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FRACTURE FEMINISM SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century ————— Pamela K. Gilbert, editor FRACTURE FEMINISM The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism DAVID SIGLER Cover art: Mary Shelley in Italy, by Louisa Amelia Albani, mixed media. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2021 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Name: Sigler, David, author Title: Fracture feminism : the politics of impossible time in British romanticism / David Sigler, author. Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] | Series: SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: ISBN 9781438484853 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438484877 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2021939443 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Uses of History in Wollstonecraft’s Afterlives 23 Chapter 2 Adoptive Siblings across Oceans of Futurity: Paul and Virginia and The Victim of Prejudice 65 Chapter 3 Della Cruscan Time 115 Chapter 4 Future Poetry: Clock Time Misses Barbauld, Smith, Richardson, and Hemans 155 Chapter 5 Gulzara and The Last Man: Worldwide-izing the Roman à Clef 203 Conclusion 241 Notes 251 Works Cited 275 Index 301 Acknowledgments This research was funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Agency Reference Number 435- 2017-0037). The book would never have been possible without the grant, so I’m extremely thankful for it. Several of the ideas in this book were set in motion at the NEH Summer Seminar on “Reassessing Romanticism” held in 2013 at the University of Nebraska, led by Stephen C. Behrendt. I remain grateful for that opportunity and Dr. Behrendt’s mentorship. A portion of chapter 2 appeared in an earlier form as an article entitled “ ‘The Ocean of Futurity, Which Has No Boundaries’: The Deconstructive Politics of Helen Maria Williams’s Translation of Paul and Virginia,” in European Romantic Review vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 575–592. The article was published on October 1, 2012, and is reprinted here by permission of the publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd., http://www.tandfonline.com. I would like to thank everyone at SUNY Press who helped bring this manuscript through the publication process. I especially thank Rebecca Colesworthy, the acquisitions editor, for her enthusiasm for this project and astonishing gumption, as well as James Peltz, the Press’s associate director and editor-in-chief, who seamlessly covered for Rebecca as necessary along the way. I am grateful to have had anonymous peer reviewers who took such care and showed such great intellectual generosity with this manu- script. They gave truly expert advice. I also thank editorial coordinator Catherine Blackwell for her care with the details. I have received tremendous support, intellectual and material, from the University of Calgary. I would especially like to acknowledge Richard Sigurdson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Jacqueline Jenkins, Head of English, as they have been enormously supportive. Startup funds, depart- mental travel funds, and a developmental SSHRC-funded grant internally vii viii Acknowledgments administered by the Faculty of Arts helped get me started on this project; a well-timed Research and Scholarship Leave enabled the project’s com- pletion. My more immediate colleagues have given me a strong research community in which to develop my thinking. I want to recognize for special thanks Karen Bourrier, Susan Cahill, Anthony Camara, Michael Tavel Clarke, Donna Coates, Faye Halpern, Larissa Lai, Derritt Mason, Christian Olbey, Michael Ullyot, Martin Wagner, and Jason Wiens, all of whom offered me good advice along the way. I am grateful to those in the Faculty of Arts who helped me develop my grant proposal—most of all Kinga Olszewska, whose judgment I have learned always to trust, and also Robert Oxoby and Penny Pexman, during their terms as Associate Deans (Research). Finally, I would like to thank University of Calgary Research Services and the librarians at University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources, particularly Melanie Boyd. I have worked with a superb graduate research assistant over the last several years, Isabelle Michalski, who along the way became my research collaborator on a separate essay. I have also appreciated the chance to work collaboratively with Celiese Lypka on two articles that, although distinct from this book project, informed my thinking for it. Isabelle and Celiese have been important interlocutors for me over the last few years. Less formally, discussions with graduate students John MacPhereson, Bobby Sze Chun Ng, and Neil Surkan have sustained me in this work. Many extramural colleagues have been hugely supportive, both as mentors and friends, throughout this project. They have given me opportunities to develop this work, read pieces of work in progress, offered advice on new directions, alerted me when things appeared to be spiraling into futility, or suggested the perfect next thing to read. In the process, through a blend of attentiveness, praise, and what often seemed to be open hostility, they pushed me into better arguments. The most vital of these allies have been Suzanne Barnett, Stephen Behrendt, Colin Carman, David Clark, David Collings, Ashley Cross, Kellie Donovan-Condron, Joel Faflak, Cassandra Falke, Michelle Faubert, Elizabeth Fay, Daniela Garofalo, Michael Genovese, Erin Goss, Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, Michael Kramp, Devoney Looser, Nowell Marshall, Anne McCarthy, Grace Moore, Lucy Morrison, Jonathan Mulrooney, Christopher Nagle, Jean- Michel Rabaté, Brian Rejack, Marlon Ross, Richard Sha, Anna Shajirat, Kate Singer, Orianne Smith, Michele Speitz, Michael Theune, Crystal Veronie, Orrin Wang, Chris Washington, and Gary Williams. Much could (and ought to) be said about the intellectual generosity of each of Acknowledgments ix these people, the opportunities they have opened for me, and the mark they have left on this work, but I will simply express my deepest thanks without inelegantly gushing. Most of all, I am in awe of my unfaltering partner, Dawn Hamilton, who unsuspectingly serves as a model of intelligence, love, feminism, and work ethic for me. It has not escaped me how often the fracture feminists wrote enthusiastically of “dawn,” and I believe it is apt. I wish to thank Ms. Hamilton for not murdering me while we sheltered in place to avoid the coronavirus. I reserve similar supreme thanks for my parents, Judy and Murray Sigler, who have been, as ever, the picture of love, support, and encouragement.

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