MLA Commons | LLC Late-18th-Century English | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Late-18th-Century English. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:19:56 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2742116c59d2b4063af4d9e41661c962 Emily Friedman deposited "Let people tell their stories their own way": Tristram Shandy as Novel, Provocation, Remix in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768610/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:30:42 -0500 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfb2bb01da951bc85d6a36ffd56ccdab Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-forum-delegate-election-25/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:11 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2022, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2022. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f68b8cb7e170d7dfc2ce9c7011502f8 James Mulholland deposited The Past and Future of Historical Poetics: Poetry and Empire in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742219/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:50:10 -0400 This essay suggests that with the increasing prominence of “historical poetics” as a set of social collectives, methodologies, and debates (especially about literary analysis), now seems to be an ideal time to assess its history and consider its future. The first part of the essay offers a genealogy of historical poetics, accounting for some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbb26783df55f71bb67261513f33639d Samuel Baker deposited Scott's Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733236/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:31:10 -0400 It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d1ea189f36ef8622fb5e40d66de8ea3 James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732044/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:26:10 -0400 This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe6d17728325794461f6e55fdaaa3e1f Sarah Tindal Kareem started the topic Fall 2019 MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/fall-2019-mla-forum-executive-committee-elections/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:20:05 -0500 Dear forum members,

The executive committee of the forum LLC Late-18th-Century English has nominated me to stand for election to the executive committee this year. It was suggested that I submit a post describing my interests and goals to the Late-18th-Century forum’s Commons group, which is how I find myself here. I am an Associate Professor in…[Read more]

]]> 0 607422f79ead88c319e6702f194ec0fc 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 LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636824/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 03:57:10 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 cb110fc793962d7285225eb1d893e994 Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636820/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 03:52:08 -0400 “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]

]]> 0 f7c132b8f71459c4e768ab950bf94a65 Katherine D. Harris started the topic Guaranteed - MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session in the discussion LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/guaranteed-mla-2020-cfp-recovery-from-the-margins-digital-poster-session-5/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:03:13 -0500 Guaranteed – MLA 2020 CFP: Recovery from the Margins: Digital Poster Session

Well-funded digital archives have energized the field of scholarly editing, yet the recovery of texts by women and people of color has suffered setbacks since the 1990s; in effect, the revitalization of marginal figures has been hampered by a canon that privileges p…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a05dfae65885df5f7f0dc73abfdaf81 Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631690/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:40:49 -0500 This study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.

]]> 0 e84fcee35459c1e928b6f28f9399a38f Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-27/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:34:52 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 ca68ce92d95b01ea44066d20aa527960 Lisa Zunshine deposited Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596805/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 03:48:43 -0500 Why We Read Fiction focuses on one of the most exciting areas of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson’s Clarissa, Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 c57ea4d714eedc607da2b8801b6b0da1 Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595842/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:44:00 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 5f1ecd2d78fa83b82ca6e0f152dd17b8 Lisa Zunshine deposited Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1583720/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:09:58 -0400 This essay brings together cognitive literary theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic imagination to illuminate the construction of social class in the eighteenth-century novel. It offers a close reading of selected passages from Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778), made possible by combining Bakhtinian and cognitive poetics. It also dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e7d0ed47d3736330da1caa92380571b Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565908/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:19:19 -0400 PDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.

]]> 0 964555b5a18c6822703c4e610185b373 Gillian Dooley started the topic Immortal Austen - a conference in Australia, 13-16 July 2017 in the discussion Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/immortal-austen-a-conference-in-australia-13-16-july-2017/ Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:48:33 -0400 Call for Papers
Immortal Austen
An International Conference
Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 13-16 July 2017
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Devoney Looser (Arizona State)
Prof Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Assoc. Prof Clara Tuite (Melbourne)
When Jane Austen…[Read more]

]]> 0 2832cc26697b9f00b9b93d5592af509d James Mulholland started the topic MLA Ballot 2016 in the discussion Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/mla-ballot-2016/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:07:08 -0400 Hi Everyone,

Now that the ballot is open for the MLA nominations, I thought I’d introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me already and have a sense of who I am. My name is James Mulholland and I’ve been nominated to serve on this forum’s executive committee.

I am an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University and…[Read more]

]]> 0 d39714e60ee50847c7161d929330e736 Emily Kugler started the topic CFP: 18th-Century Camp! (Special Issue Aphra Behn Online) in the discussion Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-18th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-18th-century-camp-special-issue-aphra-behn-online/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:51:03 -0400 CFP Aphra Behn Online Special Issue: 18th-Century Camp!
Ula Lukszo Klein, Texas A&M International University, and Emily Kugler, Howard University

marie-antoinette-ship

In Susan Sontag’s now-classic essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Sontag argues for a critical dimension of the term “camp.” Camp, for Sontag, is “one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon.” Fo…[Read more]

]]> 0 681b61ad31e4a13d389c872adb06cbe6 Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data within & without in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/548177/ Thu, 26 May 2016 18:52:44 -0400 Panelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]

]]> 0 586c04d205610afc7dab62ef859ee270 Linda V Troost deposited Getting My Feet Wet in a Small DH Pond: Teaching a DH Course in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/547336/ Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:59:11 -0400 A description of a successful team-taught introductory literature/DH course on “Identity, Ethnicity, and the Digital Humanities” at Washington & Jefferson College.

]]> 0 b3f607cb1abe619066ec17cb76fc5e9e Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544306/ Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:37:44 -0500 [from pp. 151-52:]

“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]

]]> 0 83cc4fc61e515738286fb7a30b8b3064 Linda V Troost deposited The Undead Eighteenth Century in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538396/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:11:01 -0500 If Jane Austen had wanted to write about zombies, what might she have known about the walking dead in the early nineteenth century? In this 2010 presidential address for EC/ASECS, subsequently published in the society’s newsletter, I examine this question and take a look at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

]]> 0 f1875f6095f2c8c7e9c81c69768b35b2 Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English: Dear Colleagues, Joyce Meier of Michigan State University […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/270556/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:40:54 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.

As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]

]]> 2 31d0948cc949f3979d098491899dfebd Dustin D. Stewart started the topic CFP: Naming the 18th Century in the discussion Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-eighteenth-century-english-literature/forum/topic/cfp-naming-the-18th-century/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:32:12 -0500 If you’re concerned about the place of eighteenth-century studies in the new forum structure being implemented by the MLA, you might consider applying to the following proposed special session for the 2016 convention in Austin:

Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, En…[Read more]

]]> 0 42759f9ccc586ef344bc152282df17ed Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English: Hello, members of the MLA Division for Late […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58428/ Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:07:50 -0500 Hello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.

The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:

“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec5f0fcb9a282a8e8a983927a03ef598 David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/late-eighteenth-century-english-literature/forum/topic/mla-2014-revised-draft-open-hearings-on-forum-changes/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:47:26 -0500 This is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:

http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons.org/

If you are attending MLA, please try to make an appearance at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4610b21bdd9d5e8d0e76eb82283d36c5 Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group LLC Late-18th-Century English: We were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/52640/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:16:53 -0500 We were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]

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