THE SCRIBLERIAN

SPRING 2004  

Vol. XXXVI, No. 2

 

RECENT ARTICLES



Addison:    

Edgecumbe, Rodney Stenning.  “An Allusion to Addison ’s ‘Campaign’ in ‘The Rape of  the Lock’”

 

Astell:

Bryson, Cynthia B.  “Mary Astell: Defender of the ‘Disembodied Mind’” 

Taylor , E.  Derek.  “Mary Astell’s Ironic Assault on John Locke’s Theory of Thinking Matter” 

 

Behn:

Caywood, Cynthia and Bonnie A.  Hain.  “Breaking the Confining Silence: Unstable Valences and Language in Aphra Behn’s The Rover 

Martin, Roberta C.  “‘Beauteous Wonder of a Different Kind’: Aphra Behn’s Destabilization of Sexual Categories”

Northrop, Douglas A.  “The Role of the Narrator in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Quinsee, Susannah.  “Deconstructing Female ‘Virtue’: Mariana Alcoforda’s Five Love Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier and Aphra Behn’s Love Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister

 

Centlivre:                            

Connor, Margarette R.  “Susanna Centlivre: Playwright and Whig Apologist” 

Rigamonti, Antonella and Laura Favero Cararro.  “Women at Stake: The Self Assertive Potential of Gambling in Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset Table

 

Congreve: 

McKenzie, D. F.  “Congreve and the Integrity of the Text”

 

Defoe:     

Boulukos, George E.  “Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack, Grateful Slaves, and Racial Difference”

Furbank, P. N. and W. R. Owens.  “Stylometry and the Defoe Canon: A Reply to Irving Rothman” 

Hardin, Michael.  “Colonizing the Characters of Daniel Defoe: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe

Iseki, Tetsuya.  “Capt. George Carleton: A Reconsideration of Defoe’s Canon”

Kondoh, Katsushi.  “Moll Flanders : Defoe’s Endless Game”

Matusmoto, Setsuya.  “On Defoe’s Satirical Strategies”

Pettit, Alexander.  “Pope and Defoe: Satire and National Regeneration”

Rothman, Irving N.  “Defoe De-Attributions Scrutinized under Hargevik Criteria: Applying Stylometrics to the Canon” 

Furbank, P. N. and  W. R. Owens.  “Stylometry and the Defoe Canon: A Reply to Irving Rothman” 

Rothman, Irving N. and Rakesh Verma.  “A Response to P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens”

 

Dryden:

Battigelli, Anna“‘To Tune Our Sorrows and Instruct the Crowd’: The Cultural Work of John Dryden’s ‘Threnodia Augustalis’”

Cotterill, Anne.  “‘Rebekah’s Heir’: Dryden’s Late Mystery of Genealogy”

Engetsu, Katsuhiro.  “The Poetics of Natural History in Annus Mirabilis” 

Fleck, Andrew.  “Guyomar and Guyon: Dryden’s Debt to Spenser in The Indian Emperour

Foster, Gavin.  “Ignoring The Tempest: Pepys, Dryden, and the Politics of Spectating in 1667”

Hammond, Paul.  “Allusions to Milton, Marvell, and Dryden in an Unpublished          Cambridge Prologue”

Kroll, Richard.  “The Double Logic of Don Sebastian

Roper, Alan.  “Who’s Who in Absalom and Achitophel?”

Sauer, Elizabeth.  “Milton and Dryden on the Restoration Stage” 

 

Duck:

Ennis, Daniel J.  “The Making of the Poet Laureate, 1730”

 

Fielding:

Kayman, Martin A.  “The ‘New Sort of Specialty’ and the ‘New Province of Writing ’: Bank Notes, Fiction and the Law in Tom Jones

Lockwood, Thomas.  “Theatrical Fielding”

Maslen, Keith.  “Fielding, Richardson, and William Strahan: A Bibliographical Puzzle”

Ribble, Frederick G.  “Fielding and William Young”

Stierstorfer, Klaus.  “Göttlicher Plot in menschlicher Story? Die Zufallsproblematik im Romanwerk Henry Fieldings 

 

Haywood:     

Pettit, Alexander.  “Our Fictions and Haywood’s Fictions”

Wilputte, Earla.  “‘Room to Fable upon’: The History of Charles XII of Sweden in Eliza Haywood’s The Fortunate Foundlings

 

Mandeville:

Stafford , J.  Martin.  “Mandeville’s Contemporary Critics”

Volkmann, Laurenz.  “Mandeville’s Beehive and Smith’s Invisible Hand: Competing Voices of Ethics and Economics in Early Industrialism”

 

Manley:

Herman, Ruth.  “Similarities between Delariviere Manley’s Secret History of Queen Zarah and the English Translation of Hattigée

