{"title":"Politics","authors":"W. Speck","doi":"10.4324/9781003010173-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010173-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80349987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The visual arts","authors":"P. Willis","doi":"10.4324/9781003010173-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010173-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80422810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Speaking and the Dead: Antislavery Poetry’s Fictions of the Person","authors":"Andrea Haslanger","doi":"10.1353/ECY.2019.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ECY.2019.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Many late-eighteenth-century antislavery poems represent enslaved persons as poetic speakers; a subset depict speakers who are dying or dead. These poems associate speech with death, using prosopopoeia to give voice to the dying and the dead. They separate rhetorical existence from biological life, calling attention to figure’s role in making these speakers speak. The antislavery poetry under discussion here—The Dying Negro as well as “The Dying African,” “The Desponding Negro,” and two anonymous poems that appeared in The Gentleman’s Magazine—highlights figure’s status as a fiction. Unlike sentimental antislavery verse, which has typically been understood to use figure in an attempt to confer humanity, and which therefore has been seen to associate figure with life-giving and humanizing powers, these works sidestep such circuits of humanity and inhumanity. They not only cast light on the centrality of death to antislavery poetry, but also invite reflection on what follows from the division between living and speaking. The speaking dead are rhetorical persons but not politico-legal persons: they interrupt the slippage between these two categories of the person, clearly demonstrating the inability of figure to confer rights while still using it to call for radical change.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"44 1","pages":"419 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86495685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mercier’s Carriages: Time Travel’s Primal Scene","authors":"M. Cooperson","doi":"10.1353/ecy.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Recent histories of time-travel writing relegate Louis Sébastien Mercier’s L’An 2440 to the liminal status of precursor. But many of the now-paradigmatic elements of the time-travel story--including the conveyance and the inscription--are already as fully realized there as they will be in later works, from Bellamy’s Looking Backward to Moberley and Jourdain’s An Adventure. So naturalized are the Mercerian conventions that they appear, unforegrounded, even in works produced in present-day Turkey and Iran. Even so, it is possible to find examples of non-Mercerian time travel, including, for example, the work of the Egyptian novelist Khairy Shalaby. Yet works like Shalaby’s are readable precisely to the extent that they invert or eschew Mercier’s teleological model of time travel.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"14 1 1","pages":"207 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88885545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: The Temporal Turn in Eighteenth-Century Studies","authors":"J. Molesworth","doi":"10.1353/ecy.2019.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2019.0012","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This introduction has two aims. First of all, it argues that that time and temporality have become favored topics within interdisciplinary research on eighteenth-century culture, especially within Britain. Second of all, it seeks to situate well-known figures, such as Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, William Hogarth, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Joseph Priestley, and William Cowper, within newly emergent attitudes toward temporality. Particular attention is given to the various efforts, within the music, literature, art, science, and technology, to overcome an older sense of time as cyclical or recurring.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"37 1","pages":"129 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75127120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fugitive Pieces: Walpole, Byron, and Queer Time","authors":"Michael Nicholson","doi":"10.1353/ecy.2019.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2019.0013","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In their earliest works, Horace Walpole (Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose, 1758) and Lord Byron (Fugitive Pieces, 1806) built a queer temporality of fugitive time out of the occasional pieces and sporadic readers that Samuel Johnson first theorized in The Harleian Miscellany. These juvenile poets aligned several forms of fugitive print—loose scraps, detached fragments, burned books, and encoded secrets—and fugitive figures—political exiles, queer aristocrats, runaway slaves, and amateur poets (often themselves). Walpole and Byron redeem both carefree and imperiled fugitive lives by engaging two antithetical discourses of disappearance: languid, idle ease, and sudden, active flight. This discontinuous eighteenth-century poetics becomes increasingly racially coded as it crosses the Atlantic in the nineteenth century. Fugitive pieces linked Old World flights of fancy and New World runaway slave advertisements, collected works and secure colonial property, and literary selections and sugar cane extracts. In their surprising affirmations of an intermittent, occasional time that allies irregular idlers, miscellaneous fugitives, asylums for poetic pieces, and abolitionist accounts of disabled bodies, juvenile poets moved beyond their era’s straight narrative of imperial progress.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"16 1","pages":"139 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73057247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eighteenth-Century Slow Time: Seven Propositions","authors":"Jonathan Sachs","doi":"10.1353/ecy.2019.