{"title":"Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster (review)","authors":"Marcie Frank","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"483 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41379972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pity the Fool: Satire, Sentiment, and Aristocratic Vice in George Colman’s The Suicide","authors":"E. Parisot","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.393","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Suicide, A Comedy (1778) by George Colman (the Elder) is a sophisticated comedic response to the scourge of fashionable suicide in late eighteenth-century Britain. The play simultaneously operates on two comedic planes: (1) it aims the purgative power of contemptible and socially aversive satire at the bon-ton by insinuating the scandalous suicide of high-profile aristocrat John Damer (1744–76); and (2) the reformation of Tobine—the middle-class protagonist who aspires to fashionable self-destruction—invests in the socially rehabilitative and compassionate humour of sentimental comedy. Two comedic strategies are aimed at two different audiences, with both strategies working to reinforce middle-class values. The result is a comedy that merges two kinds of laughter to form a benign affective antidote to interclass suicidal contagion. This comedic antidote functions as an early demonstration of the positive value of narratives that depict the overcoming of suicidal intent—or what modern sociologists call the Papageno effect.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"393 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47297920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers, ed. Serena Dyer and Chloe Wigston Smith","authors":"Sally Tuckett","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.490","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48217965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enlightenment Virtue, 1680–1794, éd. James Fowler et Marine Ganofsky","authors":"Rotraud von Kulessa","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45727028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783–1836 by J. Louise McCray (review)","authors":"N. Williams","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"501 - 503"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45777396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walter Scott and Short Fiction by Daniel Cook (review)","authors":"Evan Gottlieb","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.4.485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.4.485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"485 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42790757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A True Landmark to Warn”: Seduction-Betrayal and the Recognition of History in Delarivier Manley’s The New Atalantis","authors":"Kay Chronister","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.3.269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.269","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Organized as a diffuse collection of vignettes, Delariver Manley’s The New Atalantis (1709) has proven challenging to approach as a discrete work. In this essay, I engage Atalantis as a romance and argue that the text is structurally unified by patterns of repetition, in particular the repetition of a narrative that I term “the seduction-betrayal fantasy.” The topos of political seduction-betrayal was widespread in early eighteenth-century Tory historiography as a means of acknowledging the failures of the Stuart monarchy while displacing blame away from monarchs onto others in their orbits. Yet it was frequently difficult for historians to “prove” that political seduction-betrayal had occurred. I argue that Manley addresses this challenge in Atalantis by pairing vignettes concerning political treachery with structurally analogous vignettes about well-known sexual seduction-betrayals. These sets of dyads invite readers to interpret controversial episodes from political history through paradigms generated by strategically selected stories of sexual wrongdoing. However, they also enable Manley to inject moments of ambivalence into her Tory secret history.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"34 1","pages":"269 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44245995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victor, ou l’Enfant de la forêt by François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, ed. Łukasz Szkopiński","authors":"M. Tilby","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.3.373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43164944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution, ed. Maria O’Malley and Denys Van Renen","authors":"J. Eacott","doi":"10.3138/ecf.34.3.368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45330531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}