Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 57

For Volume 57 (2028), the editors invite provocative and rigorous essays that chart out new directions for research on the cultures of the long eighteenth century, across all disciplines and geographic regions; contributions to history, literary history, the history of visual art, theatre and performance studies, musicology, philosophy, material culture studies, gender and sexuality studies, and the studies of race, indigeneity, and empire, to name a few
possibilities, are all welcome. Essays from other under-represented areas of inquiry are particularly welcome. SECC is edited by George Boulukos and Allison Cardon.

In addition to single-author essays, the editors are committed to publishing “clusters”–thematic groups of brief essays– growing out of panels or roundtables accompanied by a brief introductory essay. If you are interested in pursuing this option, please contact the SECC editors soon after your conference or other public event has concluded. We will also welcome nominations of the most outstanding panels or roundtables you encounter!
Guidelines for Submission to Volume 56: Revised versions of papers, roundtable remarks or talks 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, 2026 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; Word (or compatible) documents are preferred. 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. Those co-ordinating clusters need to make sure author names are removed and replaced with anonymized indicators (Author A, B C, etc). We cannot consider papers already submitted to other journals.

The deadline for submission is AUGUST 15, 2026. Please send all inquiries and submissions to George Boulukos <SECC@ASECS.org> and Allison Cardon <allison.l.cardon@gmail.com>. 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.

Table of Contents
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
BrontÃ« Hebdon

Styling Equiano: Accumulation and Conversion in the Interesting Narrative
pp. 159 – 180
Yan Che