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2024-02-27

In a new UTP blog post, ECF author Tracy Rutler, Penn State, reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, drawing parallels to the societal inequalities highlighted in Isabelle de Charrière’s novel.
bit.ly/ECFBlog
#ReadECF #18thCentury #AcWri #WhatWeDo #C18th #18thC
@utpjournals @ASECS

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2024-02-25

Oh, before @ASECS@chirp.social vanishes in the next few days: If anyone cares, you can find archived posts at this archive.org link. I don't think @asecs@a.gup.pe will produce a web archive, which is kind of too bad. That is assuming there are enough ASECS people still on Mastodon for people to post about it...are there? There are 76 followers of the current ASECS group, but I don't know how many actually log in to Mastodon,

web.archive.org/web/2024022318

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2024-02-23

@ASECS@chirp.social I just received an email that chirp.social, which hosts the ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) group, is shutting down. I am creating a replacement group at @asecs@a.gup.pe . If you follow @asecs@a.gup.pe, it should provide the same functionality: When you tag the group, everyone in the group should see the post

@asecs@a.gup.pe #ASECS #ASECS2024 #ASECS24 #C18 #C18th #18thC #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #C18studies #18thCenturyStudies

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2024-02-23

Another most excellent article in the new ECF special issue:
Born That Way: Asexuality and Kinship in "The History of Mrs Selvyn,"
by Abigail Zitin
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91
ECF 36.1, U of Toronto Press, January 2024, pp. 69-90
Thanks for reading ECF journal at Project MUSE!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS

Abstract: This article expands the critical account of queer orientations in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762) to include not only sapphic eroticism but also asexuality. In the inset narrative "The History of Mrs Selvyn," Scott focuses on Mrs Selvyn's mother, Lady Emilia Reynolds, who is all too eager to punish herself for having conceived a child out of wedlock. I generate a threefold close reading of Emilia's story, considering it along a spectrum of exemplarity, at one extreme, and feminist subversion, at the other. In between is a symptomatic reading, in which Scott uses the consequence of Emilia's perverse moral scrupulousness—the fragmentation of her family—to indict the sexual double standard. In framing the narrative as the daughter's story, I argue, Scott celebrates Harriot Selvyn's freedom from sexual desire as the apotheosis of her mother's renunciation of sexuality.
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ECF Eighteenth-Century Fictionecfjournal@c18.masto.host
2024-02-22

New special issue article:
"Refusing Settler Georgics," by Katarina O'Briain
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, University of Toronto Press
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 7-36
muse.jhu.edu/article/917767
#18thCentury #WhatWeDo #AcWri @ASECS

Abstract: This essay recovers and seeks to refuse a harmful and enduring eighteenth-century fiction: settler georgic, an imperial mode that North American settlers used to foreclose refusal, naturalize British understandings of cultivation and use, and figure violent dispossession as both inevitable and in the past. Tracing this history helps to show the damage that such logics continue to do as well as the assumptions that govern literary historical methods. I look to the work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, whose Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020) is premised on the refusal of settler narrative, to think through alternate modes of literary history. Read alongside Audra Simpson's important study of refusal, Mohawk Interruptus (2014), Leanne Simpson's text opens up possibilities for reading the quieter, everyday refusals that are sometimes overlooked in eighteenth-century archives. This work also suggests the limits of refusal in academic and university contexts, and the ways in which institutional acknowledgements of refusal risk strengthening the settler colonial structures that they claim to refuse.
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2024-02-21

From the new special issue:
"Little Lamb's Roast Pig: A Minor Intervention,"
by Olivia Loksing Moy
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 36.1, January 2024, pp. 37-67
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91
#18thCentury #C18th @ASECS
What we do!
Thanks for reading ECF journal at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This article revisits the racial imaginaries and cultural fictions perpetuated in two of Charles Lamb's so-called "China essays": "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig" (1822) and "Old China" (1823). Using theorizations of the minor and minorness borrowed from Asian Americanist critique, it calls for a recalibration of distorted global scales and false histories. It demonstrates how themes of nostalgia and childhood promote the innocence of minor forms, such as the familiar essay, the fable, and the children's tale, which provide cover for "harmless" texts and authors as mild and gentle as "little Lamb." Positioning Lamb as a minor Romantic author, this article highlights his mastery of these minor forms that serve as a shelter for his imperial and racial innocence.
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ECF Eighteenth-Century Fictionecfjournal@c18.masto.host
2024-02-15