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2019.0015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:From Rob Nixon to David Simpson, many of the best contemporary literary critics emphasize aspects of slowness as a potential antidote to the seemingly accelerated pace of daily life. But if, as this essay contends, the premium placed on slowness is not new, what are the implications of the longer history of slow time for our understanding of eighteenth-century thought? Is slow time a lode bearing concept, one that might help us better to understand both eighteenth-century narrative and poetry as spaces for the representation of slowness and as offering reading experiences that promote a slow and immersive mode of engagement? In response to these questions, the essay offers neither an explicit elaboration of slow time nor a direct statement of what it does for us as a literary critical concept; instead, it approaches the implications of slow time as a critical concept through a series of seven intentionally contradictory propositions.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"1 1","pages":"185 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90871052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leisure Reading and Austen’s Case for Differentiated Time","authors":"Amit S. Yahav","doi":"10.1353/ecy.2019.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2019.0016","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay considers Charlotte Lennox’s and Jane Austen’s critiques of Quixotism in The Female Quixote and Northanger Abbey. While Lennox defends leisure reading if it serves as useful study, Austen insists on learning nothing from novels as a way of making a strong case for the value of differentiated time. Through her depiction of reading scenes and character testimonies about their reading, and through her techniques of narrative duration (as Gerard Genette defines it – techniques of pace and rhythm), Austen emphasizes absorption in the duration of reading along with easy release. The value of qualitative duration and the way leisure reading promotes it, according to Austen, ride on full immersion combined with temporariness. This combination signals a sound discrimination between fictional and real worlds as well as a strict differentiation between reading time and other times, safeguarding leisure against the encroachments of rationalization. The essay concludes by reflecting on the implications of Austen’s perspective to our own work as scholars of literature. Austen’s case for leisure reading as differentiated time, I propose, urges us to reframe our professional ambitions modestly.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"415 1","pages":"163 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75937449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genre and the Mediation of Political Economy in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men","authors":"Catherine Packham","doi":"10.1353/ECY.2019.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ECY.2019.0021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper explores the generic fluidity of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France within the context of the rise of political economy at the end of the eighteenth century and the crisis of the concept of value at that time. It argues that the generic mix of Burke's text can be read as a rhetorical strategy which at once conveys but also mystifies the perceived truths of a labour economy in thrall to the circulation of goods. At the same time, Burke's text seeks to maintain a fiction of the beauty of the social order through a sensationalist and aesthetic terminology and style, thus establishing political economy as a science to be mediated by the aesthetic. Some attention is also paid to Wollstonecraft's response to Burke in her Vindication of the Rights of Men, especially her attack on his gentlemanly authorial persona, and her resistance to Burke's desire to separate the aesthetic and the affective from the realms of political and economic life.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"97 1","pages":"249 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72604834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Queer Contact Zone: Empire and Military Masculinity in the Memoirs of Hannah Snell and Mary Anne Talbot, 1750–1810","authors":"E. Ledoux","doi":"10.1353/ECY.2019.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ECY.2019.0019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The cross-dressed female soldier played a prominent role within Anglophone popular culture from the American Revolution through the Napoleonic Wars, appearing in ballads, comic operas, plays, and life writing. Feminist and queer analyses of these figures have largely been celebratory, framing historical military cross-dressers as working-class heroines or important examples of an emerging model of female masculinity. However, these interpretations have yet to acknowledge how these transgressive figures' claims to subjectivity as representatives of the British military depend upon active participation in the imperial project. These female soldiers' ability to perform masculinity is contingent upon a narrative and discursive investment in colonialism, violence, and racial hegemony. Using concepts from contemporary decolonial theory as a point of entry into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular culture, this article documents how the memoirs of two combat veterans–Hannah Snell and Mary Anne Talbot–serve as early examples of what Jasbir Puar and others describe as \"homonationalism.\" By repeatedly marking the difference between their own \"queerness\" and the strangeness of the cisgender women, slaves, and indigenous people they encounter, Snell and Talbot garner legitimacy within the dominant by aligning themselves with masculinity, patriotism, and imperialism. Re-examining these warriors' self-proclaimed \"surprising adventures\" within their colonial context reveals an unsettling relationship between queer historicism and the history of imperialism.","PeriodicalId":82853,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century","volume":"2 1","pages":"223 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91040251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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