THE SCRIBLERIAN

Spring 2011

Vol. XLVIII, No. 2

 

RECENT ARTICLES

Addison:

SYBA, MICHELLE. “After Design: Joseph Addison Discovers Beauties”

 

Behn:

CABALLERO ACEITUNO, YOLANDA. “Anti-Slavery and Sentimentalism in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

FIGLEROWICZ, MARTA. “‘Frightful Spectacles of a Mangled King’: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Narration through Theater”

LIVINGSTON, MICHAEL. “Aphra Behn’s ‘The Disappointment’ as Ring Composition”

MARSH, FLORENCE. “Farce, Satire et Science dans The Emperor of the Moon (1687) d’Aphra Behn

TROFIMOVA, VIOLETTA. “French Influence on English Culture in the Second Part of the Seventeenth Century: Aphra Behn as a Creative Translator and a Mediator between the Two Cultures”

YANG, CHI-MING. “Asia out of Place: The Aesthetics of Incorruptibility in Behn’s Oroonoko

 

Cavendish:

SMITH, EMILY. “Genre’s ‘Phantastical Garb’: The Fashion of Form in Margaret Cavendish’s Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life

WILLIAMS, GWENO. “Margaret Cavendish, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life

 

Defoe:

FISHELOV, DAVID. “Robinson Crusoe, ‘The Other’ and the Poetics of Surprise”

MARKLEY, ROBERT. “‘Casualties and Disasters’: Defoe and the Interpretations of Climatic Instability”

MOLESWORTH, JESSE M. “‘A Dreadful Course of Calamities’: Roxana’s Ending Reconsidered’”

SEAGER, NICHOLAS. “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Epistemology and Fiction in Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year

YAHAV, AMIT. “Time, Duration, and Defoe’s Novel’s [sic]”

 

Dryden:

ANDREADIS, HARRIETTE. “The Early Modern Afterlife of Ovidian Erotics: Dryden’s Heroides

DE SOUSA, GERALDO U. “Portugal, North Africa and Dryden’s Don Sebastian

SPIELMAN, DAVID WALLACE. “Sir Robert Howard, John Dryden, and the Attribution of The Indian-Queen

WINN, JAMES A. “John Dryden, Court Theatricals, and the ‘Epilogue to the faithfull Shepherdess’”

WISEMAN, SUSAN. “‘Perfectly Ovidian’? Dryden’s Epistles, Behn’sOenone,’ Yarico’s Island”

 

Henry Fielding:

BATTESTIN, MARTIN C. “Fielding’s Anatomy of Laughter”

BLACK, SCOTT. “The Adventures of Love in Tom Jones

BURKE, JOHN J., JR. “Fielding’s Epic Combat with Milton in Tom Jones

BUTLER, GERALD J. “Fielding’s Disruptive Heterosexuality”

DRAKE, GEORGE A. “Ritual in Joseph Andrews

EVANS, JAMES E. “Writing London in Tom Jones

FINLAY, EMILY. “‘So Lovely a Skin Scarified with Rods’: Modern Notions in Fielding’s The Female Husband

FISHER, CARL. “Mob Rules: Henry Fielding’s Developing Sense of the Fourth Estate”

GOODING, RICHARD. “‘A Complication of Disorders’: Bodily Health, Masculinity, and the Discourse of Gout and Dropsy in Henry Fielding’s The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

HAN, JIAMING. “Henry Fielding in China”

HOLLM, JAN. “Fictionalizing Foundlings: Social Tradition and Change in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

HUNTER, J. PAUL. “Rethinking Form in Tom Jones

JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER D. “Well, Bless His Heart: Teaching Fielding in the American South”

JUNG, SANDRO. “The Poet-Politician-Patriot in Fielding’s Miscellanies Poems”

LOCKWOOD, THOMAS. “Did Fielding Write for The Craftsman?”