Were you at the CSECS 2023 meeting last fall?
When you expand your CSECS paper to article length, please submit your work to ECF for consideration.
Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/gui
Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf
Questions? ecf@mcmaster.ca
#18thCentury #CSECS2023 #AcWri #C18th #18thC @ASECS

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2024-02-12

Another amazing essay in the new ECF special issue, "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1":
"What We Talk about When We Talk about Fanfiction,"
by Emily C. Friedman
U of Toronto Press, ECF 36.1, January 2024, pp. 159-168
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91
#18thCentury #18thC #C18th @ASECS
Thanks for reading ECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: Using the popular adoption of "fanfiction" as it applies to eighteenth-century fiction, this essay calls for a closer attention to terminology from the established field of fan studies. By doing so, we may be able to better understand our own period's relationship to creative output, the commercial print marketplace, and the making of celebrity.
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2024-02-07

More from the newest ECF journal special issue:
"Endeavouring" and Other Eighteenth-Century Fictions,
By Nikki Hessell
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91
ECF Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 145-48.
ECF is published by the University of Toronto Press.
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS
Thanks for reading ECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: The terminology we use in eighteenth-century studies needs to encompass both the period's and the field's global reach. James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour provides a starting point for considering the terms that were used to imagine the eighteenth-century Pacific from Great Britain, the importance of refusing eighteenth-century fictions in and from the Pacific, and the need to expand our critical vocabulary in the field beyond the frameworks of the transatlantic world. This essay proposes "Endeavouring" as a Pacific-focused corollary to the term "Columbusing" in order to advance anti-colonial scholarship in eighteenth-century studies and broaden its scope and vision.
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ECF Eighteenth-Century Fictionecfjournal@c18.masto.host
2024-02-06

Thinking of submitting a manuscript for consideration?
Find helpful info: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/gui
Feel free to email with any questions: ecf@mcmaster.ca
The ECF Editor welcomes submissions on eighteenth-century literary studies topics at any point during the year.
Stay tuned for the next call for papers for a special issue.
#18thCentury #WhatWeDo #AcWri
Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com
ReadECF: muse.jhu.edu/journal/324
#C18th #18thC @ASECS

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2024-02-06

More from the new special issue of ECF "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions":
"Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters," by Arif Camoglu
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, University of Toronto Press
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 139-43
#18thCentury @ASECS #C18th #18thC

Abstract: This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu's The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning the Ottoman Empire. Montagu's racially marked depictions of women in Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her capacity to identify and sympathize with the oriental other, but also prompt a wider scrutiny of the anti-Black racial rhetoric that percolates through eighteenth-century British orientalist narratives about the Ottoman Empire.
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2024-02-05

Another flash essay from the amazing, new ECF special issue:
"On Noongar Boodjah: George Vancouver's Colonial Fictions," by Ryan D. Fong
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91
ECF journal, U of Toronto Press
36.1, January 2024, pp. 133-137
#18thCentury #18thC @ASECS
Thanks for reading ECF at Project MUSE! #C18th 😃

Abstract: This essay reads Captain George Vancouver's account of his 1791 landing on the southwestern coast of what is now known as Australia through the theorizations and analyses of Indigenous theorists and scholars to expose the colonial fictions that undergird his actions and rhetoric. I then focus on the rhetoric and critical posturing of the settler colonial academy, especially within white-dominated fields like eighteenth-century studies, to consider how its work participates in the processes of Indigenous erasure and points to the need for self-reflexive and reciprocal engagements with Indigenous communities and their knowledges.
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2024-02-02

Some great flash essays in this new ECF special issue:
"Refusing the Fictions of Unmarked Whiteness: Challenging Human Rank, Race, and History," by Patrícia Martins Marcos
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91
ECF 36.1, Jan. 2024, pp. 127-131
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS
Read ECF at Project MUSE, please.
Have a good weekend, friends!

