{"title":"<i>The “Lady’s Magazine” (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History</i> by Jennie Batchelor","authors":"Bethany E. Qualls","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935353","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":"Singing through the Pain: Murat Riffing on Montaigne","authors":"Scott M. Sanders","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.445","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I explore how Henriette-Julie de Murat (1668–1716), during a long period of exile, creates an authorial identity intended to interact with her cousin Menou as well as her captors. By focusing on Murat’s literary relationship with Menou, I investigate how Murat’s correspondence undermines her captors’ attempts to control her expressions of desire and affection toward women. The letters—seemingly intended as a distraction from Murat’s confinement and sickness—also serve as a political statement. Through references to Montaigne’s notion of male friendship, Murat reimagines female friendship as equal to Montaigne’s theorization of homosocial bonds. Murat then weaves into her discussion of female friendship love songs replete with pastoral references in which female companionate love replaces heteronormative tropes. Murat’s correspondence reclaims agency over her expression of desire in a literary style that distracts her from the monotony of captivity and the suffering of her illness.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935650","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":"<i>British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century</i>, ed. Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis","authors":"Katherine G. Charles","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935110","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":"<i>Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French Literature</i> par Scott M. Sanders","authors":"Nathalie Vuillemin","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.559","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935443","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":"Sexualized Racial-Colonial Grotesque in the Company Archives","authors":"Shruti Jain","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.509","url":null,"abstract":"Building on Michel Foucault and Ann Laura Stoler’s recontextualizing of the Foucauldian theory of sexuality, I propose the category of the “sexualized racial-colonial grotesque” to unravel the double of Warren Hastings’s crime of corruption that Edmund Burke indexes onto his construction of Munny Begum. Throughout the infamous impeachment proceedings, 1787–95, Burke is deeply disturbed by Hastings’ relationships with Indians from varied caste-gender-class categories. These relationships disrupt mobilities that are historically and socially permitted in Indian and British codes of conduct. The most unhinged example of Burke’s anxieties around the spilling over of private relationships into political decisions is Hastings’s relationship with Begum. Through this construction, Burke poses Begum’s “deviant” sexuality as generative to and of power.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935452","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":"<i>Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890</i> by Wendy C. Nielsen","authors":"Sibylle Erle","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.550","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134936113","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":"Fictions of Character","authors":"Nicola Parsons, Amelia Dale","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.4.497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.4.497","url":null,"abstract":"This essay asks what happens to theorizations of literary character when we consider the formally complex treatment of character within the pornographic or otherwise disreputable texts that proliferate across eighteenth-century print. Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1760–94), a catalogue of women involved in London’s sex trade, is a piece of character writing; its characters are the marginalized, racialized, and sexually commodified. We examine how repetition operates in the treatment of two women of West Indian origin, in separate annual editions, and show how Harris’s List embeds its characters in sexual and racial economies of reiteration and circulation. We demonstrate how characterization in such texts has implications for scholarship on the eighteenth-century novel and our understanding of novel characters, showing how Frances Brooke’s The Excursion (1777) and Thomas Holcroft’s The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794–97) ambivalently incorporate the forms of character writing that Harris’s List deploys.","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935362","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":"Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature by Katarzyna Bartoszyńska","authors":"Joanna Maciulewicz","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43930033","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":"Barford Abbey by Susannah Minifie Gunning, ed. Margaret Doody and Kurt Edward Milberger","authors":"April Alliston","doi":"10.3138/ecf.35.2.325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.35.2.325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43800,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Fiction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48844970","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}