MANUWALD, GESINE. “Henry Fielding’s Intertextuality: Plundering the ‘Rich Common’ of Classical Authors”

PARKES, CHRISTOPHER. “Joseph Andrews and the Control of the Poor”

POTKAY, ADAM. “Liberty and Necessity in Fielding’s Amelia

RAZZAL, LUCY. “The Pockets of Henry Fielding’s Writing

RIBBLE, FREDERICK G. “Fielding, the Hoadlys, and the Composition of Pasquin

VOGRINCIC, ANA. “Shamela in the Light of Eighteenth-Century Novelization of Literature”

WOODMAN, THOMAS. “Tom Jones and Christian Comedy”

 

Sarah Fielding:

HUSSEY, REBECCA. “The Sentimental Traveler: Emotion, Movement, and Economy in Sarah Fielding’s Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last

 

Finch:

LINKER, LAURA ALEXANDER. “‘Th’unhappy Poet’s Breast’: Resisting Violation in Anne Finch’s ‘To the Nightingale’”

 

Haywood:

GIRTEN, KRISTIN M. “Unsexed Souls: Natural Philosophy as Transformation in Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator

MACKENZIE, NIALL. “Eliza Haywood in a ‘Scrutinising Age’”

POWELL, MANUSHAG. “Parroting and the Periodical: Women’s Speech, Haywood’s Parrot, and its Antecedents”

 

Inchbald:

LEE, HYE-SOO. “Women, Comedy, and A Simple Story

 

Mandeville:

HENKE, CHRISTOPH. “Pernicious Reason and Good Sense: Ethics and Common Sense in Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and Samuel Johnson’s Writings”

 

Manley:

KVANDE, MARTA. “Jane Barker and Delarivie`re Manley: Public Women Against the Public Sphere”

 

Parnell:

EDGECOMBE, RODNEY STENNING. “Thomas Parnell’s ‘Night-Piece on Death’ and Edward Young’s Night Thoughts

 

Pope:

Jenkins, Eugenia Zuroski. “‘Nature to Advantage Drest’: Chinoiserie, Aesthetic Form, and the Poetry of Subjectivity in Pope and Swift”

LIU, YU. “In the Name of the Ancients: The Cross-Cultural Iconoclasm of Pope’s Gardening Aesthetics”

VANDER MEULEN, DAVID. “The Afterlife of the Imagination: Posthumous Adventures of Pope’s Essay on Man

 

Richardson:

BANDER, ELAINE. “‘O Leave Novels’: Jane Austen, Sir Charles Grandison, Sir Edward Denham, and Rob Mossgiel

DUSSINGER, JOHN. “The Negotiations of Sir Charles Grandison

HANNAH, ROBERT. “Calendar Styles in Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison

KEYMER, TOM. “Lady Echlin: Richardson’s Window on Eighteenth-Century Ireland”

MASLEN, KEITH. “Resurrecting Samuel Richardson”

ZUNSHINE, LISA. “Can We Teach the ‘Deep Intersubjectivity’ of Richardson’s Clarissa?”

 

Shadwell:

SHANAHAN, JOHN. “Theatrical Space and Scientific Space in Thomas Shadwell’s Virtuoso

 

Sterne:

ANSTEY, PETER R. “The Experimental History of the Understanding from Locke to Sterne”

BELLMAN, PATRIZIA NEROZZI. “Legal Snares: The Plot of Law in Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne with a Note on A Sentimental Journey

CHICO, TITA. “‘The More I Write, the More I Shall Have to Write’: The Many Beginnings of Tristram Shandy

LYNCH, JACK. “Tristram Shandy and the Rise of the Novel; or, Unpopular Fiction after Richardson”

UCHIDA, MASARU. “18 seiki shosetsu kenkyu to intanetto” (“Studies of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century and Internet”)

 

Swift:

BAUDOT, LAURA. “What Not to Avoid in Swift’s ‘The Lady’s Dressing Room’”

BOYLE, FRANK T. “New Science in the Composition of A Tale of a Tub

CONNOLLY, S. J. “English Old and New”

INGRAM, ALLAN. “Madness at Tub Time: Swift Writing Insanity”

WALSH, MARCUS. “Telling Tales and Gathering Fragments: Swift’s Tale of a Tub             

 

Thomson:

DESROCHES, DENNIS. “The Rhetoric of Disclosure in James Thomson’s The Seasons; or, On Kant’s Gentlemanly Misanthropy”

JUNG, SANDRO. “Some Notes on Le Sage’s Gil Blas and James Thomson’s Tancred and Sigismunda

 

Young:

EDGECOMBE, RODNEY STENNING. “Thomas Parnell’s ‘Night-Piece on Death’ and Edward Young’s Night Thoughts

 

Miscellaneous:

HAYDEN, JUDY A. “Harlequin, the Whigs, and William Mountfort’s Doctor Faustus

KAHAN, JEFFREY. “The Double Falshood and The Spanish Curate: A Further Fletcher Connection”

