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Eighteenth-Century Fiction publishes reviews of books and other media.

Publishers, please email ecf@mcmaster.ca about getting a scholarly book reviewed in the journal.

ECF publie des critiques pertinentes (les comptes rendus analytiques) sur des livres d’érudition. Les maisons d’édition peuvent envoyer un courriel à Jacqueline Langille, ecf@mcmaster.ca, afin de faire réviser un de leurs livres dans la revue.

Newest reviews: free to read. / Lire les comptes rendus du prochain numéro gratuitement et à l’avance:

Vol. 36, no. 2, April 2024

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Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, by Ula Lukszo Klein
Review by Robin Runia, Xavier University of Louisiana  – p. 347

African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment, by Rebekah Mitsein
Review by Steven W. Thomas, Wagner College – p. 349

Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization, by Stephanie DeGooyer
Review by David Hollingshead, MacEwan University – p. 352

We Are Kings: Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Individual,by Spencer Jackson
Review by Minji Huh, SUNY Albany – p. 356

British Romanticism and Denmark,by Cian Duffy
Review by Andrew McKendry, Nord University – p. 359

Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel,by Ann Campbell
Review by Elizabeth Porter, Hostos Community College, CUNY – p. 362

Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730,by Wolfram Schmidgen
Review by Emma Major, University of York – p. 365

English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660–1800, ed. Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
Review by Angelina Del Balzo, Bilkent University – p. 367

The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism,by Corrinne Harol
Review by Philip Connell, University of Cambridge – p. 370

Croire aux vampires au siècle des Lumières. Entre savoir et fiction, par Stella Louis
Critique littéraire par Emmanuelle Sempere (UR-1337), Université de Strasbourg – p. 372

Des femmes: Observations du préjugé commun sur la difference des sexes,by Louise Dupin, ed. Frédéric Marty
Review by Angela Hunter, University of Arkansas-Little Rock – p. 375

Reading with Austen, www.readingwithausten.com
Review by Sarah Raff, Pomona College – p. 379

Ignatius Sancho’s London: Recovering Black Communities in the 18th Century, https://dcrn.northeastern.edu/ignatius-sanchos-london/
Review by Taylor Schey, North Carolina State University – p. 381

My Life’s Travels and Adventures: An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland, by Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa, ed. and trans. Władysław Roczniak
Review by Elizabeth Zold, Winona State University – p. 384

Vol. 36, no. 1, January 2024

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British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830, ed. Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon
Review by David Alff, SUNY-Buffalo – p. 169

Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth Century Collections Online by Stephen H. Gregg
Review by Tonya Howe, George Mason University – p. 172

Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage by Jane Wessel
Review by Leslie Ritchie, Queen’s University – p. 175

Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies by Laura R. Kremmel
Review by James Robert Allard, Brock University – p. 178

Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons
Review by Louise Voll Box, The Johnston Collection, Melbourne – p. 181

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature, ed. Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin
Review by Alexandra M. Macdonald, William & Mary – p. 184

Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts by Rori Bloom
Review by Allison Stedman, UNC-Charlotte – p. 187

Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism by Orrin N.C. Wang
Review by Lindsey Eckert, Florida State University – p. 190

The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert
Review by Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba – p. 193

American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Daniel Diez Couch
Review by Wendy Lucas, University of Central Arkansas – p. 195

Colonies, traite et esclavage des Noirs dans la presse à la veille de la Révolution 1er janvier 1788–16 juin 1789, par Carminella Biondi
Compte rendu par Lise Andries, CNRS-Université de Paris-Sorbonne – p. 198

Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770–1820 by Margaretmary Daley
Review by Wendy C. Nielsen, Montclair State University – p. 199

Vol. 35, no. 4, October 2023

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Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642–1722, by Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson
Review by Neil Ramsey, UNSW Canberra – p. 521

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, by Devoney Looser
Review by Rosetta Young, Dartmouth College – p. 523

Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel, by Elahe Haschemi Yekani
Review by Alpen Razi, Cal Poly SLO – p. 527

Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion, by Jacob Risinger
Review by Julie Murray, Carleton University – p. 530

Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750, by Catherine Ingrassia
Review by Cynthia Richards, Wittenberg University – p. 532

Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities, ed. Jeremy Chow
Review by Charlee Bezilla, George Washington University – p. 535

Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775–1800, by Linda Van Netten Blimke
Review by Leah M. Thomas, Virginia State University – p. 538

The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels, by Yoon Sun Lee
Review by Alexander Creighton, UC Berkeley – p. 541

British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis
Review by Katherine G. Charles, Washington College – p. 544

The “Lady’s Magazine” (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History, by Jennie Batchelor
Review by Bethany E. Qualls, California, United States – p. 547

Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890, by Wendy C. Nielsen
Review by Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln – p. 550

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson
Review by Willow White, University of Alberta, Augustana – p. 553

What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century, by Kathleen Lubey
Review by Jason S. Farr, Marquette University – p. 556

Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French Literature, par Scott M. Sanders
Critique littéraire par Nathalie Vuillemin, Université de Neuchâtel – p. 559

Le Cinéma des Lumières: Diderot, Deleuze, Eisenstein, by Marc Escola
Review by Guy Spielmann, Georgetown University – p. 562

Vol. 35, no. 3, July 2023

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Review essay: “Romantic Reconfigurations in the Poetry of Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and William Gilbert”
Books reviewed: Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century, by Bethan Roberts; “The Excursion” and Wordsworth’s Iconography, by Brandon C. Yen; and William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism: A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of “The Hurricane,” by Paul Cheshire
Review essay by Lawrence Evalyn, Northeastern University

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City, by Betsy Klimasmith
Review by Rochelle Raineri Zuck, Iowa State University

Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature, by Tracy L. Rutler
Review by Chris Roulston, Western University

Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–1742, by Melissa Mowry
Review by Leah Orr University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Perception and Analogy: Poetry, Science, and Religion in the Eighteenth Century, by Rosalind Powell
Review by Annika Mann, ASU’s New College of Arts and Sciences

Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850, by Porscha Fermanis
Review by Ina Ferris, University of Ottawa

Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising, by Leith Davis
Review by Daniel Cook, University of Dundee 

British Romanticism and Peace, by John Bugg
Review by Paula Yurss Lasanta, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion, by Freya Gowrley
Review by Sara Pennell, University of Greenwich

Frances Burney and the Arts, ed. Francesca Saggini
Review by Katarina O’Briain, York University

Vol. 35, no. 2, April 2023

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Vol. 35, no. 1, January 2023

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Vol. 34, supplement 1, Fall 2022

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For ECF reviews in volumes 1-34, please read the journal on Project MUSE.