THE SCRIBLERIAN

AUTUMN 2004  

Vol. XXXVII, No. 1

 

RECENT ARTICLES

 

Addison:

Black, Scott.  “Addison’s Aesthetics of Novelty”

 

Astell:

Broad, Jacqueline.  “Adversaries or Allies?  Occasional Thoughts on the Masham-Astell Exchange”

 

Behn:

Cottegnies, Line.  “The Translator as Critic: Aphra Behn’s Translation of Fontenelle’s Discovery of New Worlds (1688)”

Holmesland, Oddvar.  “Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Cultural Dialectics and the Novel”

Reeves, Margaret.  “History, Fiction, and Political Identity: Heroic Rebellion in Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister and Oroonoko

Russell, Anne.  “Aphra Behn, Textual Communities, and Pastoral Sobriquets”

 

Boyle:

Tomlinson, Tracey E.  “The Restoration English History Plays of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery”

 

Centlivre:

Warren, Victoria.  “Gender and Genre in Susanna Centlivre’s The Gamester and The Basset Table

 

Cibber:

Glover, Brian.  “Nobility, Visibility, and Publicity in Colley Cibber’s Apology

 

Defoe:

Bertrand, Didier.  “Order and Chaos in Paradise: Colonial and ‘Postcolonial’ Constructions of Religious Identity through the Robinson Crusoe Story”

Butts, Dennis.  “The Birth of the Boys’ Story and the Transition from the Robinsonnades to the Adventure Story”

Faller, Lincoln.  “Captain Mission’s Failed Utopia, Crusoe’s Failed Colony: Race and Identity in New, Not Quite Imaginable Worlds”

Furbank, P. N. “Defoe’s Minutes of Mesnager: The Art of Mendacity”

Hühn, Peter.  “The Precarious Autopoiesis of Modern Selves: Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Virginia Woolf’s The Wave

Knox-Shaw, Peter.  “Defoe and the Politics of Representing the African Interior”

Mcinelly, Brett C.  “Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe”

Novak, Maximillian E.  “A Narrative of the Proceedings in France: Reattributing a De-Attributed Work by Defoe”

Rogers, Shef.  “Crusoe Among the Maori: Translation and Colonial Acculturation in Victorian New Zealand”

Starr, George.  “Why Defoe Probably Did Not Write The Apparition of Mrs. Veal

Swaminathan, Srividhya.  “Defoe’s Alternative Conduct Manual: Survival Strategies and Female Networks in Moll Flanders

Yahov-Brown, Amit.  “At Home in England, or Projecting Liberal Citizenship in Moll Flanders

 

Dryden:

Auberlen, Eckhard.  “The Tempest and the Concerns of the Restoration Court: A Study of The Enchanted Island and the Operatic Tempest

Haley, David.  “Was Dryden a ‘Cryptopapist’ in 1681?”

Hammond, Paul.  “Redescription in All For Love

Huse, Ann A.  “Cleopatra, Queen of the Seine: The Politics of Eroticism in Dryden’s All for Love”

Roper, Alan.  “Absalom’s Issue: Parallel Poems in the Restoration”

Steggle, Matthew.  “MacFlecknoe and Cynthia’s Revels

Walsh, Sean.  “‘Our Lineal Descents and Clans’: Dryden’s Fables Ancient and Modern and Cultural Politics in the 1690s”

Weinman, James J.  “Dryden and Purcell’s King Arthur: A Production History”

Zunshine, Lisa.  “The Politics of Eschatological Prophecy and Dryden’s The Secular Masque

 

D’Urfey:

Roper, Alan.  “Recycling Political Poetry:  Tom D’Urfey’s The Progress of Honesty 1680/1739”

 

Fielding:

Crump, Justine.  “‘Il Faut Parier’: Pascal’s Wager and Fielding’s Amelia

Weeks, Kay.  “Fielding Looks Down Jones and the Lower Orders”

Wilputte, Earla A.  “‘Women Buried’: Henry Fielding and Feminine Absence”

 

Gay:

Broich, Ulrich.  “Huren, Hehler, Strassenräuber: Zurliterarischen Repräsentation des Verbrechens im England des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts”

Daly, Patrick J., Jr.  “John Gay’s The Fan and the ‘Paper War’ of 1713”

Heartz, Daniel.  “The Beggar’s Opera and opera-comique en vaudeville

 

Haywood:

Kvande, Marta.  “The Outsider Narrator in Eliza Haywood’s Political Novels”

Mowry, Melissa.  “Eliza Haywood’s Defense of London’s Body Politic”

 

Manley:

Anderson, Julie.  “Spectacular Spectators:  Regendering the Male Gaze in Delariviere Manley’s The Royal Mischief and Joanna Baillie’s Orra

 

Oldham:

Turner, James Grantham.  “The Source for John Oldham’s ‘What Joy without Dear C. Has Life in Store?’”

