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ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
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Very happy to have my review of Laura Runge's "Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion" in such wonderful company (scroll down a whole bunch!)
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I sent the ECF October 2024 issue to the publisher: you know what that means!
Free to read new book reviews on the ECF journal website at McMaster University:
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The cover of the October 2024 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal features a japanese artwork from the 18th century. In the artwork, a woman sits on the floor. She is wearing flowing robes and is reading some manuscript pages.
August 27, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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August 27, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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I sent the ECF October 2024 issue to the publisher: you know what that means!
Free to read new book reviews on the ECF journal website at McMaster University:
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ecf-36-4-oct...
#18thCentury
Thanks for reading ECF journal!
The cover of the October 2024 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal features a japanese artwork from the 18th century. In the artwork, a woman sits on the floor. She is wearing flowing robes and is reading some manuscript pages.
August 27, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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These are the last few days of Managing Editor, Jacqueline Langille, as the ECF online voice (retiring!).
Signing off August 28th, with someone new taking over ECF social media in the fall.
Stay tuned for updates.
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August 26, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024:
"A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman
ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484
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Abstract: This encounter with The Woman of Colour (1808) began with a 2019 call by Romantic Circles Pedagogies for essays on "Romantic" teaching. The COVID-19 pandemic intervened, as did a personal tragedy that was yet not my own. The essay I eventually wrote was reshaped by this tragedy, as were my reflections on the experimental assignment in life-writing that was to be the essay's focus. My tone, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."
August 15, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024:
"A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman
ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484
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Abstract: This encounter with The Woman of Colour (1808) began with a 2019 call by Romantic Circles Pedagogies for essays on "Romantic" teaching. The COVID-19 pandemic intervened, as did a personal tragedy that was yet not my own. The essay I eventually wrote was reshaped by this tragedy, as were my reflections on the experimental assignment in life-writing that was to be the essay's focus. My tone, while meditative and personal, compelled me to pose new questions about The Woman of Colour and to recognize limits in my prior readings of the novel (2019; 2020). The Woman of Colour is shown to push past the limits of what (white) readers can say or know about the protagonist, Olivia Fairfield, both because of and despite the author's use of a strong epistolary "I."
August 15, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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A new ECF article in the July issue:
"Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating
ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458
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August 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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A new ECF article in the July issue:
"Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating
ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458
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Project MUSE - Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity
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August 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Another new article in ECF July 2024:
"The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin
ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438
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The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
July 31, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Another new article in ECF July 2024:
"The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin
ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
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Read ECF journal at Project MUSE !
The image on the front cover is Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (ca. 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
July 31, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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I'm trying to identify a late 18th-century woman writer (probably a poet) whose surname was BURNET (listed in a text from 1786 alongside Jane Graham, A-L Barbauld, Hannah Moore, Anna Seward, Hannah Cowley).
Anyone know who this might be?
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July 31, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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ecfjournal.bsky.social ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29
New ECF article in the July 2024 issue:
"A Play to Be Read: Authorship as Marriage in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett (1723)," by Anaclara Castro-Santana
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ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 387-410
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Front Cover of the July 2024 issue of ECF journal: The image is called Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
July 29, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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New ECF article in the July 2024 issue:
"A Play to Be Read: Authorship as Marriage in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett (1723)," by Anaclara Castro-Santana
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 387-410
#18thCentury Please Read ECF journal at Project MUSE!
Front Cover of the July 2024 issue of ECF journal: The image is called Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
July 29, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Read ECF July 2024 online:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797
Reading ECF on Project MUSE enables the journal to keep publishing your work.
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July 24, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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If you missed my latest talk on Gothic Sublimity and the work of Ann Radcliffe, you can find it here!

It's based on chapter 2 of my book 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic' which has been short-listed for the Alan Lloyd Smith prize for Gothic scholarship!

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Exploring Gothic Sublimity in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho with Dr Sam Hirst
I take you on a deep dive into the sublime in Ann Radcliffe based on the second chapter of my book 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834...
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July 22, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE:
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July 17, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797
Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Fiction-Volume 36, Number 3, July 2024
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July 17, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Reminder:
The ECF special issue Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1 and Part 2 are available to read at Project MUSE:
Part 1: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979
Part 2: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266
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The image on the front cover of the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction is entitled Young Woman with a Book, by Miyagawa (Katsukawa) Shunsui (mid-18th century). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
July 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Just because it's Tuesday, I'm reposting a Material Fictions article:
"Eighteenth-Century Pipes and the Erasure of the Disposable Object," by Samuel Diener
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Discarded, white-clay smoking pipes, many with broken stems, likely from the early eighteenth century.
July 9, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration?
We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles.
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Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca
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July 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration?
We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles.
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca
#18thCentury
Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com
ReadECF @ProjectMUSE
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July 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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A short FlashbackFriday trip to 2023:
"Troubling White Femininity: Revisiting Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720)," by Kirsten T. Saxton
ECF 35.4, October 2023, pp. 485-496
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Abstract: In this essay, I use Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720) to examine how my own scholarly reading practices more broadly reflect and have helped shape a primarily cis-gendered, overwhelmingly white feminist critical history of amatory fictions of the long eighteenth century. I have previously read Manley's text primarily as a study in feminist rage: Violenta, the virtuous white protagonist, and Ianthe, a woman of African descent enslaved to Violenta's family, work together across statuses to dispatch an abusive patriarch. However, Ianthe engages in this labour neither for the sake of Violenta nor to attack the system of gendered and economic violation that results in Violenta's wrongful ruin, but to liberate herself from enslavement. This micro-critical reflection suggests that the text offers a prequel of contemporary discourses on gendered and racial rage. Whose rage is politically consequential or imaginatively possible? ...
July 5, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals:
utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3
Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version!
On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link.
Get your read on!
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Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3, shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
July 2, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals:
utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3
Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version!
On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link.
Get your read on!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Journal cover art for ECF July 2024, Vol. 36, No. 3, shows the eighteenth-century painting entitled Courtesan Writing a Letter, by Kaigetsudō Doshin (circa 1715). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.
July 2, 2024 at 1:04 PM