Executive Committee:
Paul Kelleher, Jan. 2021 (2020-Jan. 2021 Ch.)
Allison Margaret Bigelow, Jan. 2023 (2019-Jan. 2021 Sec.)
David Alff, Jan. 2024
Eugenia Zuroski, Jan. 2025
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: MLA 2021 (Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days agoDear colleagues,
Please see below for a panel on power and abuse in the eighteenth century world (MLA 2021, Toronto). Thanks!Efforts to ensconce and enforce social, political, and economic hierarchies punctuated much of eighteenth-century life and letters around the world. This was an era that bore witness to abuses of power at every level: the…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Panels organized by CLCS 18th-C. (MLA 2020, Seattle) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 months agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for two panels on race, science, and the limits of the human in the global 18th c.:
Panel #1
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human. Jan 9, 2020, 1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sheraton – Ravenna C“Diagramming Race in Eighteenth-Century Science and History,” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara
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Pamela Phillips started the topic UPCOMING DEADLINE • The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week agoDear colleagues: Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by: Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río P…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century via email on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited “Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining”: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoThe article analyses the relationship between body, mind and soul in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767). Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the m…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Splendid Isolation and Cruel Returns in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoChallenges Robinson Crusoe’s ability, in “Robinson Crusoe,” to be honest with himself about how much he was actually glad Fortune stepped into remove him out of his father’s grasp. And, as well, Gulliver’s presumption, In “Gulliver’s Travels,” that he would really have preferred Fortune had not stepped in and removed him from endless more days in…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Worthy Companions in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoCompares Evelina, from Frances Burney’s “Evelina,” and Werther, from Goethe’s “Young Werther.” Argues that though they could readily be made to seem opposite to one another, as they seek company with such disparate groups of people, the difference is superficial, and their motivations, the same — namely, to make use of their associations with…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Call for panelists, "Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year agoDear colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper to the MLA 2020 Panel, “Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air.”
A range of classification schemes proliferated in the long eighteenth century, from casta classifications in the Americas (Carrera, Imagining Identity) to racial, national, and moral classifications of human beings in Europe (Kant, Obs…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow replied to the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoUpdate: we’ve started a googlesheet to sign up. Please feel free to enter your information here, either to volunteer to mentor or to be matched with a mentor:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_zAqjmkOkgqqF7P0u0R35JFSb2ue1qh-F3LHkutGlc/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks!
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Mentoring Opportunities: Professional Development with CLCS 18th C. Forum in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
The MLA is looking for ways to improve year-round engagement in the forums, and it has identified professional development as a critical area of need for many of our members. If you would be willing to mentor another member of the CLCS 18th-C. forum, please reply to this post here or email Allison Bigelow at…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: Women & Language in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Call for essay contributions for a volume on "Protest in the Long 18th Century" in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoEighteenth century popular protest and resistance included not only riots which resulted from the rising prices of bread and other food staples in England, France, and Spain, but also those triggered by “new” policies on hats and coats, as well as riots and executions brought about from the displeasure with foreign competition. We invite ess…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow posted an update in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoCFP for MLA 2019, sponsored by the 18th c. Comparative Forum: “Afterlives of the Enlightenment: Sovereignty.”
https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_11095The eighteenth century world placed sovereignty in the heart of global political, economic, and cultural debates. English subjects questioned what sovereignty meant after the Restoration, and agents…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Aleksondra Hultquist deposited Breaking Open the Conversation on Delarivier Manley in the group
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis, the first critical collection on Delarivier Manley, revisits the most heated discussions and adds new perspectives that will change the conversation on the foremost woman writer in the age of Queen Anne. This compilation demonstrates the wide range of thinking about Manley’s literary production and significance. While contributors r…[Read more]
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