 

Pope:

Baines, Paul.  “Theft and Poetry and Pope”

Edgecumbe, Rodney Stenning.  “An Allusion to Measure for Measure in The Rape of the Lock

Lund, Roger D.  “The Ghosts of Epigram, False Wit, and the Augustan Mode”

Rumbold, Valerie.  “Cut the Caterwauling: Women Writers (Not) in Pope’s Dunciads”

 

Richardson:

Aikins, Janet E.  “Picturing ‘Samuel Richardson’: Francis Hayman and the Intersections of Word and Image”

Aikins, Janet E., et al.  “Special Feature: Meditations on Eaves and Kimpel’s Samuel Richardson: Transactionality among Literary Biography, Fictional Narrative, and the Lives of the Critics”

Dussinger, John A.  “‘Stealing in the great doctrines of Christianity’: Samuel Richardson as Journalist”

Hensley, David.  “Reading and Misreading Richardson as Kant”

Oliver, Kathleen M. “Clarissa Harlowe and the Language of Dress”

Price, Steven R.  “The Autograph Manuscript in Print: Samuel Richardson’s Type Font Manipulation in Clarissa

Wilner, Arlene Fish.  “‘Thou Hast Made a Rake a Preacher’; Beauty and the Beast in Richardson’s Pamela

Wilson, Jennifer Preston.  “Clarissa: The Nation Misrul’d”

 

Rochester:

Pino, Melissa.  “Devilish Appetites, Doubtful Beauty, and Dull Satisfaction: Rochester’s ‘scorn of ugly ladies (which are very near all)’”

 

Shaftesbury:

Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara.  “Shaftesbury’s Concept of Ridicule as an Antecedent to Scriblerian Satire”

 

Smollett:

Guthrie, Neil.  “New Light on Lady Vane”

 

Steele:

Iwanisziw, Susan B.  “The Shameful Allure of Sycorax and Wowski: Dramatic precursors of Sartje, the Hottentot Venus”

 

Sterne:

Darby, Robert.  “‘An Oblique and Slovenly Initiation’: The Circumcision Episode in Tristram Shandy

Erickson, Robert A.  “Fictions of the Heart: Sterne, Law, and the Long Eighteenth Century”

Fanning, Christopher“Small Particles of Eloquence: Sterne and the Scriblerian Text”

Goring, Paul.  “Thomas Weales’s The Christian Orator Delineated (1778) and the Early Reception of Sterne’s Sermons”

 

Swift:

Borovaia, Olga V. “Translation and Westernization: Gulliver’s Travels in Ladino”

Boucé, Paul-Gabriel.  “Gulliver Phallophorus and the Maids of Honour in Brobdingnag”

Boucé, Paul-Gabriel.  “Gulliver’s Master Bates Once Again”

Carnochan, W.B.  “Hartstonge, Scott, and Swiftiana in Hartstonge’s ‘Nugae Deliciae’ (1815)”

D’amico, Masolino.  “Gulliver contro guerre e intolleranze” (“Gulliver against war and intolerance”)

Dixsaut, Jean.  “‘By similitudes’: À propos des circonlocutions de Gulliver chez les Houyhnhnms”

Filipova, Filipina.  “Transformations of the Parodic in Gulliver’s Bulgarian Travels:  Patterns of Translation and Reception from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the First Half of the Twentieth Century”

Grant, Damian.  “The Peace of the Augustans and the War of the Sexes: What Gender is Gulliver?”

Janes, Regina.  “Jonathan Swift Bounces a Head”

Kosok, Heinz.  “Stage Versions of Gulliver’s Travels

Leduc, Guyonne.  “Langues inventées et langue anglaise dans Gulliver’s Travels de Swift et dans ‘The Voyages of Mr. Job Vinegar’ de Fielding”

Mahoney, Robert.  “Swift’s Modest Proposal and the Rhetoric of Irish Colonial Consumption” 

Marks, Arthur S.  “Seeking an Enduring Image: Rupert Barber, Jonathan Swift, and the Profile Portrait”

McMinn, Joseph.  “Was Swift a Philistine?  The Evidence of Music”

Moore, J. Patrick.  “Ythaith Ogwir: A Study of Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (II)”

Müllenbrock, Heinz-Joachim.  “Edward Ward, Unacknowledged Journalistic Ally of Jonathan Swift”

Nash, Richard.  “Did Swift Write It cannot Rain but it Pours?”

