Very happy to have my review of Laura Runge's "Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion" in such wonderful company (scroll down a whole bunch!)

I'm going to be talking about some new work at the "Legal Imaginaries" symposium at the ANU next week and looking forward to learning a lot from the interdisciplinary work on law and literature that is going on across Asia and the Pacific events.humanitix.com/legal-imagin...

I sent the ECF October 2024 issue to the publisher: you know what that means! Free to read new book reviews on the ECF journal website at McMaster University: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ecf-36-4-oct... #18thCentury Thanks for reading ECF journal!

These are the last few days of Managing Editor, Jacqueline Langille, as the ECF online voice (retiring!). Signing off August 28th, with someone new taking over ECF social media in the fall. Stay tuned for updates. #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF at @ProjectMUSE : muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024: "A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF @ProjectMUSE !

Another amazing essay in ECF July 2024: "A Critical Turn Inwards in /The Woman of Colour/ (1808): On Teaching Romanticism Now," by Elizabeth Neiman ECF 36.3, pp. 459-484 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF @ProjectMUSE !

A new ECF article in the July issue: "Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

A new ECF article in the July issue: "Sébastien Brémond's Paratexts: Authorship, Genre, and Masculinity," by Erin Keating ECF 36.3, July 2024, pp. 439-458 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Another new article in ECF July 2024: "The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF journal at Project MUSE !

Another new article in ECF July 2024: "The Rise of Poor Richard: Franklinian Fictionality, Republican Circumspection," by Zachary Tavlin ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 411-438 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF journal at Project MUSE !

I'm trying to identify a late 18th-century woman writer (probably a poet) whose surname was BURNET (listed in a text from 1786 alongside Jane Graham, A-L Barbauld, Hannah Moore, Anna Seward, Hannah Cowley). Anyone know who this might be? #18thCentury #18C

New ECF article in the July 2024 issue: "A Play to Be Read: Authorship as Marriage in Eliza Haywood's A Wife to Be Lett (1723)," by Anaclara Castro-Santana muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36, Number 3, July 2024, pp. 387-410 #18thCentury Please Read ECF journal at Project MUSE!

Read ECF July 2024 online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797 Reading ECF on Project MUSE enables the journal to keep publishing your work. #18thCentury

If you missed my latest talk on Gothic Sublimity and the work of Ann Radcliffe, you can find it here! It's based on chapter 2 of my book 'Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic' which has been short-listed for the Alan Lloyd Smith prize for Gothic scholarship! youtu.be/9HCCr4Wvfjo

While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797 Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

While the ECF office is closed for a vacation week, I couldn't resist letting everyone know that the ECF July 2024 issue is now on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52797 Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Reminder: The ECF special issue Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1 and Part 2 are available to read at Project MUSE: Part 1: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979 Part 2: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Just because it's Tuesday, I'm reposting a Material Fictions article: "Eighteenth-Century Pipes and the Erasure of the Disposable Object," by Samuel Diener muse.jhu.edu/article/715155 #18thCentury Read ECF journal at Project Muse !

Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration? We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles. ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Questions? [email protected] #18thCentury Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com ReadECF @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

Are you ready to submit your work to ECF for consideration? We have spots open in the October *2025* issue for research articles. ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Questions? [email protected] #18thCentury Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com ReadECF @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

A short FlashbackFriday trip to 2023: "Troubling White Femininity: Revisiting Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment (1720)," by Kirsten T. Saxton ECF 35.4, October 2023, pp. 485-496 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... Please Read ECF at Project MUSE ! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals: utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3 Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version! On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link. Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

ECF July 2024 is now up at UTP Journals: utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/3 Read all the abstracts at that link. Subscribe to the e-version! On Project MUSE soon. Stay tuned for that link. Get your read on! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

An ECF article from Material Fictions just because it's Tuesday: "Puppets, Waxworks, and a Wooden Dramatis Personae: Eighteenth-Century Material Culture and Philosophical History in William Godwin’s /Fleetwood/," by Emma Peacocke muse.jhu.edu/article/704848 #ReadECF #18thCentury

Reminder: At submission, the ECF editors do *not* require Chicago Manual of Style formatting. Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Please follow the abstract tips especially, since a convincing abstract can persuade a scholar to peer review your manuscript. #18thCentury

The general call for session proposals (Round 2) for ASECS 2025 is now open! See the 2025 Annual Meeting Page for more more information! Submissions are due JULY 26, 2024. asecs.org/2024/06/19/c...

