War / La guerre (Eighteenth Century Fiction, Fall-Winter 2006-2007)

 

Eighteenth Century Fiction publishes articles in both English and French on all aspects of imaginative prose in the period 1700–1800, but will also examine papers on late 17th-century or early 19th-century fiction, particularly when the works are discussed in connection with the eighteenth century.

 

Published quarterly by McMaster University.

 

VOLUME 19 NUMBER 1-2

FALL-WINTER 2006-7 :

 

Articles:

 

WAR
LA GUERRE
Preface, by Julie Park vii

 

TECHNOLOGIES OF WAR AND NARRATION
How to Say Things with Guns: Military Technology and the Politics of Robinson Crusoe

by CHRISTOPHER F. LOAR

 

Sterne, Sebald, and Siege Architecture

by JONATHAN LAMB

 

The Soldierly Imagination: Narrating Fear in Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier

by SHARON ALKER

 

ALLEGORY AND CRITIQUE
The Crocodile Strikes Back: Saint-Martin's Interpretation of the French Revolution

by FABIENNE MOORE

 

Transcendental Soldiers: Warfare in Schiller's Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von Orleans

by ELISABETH KRIMMER

 

The Radical Education of Evenings at Home

by MICHELLE LEVY

 

MEN OF WAR
The Rake as Military Strategist: Clarissa and Eighteenth-Century Warfare

by M. JOHN CARDWELL

 

"Domestic Virtues and National Importance": Lord Nelson, Captain Wentworth, and the English Napoleonic War Hero

by JOCELYN HARRIS

 

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IMAGE
Unravelling Ann Mills: Some Notes on Gender Construction and Naval Heroism

by FRANK FELSENSTEIN

 

Reviews / Comptes rendus:

 

A. Pettit and P. Spedding, eds., Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Parts 1
and 2; Bradford K. Mudge, ed., When Flesh Becomes Word: An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature

REVIEWED BY Peter Sabor

 

Karen Harvey, Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture

REVIEWED BY Raymond Stephanson

 

Tita Chico, Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

REVIEWED BY Erin Mackie

 

Ina Ferris, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland

REVIEWED BY Sharon Alker

 

Ruth Perry, Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English
Literature and Culture, 1748–1818

REVIEWED BY Scott R. MacKenzie

 

James A. Steintrager, Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman

REVIEWED BY Lauren Craig

 

Stephen Byron R. Wells and Philip Stewart, eds., Interpreting Colonialism SVEC
2004:09

REVIEWED BY Daniel E. White

 

Jean-Claude Hauc, Ange Goudar, un aventurier des Lumières

REVIEWED BY Jacqueline Chammas

 

Charlotte Smith, Celestina, ed. Loraine Fletcher; Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature
and Art, ed. Shawn Lisa Maurer; Jane Austen, Emma, ed. Kristin Flieger Samuelia

REVIEWED BY Kathryn Ready

 

Édouard Langille, éd., Candide, ou l'Optimisme, seconde partie (1760), traduit
de l'allemand de M. Le docteur Ralph

REVIEWED BY Frédéric Deloffre