Parker, Todd C. “‘The Idlest Trifling Stuff That Ever Was Writ,’ or, Why Swift Hated his Sermons”

Real, Hermann J.  “Archimedes in Laputa, III, v, 9”

Real, Hermann J.  “Corinna’s Dream, Again”

Reilly, Susan P.  “A Soil So Unhappily Cultivated’: Balnibarbi and Swift’s Georgic Vision of Ireland”

Richardson, John.  “Christian and/or Ciceronian:  Swift and Gulliver’s Fourth Voyage”

Rogers, Pat.  “Comic Maid-Servants in Swift and Smollett: The Proverbial Idiom of Humphry Clinker

Soupel, Serge.  “Gulliver entre mythes et épopée”

Te-hsing, Shan.  “Gulliver Travels to the Centre of the Earth:  Three Early Chinese Translations of Gulliver’s Travels

Woolley, David.  “The Stemma of Gulliver’s Travels: A Second Note”

 

Thomson:

Price, Fiona.  “Amendment to ‘William Shenstone and James Thomson: A New Poem’”

 

History:

Benedict, Barbara M. “The Paradox of the Anthology: Collecting and Différence in Eighteenth-Century Britain”

Marsden, Jean I.  “Sex, Politics, and She-Tragedy: Reconfiguring Lady Jane Grey”

 

Miscellaneous:

Battestin, Martin.  “The Critique of Freethinking from Swift to Sterne”

Bowden, Martha F.  “Mrs. Yorick and the Midwife: Women’s Roles in the Eighteenth-Century Church of England”

Butler, Anthony W.  “Confused Identifications in Nathaniel Lee’s Nero, I.i and II.iii” 

Dugas, Don-John.  “The London Book Trade in 1709 (Part Two)”

Evans, James E.  “‘A sceane of uttmost vanity’: The Spectacle of Gambling in Late Stuart Culture”

Iwanisziw, Susan B.  “The Shameful Allure of Sycorax and Wowski: Dramatic precursors of Sartje, the Hottentot Venus”

Koppenfels, Werner von.  “‘Nothing is ridiculous but what is deformed’:  Laughter as a Test of Truth in Enlightenment Satire”

Nixon, Cheryl.  “The Surrogate Family Plot in the Annesley Case and Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman

Orr, Bridget.  “Poetic Plate-Fleets and Universal Monarchy: The Heroic Plays and Empire in the Restoration”

Pellicer, Juan Christian.  “Cerealia (1706): Elijah Fenton’s Burlesque of Milton and Spenser in Critique of John Philips”

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Alexander Pope and John ArbuthnotMemoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus

Duncan Campbell.  The Beautiful Oblique: Conceptions of Temporality in “Tristram Shandy

Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, ed. Howard D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel, and Stephen E. Karian

Christopher J. FauskeJonathan Swift and the Church of Ireland, 1710-1724

Dustin GriffinPatriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Representations of Swift, ed. Brian A. Connery

 

NOTE

New, Melvyn.  “Lisping in Numbers”: Some Canonical Statistics for the Present Age

 

BOOKS BRIEFLY NOTED

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.  Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade:  The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London.  With the Complete Text of John Monro’s 1766 Case Book

Sabine BaltesThe Pamphlet Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism

Peter BorsayThe Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage, and History

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, ed. John Sitter

Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, set 1, 5 volumes, ed. Alexander Pettit and Patrick Spedding

Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets 1700-1800, 3 volumes, ed. John Goodridge

Patricia Fara.  Newton.  The Making of Genius

Christine Gerrard.  Aaron Hill: The Muses’s Projector, 1685-1750

Hal Gladfelder.  Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Beyond the Law

Richard L. Greaves.  Glimpses of Glory:  John Bunyan and English Dissent

Laurence Sterne.  A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine’s Journal, ed. Melvyn New and W.G. Day

Susan C. Lawrence.  Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth Century London

Life Writings by British Women Writers, 1660-1815, ed. Carolyn Barros and Johanna M. Smith

John Locke.  Selected Correspondence, ed. Mark Goldie

Mandeville and Augustan Ideas:  New Essays, ed. Charles W. A. Prior

Noel Malcolm.  Aspects of Hobbes

Leviathan, ed. A.P. Martinich

Molly McClainBeaufort: The Duke and his Duchess, 1657-1715

Edward Gregg.  Queen Anne

Ragnhild Hatton.  George I.

Eamonn Ó Ciardha. Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment

Sheila O’Connell.  London : 1753

Annabel PattersonNobody’s Perfect: A New Whig Interpretation of History

Wolfram SchmidgenEighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property

Alexis Tadié.  Sterne’s Whimsical Theatres of Language: Orality, Gesture, Literacy

Tobias Smollett.  The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, ed. Robert Folkenflik and Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick

James Grantham TurnerSchooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685

Women and Literary History “For There She Was,” ed. Katherine Binhammer and Jeanne Wood

Women’s Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800, ed. George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker

 

SCRIBLERIANA TRANSFERRED

MAY, JAMES E. ‘‘Printed Materials and Manuscripts, 2001–2003’’

 

SCHOLIA

 

SCRIBLERIANA

Earl Miner

Frye on Swift

Addled Editions

Swiftian Sentiment in Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius

Scholiana

Anne Finch Website

Auchincloss, the Father of the English Novel, and Fielding

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