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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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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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 MORE

The 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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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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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

The newest ECF special issue, entitled "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2," is now available to read at Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266 ECF 36.2, April 2024 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Read ECF journal @ProjectMUSE : "The Survival of Non-Productive Labour in Mary Shelley’s /The Last Man/," by Konstantinos (Kos) Pozoukidis muse.jhu.edu/article/787459 #19thCentury #Long18thCentury The journal's purview is long and broad! Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf #18thCentury

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Two syllabuses added to the ECF Syllabus Treasury! ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/syllabus/ Many thanks to Dr Charlee Bezilla, George Washington U for: Spring 2023, Being Human in the Eighteenth Century and Spring 2024, Fake News! Rumors, Scandals, and Culture Wars in Early Modern France #18thCentury

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

One more excellent Reflections essay on pedagogy in the new ECF issue, April 2024: "Race-Making and Romanticism: Notes on Pedagogy and the Position of Whiteness," by Taylor Schey muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, pp. 337-45 #18thCentury #C18th Read ECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: Recent discussions often conflate the project of developing an antiracist Romantic studies with the project of discovering an antiracist Romanticism, the elements of which could be culled from its revolutionary texts and radical figurations. This essay considers the risks of this conflation and the critical investments it protects. First, I discuss how and why some scholars are liable to skip over the task of considering the extent of Romanticism's racism. Next, I relate my experience teaching an upper-level undergraduate course titled "Race-Making and Romanticism," in which we explored how Romantic literature registered and participated in the early nineteenth-century project of forging whiteness and consolidating logics of anti-Blackness. Finally, I reflect on how my approach to antiracist work is a function of my position as a white cis male, suggesting that those of us in the position of whiteness would do well to consider our attachment to Romantic authors ...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

A third excellent Reflections essay on pedagogy in the new ECF issue: "Romantic Movements," by Andrew McInnes muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 329-336 #18thCentury #19thCentury #Romanticism Thank you for reading ECF journal at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This Reflections essay considers antiracist theory and practice and its impact on Romantic Studies today as displayed in a master's-level module aimed at introducing the use of theory to postgraduate students of nineteenth-century studies. Alongside these concerns, the reflection considers what it means to feel "Romantic" today, as well as the role and usefulness of discomfort in postgraduate pedagogy.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Another most excellent essay reflecting on pedagogy in the new ECF issue: "Romanticism After Black Studies," by Thom Van Camp muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 323-27 #18thCentury #19thCentury #Romanticism

Abstract: This course emerges from my individual research and seeks to bring students into an experimental project of co-reading. The course reading plan is structured by pairing canonical Romantic poets with writing by Black theorists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This course is designed for the graduate level and would also be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate students.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Reflections essays on pedagogy in the new ECF special issue: "A Collaborative Approach to Antiracist Pedagogy," by Nicole Hamblin and Carmen Faye Mathes muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 315-322 #18thCentury #19thCentury #Romanticism Read ECF journal at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This cowritten Reflections essay describes an upper-division seminar for honours and master's students that brought together established antiracist pedagogical principles (for example, decentering Britain) with a commitment to hands-on, in-class collaboration. This collaborative dimension buoyed the class's capacity to encounter both the challenges and insights that the antiracist framework brought to the fore. In a course that sought to engage with Romantic poetry of "labour and longing" in the age of transatlantic slavery, working together became both an object of study and a learning practice. The coauthored nature of this essay therefore advances, beyond the end of term, the importance of listening and learning from one another in the pursuit of more inclusive, wide-ranging, and (very often) discomforting learning environments, even as such environments can only ever be imperfect.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Another thought-provoking flash essay in the newest special issue of ECF: "Enlightenment and Exchange," by Fraser Easton (@fraser_easton on X) ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 309-314 #18thCentury Read ECF journal at Project MUSE! #C18th #18thC

