{"title":"The Musical World of Charles Avison: Melodic Charm and the Powers of Harmony. By Simon D. I. Fleming. New York; Oxon: Routledge. 2025. xv + 293 p. £135 (hb). ISBN 978-1-032-40601-5.","authors":"Mary-Jannet Leith","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.13003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.13003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"363-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Gestures Proper to Each of Them’: Shakespeare and the Mediation of Gendered Social Exchange in Eighteenth-Century England","authors":"Anna Myers","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.13002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.13002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>William Shakespeare ascended to the status of English national poet over the course of the eighteenth century. His literary work entered the cultural imagination not only through theatrical performances and printed texts, but the playwright's corpus was also represented visually — in painted and printed media, and as or on material culture objects. Privileging Shakespearean themed printed fans and snuff boxes, this article probes the capability of Shakespeare's works (as their decoration) to act as emotive and expressive mechanisms in gendered social exchanges. It evaluates the way in which the ornamentation of these gestural objects informed extra-linguistic forms of communication, mediating and shaping contemporary users' engagement with and experience of the playwright and his corpus.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"327-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1754-0208.13002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I See Her Instrument Is Open’: (Dis)playing the Musical Body in the Work of Jane Austen","authors":"Maggie Stanton","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.13001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.13001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article contextualizes Jane Austen's depictions of musicians and instruments within contemporary philosophical perceptions of music as a means of ‘unvirtuous’ corporeal stimulation in order to examine Austen's attitude towards female sexuality. It outlines music's relationship to visual sexual consumption through investigating music's function as an art of specifically visual pleasure and the female musician's empowering position as the public generator of such pleasure. Examining the spatial and visual interactions between a heroine, her musical instrument, and her body presented within each of Austen's novels, this article suggests that, given this musicological context, Austen's mildly musical heroines represent a rejection of the publicized and sexually active (as opposed to sexually passive) female musician.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"303-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1754-0208.13001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cultural Performance of Friendship: Angelica Kauffman and ‘the All Harmonious Triad’ (William, James, and Henrietta Fordyce)","authors":"Wendy McGlashan","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12987","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Taking as its starting point Angelica Kauffman's portrait of <i>Sir William Fordyce MD</i>, who cared for her ailing father in 1780–81, this article investigates the cultural performances generated by Kauffman's friendship with William, James, and Henrietta Fordyce. Collectively described by Kauffman as ‘the all harmonious Triad’, this article examines the performances relating to each individual — paintings, portraiture, poetry, engravings, letters, and gift-giving. Exploring how these intersected with contemporary gender ideology, literature and print culture, it considers Kauffman's nuanced relationship with and import to each individual, demonstrating the value of this friendship to the histories of eighteenth-century British art and culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"259-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau's Social Contract. Edited by David Lay Williams and Matthew Maguire. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2024. xiii + 365 p. $105 (hb), $34.99 (pb). ISBN 978-1-108-83930-3 (hb), 978-1-108-97059-4 (pb).","authors":"Jason Neidleman","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12999","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"360-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Amelia Worsley. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2024. 258 p. $46.95 (hb). ISBN 978-1-5017-7627-4.","authors":"James Metcalf","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.13000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.13000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"361-362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British Portrait Miniatures From the Thomson Collection. By Susan Sloman. London: Ad Ilissvm. 2023. 312 p. £80 (hb). ISBN 978-1-915401-12-0.","authors":"Isabella Mann","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"358-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanimals: A Socio-Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720","authors":"David McCallam","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12994","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first-person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague. We are specifically interested in how this sense of early modern human selfhood is compromised and problematized by its various interactions with other animals in the plague-infested city and, by extension, how plague reconfigures the dynamic forms of socio-ecological agency in eighteenth-century Marseille.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"285-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1754-0208.12994","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth-Century Mock Chronicles","authors":"Zachary Garber","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12984","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi-biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life. Their debt to the historical chronicle lent them an authority which legitimized their subversion of the political systems under which they appeared, yet the ambiguity of their existence as ‘parodies’ enabled their use, in the hands of others, for the purposes of panegyric. The very existence of this ephemeral genre, long overlooked, testifies to the chronicle's enduring cultural valence and highlights the exchange of literary forms across borders, languages, and cultures that took place in the eighteenth century.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"233-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1754-0208.12984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Printing Colour 1700–1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions. Edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. 448 p. £150 (hb). ISBN 978-0-1972-6753-0.","authors":"Chiara Betti","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"48 3","pages":"356-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}