Robinson, David Michael.  “‘For How Can They Be Guilty?’ Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Manley’s New Atalantis

 

Montagu:

Shaw, Jane.  “Gender and the ‘Nature’ of Religion: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Embassy Letters and Their Place in Enlightenment Philosophy of Religion”

Weitzman, Arthur J.  “Voyeurism and Aesthetics in the Turkish Bath: Lady Mary’s School of Female Beauty ”

 

Pope:

Edgecumbe, Rodney Stenning.  “Gray’s ‘Ode on the Spring’ and Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’”

Fabian, Bernhard and Marie-Luise Spieckermann.  “Pope in Eighteenth-Century Germany : A Bibliographical Essay (II)”

Hunter, J.  Paul.  “Literary Theory and Literary Practice: The Example of  Pope”

Pettit, Alexander.  “Pope and Defoe: Satire and National Regeneration”

Richardson, John.  “Alexander Pope’s Windsor Forest : Its Context and Attitudes toward Slavery”

Richardson, John Alexander.  “Pope’s Windsor-Forest

Vander Meulen, David L.  The Dunciad in Four Books and the Bibliography of Pope”

 

Richardson:         

Bachman, Maria K.  “The Confessions of Pamela: ‘a strange medley of inconsistence’”

Barchas, Janine.  “Grandison’s Grandeur as Printed Book: A Look at the Eighteenth-Century Novel’s Quest for Status”

Chung, Ewha.  “Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa: Defining the ‘Sacred’ Community and Defending Religious Education”

Dussinger, John A.  “Samuel Richardson’s ‘Elegant Disquisitions’: Anonymous Writing in the True Briton and Other Journals?”

Henriques, Kenneth E.  “Mr. Samuel Richardson and Miss Frances Grainger”

Krake, Astrid.  “In Search of Privacy: Houses and House Imagery in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa

Maslen, Keith.  “Fielding, Richardson, and William Strahan: A Bibliographical Puzzle”

Scofield, Martin.  “Shakespeare and Clarissa: ‘General Nature,’ Genre, and Sexuality”

Scott, Linda Kane.  “The Rape Raped: Echoes of the Rape of the Lock in Richardson’s Clarissa

Tennenhouse, Leonard.  “The Americanization of Clarissa”

Tumbleson, Ray.  “Potboiler Emancipation and the Prison of Pure Art: Clarissa, The Wind, and Surviving Rape”

 

Rochester:

Love, Harold.  “‘Pergo’ in ‘Signior Dildoe’”

 

Smollett:

Folkenflik, Robert.  “Tobias Smollett, Anthony Walker, and the First Illustrated Serial Novel in English”

 

Steele:       

Alsop, J. D.  “New Light on Richard Steele”

 

Sterne:        

Bandry, Anne.  “Sterne and Le Roux”

Fanning, Christopher.  “‘This Fragment of Life’: Sterne’s Encyclopaedic Ethics”

Gerard, W. B.  “Sterne Illustrated” 

Himberg, Kay.  “‘Against the Spleen’: Sterne and the Tradition of Remedial Laughter”

Nugel, Bernfried.  “Dramatic Theory in Tristram Shandy: Slawkenbergius Re-Consulted”

Ross, Ian Campbell.  “‘A Collective Enterprise ’?  Sterne and the Biographer” 

 

Swift: 

Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube.  “Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub: A Postcolonial Approach”

Blanchard, W.  Scott.  “Swift’s Tale, the Renaissance Anatomy, and Humanist Invective”

Bruce, John.  “Plagued by Enthusiasm: Swift’s Fear of Infectious Dissent and His Argument against Abolishing Christian Quarantine in A Tale of a Tub

Chandler, David.  “Swift’s ‘Violent Hatred’ of William III: The ‘Paraphrase of Prior’s Epitaph’ and its Provenance”

Davidson, Jenny.  “Swift’s Servant Problem: Livery and Hypocrisy in the Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Directions to Servants

Hashinuma, Katsumi.  “The Economic Theme in Gulliver’s Travels” 

Karian, Stephen.  “Swift’s Epitaph for Stella?  A Recently Discovered Document”

Kelley, Charles Greg.  “Dismembered Beauty: A Swiftian Presentation of the False Members”

Loveridge, Mark.  “Gulliver, Moses, and Language”

McMullin, B. J.  “Scott’s Swift, 1814, Vol. X (T/BAa.10): James Ballentyne and George Ramsay”

Potter, Tiffany.  “A Colonial Source for Cannibalistic Breeding in Swift’s A Modest Proposal

Real, Hermann J.  “Another Epigraph on Dean Swift”  

