...-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...

...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...

...Mona Scheuermann The College of William & Mary 2000 — Review Essay — Gender Studies of English Fiction Isobel Grundy. Lady Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 680...

... Fiction of the 1780s and 1790s Frances A. Chiu In Tiriel (1788), the eponymous character threatens his daughter, Hela: “Lead me to Har and Heva . . . or howl desolate in the mountains.” In A Sicilian Romance (1790), the Marquis...

...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...

... Paranoia and Fiction Douglas Lane Patey Smith College Jesse Molesworth. Chance and the Eighteenth-­Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2010). Pp. 275 + x. $90 J Readers who...

...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...

...Scott Black Paige Nicholas D. ., Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel . ( Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania , 2011 ). Pp. xiv + 285 . $59.95 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay Misrecognizing...

... mysticisms of finance an explicit pedagogical goal. She navigates through an abstruse conceptual realm to attune readers to the forms and conventions that actually govern it. By taking seriously sentimental fiction's account of how wealth happens and recedes, Binhammer employs the tools of criticism to get...

...Adam R. Beach Loar Christopher F. . Political Magic: British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650–1750 . ( New York : Fordham Univ. , 2014 ). Pp. vii + 326. 5 ills . $45 Pearl Jason H. . Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel . ( Charlottesville : Univ...

... 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...

..., especially in relation to the family, which will be the focus of this critique. Burney wrote five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, a literary career that spanned almost five decades. Grounded in the domestic novel of manners with strong shades of satire, her fiction also incorporates elements...

... as “Mary Meeke,” the wife of a Staffordshire vicar. It was not until 2013 that an article by Simon Macdonald conclusively revealed the author’s actual identity as Elizabeth Meeke—not a respectable vicar’s wife, but the scandalous stepsister of Frances Burney. Meeke published all her fiction...

...Lisa O'Connell Recent scholarly work by Jürgen Habermas, Judith Butler, and others posits a new cultural domain that is simultaneously religious and secular. Drawing on the sermons of John Tillotson and the fiction of Henry Fielding, this paper examines literary sentimentalism in this “post-secular...

... argument that examines Ruthinglenne 's straddling of fact and fiction; by analyzing both the novel and its paratexts, I propose that Kelly's fictional encoding of fact would have been obvious to at least some of her readers. The case of Ruthinglenne , I further argue, lends support to recent critical...

...Jane Lim If John Locke established the self‐enclosed, paternal household as the basis of a new liberal state that fosters self‐governing individuals, this Enlightenment model of family unit is disrupted in gothic fiction that posits claustrophobic homes as the primary locus of terror. Yet...

... Hays's depiction of Macaulay's upbringing with that of the fictional Sophie, in particular, Macaulay's reading practices and rejection of the “customary avocations of her sex and age,” Hays makes her into an apt symbol of her broader vision, into somebody who prospers specifically by consciously refusing...

... focused on distinguishing truth from fiction; sometimes, he has been cited as a reliable witness, and often he has been criticized for his apparent fabrications and exaggerations. This essay proposes an alternative approach to questions of truthfulness by focusing instead on how Exquemelin himself...

...Bradford Mudge Situating a reading of Henry Angelo and the English “love of portraiture” between an anxiety about monuments and history on one side and an anxiety about money and fiction on the other, this essay argues for an appreciation of Angelo's Reminiscences that moves past individual...

... the ability of rational educational approaches to inculcate religious belief. I compare Zenobia to Edgeworth’s Harrington , Rousseau’s Émile , Mme de Genlis’ Adéle et Thèodore , and Hamilton’s Agrippina. Zenobia applies two popular modes of fictional representation of education to the teaching of religion...