid-18th century). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
Just because it's Tuesday, I'm reposting a Material Fictions article: "Eighteenth-Century Pipes and the Erasure of the Disposable Object," by Samuel Diener muse.jhu.edu/article/715155 #18thCentury Read ECF journal at Project Muse !
Discarded, white-clay smoking pipes, many with broken stems, likely from the early eighteenth century.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration? We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles. ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca #18thCentury Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com ReadECF @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/324
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration? We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles. ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca #18thCentury Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com ReadECF @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/324
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
A short FlashbackFriday trip to 2023: "Troubling White Femininity: Revisiting Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720)," by Kirsten T. Saxton ECF 35.4, October 2023, pp. 485-496 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... Please Read ECF at Project MUSE ! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Abstract: In this essay, I use Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720) to examine how my own scholarly reading practices more broadly reflect and have helped shape a primarily cis-gendered, overwhelmingly white feminist critical history of amatory fictions of the long eighteenth century. I have previously read Manley's text primarily as a study in feminist rage: Violenta, the virtuous white protagonist, and Ianthe, a woman of African descent enslaved to Violenta's family, work together across statuses to dispatch an abusive patriarch. However, Ianthe engages in this labour neither for the sake of Violenta nor to attack the system of gendered and economic violation that results in Violenta's wrongful ruin, but to liberate herself from enslavement. This micro-critical reflection suggests that the text offers a prequel of contemporary discourses on gendered and racial rage. Whose rage is politically consequential or imaginatively possible? ...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals: utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3 Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version! On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link. Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3,  shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals: utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3 Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version! On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link. Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3,  shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
An ECF article from Material Fictions just because it's Tuesday: "Puppets, Waxworks, and a Wooden Dramatis Personae: Eighteenth-Century Material Culture and Philosophical History in William Godwin’s /Fleetwood/," by Emma Peacocke muse.jhu.edu/article/704848 #ReadECF #18thCentury
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Reminder: At submission, the ECF editors do *not* require Chicago Manual of Style formatting. Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Please follow the abstract tips especially, since a convincing abstract can persuade a scholar to peer review your manuscript. #18thCentury
A list of Common mistakes in choosing article keyphrases: such as (1) Using single-word terms; (2) Choosing terms or phrases that are too broad and not focused on your work – such as “eighteenth-century studies,” ...Tips from the University of Toronto Press about writing an article abstract: text begins with "Any article that is going to appear online needs a well-written abstract to accompany it." ...
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
The general call for session proposals (Round 2) for ASECS 2025 is now open! See the 2025 Annual Meeting Page for more more information! Submissions are due JULY 26, 2024. asecs.org/2024/06/19/c...
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Call for Session Proposals ASECS 2025 Round 2 – ASECS
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Reminder: At submission, the ECF editors do *not* require Chicago Manual of Style formatting. Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Please follow the abstract tips especially, since a convincing abstract can persuade a scholar to peer review your manuscript. #18thCentury
A list of Common mistakes in choosing article keyphrases: such as (1) Using single-word terms; (2) Choosing terms or phrases that are too broad and not focused on your work – such as “eighteenth-century studies,” ...Tips from the University of Toronto Press about writing an article abstract: text begins with "Any article that is going to appear online needs a well-written abstract to accompany it." ...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
The University of Toronto Press is working on publishing ECF July 2024 (36.4). While we're waiting: the July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Get your read on!
A snippet from the Table of Contents for the Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal issue July 2024, 36.3, the book reviews section, starting with: England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 by Humberto Garcia. Review by Eun Kyung Min, Seoul National University ...A snippet from the second page of the Table of Contents for the Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal issue July 2024, 36.3, the book reviews section, starting with: Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. Albert J. Rivero and George Justice. Review by Kit Kincade, Indiana State University ...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Check out the ASECS 2025 website: asecs.org/meetings/ase... Call for proposals ... #18thCentury A virtual conference in 2025! Over two weekends.
