Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: George Boulukos is Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in the School of Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Professor Boulukos has been an active member of ASECS since graduate school; highlights include his work with the Race and Empire Caucus and the Bylaws Task Force.
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published annually for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) by the Johns Hopkins University Press. SECC publishes revised versions of papers and roundtable remarks presented in any public venue in the previous two years by a member of ASECS or of a learned society affiliated with ASECS or ISECS. This includes papers given virtually or online. Digitized as part of Project Muse, SECC is a membership benefit of Patrons and Sponsoring Members of ASECS and is offered to all members at a discount.
Call for Submissions: Volume 56, deadline August 15, 2025.
For the next volume, Volume 56, the journal invites provocative and rigorous essays that chart out new directions for research on the cultures of the long eighteenth century, including contributions to history, literary history, the history of visual art, theatre and performance studies, musicology, material culture studies, gender and sexuality studies, and the studies of race, indigeneity, and empire. Essays from under-represented areas of inquiry are particularly welcome.
The journal is committed to publishing not only individual essays, but also one or more “clusters” of contributions that stem from the same panel or roundtable (or, in the case of double or triple sessions on a shared topic, the same series of panels or roundtables). If you are a session chair interested in pursuing this option, please contact the editor soon after your conference or other public event has concluded in order to confirm that your cluster is of an appropriate scope and to determine the best length for the individual contributions.
Table of Contents
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Volume 54, 2025
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Volume 54, 2025
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Volume 54, 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
pp. viii – viii
Letters “à la Sévigné”: A Seventeenth-Century Model for the Eighteenth Century
pp. 1 – 21
Chloe Summers Edmondson
Emotions, Work, and Form in the Diary of Edmund Harrold, 1712–15
pp. 23 – 46
Robert Stearn
“Not for mere children”: Charlotte Smith’s Feminist Novels for “Young Persons”
pp. 47 – 67
Joani Etskovitz
Richard Coeur de Lion: Fighting Queens, Gothic Politics, and Heterosexual Pleasure on the English Stage
pp. 69 – 91
Robert W. Jones
“Queer Periodical Temporality”: Spinsterhood in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical
pp. 93 – 108
Fauve Vandenberghe
Close Encounters and Stranger Things: Angelica Kauffman’s First Years in London
pp. 109 – 132
Wendy Wassyng Roworth
Un homme à l’antique: The Visual Vocabulary of Antiquity in Men’s Fashion and Democratic Uniforms in Revolutionary France
pp. 133 – 157
Brontë Hebdon
Styling Equiano: Accumulation and Conversion in the Interesting Narrative
pp. 159 – 180
Yan Che
Bartering Knowledge, Imposing Silence: Indigenous Guanche Presence in Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society of London
pp. 181 – 198
Allison Y. Gibeily
The Question of I’tisam-ud-Din: An Indian Traveler in Eighteenth-Century Europe
pp. 199 – 224
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Turning the Crank: The Performance of Empire through Tipu’s Tiger
pp. 225 – 237
Vincent Pham
The Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought in the Early United States
pp. 239 – 262
Nan Goodman
Contributors to Volume 54
pp. 263 – 265
Guidelines for Submission to Volume 56
Revised versions of papers and roundtable remarks presented in any public venue by a member of ASECS or of a learned society affiliated with ASECS or ISECS between JULY 1, 2024 and JUNE 30, 2025 are eligible for consideration. Single essay submissions are typically between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length, including notes, although we will consider substantively revised contributions of other lengths. Submissions are normally in English and should follow the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions will be evaluated through blind peer review. Authors are therefore asked to avoid identifying themselves, and references to one’s own scholarship should be made in the third person. SECC cannot consider papers already submitted to other journals. The deadline for submission is AUGUST 15, 2025. Please send all inquiries and submissions to Editor-in-Chief George Boulukos at SECC@asecs.org.
Editor: George Boulukos, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Editorial Board:
- Benjamin Breen, University of California-Santa Cruz (2022-2025)
- Sarah Cohen, State University of New York-Albany (2023-2026)
- Jennifer Van Horn, University of Delaware (2023-2026)
- Benita Blessing, Executive Director, ASECS (ex-officio)