MARKLEY, ROBERT. “Introduction: Rethinking Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama”

NEUMANN, FRITZ-WILHELM. “The Faltering Spirit of the Nation in the 1720s: Bishop Francis Hare’s View upon the Vagaries of Modern Culture”

ROBERTS, DAVID. “‘I think no ill one’”

SPECK, W. A. “Eighteenth-Century Attitudes Towards Business”

SUAREZ, MICHAEL F., S. J. “Secular Lessons: Biblical Satire, Parody, Imitation, and Emulation in Eighteenth-Century Chronicles of British Politics”

WETMORE, ALEX. “Sympathy Machines: Men of Feeling and the Automaton”

WOLLOCH, NATHANIEL. “The Turkish Spy and Eighteenth-Century British Theriophily

 

BOOK REVIEWS

LAURENCE STERNE. The Letters. Part I: 1739–1764; Part 2: 1765–1768, ed. Melvyn New and Peter de Voogd

CHARLES A. KNIGHT. A Political Biography of Richard Steele

JONATHAN SWIFT. English Political Writings 1711–1714[:] The Conduct of the Allies and Other Works, ed. Bertrand A. Goldgar and Ian Gadd

ANNABEL PATTERSON, The Long Parliament of Charles II

Henry Fielding (1707–1754): Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Magistrate: A Double Anniversary Tribute, ed. Claude Rawson

Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, ed. William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson

LISA MARUCA. The Work of Print: Authorship and the English Text Trades, 1660–1760

 

BOOKS BRIEFLY NOTED

STEPHEN H. GREGG. Defoe’s Writings and Manliness: Contrary Men

Shandean, vol. 19, ed. Peter de Voogd

JOHN MARTIN. Alien Come Home: The Story of Daniel Defoe’s Missing Years, 1644–1680

RENE´ BOSCH. Labyrinth of Digressions: ‘Tristram Shandy’ as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne’s Early Imitators

HENRY FIELDING, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, ed. Adam Potkay

Adventure: An Eighteenth-Century Idiom: Essays on the Daring and the Bold as a Pre-Modern Medium, ed. Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, and Alexander Pettit

Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on the Novel, 1688–1815, ed. Cheryl L. Nixon

ELISABETH J. HEARD. Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695–1708: The Career of George Farquhar

CATHERINE TROTTER COCKBURN. Philosophical Writings, ed. Patricia Sheridan

RACHEL CARNELL. A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley

PAUL SALZMAN. Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing

ZOE KINSLEY. Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682–1812

Refiguring the Coquette: Essays on Culture and Coquetry, ed. Shelley King and Yae¨l Schlick

NICOLA LACEY. Women, Crime, and Character from Moll Flanders to Tess of the D’Urbervilles

ERIN MACKIE. Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century

Bernard Mandeville’s “A Modest Defence of Publick Stews”: Prostitution and Its Discontents in Early Georgian England, ed. Irwin Primer

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century, ed. Peter Sabor and Paul Yachnin

ROBERT L. MACK. The Genius of Parody: Imitation and Originality in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century English Literature

ANNA KEAY. Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power

LEO HOLLIS. The Phoenix: St Paul’s Cathedral and the Men who Made Modern London

Great Bubbles, ed. Ross Emmett

ERIK BOND. Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, ed. Charles Ivar McGrath and Chris Fauske

JENNY DAVIDSON. Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century

EVELYN LORD. The Hell-fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

SARAH TOULALAN. Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England

KRISTINA STRAUB. Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain

W. J. MANDER. The Philosophy of John Norris

Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700–1800, ed. Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda

ALEXANDER WELSH. What Is Honor? A Question of Moral Imperatives

JOHN MILLER. Cities Divided: Politics and Religion in English Provincial Towns, 1660–1722

WAYNE HUDSON. The English Deists

Eighteenth-Century Thought, Vol. 4, ed. James G. Buickerood

ROBERT G. INGRAM. Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century. Thomas Secker and the Church of England

 

The authors and titles in Henry Fielding (1707–1754): Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Magistrate: A Double Anniversary Tribute are:

Robert Alter, “Fielding’s Legacy in Fiction”

Linda Bree, “Henry and Sarah Fielding: A Literary Relationship”

Simon Dickie, “Amelia, Sex, and Fielding’s Woman Question”

Bertrand A. Goldgar, “Fielding, Politics, and ‘Men of Genius’”

Thomas Keymer, “Fielding’s Machiavellian Moment”

Guyonne Leduc, “Was Fielding a Prefeminist?”

