...G. S. Rousseau The College of William & Mary 2001 Ingenious Pain: Fiction, History, Biography, and the Miraculous Eighteenth Century “And Diderot, feeling he’d found a soulmate, promptly decided...

...Giulia Pacini Bostic Heidi . The Fiction of Enlightenment: Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2010 ). Pp 270 . $59.50 Stewart Philip . L’Invention du sentiment: roman et économie affective au XVIIIe siècle ( Oxford...

...-928110-6 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay Women in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction and Transatlantic Politics Martin Maner Wright State University...

... English women writers novel eighteenth-century fiction nineteenth-century fiction The Literary Legacy of Sarah Harriet Burney Lorna Clark Carleton University The e†orts made by scholars in recent decades...

... reconceived him as a brilliant fiction-writer, a master craftsman, and the father of the novel. Defoe is treated very much like other canonical eighteenth-century authors, but he represents a different kind of writer and a unique set of problems, and we should therefore rethink the way we regard him...

..., “Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism, and Fiction’s Aesthetics of Diversity,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction the quotation is from . . Gillian Russell, “An ‘Entertainment of Oddities’: Fashionable Sociability and the Paci…c in the s,” in A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, and Modernity...

... /9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb- 9780199935338- e- 005?rskey=pMK6Xr&result=1>. 2. Maximillian E. Novak, Warfare and Its Discontents in Eighteenth- Century Fiction: Or, Why Eighteenth- Century Fiction Failed to Produce a War and Peace, Eighteenth- Century Fiction 4 (1992): 185 206. 3. While much of this combat took...

..., a literary scholar, are the similarities between eighteenth-century air and eighteenth-century fiction. She holds that air, like literature, is a “communicative entity.” Air’s “primary assignment—to convey—involves it with language. . . . ​This, along with its invisibility, is why air was linked...

...Diana Solomon Widely translated and adapted in eighteenth‐century England, Don Quixote inspired some of the period's greatest fiction. Yet while literary adaptations of Cervantes's novel often render its humor “amiable” and accommodate it to polite society, dramatic adaptations instead accentuate...

...- ries Things Tell,” instead of focusing on the it-­narrative proper, examines the function and possibility of things with agency in representative literature and artwork throughout the eighteenth century, from ghost stories (Barbara Bene- dict’s “The Spirit of Things”) and sentimental fictions...

...- mous review in 1853, George Eliot also dismissed eighteenth-­century fiction (and culture), with Fielding’s and Smollett’s “studied coarseness” blamed for pandering “to the evil passions of human nature” (101). David Masson, author of British Novelists and Their Styles (1859), is a mid-­century...

...), yet inflected by a number of distinctly modern preoccupations, an idea nearly rent asunder by competing conceptual traditions, yet tentatively held together in some of the period’s most philo- sophically ambitious fiction. The book begins with a brief survey of the eighteenth century’s...

.... 3000. $400. ISBN 0521772214 Crump, Justine, ed. A Known Scribbler: Frances Burney on Literary Life (Orchard Park: Broadview, 2002). Pp. 380. $12.95. ISBN 1-55111-320-1 Dearnley, Moira. Distant Fields: Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Wales (Cardiff: Univ. of Wales, 2002). Pp. 246. $42.95...

...Sara Salih George Boulukos. The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. viii + 280. 6 ills. $95 Duke University Press 2009 Review Essay Can Fiction “Do...

... second page, “How is it that the eighteenth cen- tury’s very obsession with happiness culminates in the political obsolescence of the idea?” (2). That is the question. Here, then, are the broad outlines of an answer. First, eighteenth-­century fiction writers devised a new set of techniques...

..., “Novels were actively promoted into 118  Eighteenth-Century Life prominence over other forms of fiction that were scapegoated” (25). The pur- pose of Aravamudan’s book is to peel back the layers of historical prejudice and advocate a more inclusive approach to eighteenth-­century fiction...

...Hilary Havens Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Zionkowski Linda . Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Burney, Austen ( New York : Routledge , 2016 ). Pp. 262. $119 ...

..., and automatons casts a fresh light on eighteenth- ­­century fiction and on the uncanny experience of strangeness and familiarity that encounters with mock persons often provoke, whether they take place in a wax museum or in the pages of a book. Confusing life with the lifelike ani- mated novels from...

... in fiction and drama . . . and was often deployed in late seventeenth-­ and early eighteenth-­century fiction” (159). The relationship between Fielding and William Hogarth is the topic of Frédéric Ogée’s “‘O, Hogarth, Had I Thy Pencil’: Delineations of an Alleged Friendship,” though, as its title tells...

... and author by mingling fictional and nonfictional texts. This has led some later scholars, including Pat Rogers, Backscheider, and Novak, to treat the novel as though it were a spiritual 18  Eighteenth-Century Life autobiography, albeit expressed through a fictional character. Reading the trilogy...