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Call for Papers – ASECS
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
If you're including /The Woman of Colour/ on your syllabus, may we suggest adding "New Essays on /The Woman of Colour/ (1808)"? Find this ECF special issue on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/49214 Editors Nicole Aljoe, Kerry Sinanan, & Mariam Wassif #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Artist: Joy Labinjo, TItle: /Lady from Liverpool/ (2020). Copyright and digital reproduction granted by the artist. Copyright remains with the artist. This painting appears on the cover of the ECF special issue "New Essays on The Woman of Colour."New Essays on The Woman of Colour (1808) introduction by Nicole N. Aljoe, Kerry Sinanan, and Mariam Wassif
Reading Slantwise: Dido in The Woman of Colour (1808)
By Sofia Prado Huggins
“Mind Is Revealed in the Countenance”: Subversive Laughter and Caricature in The Woman of Colour
By Leigh-Michil George
Interracial Sex and Narrative Crisis in The Woman of Colour
By Joyce Green MacDonald
Sentiment and Sexual Servitude: White Men of Feeling and The Woman of Colour
By Rebecca Anne Barr
August Disgust: Distinction, Disinterest, and Race in The Woman of Colour
By Daniel Yu
Favoured Isles: Selfishness and Sacrifice in the Capital of Capital
By Natalie Zacek
Coda: The Woman of Colour and Living Memory
By Addy Adelaine
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Now with links to the books added! I sent the files to press for ECF July 2024, so you know what that means: The July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Get your read on!
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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
If you’ll excuse the self-promotion, there’s a nice review of my book about ECCO by Tonya Howe in the January 2024 issue.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
I sent the files to the University of Toronto Press for the July 2024 issue of ECF, so you know what that means: The July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Get your read on!
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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
My PhD is available open access! It examines anxiety across the lifecycle through letters of the Canning family 1760-1830. Covers emotions, family, relationships, gender, letters, stages of lifecycle, age, communications, the Cannings researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/16302/ #skystorians #18thc #19thc
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Anxious expressions: remote relationships in the Canning correspondence network 1760-1830 - ResearchSPAce
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
It's official: after 22 years of managing @ecfjournal.bsky.social (and managing its Editor), Jacqueline Langille is retiring! I cannot adequately describe what it has meant to me to collaborate with Jackie on this journal for the past 15 years. I have learned so much from her. ❤️
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'Reading about eighteenth-century literature and culture never gets dull.' - Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
Jacqueline Langille, the managing editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, will be retiring in August after more than 20 years with the journal.   An accomplished artist with a background in journalism a...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
After 22 years at McMaster U as ECF Managing Editor, Jacqueline Langille will retire (that's me!): www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/stories/read... Signing off August 31st, with someone new taking over ECF social media. Stay tuned for updates. #18thCentury Read ECF muse.jhu.edu/journal/324
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'Reading about eighteenth-century literature and culture never gets dull.' - Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
Jacqueline Langille, the managing editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, will be retiring in August after more than 20 years with the journal.   An accomplished artist with a background in journalism a...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Titles for academic research articles can be challenging. A narrative title is a good choice: long titles lead the reader into the essay. Search algorithms will not find a pithy or punny title, but compelling key-words/phrases will get attention. Tip: glean parts of the title from your abstract.
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
ECF journal also publishes articles on material fictions and material culture: "Colonizing through Clay: A Case Study of the Pineapple in British Material Culture," by Joanna M. Gohmann muse.jhu.edu/article/704846 #18thCentury #MaterialCulture Read ECF at Project MUSE!
Ceramic teapot from the 18th century. The body of the teapot is shaped like a round pineapple and is yellow. The spout and handle are green.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
"re-evaluate the boundaries of the museum and shed more light on the role played by women’s natural history collections in contributing to scientific knowledge in the long nineteenth century." #19thC #WomenInSTEM 🧪📜🗃️ #HPS
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
I’m super excited to be chairing @zugenia.bsky.social’s keynote on ‘Impertinent Romanticisms’ at the online part of #BARS2024 on Thursday 1st August! The daffodils CAN go fuck themselves!!
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Pretty psyched to be giving the online plenary at #BARS2024, chaired by the excellent @drbeard79.bsky.social! Let’s start making a list now of what all can go fuck themselves!! #Bigger6
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
BARS Conference 2024 Programme Announced! Check out this update from the BARS Conference Committee for more information on the upcoming conferences in Glasgow and Online: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5270 Thanks also to Dr Craig Lamont for our fabulous conference logo!
