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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction)
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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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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...
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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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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 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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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 2:13 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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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
muse.jhu.edu/article/715155
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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.
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca
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Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com
ReadECF @ProjectMUSE
muse.jhu.edu/journal/324
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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Reminder:
At submission, the ECF editors do *not* require Chicago Manual of Style formatting.
Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Please follow the abstract tips especially, since a convincing abstract can persuade a scholar to peer review your manuscript.
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A list of Common mistakes in choosing article keyphrases: such as (1) Using single-word terms; (2) Choosing terms or phrases that are too broad and not focused on your work – such as “eighteenth-century studies,” ... Tips from the University of Toronto Press about writing an article abstract: text begins with "Any article that is going to appear online needs a well-written abstract to accompany it." ...
June 19, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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The University of Toronto Press is working on publishing ECF July 2024 (36.4). While we're waiting: the July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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A snippet from the Table of Contents for the Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal issue July 2024, 36.3, the book reviews section, starting with: England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 by Humberto Garcia. Review by Eun Kyung Min, Seoul National University ... A snippet from the second page of the Table of Contents for the Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal issue July 2024, 36.3, the book reviews section, starting with: Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. Albert J. Rivero and George Justice. Review by Kit Kincade, Indiana State University ...
June 18, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Now with links to the books added!
I sent the files to press for ECF July 2024, so you know what that means:
The July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Get your read on!
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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ECF journal also publishes articles on material fictions and material culture:
"Colonizing through Clay: A Case Study of the Pineapple in British Material Culture," by Joanna M. Gohmann
muse.jhu.edu/article/704846
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Ceramic teapot from the 18th century. The body of the teapot is shaped like a round pineapple and is yellow. The spout and handle are green.
May 31, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Reminder:
The ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1" is available to read at Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979
It's a fantastic lineup. See Alt Text on ToC pictures.
And read Part 2 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266
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Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction, by Manu Samriti Chander, and Eugenia Zuroski -- 1 Refusing Settler Georgics Katarina O’Briain, York University 7 Little Lamb’s Roast Pig: A Minor Intervention Olivia Loksing Moy, CUNY, Lehman College 37 Born That Way: Asexuality and Kinship in “The History of Mrs Selvyn” Abigail Zitin, Rutgers University 69 An Alternative Revolution: Isabelle de Charrière’s Politics of Care Tracy L. Rutler, Pennsylvania State University 91 Police Time: Equiano, Blackness, and Custody Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (SUNY) 111 Flash Essays Refusing the Fictions of Unmarked Whiteness: Challenging Human Rank, Race, and History Patrícia Martins Marcos, UCLA 127 On Noongar Boodjah: George Vancouver’s Colonial Fictions Ryan D. Fong, Kalamazoo College 133 Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters Arif Camoglu, NYU Shanghai 139 AND MORE The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction Julianne Adams, Vanderbilt U 209 Eighteenth-Century Proud Boys; or, Why Sir Charles Grandison is (a) No Wanker Rachel Gevlin, Birmingham-Southern College 233 Behn’s White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch- Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688) Fauve Vandenberghe, Ghent University 251 The Fiction of Amatonormativity: Reactions to Queer Platonic Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Literature Megan Cole, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 269 Flash Essays Romantic Hope and “Black Despair”: A Brief History Taylor Schey, NC State University 293 The Ameliorationist Trap: Reformist Capture and the Long Eighteenth Century Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Middlebury College 299 Designing Truth between Manuscript and Publication: The Eighteenth-Century French Vision of Peru in Marmontel’s Les Incas (1777) Agnieszka Anna Ficek, CUNY, The Graduate Center 303 Enlightenment and Exchange Fraser Easton, University of Waterloo 309 AND MORE
May 23, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Reupping a most excellent article in the latest ECF special issue:
"Behn’s White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688)," by Fauve Vandenberghe
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Abstract: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) has elicited myriad contradictory readings based on its central ideologies about race and slavery. The ambivalence within the novel has made it a popular text to adapt or translate to produce a certain politics. This essay examines two twentieth-century Dutch-Surinamese translations of the novel: H.D. Benjamins's of 1919 and Albert Helman's of 1983. I contextualize both translations within each author's language politics and imperial projects, reading their work through the lens of Gloria Wekker's notion of "white innocence." I argue that Benjamins and Helman rely on Behn's ethnographic authority and her white sentimentalized womanhood to produce an imperialist politics that perpetuates the long-standing myth of the Netherlands as a gentle and benevolent nation. By moving beyond the notorious politicization of Oroonoko during the nineteenth-century abolition movement, this essay sheds new light on how the novel's ambivalent politics ...