Abstract: This essay explores a link made in the late eighteenth century between social critique and economic progress. At the intersection of enlightenment and capitalist exchange a series of assumptions about social development and social tutelage are made. While national development driven by exchange was understood to homogenize people, and peoples, over time, I argue that this homogenizing effect depended on a constant application of economic tutelage. According to Adam Smith the propensity to exchange is a universal human attribute driving economic progress, but in practice the adoption of technical change could not be guaranteed by the propensity to exchange alone. As both Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth recognized, the implication was clear: without critique of old technical forms, no general increase in wealth. A tutor specifying the appropriate stance toward technical progress was forever needed. The form of enlightenment that was good for individuals, to think ...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Flash essay in the new ECF special issue! "Designing Truth between Manuscript and Publication: The Eighteenth-Century French Vision of Peru in Marmontel's Les Incas (1777)," by Agnieszka Anna Ficek muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 303-7 #18thCentury Read ECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This essay interrogates the tensions between historical fact and colonial fiction in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas, ou le destruction de l'Empire du Pérou (1777). Through this study of deleted passages and publisher notes in the 1776 manuscript of the novel (Houghton Library, Harvard University), Marmontel's concern with verisimilitude, truth, and objective reality belies the fantasy of conquest and the myths of American Indigeneity that are central to eighteenth-century French understandings and imaginings of the Inca Empire and the American continent as a whole. Politically, the novel served a dual purpose: to vehemently denounce the Spanish conquest of the Americas and to subversively critique the "fanaticism" of the ancien régime in the years leading up the 1789 Revolution. Across the Atlantic, the novel was read by generals of the Latin American Wars of Independence, and it shifted from an allegorical text to a direct call for revolution...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Another great flash essay, new in ECF: "The Ameliorationist Trap: Reformist Capture and the Long Eighteenth Century," by Ryan Kaveh Sheldon muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 299-302 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC ReadECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This essay advances ameliorationism as a keyword and diagnostic concept for reappraising eighteenth-century anti-slavery writing and political thought; it also considers the implications of eighteenth-century abolitionism for contemporary abolitionist theory and practice. I argue that Anglophone Atlantic writing on the transatlantic slave trade and colonial plantation slavery is overwhelmingly oriented by a reformist perspective that aims to soften, economize, and refine the practice of slave-based agricultural production in order to stave off demographic and environmental catastrophe. By way of a brief consideration of merchant and philosopher Thomas Tryon, I meditate on how this reformist line of thinking puts forward potent critiques of slavery that nonetheless reinscribe the plantation as a necessary form of social organization. This reformist trap confronts contemporary organizers and theorists of abolition, and scholars of the long eighteenth century ...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

A bunch of great flash essays in part 2 of the new ECF special issue, including: Romantic Hope and "Black Despair": A Brief History, by Taylor Schey muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 293-297 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: Scholars coordinate the historical emergence of political hope with the French Revolution, Romanticism, and the secularization of inherited theological ideas. This essay argues that the conceptual development of political hope functioned as a technology of racialization. Drawing attention to how hope's theological opposite, despair, had become synonymous with racial slavery in the late eighteenth-century British political imagination, it unpacks the figural logic of "black despair" and shows how this logic subtends the Romantic conception of political hope as a hereditary right of the white liberal subject.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

When preparing your manuscript for submission, please read the ECF journal guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Submit your MS on the ECF portal: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf The ECF Editors do *not* require Chicago Manual of Style formatting at the time of submission. #18thCentury

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Yet more excellence from ECF: "The Fiction of Amatonormativity: Reactions to Queer Platonic Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Literature," by Megan Cole muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 269-292 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF at Project MUSE !

Abstract: Eighteenth-century literature is rife with intense female friendships, relationships that often challenge or supplant heteronormative bonds in women's lives. These connections can be productively identified as "queer platonic relationships" (QPRs) for the ways they resist heteropatriarchal norms. In this article, I trace the conflict between QPRs and amatonormativity—the social and political primacy of romantic relationships—across four texts from the period. These depictions constitute part of a rich, understudied archive for scholars of asexuality and aromanticism, allowing us to trace the ongoing social enforcement of amatonormative ideology and the evolving political stakes of QPRs as sites of feminist resistance to heteropatriarchy.

The image on the front cover is 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 · 10/04/2024

More excellence from the newest 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... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 251-267 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF at Project MUSE!