Reminder: At submission, the ECF editors do *not* require Chicago Manual of Style formatting. Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Please follow the abstract tips especially, since a convincing abstract can persuade a scholar to peer review your manuscript. #18thCentury

The University of Toronto Press is working on publishing ECF July 2024 (36.4). While we're waiting: the July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Get your read on!

Check out the ASECS 2025 website: asecs.org/meetings/ase... Call for proposals ... #18thCentury A virtual conference in 2025! Over two weekends.

If you're including /The Woman of Colour/ on your syllabus, may we suggest adding "New Essays on /The Woman of Colour/ (1808)"? Find this ECF special issue on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/49214 Editors Nicole Aljoe, Kerry Sinanan, & Mariam Wassif #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Now with links to the books added! I sent the files to press for ECF July 2024, so you know what that means: The July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Get your read on!

If you’ll excuse the self-promotion, there’s a nice review of my book about ECCO by Tonya Howe in the January 2024 issue.

I sent the files to the University of Toronto Press for the July 2024 issue of ECF, so you know what that means: The July issue reviews section is free to read on the journal website -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Get your read on!

My PhD is available open access! It examines anxiety across the lifecycle through letters of the Canning family 1760-1830. Covers emotions, family, relationships, gender, letters, stages of lifecycle, age, communications, the Cannings researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/16302/ #skystorians #18thc #19thc

It's official: after 22 years of managing @ecfjournal.bsky.social (and managing its Editor), Jacqueline Langille is retiring! I cannot adequately describe what it has meant to me to collaborate with Jackie on this journal for the past 15 years. I have learned so much from her. ❤️

After 22 years at McMaster U as ECF Managing Editor, Jacqueline Langille will retire (that's me!): www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/stories/read... Signing off August 31st, with someone new taking over ECF social media. Stay tuned for updates. #18thCentury Read ECF muse.jhu.edu/journal/324

Titles for academic research articles can be challenging. A narrative title is a good choice: long titles lead the reader into the essay. Search algorithms will not find a pithy or punny title, but compelling key-words/phrases will get attention. Tip: glean parts of the title from your abstract.

ECF journal also publishes articles on material fictions and material culture: "Colonizing through Clay: A Case Study of the Pineapple in British Material Culture," by Joanna M. Gohmann muse.jhu.edu/article/704846 #18thCentury #MaterialCulture Read ECF at Project MUSE!

"re-evaluate the boundaries of the museum and shed more light on the role played by women’s natural history collections in contributing to scientific knowledge in the long nineteenth century." #19thC #WomenInSTEM 🧪📜🗃️ #HPS

I’m super excited to be chairing @zugenia.bsky.social’s keynote on ‘Impertinent Romanticisms’ at the online part of #BARS2024 on Thursday 1st August! The daffodils CAN go fuck themselves!!

Pretty psyched to be giving the online plenary at #BARS2024, chaired by the excellent @drbeard79.bsky.social! Let’s start making a list now of what all can go fuck themselves!! #Bigger6

BARS Conference 2024 Programme Announced! Check out this update from the BARS Conference Committee for more information on the upcoming conferences in Glasgow and Online: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5270 Thanks also to Dr Craig Lamont for our fabulous conference logo!

Reminder: The ECF special issue "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1" is available to read at Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979 It's a fantastic lineup. See Alt Text on ToC pictures. And read Part 2 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52266 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Reupping a most excellent article in the latest ECF special issue: "Behn’s White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688)," by Fauve Vandenberghe muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Random Word Search Wednesday (or not so random) -- the word "protest" shows up in various ECF articles, including "The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction," by Julianne Adams muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF 36.2, April 2024, pp. 209-231 #18thCentury Read ECF journal at Project MUSE

Today is the UK publication day for Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, a fabulous book by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social published with @yalepress.bsky.social #craft #making #18c

Authors, publishers, and friends of authors of long-18th-century studies books, please email ECF: [email protected] Let us know about a recent or upcoming book so that we can arrange a review for publication in the journal. #AcWri #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Are you ready to submit your work for consideration? ECF has spots open in the July *2025* issue for research articles. Questions: [email protected] Guidelines: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Submit: mc04.manuscriptcentral.com Read ECF at Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/journal/324 #18thCentury