Abstract: The 2017 inauguration of a statue in Lisbon, Portugal, to the seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary in colonial Brazil, Father António Vieira, offers an opportunity to discuss history writing as a narrative genre. The statue epitomizes the naturalization of Portugal's imperial narrative genres of history writing, instantiating their recapitulation into the future. Vieira's statue exposes how colonial mythologies constitute a narrative of power premised on the erasure of colonial resistance. These dynamics, I argue, are intrinsic to the history of history writing. They arch back to a panegyric tradition of narrating the past that emerged in the eighteenth century in the Portuguese Royal Academy of History. Confronting eighteenth-century fictions demands exposing the epistemic whiteness undergirding Western exercises of recovery of the past and narrating history. Focusing on History as a genre, and its attending exercises of curatorial knowledge-production, exposes the deliberate erasure of Black, Indigenous, and other historically marginalized agents of anti-colonial resistance.
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2024-02-01

Another most excellent essay in the new ECF special issue,
"Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1":
"Police Time: Equiano, Blackness, and Custody,"
by Kaushik Tekur Venkata
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, U of Toronto Press
36.1, January 2024, pp. 111-125

#18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS

Thanks for reading ECF journal at Project MUSE!

Abstract: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789) highlights the role that police power plays in restricting Black people from accessing "liberal time," a conception of temporality that is teleological and invests individuals with potential for growth and development. The literary component of this temporality is the genre of autobiography and Bildungsroman. I argue that police power, through careful regulation of Black bodies and their relation to time and narration, make liberal time possible. Episodes in Equiano's narrative draw attention to this regulation, which I call "police time": a conception of temporality that sees Blackness as devoid of history, a vagrant emptiness that is capable of disrupting the liberal order and its "peace," and hence needs to be "suspended." Building on Equiano scholarship about autobiography, the possible fabrication of his own past, and police power, I read Equiano's narrative as confronting police time and trying to fill the void that police see in his Blackness with a history instead.
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2024-01-31

And still more from the new ECF special issue:

"An Alternative Revolution: Isabelle de Charrière's Politics of Care,"
by Tracy L. Rutler
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, U of Toronto Press
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 91-110

#18thCentury #C18th #C18th @ASECS

Abstract: How does patriotism shape societies? What might it look like if patriotism were aligned with care rather than violence? In this article, I analyze Dutch-Swiss author Isabelle de Charrière's novel Trois femmes (1797) through the lens of care ethics, particularly Sarah Clark Miller's notion of a "duty to care." Charrière's novel examines the limits of Enlightenment theories of moralism (especially Kantian morality and duty) by putting theory into practice with a group of three women: a former French aristocrat, a wealthy mixed-race Creole woman, and an Alsatian servant. The three women live together as immigrants in Germany after fleeing France in the aftermath of the French Revolution, and they are bound together by a shared love of country. I propose that Charrière blends patriotism and care in radical ways that break down hierarchies of gender, race, and class and that belie the fiction of equality promised by the French Revolution.
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2024-01-31

Another article in the new ECF special issue:

Born That Way: Asexuality and Kinship in "The History of Mrs Selvyn,"
by Abigail Zitin

muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, University of Toronto Press,
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 69-90
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS

Abstract: This article expands the critical account of queer orientations in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762) to include not only sapphic eroticism but also asexuality. In the inset narrative "The History of Mrs Selvyn," Scott focuses on Mrs Selvyn's mother, Lady Emilia Reynolds, who is all too eager to punish herself for having conceived a child out of wedlock. I generate a threefold close reading of Emilia's story, considering it along a spectrum of exemplarity, at one extreme, and feminist subversion, at the other. In between is a symptomatic reading, in which Scott uses the consequence of Emilia's perverse moral scrupulousness—the fragmentation of her family—to indict the sexual double standard. In framing the narrative as the daughter's story, I argue, Scott celebrates Harriot Selvyn's freedom from sexual desire as the apotheosis of her mother's renunciation of sexuality.
ASECS boosted:
ECF Eighteenth-Century Fictionecfjournal@c18.masto.host
2024-01-30