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Another exciting new ECF article in the special issue: "Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys; or, Why Sir Charles Grandison Is (a) No Wanker," by Rachel Gevlin muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 233-250 #18thCentury #ReadECF at Project MUSE. #C18th #18thC

Abstract: This article links Samuel Richardson's final novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753) to the twenty-first-century Proud Boys in order to examine seriously the implications of two often overlooked aspects of both: Grandison's virginity and the Proud Boys' "No Wanks" policy. This policy, which limits members' masturbation, can serve to elucidate the sexual politics of Grandison, as both the modern-day men's rights group and the eighteenth-century novel valorize male sexual restraint as a form of domestic dominance. This article argues that Grandison's idealization of male sexual restraint reinforces the portrait of male virility for which Richardson's earlier novels were criticized, rendering the virile male protagonist palatable to readers of the domestic novel's courtship plot. The valorization of restraint exhibited by Richardson's hero and the Proud Boys advances a sublimated understanding of male virility that works to solidify the fiction of sexual essentialism ...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

New ECF special issue articles are now available to read on Project MUSE! "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 #C18th #18thC

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Great news for a Friday: new ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2" is available on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266 ECF 36.2, April 2024 #18thCentury #ASECS2024 #ASECS24 First pic is the cover. Second picture shows some of the essays included in this amazing issue!

Front Cover: The image on the front cover is 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.

Articles: The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction, by Julianne Adams; Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys; or, Why Sir Charles Grandison Is (a) No Wanker, by Rachel Gevlin; Behn's White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688), by Fauve Vandenberghe; The Fiction of Amatonormativity: Reactions to Queer Platonic Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Literature, by Megan Cole

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Pack your warm and waterproof outer clothing for Toronto this week: a typical early April in Ontario is cool and rainy. Safe travels to #ASECS2024 #ASECS24 Have a good conference! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Weather forecast graphic showing rain and cool temperatures in Toronto midweek, early April 2024

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Start your week with an excellent, new ECF article: "The Fiction of Amatonormativity: Reactions to Queer Platonic Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Literature," by Megan Cole See the abstract: www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.... Soon: online to read at Project MUSE -- stay tuned. #18thCentury

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Another new and most excellent article in the ECF special issue: "Behn’s White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688)," by Fauve Vandenberghe Read the abstract here and online www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.... #18thCentury On Project MUSE soon!

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Another excellent article in the new ECF special issue: "Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys; or, Why Sir Charles Grandison is (a) No Wanker," by Rachel Gevlin www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read the abstract at UTP, on Project MUSE soon.

This article links Samuel Richardson’s final novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753) to the twenty-first-century Proud Boys in order to examine seriously the implications of two often overlooked aspects of both: Grandison’s virginity and the Proud Boys’ “No Wanks” policy. This policy, which limits members’ masturbation, can serve to elucidate the sexual politics of Grandison, as both the modern-day men’s rights group and the eighteenth-century novel valorize male sexual restraint as a form of domestic dominance. This article argues that Grandison’s idealization of male sexual restraint reinforces the portrait of male virility for which Richardson’s earlier novels were criticized, rendering the virile male protagonist palatable to readers of the domestic novel’s courtship plot. The valorization of restraint exhibited by Richardson’s hero and the Proud Boys advances a sublimated understanding of male virility that works to solidify the fiction of sexual essentialism that still permeates ...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Today, I'll post some of the April 2024 abstracts, from the special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2" First up: "The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction," by Julianne Adams www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read on Project MUSE soon.

The ECF journal cover for the issue publishing in April 2024, "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2" features the painting 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 · 20/03/2024

It's early! "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2" is now available via subscription at the U of Toronto Press Journals website: www.utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/2 See all the abstracts on the UTP website. Read this ECF special issue on Project MUSE in about 3 weeks. #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

The cover for Eighteenth-Century Fiction April 2024, the special issue entitled "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2," features the painting called 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 · 19/03/2024

The ECF April-issue book reviews section is now free to read on the ECF journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Get your read on!

