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Eighteenth Century Fiction - Volume 28.1, Fall 2015
Slipping from Secret History to Novel
Rachel Carnell
The secret history, a genre of writing made popular as opposition political propaganda during the reign of Charles ii, has been the subject of renewed critical interest in recent years. By the mid-1740s, novelists were using markers of secret histories on the title pages of their works, thus blurring the genres. This forgotten history of the secret history can help us understand why Ian Watt and other twentieth-century critics tended to end their narratives of the rise of the “realist” Whig novel with the works of the Tory novelist Jane Austen. … http://bit.ly/ecf281a
Personhood, Property Rights, and the Child in John Locke‘s Two Treatises of Government and Daniel Defoe‘s Fiction
Aparna Gollapudi
Most scholarship that links John Locke’s ideas with eighteenth-century representations of childhood approaches children as Lockean peda gogic subjects ready for moral and intellectual education. This article instead brings to bear on Daniel Defoe’s representation of children Locke the political thinker, who articulates in Two Treatises of Government (1689) a person’s right to “liberty and property.” Locke’s influential theories of owner ship are partly responsible for the eighteenth-century investment in distinguishing between property and persons, and often reduce children to a state of compromised personhood….http://bit.ly/ecf281b
Generic Failures and Imperfect Enjoyments: Rochester and the Anatomy of Impotence
Leah Benedict
In the late seventeenth century, literary descriptions of sexual failure attempted to synthesize the latest developments in anatomical science and material philosophy. These branches of study pursued detailed accounts of passion and procreative capacity, including the many obstacles that stymied their perfect realization. Despite this interest in providing a comprehensive account of the body’s inner workings, both fields obscure the relationship between passionate feelings and bodily performance in matters of sex, relying instead on stylish hints and obfuscation. … http://bit.ly/ecf281c
Tristram Shandy, Boyhood, and Breeching
Chantel Lavoie
This article explores responses to a boy’s transitioning from wearing frocks or frock-coats to breeches in the long eighteenth century. With particular reference to Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the article describes the complexities of a rite of passage that was both universal to all boys and particular for different classes, and even for each family. Not only novelists like Sterne, but also poets (Mary Barber, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charles and Mary Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge) and the authors of medical treatises wrote about this important event in a boy’s life, what it meant, and its paradoxical nature—as is evident in Sterne’s novel—as a sign both of freedom and a new restraint. http://bit.ly/ecf281d
At the Margins of Utopia: Jamaica in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall
David Oakleaf
What does Jamaica contribute to Sarah Robinson Scott’s Millenium Hall? The narrator says little about the colony, andmodern readers exaggerate its prominence by reading the opulentplanter of The History of Sir George Ellison into the anonymous narrator of its predecessor. Yet the peripheral presence of Jamaica in a novel is often rich in implication. In Pamela, the place of that island in the Sally Godfrey story qualifies Mr B’s assertion of absolute class superiority. … http://bit.ly/ecf281e
“Philosophy for the Ladies”: Feminism, Pedagogy, and Natural Philosophy in Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum
Anna K. Sagal
This article re-examines Charlotte Lennox’s work in her serial Lady’s Museum (1760–61) by placing the periodical in con versa tion with her novel The Female Quixote (1752), and specifically focusing on the author’s pedagogical interests. By drawing on the historical and biographical details of Arabella’s study and the historical, geograph ical, and scientific articles in Lady’s Museum, I trace con nec tions between the practices of read ing and self-education en dorsed within the novel and in the periodical. I argue that Lennox’s stance on women’s edu ca tion in both pub lica tions represents a more liberal feminist peda gogy than has been traditionally acknowledged. In line with recent criticism in peri odical studies, I assert that the mid-century periodical offered dis tinct educational opportunities for women. http://bit.ly/ecf281f
La Composition de Paul et Virginie: Un manuscrit inconnu
Malcolm Cook
Depuis la parution du premier volume de la nouvelle édition des œuvres complètes de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre en 2014, nous avons découvert un volume de manuscrits à la BnF qui contient plus de 300 manuscrits de l’auteur. Les textes sont très variés: brouillons des Harmonies de la nature, brouillons de lettres et, ce qui nous intéresse particulièrement, deux brouillons du roman Paul et Virginie. Le volume porte le titre « Esquisses » et il ressemble, pour le contenu, parfaitement aux liasses de manuscrits qui se trouvent à la Bibliothèque municipale du Havre. Un des brouillons du roman est très court et décrit les moments qui précèdent le naufrage; l’autre, plus long, décrit la scène qui explique le départ de Virginie en France. Ce brouillon nous montre, de nouveau, comment Bernardin compose ses œuvres—il revient plusieurs fois au même passage, cherchant une version parfaite. http://bit.ly/ecf281g
REVIEWS/CRITIQUES
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer; and The Age of Reasons: Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Wendy Motooka
Kathryn Ready
Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism, ed. Stewart Mottram and Sarah Prescott
Helen Fulton
Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini by Nowell Marshall
Noah Comet
Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Memory of Betty Rizzo, ed. Temma Berg and Sonia Kane
Jacqueline Pearson
Unusual Suspects: Pitt’s Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s by Kenneth R. Johnston
Stephanie Russo
Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology by Brian McCrea
Hilary Havens
Elizabeth Rowe and the Development of the English Novel by Paula Backscheider
Lori Davis Perry
Marivaux et la science du caractère par Sarah Benharrech
Florence Orwat
Isabelle de Charrière: Salonnière virtuelle. Un itinéraire d’écriture au xviiie siècle par Monique Moser-Verrey
Claire Jaquier
Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish by Oddvar Holmesland
Nicole Pohl
The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage by Laura E. Thomason
Norma Clarke
Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Touching Fiction by Alex Wetmore
Darren N. Wagner
Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition, by Jane Austen, ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks
Dana Gliserman Kopans
Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory by Evan Gottlieb
Ian Dennis
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Eighteenth Century Fiction publishes articles in both English and French on all aspects of imaginative prose in the period 1700–1800, but will also examine papers on late 17th-century or early 19th-century fiction, particularly when the works are discussed in connection with the eighteenth century. www.utpjournals.com/ecf
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The editors invite contributions on all aspects of imaginative prose in the period 1700-1800, but are also happy to consider papers on late seventeenth-century or early nineteenth-century fiction. The languages of publication are English and French. Articles about the fiction of other languages are welcomed and comparative studies are particularly encouraged. The suggested length for manuscripts is 6,000-8,000 words, but longer and shorter articles have been published in the journal.
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