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New article on Benjamin Franklin

Another new article in ECF journal, the July 2024 issue:

"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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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/

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ECF 36.3 Book titles, authors, publishers, reviewers; ToC titles, etc.

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

Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy by Claude Willan

Review by Paul Keen, Carleton University

Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne by Rachel Carnell

Review by Nicola Parsons, University of Sydney

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jolene Zigarovich

Review by Heather Meek, Université de Montréal

Daniel Defoe in Context, ed. Albert J. Rivero and George Justice

Review by Kit Kincade, Indiana State University

Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen by Rita J. Dashwood

Review by Lise Gaston, Concordia University

Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era by Hannah Doherty Hudson

Review by Elizabeth Neiman, University of Maine

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing by Neil Ramsey

Review by Matthew Reznicek, University of Minnesota

Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to “Gentleman Jack,” ed. Chris Roulston and Caroline Gonda

Review by Ula Lukszo Klein, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 by Sam Hirst Review by Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin

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Two new syllabuses added to the ECF Syllabus Treasury!

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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Great news for a Tuesday! The new ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2" is now available to read at Project MUSE:

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266

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Cover caption: The image on the front cover is 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.

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It's early! Part 2 of "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions" is now available via subscription at the University of Toronto Press Journals website: https://www.utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/2 See all the abstracts on the UTP website. This ECF special issue will land on Project MUSE in about 3 weeks.

Caption: The cover for Eighteenth-Century Fiction April 2024, the special issue entitled "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 2," features the painting called 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.

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Caption: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British, The Exhibition Stare-Case, Somerset House, ca. 1800, Watercolour and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.2893. Public Domain.

Today, I uploaded a new syllabus to the ECF journal online Syllabus Treasury:

ENGL3623, "The Eighteenth Century: Scandal and Sociability," Dr. Nicola Parsons, The University of Sydney

Email your syllabus for inclusion to: [email protected].

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Free to read: Book reviews!

The new issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction will be out soon. Until then, read for free the newest batch of book reviews, for a limited time on the journal website.

Vol. 35, no. 1, January 2023

Click here for a pdf file of all the reviews in this issue.

Review essay on 3 books: States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature by David Simpson Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland by Martha McGill The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh Companion, ed. Jerrold E. Hogle and Robert Miles Review by Peter DeGabriele, Mississippi State U.

The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756–1815 by Ashley L. Cohen Review by James Mulholland, NC State U.

Founded in Fiction: The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States by Thomas Koenigs Review by Xine Yao, University College London

Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688–1843, ed. Misty Krueger Review by Melissa Adams-Campbell, Northern Illinois U.

Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book by Helen Williams Review by Paul Baines, University of Liverpool

Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations by Kathryn Magee Labelle, in collaboration with the Wendat/Wandat Women’s Advisory Council Review by Shelby Johnson, Oklahoma State U.

Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789–1815 by Mark Philp Review by Miriam L. Wallace, New College of Florida

Before the Raj: Writing Early Anglophone India by James Mulholland Review by Padma Rangarajan, University of California, Riverside

Narrative, Catastrophe and Historicity in Eighteenth-Century French Literature by Jessica Stacey Review by Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon

Organic Supplements: Bodies and Things of the Natural World, 1580–1790, ed. Miriam Jacobson and Julie Park Review by Cass Turner, Indiana University Bloomington

One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson’s Novels by Simone Eva Höhn Review by Karen Lipsedge, Kingston U.

Mind over Matter: Memory Fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen by Sarah Eron Review by Amanda Hiner, Winthrop U.

L’Infortuné Napolitain, ou les Aventures du seigneur Rozelli, éd. Érik Leborgne et Emmanuelle Sempère Critique littéraire par Bruno Tribout, Université d’Aberdeen (Royaume-Uni)

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Special issue of the journal

I'm working on production files for the upcoming special issue of the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction entitled "New Essays on /The Woman of Colour/ (1808)." A sneak peek: screencap of my layout program, the table of contents pictured here. This ECF issue will be published in January 2023. #18thCentury #WhatWeDo #19thCentury

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ECF journal Summer 2022 issue

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Articles:

Pity the Fool: Satire, Sentiment, and Aristocratic Vice in George Colman's The Suicide by Eric Parisot, pp. 393-414

Breakfast with "Her inky Demons": Celebrity, Slavery, and the Heroine in Late Eighteenth-Century British Fiction by Ruth Scobie, pp. 415-440

"Nursed under his own Eye": Co-Nursing Fathers and the Spectacle of Breastfeeding in the British Romantic Period by Virlana M. Shchuka, pp. 441-469

Reflections: "Eccentric Connections: Toward a Decolonial (Digital) Book History," by Stephen H. Gregg, pp. 471-482

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ECF journal Fall 2022 issue

ECF Fall 2022 -- https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49186

Articles:

A Novel in Ruins: Thomas Amory’s Antiquarianism By Maggie McGowan pp. 517-545

Queer and Present Danger: Freakery and Sapphic Desire in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda By Susannah B. Sanford pp. 547-569

Generation, Classification, and Human-Plant Analogies in the Mid-Eighteenth Century By Rosalind Powell pp. 571-590

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Another new ECF virtual issue launches today: it's on the apropos topic of propaganda, curated and with an introduction by Rachel K. Carnell, Cleveland State U. http://ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/propaganda/ #18thcentury #readecf #18thcenturyfakenews

See other ECF virtual issues on America, Utopia, and Romancières des Lumières: http://ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/readecf/

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