All week I'll be posting articles from the new ECF special issue:
this afternoon's is --
"Little Lamb's Roast Pig: A Minor Intervention," by Olivia Loksing Moy
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, University of Toronto Press
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 37-67

muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/91

#18thCentury #C18th @ASECS

Abstract: This article revisits the racial imaginaries and cultural fictions perpetuated in two of Charles Lamb's so-called "China essays": "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig" (1822) and "Old China" (1823). Using theorizations of the minor and minorness borrowed from Asian Americanist critique, it calls for a recalibration of distorted global scales and false histories. It demonstrates how themes of nostalgia and childhood promote the innocence of minor forms, such as the familiar essay, the fable, and the children's tale, which provide cover for "harmless" texts and authors as mild and gentle as "little Lamb." Positioning Lamb as a minor Romantic author, this article highlights his mastery of these minor forms that serve as a shelter for his imperial and racial innocence.
ASECS boosted:
ECF Eighteenth-Century Fictionecfjournal@c18.masto.host
2024-01-30

New special issue article:
"Refusing Settler Georgics," by Katarina O'Briain
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, University of Toronto Press
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 7-36
muse.jhu.edu/article/917767
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS

Abstract: This essay recovers and seeks to refuse a harmful and enduring eighteenth-century fiction: settler georgic, an imperial mode that North American settlers used to foreclose refusal, naturalize British understandings of cultivation and use, and figure violent dispossession as both inevitable and in the past. Tracing this history helps to show the damage that such logics continue to do as well as the assumptions that govern literary historical methods. I look to the work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, whose Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020) is premised on the refusal of settler narrative, to think through alternate modes of literary history. Read alongside Audra Simpson's important study of refusal, Mohawk Interruptus (2014), Leanne Simpson's text opens up possibilities for reading the quieter, everyday refusals that are sometimes overlooked in eighteenth-century archives. This work also suggests the limits of refusal in academic and university contexts, and the ways in which institutional acknowledgements of refusal risk strengthening the settler colonial structures that they claim to refuse.
ASECS boosted:
ECF Eighteenth-Century Fictionecfjournal@c18.masto.host
2024-01-26

The new special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1" -- edited by Manu Chander @profchander and Gena Zuroski @zugenia -- is now available to read at Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979
It's a fabulous lineup. More fantastic authors to come in Part 2 in April. Stay tuned! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS

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2024-01-25

Great news for a Thursday!
The new special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1" is now available to read at Project MUSE:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979

It's a fabulous lineup, and stay tuned for more fantastic authors to come in Part 2 in April.
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC @ASECS

The image on the front cover is Woman Reading under a Mosquito Net, by Fuhiken Tokikaze (ca. 1720). The digital file of this Public Domain painting is provided courtesy of The Met, New York.Volume 36, no. 1 (January 2024), Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1 Articles Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction Manu Samriti Chander, Georgetown University, and Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University 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 “Endeavouring” and Other Eighteenth-Century Fictions Nikki Hessell, Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington 145 Reflections “A Hundred Different Ways of Being in Love”: Emma, Queer Austen, and Asexuality Studies Leigh-Michil George, Geffen Academy at UCLA, and Lillian Lu, UCLA 149 What We Talk about When We Talk about Fanfiction Emily C. Friedman, Auburn University 159Volume 36, no. 1 (January 2024), Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1 Articles Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions: Introduction Manu Samriti Chander, Georgetown University, and Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University 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 “Endeavouring” and Other Eighteenth-Century Fictions Nikki Hessell, Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington 145 Reflections “A Hundred Different Ways of Being in Love”: Emma, Queer Austen, and Asexuality Studies Leigh-Michil George, Geffen Academy at UCLA, and Lillian Lu, UCLA 149 What We Talk about When We Talk about Fanfiction Emily C. Friedman, Auburn University 159

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