#18th-century novels

[eighteenthcenturyfiction]

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 Get your read on!

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

[hedgehog-moss]

Forgive me for making yet another post about the French Revolution but one small detail that makes me laugh is when, as things started to go seriously wrong, one of Louis XVI's advisers tried to persuade him & Marie-Antoinette to get away from Paris and wait for things to calm down (the idea was "if you lay low and wait, the newly-created National Assembly will vote something stupid and lose popular support" which was a solid plan honestly.) But he was also like "whatever you do, DO NOT go East or South or people will think you'll get help from other monarchies to restore your power and that won't calm things down"

So the King was advised to flee to Normandy, which... is just a short ferry ride away from another monarchy. But that's completely different since it's England. To be fair to the English, the French monarchy had basically bankrupted itself a few years back to send millions in support of the American revolutionaries because it would be a shame not to take advantage of "perhaps the best opportunity for centuries to come to put England in its place" (actual quote by France's minister of Foreign Affairs in 1777)

—still I love the realistic approach of the King's adviser telling him, Sire you can't go near any of our borders rn, it'll escalate the situation, Parisians will know you're trying to get another country to help. Obviously you can go set up camp right across the sea from England though, that's fine since everyone knows the English wouldn't piss on us if we were on fire¹

¹ Perfidious Albion was like "aw no France is in turmoil and possibly weakened :) a shame :)" exactly like France re: them at the start of the US independence war ² they also thought well these backward french are finally following our glorious example and entering civilisation (parliamentary monarchy) ³ and only when the Girondins started being like "let's spread the French Revolution to the whole universe!!! or at least Belgium" did England finally decide "it's been a while since we last declared war on France actually" (but it was too late for Louis XVI) ⁴ That's not how footnotes work sorry. Trying to make my post look fancier

[ahb-writes]

Person: Oh, you're a writer! What do you write?

Me:

[burningvelvet]

I read A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and I don't know what I originally thought it was going to be about but whatever it was IT WAS NOT THAT

[essenceofarda]

thinkin' about some MG Graphic Novel ideas I have,, and about these two girlies that become unlikely friends in one of the story ideas I have :) (not a historical graphic novel, but more fantasy/historical inspired as it takes place in a fantasy/magical world that is loosely based on ours but y'know, has literal magic)

Probably upper MG/Young YA? If I had to choose an age group that this story was aimed for :)

Basically the premise is: The blonde girl (name pending) travels to a magical Eastern/Chinese-inspired country with her rich (Evil) father, and befriends the daughter (also name pending lol) of said country's emperor. Shenanigans ensue :) Also... young love??

[queerquaintrelle]

Vamptember 2024: "Evil is always possible"

"Evil is always possible, and goodness is eternally difficult." - IWTV, 1976 (Anne Rice)

What Constitutes Evil? <- a TVC novels literary analysis essay by me (I can't believe my high school English teacher let me get away with it).

@vamptember

[thepastisalreadywritten]

TODAY IN HISTORY

22 November 1963

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine, was charged with the murder — shooting from the Texas School Book Depository.

Oswald was then killed two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

The Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Oswald acted alone, but this sparked skepticism and numerous alternative theories about the day arose.

The new administration has promised to release the classified files regarding the assassination, so potentially we’ll know the true story very soon.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

(29 May 1917 – 22 November 1963)

22 November 1963

C.S. Lewis passed away at the age of 64 from kidney failure.

He was a scholar at Oxford and Cambridge, known for writing the Chronicles of Narnia and other Christian apologetics.

His death happened on the exact same day as John F. Kennedy's assassination, so he did not receive the attention he deserved.

His works were an incredible blend of imagination and theology, and remain influential in literature and religious thought to this day.

Clive Staples Lewis FBA 

(29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) 

22 November 1963

It turns out that this was an extremely dark day in history in 1963.

Not only did John F. Kennedy's assassination and C.S. Lewis's passing occur, but Aldous Huxley also died at age 69 in Los Angeles from laryngeal cancer.

He’s best known for his 1932 novel Brave New World, which is a dystopian vision of the future.

Aldous Leonard Huxley 

(26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963)

22 November 1718

The notorious pirate Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach, died in a battle off North Carolina's Ocracoke Island.

He fought Lieutenant Robert Maynard in a sea battle and suffered multiple wounds before being killed and beheaded.

Blackbeard's death was a huge victory against piracy in the Atlantic.

He was the embodiment of the Golden Age of Piracy, and remains one of the most iconic and well-known pirates today.

Edward Teach 

(or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718)

[incesthemes]

i finished season 1 of black sails and it was pretty decent. the display of misogyny throughout the show has been intriguing to witness, and the understated horror of max's final conversation with eleanor was ambiguously presented enough that i couldn't actually tell if the writers knew they were condoning rape or not so that's interesting too. it kind of subverts the #girlpower of earlier shows and movies by making the misogyny so present and having the female characters work well within the constraints of society instead of breaking free of them through one-note badassery, and honestly i find that refreshing. i don't see too many shows which are willing to actually commit so dramatically to sexism and misogyny, i suppose out of fear. but the way both eleanor and max are treated, though wildly different, is genuinely shocking because of the extent of what they face from the male cast (including the ones we're meant to sympathize with! you really do not see that often at all). and the most fascinating part to me is that i really can't tell if this is all intentional and intelligent display of misogyny or if the show actually believes some of what it's saying, especially regarding max. that ambiguity i think is very ballsy tbh and it's honestly kind of fun to watch

[peblezq]

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[chicago-geniza]

Only cogent response to season 5 I read during my "lit review" was, surprisingly, from The Forward, and it was "Julian Fellowes is a Tory, Downton Abbey relies on a Trollope-esque juxtaposition between the British and 'the other'/'the outsider', Americans and Jews are narratively interchangeable within this role because it functions only as a gauche contrast to the old-money stiff upper lip (which is what makes Shirley Maclaine's performance as Martha Levinson, the gaudy American, "feel Jewish" to American audiences, a neat trick of cultural translation), and moreover if Lord Sinderby was so concerned about his son marrying a non-Jewish woman he shouldn't have raised him assimilated to the point of being indistinguishable from an upper-class English gentleman"

[eighteenthcenturyfiction]

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

#18thCentury #ASECS2024 #asecs24

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.

[kissmefriendly]

Ya know I’ve always wondered what the crew of Walton’s ship were doing during this part of the book. Robert is supposed to be the CAPTAIN of an ARCTIC EXPEDITION and he’s just like “Actually I gotta go personally check on the strange man sleeping in my quarters, he’s about to drop his life story on me and I cannot miss it”

Like what is the crew doing?? They’re trapped in the ice! What about rations?? A plan for winter?? Are the officers still having meetings without Walton? Is the unnamed first mate in charge???

[wildwren]

THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING + ICONIC SCENES // TOM JONES (2023)

My reader then is not to be surprized, if, in the course of this work, he shall find some chapters very short, and others altogether as long; some that contain only the time of a single day, and others that comprise years; in a word, if my history sometimes seems to stand still, and sometimes to fly. For all which I shall not look on myself as accountable to any court of critical jurisdiction whatever: for as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein.

[burningvelvet]

this is a reminder that you should all read tristram shandy (1759) by laurence sterne

[ahalliance]

fighting for my life for dark-skinned heathcliff in this wuthering heights class

[queerquaintrelle]

Vamptember 2024: library

The Unintended & The Library on ao3.

@vamptember