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
Reminder: The ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1" is available to read at Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979 It's a fantastic lineup. See Alt Text on ToC pictures. And read Part 2 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction, by Manu Samriti Chander, and Eugenia Zuroski -- 1
Refusing Settler Georgics
Katarina O’Briain, York University 7
Little Lamb’s Roast Pig: A Minor Intervention
Olivia Loksing Moy, CUNY, Lehman College 37
Born That Way: Asexuality and Kinship
in “The History of Mrs Selvyn”
Abigail Zitin, Rutgers University 69
An Alternative Revolution: Isabelle de Charrière’s
Politics of Care
Tracy L. Rutler, Pennsylvania State University 91
Police Time: Equiano, Blackness, and Custody
Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (SUNY) 111
Flash Essays
Refusing the Fictions of Unmarked Whiteness:
Challenging Human Rank, Race, and History
Patrícia Martins Marcos, UCLA 127
On Noongar Boodjah: George Vancouver’s Colonial Fictions
Ryan D. Fong, Kalamazoo College 133
Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and
the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters
Arif Camoglu, NYU Shanghai 139 AND MOREThe Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction
Julianne Adams, Vanderbilt U 209
Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys;
or, Why Sir Charles Grandison is (a) No Wanker
Rachel Gevlin, Birmingham-Southern College 233
Behn’s White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-
Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688)
Fauve Vandenberghe, Ghent University 251
The Fiction of Amatonormativity: Reactions to Queer Platonic
Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Megan Cole, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 269
Flash Essays
Romantic Hope and “Black Despair”: A Brief History
Taylor Schey, NC State University 293
The Ameliorationist Trap: Reformist Capture and
the Long Eighteenth Century
Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Middlebury College 299
Designing Truth between Manuscript and Publication:
The Eighteenth-Century French Vision of Peru
in Marmontel’s Les Incas (1777)
Agnieszka Anna Ficek, CUNY, The Graduate Center 303
Enlightenment and Exchange
Fraser Easton, University of Waterloo 309 AND MORE
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Reupping a most excellent article in the latest ECF special issue: "Behn’s White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688)," by Fauve Vandenberghe muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Abstract: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) has elicited myriad contradictory readings based on its central ideologies about race and slavery. The ambivalence within the novel has made it a popular text to adapt or translate to produce a certain politics. This essay examines two twentieth-century Dutch-Surinamese translations of the novel: H.D. Benjamins's of 1919 and Albert Helman's of 1983. I contextualize both translations within each author's language politics and imperial projects, reading their work through the lens of Gloria Wekker's notion of "white innocence." I argue that Benjamins and Helman rely on Behn's ethnographic authority and her white sentimentalized womanhood to produce an imperialist politics that perpetuates the long-standing myth of the Netherlands as a gentle and benevolent nation. By moving beyond the notorious politicization of Oroonoko during the nineteenth-century abolition movement, this essay sheds new light on how the novel's ambivalent politics ...
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Random Word Search Wednesday (or not so random) -- the word "protest" shows up in various ECF articles, including "The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction," by Julianne Adams muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 209-231 #18thCentury Read ECF journal at Project MUSE
Abstract: This article reads amatory fiction through the image of white women's tears, and it argues that amatory fiction assists in eighteenth-century racialization by idealizing a feminine affect that mobilizes passivity for status. A spectacle of sympathetic attention, white women's tears exemplify the affective work of white feminism, which singularly analyzes power through gender. Lacking intersectionality, white feminism upholds white supremacy and enables constituents to wield gender oppression self-servingly. This article locates and deconstructs that affective dynamic in Delarivier Manley's "The Wife's Resentment" (1720), Penelope Aubin's "Conjugal Duty Rewarded" (1721), and Eliza Haywood's "Female Revenge" (1727). These retellings of heroines navigating adulterous lovers depict feminine virtue as passive and essentialize this virtuous passivity within the logic of whiteness. This narrativization victimizes the heroine and purchases her sympathy, which protects her virtue...
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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Today is the UK publication day for Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, a fabulous book by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social published with @yalepress.bsky.social #craft #making #18c
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Are you ready to submit your work for consideration? ECF has spots open in the July *2025* issue for research articles. Questions: ecf@mcmaster.ca Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com Read ECF at Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/journal/324 #18thCentury
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