May 22, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Random Word Search Wednesday
(or not so random) -- the word "protest" shows up in various ECF articles, including
"The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction," by Julianne Adams
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ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 209-231
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Abstract: This article reads amatory fiction through the image of white women's tears, and it argues that amatory fiction assists in eighteenth-century racialization by idealizing a feminine affect that mobilizes passivity for status. A spectacle of sympathetic attention, white women's tears exemplify the affective work of white feminism, which singularly analyzes power through gender. Lacking intersectionality, white feminism upholds white supremacy and enables constituents to wield gender oppression self-servingly. This article locates and deconstructs that affective dynamic in Delarivier Manley's "The Wife's Resentment" (1720), Penelope Aubin's "Conjugal Duty Rewarded" (1721), and Eliza Haywood's "Female Revenge" (1727). These retellings of heroines navigating adulterous lovers depict feminine virtue as passive and essentialize this virtuous passivity within the logic of whiteness. This narrativization victimizes the heroine and purchases her sympathy, which protects her virtue...
May 15, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Are you ready to submit your work for consideration?
ECF has spots open in the July *2025* issue for research articles.
Questions: ecf@mcmaster.ca
Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com
Read ECF at Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/journal/324
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May 8, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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The newest ECF special issue, entitled "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2," is now available to read at Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266
ECF 36.2, April 2024
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May 2, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Read ECF journal @ProjectMUSE :
"The Survival of Non-Productive Labour in Mary Shelley’s /The Last Man/," by Konstantinos (Kos) Pozoukidis muse.jhu.edu/article/787459
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The journal's purview is long and broad!
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May 1, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Two syllabuses added to the ECF Syllabus Treasury!
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/syllabus/
Many thanks to Dr Charlee Bezilla, George Washington U for: Spring 2023, Being Human in the Eighteenth Century
and
Spring 2024, Fake News! Rumors, Scandals, and Culture Wars in Early Modern France
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April 29, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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One more excellent Reflections essay on pedagogy in the new ECF issue, April 2024:
"Race-Making and Romanticism: Notes on Pedagogy and the Position of Whiteness," by Taylor Schey
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ECF 36.2, pp. 337-45
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Abstract: Recent discussions often conflate the project of developing an antiracist Romantic studies with the project of discovering an antiracist Romanticism, the elements of which could be culled from its revolutionary texts and radical figurations. This essay considers the risks of this conflation and the critical investments it protects. First, I discuss how and why some scholars are liable to skip over the task of considering the extent of Romanticism's racism. Next, I relate my experience teaching an upper-level undergraduate course titled "Race-Making and Romanticism," in which we explored how Romantic literature registered and participated in the early nineteenth-century project of forging whiteness and consolidating logics of anti-Blackness. Finally, I reflect on how my approach to antiracist work is a function of my position as a white cis male, suggesting that those of us in the position of whiteness would do well to consider our attachment to Romantic authors ...
April 25, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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A third excellent Reflections essay on pedagogy in the new ECF issue:
"Romantic Movements," by Andrew McInnes
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ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 329-336
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Abstract: This Reflections essay considers antiracist theory and practice and its impact on Romantic Studies today as displayed in a master's-level module aimed at introducing the use of theory to postgraduate students of nineteenth-century studies. Alongside these concerns, the reflection considers what it means to feel "Romantic" today, as well as the role and usefulness of discomfort in postgraduate pedagogy.
April 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Another most excellent essay reflecting on pedagogy in the new ECF issue:
"Romanticism After Black Studies," by Thom Van Camp
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 323-27
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Abstract: This course emerges from my individual research and seeks to bring students into an experimental project of co-reading. The course reading plan is structured by pairing canonical Romantic poets with writing by Black theorists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This course is designed for the graduate level and would also be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate students.
April 23, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Reflections essays on pedagogy in the new ECF special issue:
"A Collaborative Approach to Antiracist Pedagogy," by Nicole Hamblin and Carmen Faye Mathes
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ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 315-322
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Abstract: This cowritten Reflections essay describes an upper-division seminar for honours and master's students that brought together established antiracist pedagogical principles (for example, decentering Britain) with a commitment to hands-on, in-class collaboration. This collaborative dimension buoyed the class's capacity to encounter both the challenges and insights that the antiracist framework brought to the fore. In a course that sought to engage with Romantic poetry of "labour and longing" in the age of transatlantic slavery, working together became both an object of study and a learning practice. The coauthored nature of this essay therefore advances, beyond the end of term, the importance of listening and learning from one another in the pursuit of more inclusive, wide-ranging, and (very often) discomforting learning environments, even as such environments can only ever be imperfect.
April 22, 2024 at 2:11 PM