Seventeenth-century author Aphra Behn, painted portrait.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

I uploaded a new syllabus today to the ECF journal online Syllabus Treasury: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/syllabus-the... ENGL3623, "The Eighteenth Century: Scandal and Sociability," Dr. Nicola Parsons, The University of Sydney #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Email your syllabus to: ecf@mcmaster.ca.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Reupping this recent ECF special issue article: "Refusing Settler Georgics," by Katarina O'Briain ECF 36.1, January 2024, pp. 7-36 muse.jhu.edu/article/917767 #18thCentury #WhatWeDo Thanks for reading ECF journal at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This essay recovers and seeks to refuse a harmful and enduring eighteenth-century fiction: settler georgic, an imperial mode that North American settlers used to foreclose refusal, naturalize British understandings of cultivation and use, and figure violent dispossession as both inevitable and in the past. Tracing this history helps to show the damage that such logics continue to do as well as the assumptions that govern literary historical methods. I look to the work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, whose Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020) is premised on the refusal of settler narrative, to think through alternate modes of literary history. Read alongside Audra Simpson's important study of refusal, Mohawk Interruptus (2014), Leanne Simpson's text opens up possibilities for reading the quieter, everyday refusals that are sometimes overlooked in eighteenth-century archives. This work also suggests the limits of refusal in academic and university contexts ...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Thinking about submitting a manuscript to ECF for consideration? Please see the ECF guidelines, updated March 2024: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Get your read on! Yesterday, I sent April-issue production files to the University of Toronto Press, so you know what that means: a sneak peek at the reviews section -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Free-to-read book reviews on the journal website!

Woman reading a letter (Fumi yomu onna), by Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806); Edo period, Japan, late 18th century. Woodblock print. A women casts her gaze on a letter that she holds close to her face. She is dressed in a kimono decorated overall in a dotted matsukawa-bishi motif, accented by her yellow obi [sash] with black arabesques. Her shaved eyebrows and her frontally tied sash suggests that she is the wife of a restaurant or shop owner. Yet, her intense posture and the firm way she holds the letter hints that it may have been written by a clandestine lover.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Have you read this ECF essay yet? "Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction" muse.jhu.edu/article/917766 By Manu Samriti Chander and Eugenia Zuroski, co-editors of the special issue. Read ECF at Project MUSE! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Other articles here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979

The image on the front cover is of the eighteenth-century painting called Woman Reading under a Mosquito Net, by Fuhiken Tokikaze (circa 1720). The woman, who wears a flowing gown with red and blue decoration, holds a large piece of paper on her knee, and the paper has much black ink writing on it. The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.

Abstract: In this introductory essay, we take issue with David Hume's distinction between "fiction" and "belief" by arguing that the relationship between these categories depends as much on existing structures of authority and power as it does on individual judgment or feeling. We then describe the objectives of the two-part ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions": to provide critical analyses of how particular eighteenth-century fictions attained the status of material realities that continue to condition lived worlds in the twenty-first century, and to prompt ongoing and future efforts to imagine and materialize realities beyond racial capitalism and settler colonialism.

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

In a new UTP blog post, ECF author Tracy Rutler, Penn State, reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, drawing parallels to the societal inequalities highlighted in Isabelle de Charrière’s novel. bit.ly/ECFBlog #ReadECF #18thCentury #AcWri #WhatWeDo #C18th #18thC @utpjournals

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Are u ready to submit yr work to ECF journal for consideration? We have spots open in the October issue for flash essays (500-1000 wds) and Reflections (1500-4000 wds). Questions? E: ecf@mcmaster.ca #18thCentury Guidelines ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Another most excellent article in the new ECF special issue: Born That Way: Asexuality and Kinship in "The History of Mrs Selvyn," by Abigail Zitin muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.1, U of Toronto Press January 2024, pp. 69-90 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Thanks for reading ECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This article expands the critical account of queer orientations in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762) to include not only sapphic eroticism but also asexuality. In the inset narrative "The History of Mrs Selvyn," Scott focuses on Mrs Selvyn's mother, Lady Emilia Reynolds, who is all too eager to punish herself for having conceived a child out of wedlock. I generate a threefold close reading of Emilia's story, considering it along a spectrum of exemplarity, at one extreme, and feminist subversion, at the other. In between is a symptomatic reading, in which Scott uses the consequence of Emilia's perverse moral scrupulousness—the fragmentation of her family—to indict the sexual double standard. In framing the narrative as the daughter's story, I argue, Scott celebrates Harriot Selvyn's freedom from sexual desire as the apotheosis of her mother's renunciation of sexuality.

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