{"title":"The Roman Sacred Music of Alessandro Scarlatti. By Luca Della Libera. Abingdon: Routledge. 2022. xii + 230 p. £130 (hb) / £31.19 (e-book). ISBN 978-1-03-217225-5.","authors":"David Vickers","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12919","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"117-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139165743","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":"Hannah More in Context. Edited by Kerri Andrews and Sue Edney. London: Routledge. 2022. xii + 229 p. £104.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-367-55320-3.","authors":"Sarah Fengler","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12918","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"111-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138966427","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":"Orienting Virtue: Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain's Global Eighteenth Century. By Bethany Williamson. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2022. xii + 256 p. £59.98 (hb). ISBN 978-0-813-94762-4.","authors":"Malcolm Jack","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12916","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"120-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139228015","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":"Against Melancholy: Robert Blakeway and the Anglican Definition of an Orthodox Sorrow in Early Eighteenth-Century England","authors":"Andrés Gattinoni","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12912","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12912","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars have long recognized the significance of the concept of ‘enthusiasm’ in eighteenth-century British culture. Its association with melancholy made it a powerful tool for dealing with religious and political dissent by dismissing enthusiasts' claims to divine inspiration as the delusions of their troubled minds. However, the medicalization of enthusiasm also meant that many Christians felt the need to defend their own faith against accusations that it caused melancholy. By examining and contextualizing Robert Blakeway's essay on religious melancholy, this article explores this latter concern. It suggests that such a preoccupation was related both to the fear of enthusiasm and to the fear of irreligion. Blakeway's essay is presented as an example of a broader effort by Anglican clergy to define an ‘orthodox sorrow’ as a middle way between enthusiastic melancholy and lukewarm indifference. Finally, the article emphasizes the polemical dimension of the vocabulary of sorrow in eighteenth-century England.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"46 4","pages":"437-455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138504142","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":"Telemann Studies. Edited by Wolfgang Hirschmann and Steven Zohn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. xxxi + 344 p. £90 (hb). ISBN 978-1-108-49383-3.","authors":"David Vickers","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12914","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12914","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"114-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139253305","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":"Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience. By Jess Keiser. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2020. xi + 311 p. $45 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4.","authors":"Isabella Mann","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12915","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"115-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139252585","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":"Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions. By James Davey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2023. xix + 426 p. £25 (hb). ISBN 9780300238273.","authors":"Matthew Dziennik","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12913","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"112-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139277692","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":"Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England. By Michèle Cohen. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2023. 238 p. £70 (hb). ISBN: 9781837650699.","authors":"Leonie Hannan","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12911","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"46 4","pages":"521-522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136293607","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 Forms of Error in Defoe's Tour: Culpable and Venial Mistakes","authors":"Pat Rogers","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12910","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12910","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article explores forms that error may take in a historical work, here Daniel Defoe's <i>Tour thro' Britain</i>. An introduction attempts to place the book in relation to the production of knowledge, as compared with books in allied genres. The first main section considers the nature and causes of error, divided into categories of culpable and venial mistakes. The second looks at the way in which the <i>Tour</i> textualizes the author's doubts concerning the accuracy of sources. The third reviews in detail three cases where Defoe's error has become evident in the light of modern scholarly knowledge, techniques, and procedures. A brief conclusion suggests implications for our approach to literature of the past.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"46 4","pages":"421-435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135483825","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":"A Methodist Opera? The Troublers of Israel (1767) as Response to the Anti-Methodist Critique","authors":"Brett C. McInelly","doi":"10.1111/1754-0208.12909","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1754-0208.12909","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract: This essay examines the <i>The Troublers of Israel</i> in the context of Methodism's uneasy, and seemingly contradictory, relationship with the theatre and argues that its anonymous author purposefully adapted the operatic form to achieve his rhetorical, and religious, aims. Even though this tactic has confused bibliographers who have miscategorized the piece as an anti-Methodist work since the nineteenth century, the operatic form, like George Whitefield's preaching, effectively demonstrates how the Methodists coopted and redeployed the dramatic arts as a means of conveying their religious message while reframing and refuting anti-Methodist arguments. The <i>Troublers</i> provides further evidence, in addition to Whitefield's preaching, that the Methodists recognized the power of the dramatic arts to influence belief and behaviour at the same time they condemned more mainstream forms of plays and playgoing.</p>","PeriodicalId":55946,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies","volume":"46 4","pages":"401-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740419","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}