In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth we'll share past and new content focused on women in the long eighteenth century.
#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #janeaustencollaborative #WomensHistoryMonth #long18thcentury #history #englishliterature #janeaustenfans #publichumanities
In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth we'll share past and new content focused on women in the long eighteenth century.
#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #janeaustencollaborative #WomensHistoryMonth #long18thcentury #history #englishliterature #janeaustenfans #publichumanities
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth we'll share past and new content focused on Black lives and culture in the long eighteenth century and Black representation in Austen scholarship and fandom.
#janeausten #BlackHistoryMonth #long18thcentury #publichumanities
Can't make it this week, but this promises to be fascinating - d'Eon is a figure of enduring intrigue. I've signed up to attend the other seminars for the term online now! #c18 #long18thcentury #history #genderstudies #academia
Zig zags and dots in green, yellow, and white on a book "preserved" by book tape
Stamped horizontal lines and a floral inspired pattern, in blue, red, and green (that kinda look like music notes)
Brown and reddish brown blobs that kinda look like aliens with 6 legs (or amoebas), in vertical stripes.
Book tape applied with reckless but good intentioned abandon over a yellow patterned all-over stamping
Some block-printed (?) endpapers, to politely interrupt your doomscroll....
#Skybrarians #BookSky #Long18thCentury
I blame VD18 #Long18thCentury #GettingLonger.
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
#19thCentury #Long18thCentury
The journal's purview is long and broad!
Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf
#18thCentury
Engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from the series "Miseries of Reading and Writing" The number 8 Dialogue is pictured: A young woman has fallen asleep in the study while recording her private thoughts, and her elderly guardian reacts in shock to what she has written. Caption: “As you are writing dreamily by the fire, on rousing and recollecting yourself, find your Guardian in possession of your secret thoughts, which he never ceases to upbraid you of.”
Abstract: This article examines two novels that parody popular, late eighteenth-century fiction: Mrs F.C. Patrick, More Ghosts! (1798) and Sarah Green, Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810). Both texts embrace and resist elements of gothic romance through intertextuality and generic instability. These two novels are marked by dynamic ambivalence: the writers overtly disavow the gothic genre, yet fail to abandon gothic sympathies for a consistent parody. Dynamic ambivalence empowers the reader to take multiple, conflicting positions within and against the plot. Both authors warn readers that in order to strengthen one’s mind, one must be insensible to melodrama and resist romantic extravagances; nevertheless, each exposes this stance as a façade. Using comic elements to deflect criticism and satire to establish their moral vision, Patrick and Green aim to elicit sympathy for female characters, even when they are foolish, deceived, or debauched ...
The ECF editors always welcome submissions on gothic literature:
"On the Edges of Gothic Parody: The Neglected Work of Mrs F.C. Patrick and Sarah Green," by Mercy Cannon muse.jhu.edu/article/758903
Many thanks for reading ECF at Project MUSE!
#Long18thCentury #19thCentury #C18th #18thC
A painting by French eighteenth-century artist Anne Vallayer-Coster, called Still-Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells, and Corals. Many shells and corals are arranged in cornucopia-like abundances on a shelf made of chiselled stone pieces.
Abstract: This essay revisits the early eighteenth-century ode to demonstrate how its poetics, labelled by the Augustans as undisciplined and perplexed, were instead used to frame ambivalence about the limits of empire and the nature of property. Focusing on Thomas Heyrick's "The Submarine Voyage" (1691), I argue that Heyrick uses the strophic turns of the ode to speculate on the commercial and imperial value of sea-floor spaces. More than a sui generis flight of fancy, Heyrick's speculation existed alongside Restoration scientific inquiry and commercial salvage forays into sea-floor spaces by prominent figures such as Robert Boyle, Edmund Halley, and Daniel Defoe. While later eighteenth-century authors, including Jonathan Swift, would mock these projectors as blithely unaware of the flimsiness of their own projects, Heyrick's ode reveals intense doubt over how England might constitute knowledge and property in oceanic spaces even while envisioning English empire as reconstituting ...
Did you know that ECF publishes on poetry sometimes too?
"Sea-Floor Property and Imperial Futures in Thomas Heyrick's /The Submarine Voyage/ (1691)," by Joseph Hall
muse.jhu.edu/article/729637
Please read ECF on @ProjectMUSE
#18thcentury #C18th #18thC #Long18thCentury
Stacks of books
Authors, publishers, and the friends of authors of long-18th-century-related literary studies books, please email me!
ECF: ecf@mcmaster.ca
Let me know about a recent or upcoming book so that we may arrange a review for publication in the journal.
#Long18thCentury #AcWri #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Two panels in one image. In the left image, a painted portrait of author Mary Shelley. In the right image, a man stand atop a jagged ridge and looks down into a mist-shrouded valley. His back is the the viewer.
ECF journal covers the very long #18thCentury:
"The Survival of Non-Productive Labour in Mary Shelley’s /The Last Man/,"
by Konstantinos (Kos) Pozoukidis
muse.jhu.edu/article/787459
#19thCentury #Long18thCentury #18thC #C18th
Submit your work for consideration: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf
