Book Reviews
Eighteenth-Century Fiction publishes reviews of relevant, recent scholarly books in each regular issue of the journal. Publishers, please email ecf@mcmaster.ca about getting a book reviewed in the journal. If you want to write a book review for ECF, please contact the journal directly: Jacqueline Langille, Managing Editor, ecf@mcmaster.ca. / ECF publie des critiques pertinentes sur des livres d’érudition dans chaque numéro. Les maisons d’édition peuvent envoyer un courriel à ecf@mcmaster.ca afin de faire réviser un de leurs livres dans la revue. Si vous voulez écrire une critique littéraire, veuillez contacter la revue ECF: Jacqueline Langille, Managing Editor, ecf@mcmaster.ca.
ECF Book Review Editors / Les rédacteurs des critiques littéraires: April London, Ottawa University | Katherine Quinsey, University of Windsor | Isabelle Tremblay, Collège militaire royal du Canada
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Vol. 30, no. 1, Fall 2017
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“Author, Author! The Newfound Significance of Colley Cibber: Review Essay”
Review by Marcie Frank, Concordia University · 127
The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction by Olivier Delers
Review by Guillaume Ansart, Indiana University, Bloomington · 131
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Genèse et philosophie de l’oeuvre par Gabriel-Robert Thibault
Critique littéraire par Moufida El Bejaoui, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Maroc · 135
Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798–1832 by Natasha Tessone
Review by Cheryl L. Nixon, University of Massachusetts Boston · 137
Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 by Rivka Swenson
Review by Sebastian Mitchell, University of Birmingham · 141
Armed Ambiguity: Women Warriors in German Literature and Culture in the Age of Goethe by Julie Koser
Review by Rebecca Steele, University of Wyoming · 144
Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England by Courtney Weiss Smith
Review by Seth Rudy, Rhodes College · 147
Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen by Christopher R. Miller
Review by Joel T. Terranova, University of Louisiana at Lafayette · 150
Vol. 29, no. 4, Summer 2017
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The English Enlightenment Reads Ovid: Dryden and Jacob Tonson’s 1717 “Metamorphoses,” by Richard Morton
Review by Tanya Caldwell, Georgia State University · 663
The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought, by Sean Silver
Review by Marcus Tomalin, University of Cambridge · 665
The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction, by John Robertson
Review by Richard B. Sher, New Jersey Institute of Technology/Rutgers University–Newark · 669
Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary, by Brad Pasanek
Review by Sean Silver, University of Michigan · 672
Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600–1740, by Lucinda Cole
Review by Melissa Bailes, Tulane University · 675
Prose Immortality, 1711–1819, by Jacob Sider Jost
Review by Daniel Cook, University of Dundee · 678
Reflections on Sentiment: Essays in Honor of George Starr, ed. Alessa Johns
Review by Kirsten Hall, University of Texas at Austin · 680
Romanticism: Keywords, by Frederick Burwick
Review by Karen Hadley, University of Louisville · 683
Écrire la frontière: Walter Scott ou les chemins de l’errance, par Céline Sabiron
Review by Paul Barnaby, University of Edinburgh · 686
L’Orientale allégorie: Le Conte oriental au XVIIIe siècle en France (1704–1774), par Jean-François Perrin
Critique littéraire par Sylvette Larzul, Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) · 689
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen, by Kate Rumbold
Review by Megan Taylor, McGill University · 692
Margot la ravaudeuse, par Fougeret de Monbron, trad. et éd. Édouard Langille
Critique littéraire par Jacqueline Chammas, Université de Montréal · 694
Vol. 29, no. 3, Spring 2017
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870, ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person
Review by Thomas Allen, University of Ottawa · 493
The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Raymond Stephanson and Darren N. Wagner
Review by Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire · 497
Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political, by Peter DeGabriele
Review by Christopher F. Loar, Western Washington University · 500
Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696–1801, by Julia H. Fawcett
Review by Brian Cowan, McGill University · 503
Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture, by Timothy Erwin
Review by K.L.H. Wells, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee · 506
What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon, by Blair Hoxby
Review by Anna Rosensweig, University of Rochester · 508
Raving at Usurers: Anti-Finance and the Ethics of Uncertainty in England, 1690–1750, by Dwight Codr
Review by Ann Louise Kibbie, Bowdoin College · 511
Theatre and the Novel, from Behn to Fielding, by Anne F. Widmayer
Review by Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago · 514
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives, ed. Mary Helen McMurran
and Alison Conway
Review by Matthew Rowney, UNC, Charlotte · 516
Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul, by Laura Linker
Review by Jacqueline Broad, Monash University · 519
Defoe’s Major Fiction: Accounting for the Self, by Elizabeth R. Napier
Review by Kit Kincade, Indiana State University · 521
Pensées errantes; avec quelques lettres d’un Indien, par Bonne-Charlotte de Bénouville, éd. Huguette Krief
Critique littéraire par M.-L. Girou Swiderski, Université d’Ottawa · 523
Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street, by Norma Clarke
Review by Maureen Harkin, Reed College · 526
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne, ed. Melvyn New, Peter de Voogd, and Judith Hawley
Review by Jesse Molesworth, Indiana University · 529
Sade’s Sensibilities, ed. Kate Parker and Norbert Sclippa
Review by Melissa Deininger, Iowa State University · 532
Malvina by Sophie Cottin, ed. Marijn S. Kaplan
Review by JoEllen DeLucia, Central Michigan University · 534
Vol. 29, no. 2, Winter 2016-17
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What Is Fiction For? Literary Humanism Restored, by Bernard Harrison
Review by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, University of Tennessee, Knoxville · 327
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ed. Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager
Review by Jacob Sider Jost, Dickinson College · 331
The Rise of the Novel: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism, by Nicholas Seager
Review by George Boulukos, Southern Illinois University Carbondale · 334
Against Self-Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States, by William Huntting Howell
Review by Katie Simon, Georgia College · 336
L’Opéra mental: Formes et enjeux de l’écriture du spectacle chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau, par Amélie Tissoires
Critique littéraire par Claude Dauphin, UQAM · 339
The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity and The Surprize, or Constancy Rewarded by Eliza Haywood, ed. Tiffany Potter
Review by Earla Wilputte, St. Francis Xavier University · 342
Vol. 29, no. 1, Fall 2016
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English and British Fiction 1750–1820 (vol. 2, The Oxford History of the Novel in English), ed. Peter Garside and Karen O’Brien
Review by Marta Kvande, Texas Tech University · 103
An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750–1850 by Siobhan Carroll
Review by Christopher Parkes, Lakehead University · 106
Political Magic British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650–1750 by Christopher F. Loar
Review by Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia · 108
British Pirates in Print and Performance by Frederick Burwick and Manushag N. Powell
Review by Jacob Crane, Bentley University · 111
Jane Austen and Modernization: Sociological Readings by James Thompson
Review by Megan Taylor, McGill University · 114
Œuvres complètes de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, romans et contes, éd. Jean-Michel Racault, Guilhem Armand, Colas Duflo et Chantale Meure
Critique littéraire par Marco Menin, Université de Turin, Italie · 116
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