Lynn Festa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Festa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Festa |
| SIGNATURE | FESTA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Joan Dejean's Public Works
Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel
This chapter addresses both the incursion of satiric strains into the sentimental novel and the sentimentalization of satiric objects, focusing on the capacity of each mode to grapple with broader historical currents (burgeoning commerce, urbanization, imperial expansion, and the blossoming discourses of humanitarianism and human rights). The author argues that mixture of satiric and sentimental modes exposes the tensions between the ideals exalt…
Accidental gods: Figures of Contingency in the Enlightenment Fable
Drawing on late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century discussions of fable as myth and apologue, this essay examines the way the form of the fable elicits interpretive practices that enable the reader to recognise the contingency of the mythical figures and fictive forms Enlightenment writers used to make the world intelligible
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
PART ONE: SUBJECTS AND SOVEREIGNTY PART TWO: ENLIGHTENMENT CATEGORIES AND POSTCOLONIAL CLASSIFICATIONS PART THREE: NATION, COLONY, AND ENLIGHTENMENT UNIVERSALITY
Humanity without Feathers
Festa explores the appeal to humanity (especially to suffering humanity in sentimental mode) in the eighteenth century and in antislavery literature, suggesting that the paradoxes that continue to haunt it are rooted in the theories and practices of its inception
Person, Animal, Thing: The 1796 Dog Tax and the Right to Superfluous Things
Drawing on Parliamentary debates, print polemics, and satirical prints, this essay traces the rhetorical erosion of seemingly categorical distinctions between human and animal, animate and inanimate, person and thing, in the controversy that arose around the 1796 imposition of a tax on dogs. The passage of this seemingly slight piece of legislation created impassioned debates about the nature and welfare of animals, about the rights of individual…
Sentimental Visions of Empire in Eighteenth‐Century Studies
This survey of recent critical work on the role played by the sentimental in eighteenth‐century representations of empire is organized around four central issues. The first addresses the double‐edged use of sentimental writing as a form of ideological mystification – the palliating representation of scenes of colonial violence and imperial exploitation as moments of benevolence or sentimental exchange – and as a form of critique – as a means of r…
Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the eighteenth century. Drawing from novels, poetry, travel narratives, commerce manuals, and philosophical writings, Festa shows how sentimentality shaped communal and personal assertions of identity in an age of empire. Read in isolation, sentimental te…
Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century
Research Article| April 01 2005 Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century Lynn Festa Lynn Festa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-29-2-47 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permiss…
Required Reading
Humanity without Feathers
Festa explores the appeal to humanity (especially to suffering humanity in sentimental mode) in the eighteenth century and in antislavery literature, suggesting that the paradoxes that continue to haunt it are rooted in the theories and practices of its inception
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
PART ONE: SUBJECTS AND SOVEREIGNTY PART TWO: ENLIGHTENMENT CATEGORIES AND POSTCOLONIAL CLASSIFICATIONS PART THREE: NATION, COLONY, AND ENLIGHTENMENT UNIVERSALITY
Person, Animal, Thing: The 1796 Dog Tax and the Right to Superfluous Things
Drawing on Parliamentary debates, print polemics, and satirical prints, this essay traces the rhetorical erosion of seemingly categorical distinctions between human and animal, animate and inanimate, person and thing, in the controversy that arose around the 1796 imposition of a tax on dogs. The passage of this seemingly slight piece of legislation created impassioned debates about the nature and welfare of animals, about the rights of individual…
Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century
Research Article| April 01 2005 Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century Lynn Festa Lynn Festa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-29-2-47 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permiss…
Sentimental Visions of Empire in Eighteenth‐Century Studies
This survey of recent critical work on the role played by the sentimental in eighteenth‐century representations of empire is organized around four central issues. The first addresses the double‐edged use of sentimental writing as a form of ideological mystification – the palliating representation of scenes of colonial violence and imperial exploitation as moments of benevolence or sentimental exchange – and as a form of critique – as a means of r…
Required Reading
Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century
Research Article| April 01 2005 Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century Lynn Festa Lynn Festa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-29-2-47 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permiss…
Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the eighteenth century. Drawing from novels, poetry, travel narratives, commerce manuals, and philosophical writings, Festa shows how sentimentality shaped communal and personal assertions of identity in an age of empire. Read in isolation, sentimental te…
Sentimental Visions of Empire in Eighteenth‐Century Studies
This survey of recent critical work on the role played by the sentimental in eighteenth‐century representations of empire is organized around four central issues. The first addresses the double‐edged use of sentimental writing as a form of ideological mystification – the palliating representation of scenes of colonial violence and imperial exploitation as moments of benevolence or sentimental exchange – and as a form of critique – as a means of r…
Person, Animal, Thing: The 1796 Dog Tax and the Right to Superfluous Things
Drawing on Parliamentary debates, print polemics, and satirical prints, this essay traces the rhetorical erosion of seemingly categorical distinctions between human and animal, animate and inanimate, person and thing, in the controversy that arose around the 1796 imposition of a tax on dogs. The passage of this seemingly slight piece of legislation created impassioned debates about the nature and welfare of animals, about the rights of individual…
Humanity without Feathers
Festa explores the appeal to humanity (especially to suffering humanity in sentimental mode) in the eighteenth century and in antislavery literature, suggesting that the paradoxes that continue to haunt it are rooted in the theories and practices of its inception
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
PART ONE: SUBJECTS AND SOVEREIGNTY PART TWO: ENLIGHTENMENT CATEGORIES AND POSTCOLONIAL CLASSIFICATIONS PART THREE: NATION, COLONY, AND ENLIGHTENMENT UNIVERSALITY
Accidental gods: Figures of Contingency in the Enlightenment Fable
Drawing on late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century discussions of fable as myth and apologue, this essay examines the way the form of the fable elicits interpretive practices that enable the reader to recognise the contingency of the mythical figures and fictive forms Enlightenment writers used to make the world intelligible
Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel
This chapter addresses both the incursion of satiric strains into the sentimental novel and the sentimentalization of satiric objects, focusing on the capacity of each mode to grapple with broader historical currents (burgeoning commerce, urbanization, imperial expansion, and the blossoming discourses of humanitarianism and human rights). The author argues that mixture of satiric and sentimental modes exposes the tensions between the ideals exalt…
Joan Dejean's Public Works
History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Colonies in literature (3 works) · Enlightenment (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works)