Real, Hermann J.  “The ‘Keen Appetite for Perpetuity of Life’ Abated: The Struldbruggs, Again” 

Schneller, Beverly.  “‘Which Was the Worst of All My Voyages?’: John N. Morris and Jonathan Swift”

Taylor, Donald S.  “Swift’s Nightmare” 

Youngberg, Quentin.  “The Sensitive Swift: Coming to Terms with the Dean’s Beneficent Satire”

 

History:     

Connors, Richard.  “Parliament and Poverty in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England ”

Downie, J. A.  “New Wine in Old Bottles?  The ‘New Historicism’ and the Eighteenth Century”

 

Miscellaneous:

Antor, Heinz.  “Educational Concepts in Eighteenth-Century Tractates and Novels”

Barnes, Geraldine, and Adrian Mitchell.  “Measuring the Marvelous: Science and the Exotic in William Dampier”

Cervantes, Xavier, and Thomas McGeary.  “Handel, Porpora and the ‘Windy Bumm’”

Clegg, Jeanne.  “John Dunton’s The Informer’s Doom

Cope, Kevin L.  “Algorithmic Apocalypse: Chaos, Cognitive Science, and the Conditions of Satire”

Doody, Margaret Anne.  “‘A Good Memory Is Unpardonable’: Self, Love, and the Irrational Irritation of Memory”

Hudson, Nicholas.  “‘The Dress of Thought’: The Imagery of Enlightenment and Romantic Poets”

Lesser,Wendy.  “Rereading: Recollected in Tranquility”

Mason, Alexandra.  “Eighteenth-Century Holdings in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas ”

May, James E.  “Supplement to ‘Bibliographic Tools’: Printed Sources for 18C Research”

McGeary, Thomas.  “Verse Epistles on Italian Opera Singers, 1724-1736”

 

 NOTE

Kupersmith, William.  Richard Blackmore and Eustace Budgell in Alexander Pope’s “The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated”           

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Dianne Dugaw.  “Deep Play”‘: John Gay and the Invention of Modernity

Thomas KeymerSterne, The Moderns, and the Novel 

Claude RawsonGod, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 

Joseph F.  BartolomeoMatched Pairs: Gender and Intertextual Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 

Richard Terry.  Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660-1781

 

BOOKS BRIEFLY NOTED

Jean VivièsEnglish Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century: Exploring Genres, trans. Claire Davison

Ian Campbell RossLaurence Sterne: A Life 

Laurence Sterne, ed. Marcus Walsh

Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen, ed. Robert Mayer 

Michael McKeonThe Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740, 15th Anniversary Edition 

Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Katherine Kittredge

Ingrid H.  TagueWomen of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England , 1690-1760 

Margery  A. Kingsley.  Transforming the Word:  Prophesy, Poetry and Politics in England , 1650-1742

Tone Sundt Urstad.  Sir Robert Walpole’s Poets: The Use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, 1721-1742

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Pope, Swift and Gay, 4 volumes, ed. Alexander Pettit 

Poetry from 1660 to 1780: Civil War, Restoration, Revolution, “Blackwell Essential Literature,” ed  Robert DeMaria, Jr. and Duncan Wu

Restoration Comedy, “Blackwell Essential Literature,” ed. David Womersley

Cynthia LowenthalPerforming Identities on the Restoration Stage 

Heidi HutnerColonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama

Marcie Frank.  Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism: From Dryden to Manley

Paul HammondFiguring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester  

Sarah JordanThe Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture 

George Justice.  The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England

Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England : New Essays, ed. Isabel Rivers

Lee MorrisseyFrom the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760

Jonathan I.  IsraelRadical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750 

Blakey VermeuleThe Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain  

Richard BradfordAugustan Measures.  Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Writings on Prosody and Meter

Joan Beal.  English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence’s “Grand Repository of the English Language”

Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality, ed. Richard H. Schmidt

Donald A. Spaeth.  The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew ScullUndertakers of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England  

A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration, ed. Alan Houston and Steve Pincus   

Robin NicholsonBonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892 

 

SCRIBLERIANA TRANSFERRED

May, James E.  “Scribleriana Transferred: MSS and Rare Books, 1999-2001, Part 3”

 

SCHOLIA

The Florida Tristram Shandy Annotations

The Florida Bramine’s Journal Annotations

 

SCRIBLERIANA

J. Douglas Canfield

The Cant of Criticism

Montagu Revived

Johnson Republished

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The Spectator Project

A Suburban Beggar’s Opera

Harold Bloom on Stephen King

The Rape of the Lock Raped Again

“Ted’s & Mary’s excellent adventure”

Book Ends

A “fun read”

H-London

From Basil Bunting on Poetry

Swift in Irish Poetry

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