Call for Papers: “The Quixotic Eighteenth Century” (Summer/Fall 2023)

**REVISED DEADLINE**

Few books informed the literary production of the eighteenth century (and beyond) as significantly and as multifariously as Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605, 1615). A book that defies categorization, Don Quixote contributed to the development of the picaresque satire, the eighteenth-century novel, anxieties about the dangers of reading too many (or not the right kind of) books, and the perplexities of reconciling a fallen world with a knowing but aspirational vision of human benevolence. The capaciousness of Don Quixote’s vision can be traced through unsettling romances, theological satires, and postmodern tragedies such as Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752), Robert Graves’s The Spiritual Quixote (1773),  Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1817), and Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001). No theory of the novel is complete without Don Quixote. In that quixotic spirit of capaciousness, Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment (SRE) welcomes articles, commentaries, or reviews examining any aspect of Don Quixote’s influence on the eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives are welcome. SRE strives to be a supportive venue for advanced graduate students and early career scholars.

SRE particularly welcomes extended versions of papers presented at the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ The Quixotic Eighteenth Century conference (2023). 

Please send articles of 5,000-8,000 words or commentaries/mini-articles of 2,000-3,000 words to Dr. Sam Cahill at samara.cahill57@gmail.com by May 1, 2023. Please include “SRE” in the subject line.