The New Eighteenth Century

The of this collection of essays, as its editors declare in their introduction, is revision or problematization of period, canon, tradition, and genre in eighteenth-century literary studies (p. 14). Though no single book could altogether fulfill such an ambition, The New Eighteenth Century goes a long way toward doing so. The twelve essays gathered by the editors are consistently provocative and fresh, almost always strongly and lucidly written, bold in their rereadings and reassessments of works (and the issues raised in them) by writers as diverse as Dryden and Behn, Fielding and Mary Collier, Smollett and Shaftesbury, Pope and Charlotte Charke, Johnson and Sterne, Radcliffe and John Serle. The approaches vary widely, frequently merging in a single essay; they range from Marxist to feminist, new historicist to deconstructionist. The introductory essay with which the collection begins not only outlines the contributions that follow but also provides a ringing justification for the revisionist project they represent. Always civilized and respectful, but uncompromisingly blunt, Nussbaum and Brown bravely take on the entrenched traditions of eighteenth-century scholarship and criticism, not so much to dismiss or discredit them as to proclaim their inadequacy to our full acceptance and understanding of the age as it really was, and of the great variety of important writing (much of it noncanonical) it produced. Frankly polemical in purpose, the argument of this essay manages also to be scrupulously fairminded. I confess to being more than a little shocked as I read. But I am convinced that Nussbaum and Brown

Literature: history, themes, analysis

• Sexual Dissidence

  Jonathan Dollimore•Sexual dissidence•1991

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• The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780

  Open Access•John Richetti•The Cambridge History of English…•2005

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• Drama, after 1740

  Open Access•John Osborne•The Cambridge History of Literary…•1997

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• Dryden and the poetic career

  Open Access•Steven N Zwicker•The Cambridge History of English…•2005

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• More is different

  Open Access•Clifford Siskin•The Cambridge History of English…•2005

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• Drama, 1660-1740

  Open Access•Maximillian E Novak•The Cambridge History of Literary…•1997

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• Prose fiction

  Open Access•English Showalter•The Cambridge History of Literary…•1997

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• Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola

  Mita Choudhury•A Companion to Restoration Drama•2001

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• The Fragmentary Poetic

  Carson Bergstrom•ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short…•2014

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• The logic of memory

  Open Access•Rachel Shields, Jason Laurendeau et al.•Memory Studies•2016

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• Gender Studies and Eighteenth‐Century British Literature

  Open Access•Toni Bowers•Literature Compass•2007

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• The past and future of historical poetics

  Open Access•Jill Mulholland•Literature Compass•2020

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• Women's Life Writing in the Long 18th Century

  Open Access•Amy Culley•Literature Compass•2015

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• The Contemporary Study of Eighteenth‐Century Poetry

  Open Access•Adam Rounce•Literature Compass•2006

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• Sterne Studies on the Eve of the Tercentenary

  Open Access•Jesse Molesworth•Literature Compass•2012

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• Financial Revolution

  Open Access•Lanya Lamouria•Victorian Literature and Culture•2015

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• Anti-bodies of Disease and Defense

  Chris Wiesenthal, C S Wiesenthal•Victorian Literature and Culture•1994

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• Colonial Subjects and Aesthetic Understanding

  Pramod K Nayar•South Asian Review•2012

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• The Forensic Gothic

  Ann McGuire, David Buchbinder•Canadian Review of American Studies•2010

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• Negotiations of Tradition in James Thomson's Winter (1726–44)

  Kwinten Van De Walle•English Studies•2012

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