Thomas Lockwood, “Fielding from Stage to Page”

Frédéric Ogée, “‘O Hogarth Had I Thy Pencil’: Delineations of an Alleged Friendship”

Ronald Paulson, “Fielding, Hogarth, and Evil: Cruelty”

Joseph Roach, “‘The Uncreating Word’: Silence and Unspoken Thought in Fielding’s Drama”

Pat Rogers, “Poacher and Gamekeeper: Fielding, the Law, and the Novels”

Angela J. Smallwood, “Jacobites and Jacobins: Fielding’s Legacy in the Later Eighteenth-Century London Theatre”

 

The authors and titles in Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith are:

Sharon A. Achinstein, “Mary Astell, Religion, and Feminism: Texts in Motion”

Jacqueline Broad, “Astell, Cartesian Ethics, and the Critique of Custom”

Mark Goldie, “Mary Astell and John Locke”

Corrine Harol, “Mary Astell’s Law of the Heart”

Kolbrener, William, “Astell’s ‘Design of Friendship’ in Letters and A Serious Proposal”

William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson, “‘Dreading to Engage Her’: The Critical Reception of Mary Astell

Eileen O’Neill, “Mary Astell on the Causation of Sensation”

Claire Pickard, “‘Great in Humilitie’: A Consideration of Mary Astell’s Poetry”

Hannah Smith, “Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694), and the Anglican Reformation of Manners in Late-Seventh-Century England”

Hilda Smith, “‘Cry up Liberty’: The Political Context for Mary Astell’s Feminism”

E. Derek Taylor, “Are You Experienced? Astell, Locke, and Education”

Ann Jessie Van Sant, “‘Tis better that I endure’: Mary Astell’s Exclusion of Equity”

Melinda Zook, “Religious Nonconformity and the Problem of Dissent in the Works of Aphra Behn and Mary Astell

 

The authors and titles in Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles are:

Arne Bialuschewski, “Greed, Fraud, and Popular Culture: John Breholt’s Madagascar Schemes of the Early Eighteenth Century”

J. Alan Downie, “Gulliver’s Travels, the Contemporary Debate on the Financial Revolution, and the Bourgeois Public Sphere”

Chris Fauske, “Misunderstanding What Swift Misunderstood, or, the Economy of a Province”

James E. Hartley, “The Chameleon Daniel Defoe: Public Writing in the Age before Economic Theory”

Richard Kleer, “ ‘Fictitious Cash’: English Public Finance and Paper Money, 1689–97”

Eoin Magennis, “Whither the Irish Financial Revolution?: Money, Banks, and Politics in Ireland in the 1730s”

Charles Ivar McGrath, “The Irish Experience of ‘Financial Revolution’, 1660–1760”

Charles Ivar McGrath and Chris Fauske, “Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles”

Stephen Timmons, “The Hearth Tax and Finance in the West Country, 1662–92”

 

The authors and titles in Queer People are:

Conrad Brunström, “Sex and Shopping with Frances Burney”

Joseph Campana, “Cruising Crusoe: Diving into the Wreck of Sexuality”

Tanya Cassidy, “People, Place and Performance: Theoretically Revisiting Mother Clap’s Molly House”

Netta Goldsmith, “London’s Homosexuals in the Eighteenth Century: Rhetoric versus Practice”

Caroline Gonda, “Queer Doings in Oxford: The Christian’s New Warning Piece (1753)”

Caroline Gonda and Chris Mounsey, “Queer People: An Introduction”

Ellen T. Harris, “Homosexual Context and Identity: Reflections on the Reception of Handel as Orpheus”

Ruth Herman, “Dark Deeds at Night”

Bridget Keegan, “Queer Labor: Genius and Class in Eighteen-Century Pastoral”

Thomas A. King, “How (Not) to Queer Boswell”

Chris Mounsey, “Conversion Panic, Circumcision, and Sexual Anxiety: Penelope Aubin’s Queer Writing”

Sally O’ Driscoll, “Queerness, Class, and Sexuality

Chris Roulston, “Having it Both Ways? The Eighteenth-Century Menage-à-Trois

Ruth Smith, “Love between Men in Jennens’ and Handel’s Saul”