THE SCRIBLERIAN

Spring - Autumn 2010

Vol. XLII, No. 2 - Vol. XLVIII, No. 1

 

Recent Articles

 

 

Addison:

Terry, Richard. “Revolt in Utica: Reading Cato Against Cato”

 

Astell:

 Taylor, E. Derek. “Mary Astell’s Work Toward a New Edition of A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II

 

Behn:

 Bowers, Toni. “Behn’s Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, and Tory Ideology in the 1680s”

 Cooper, Karol. “‘Too High for Souls like Mine to Hide’: Feminine Retreat and Exposure in Aphra Behn’s The Feign’d Curtizans

 Markley, Robert. “Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress: Feminism and the Dynamics of Popular Success on the Late Seventeenth-Century Stage”

 

Cavendish:

 Fletcher, Angus. “The Irregular Aesthetic of The Blazing-World

 Prieto-Pablos, Juan A. “The Disease of Wit and the Discourse of Reason in Margaret Cavendish’s Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy

 Tillery, Denise. “‘English Them in the Easiest Manner You Can’: Margaret Cavendish on the Discourse and Practice of Natural Philosophy”

 

Congreve:

 Velissariou, Aspasia. “The Hobbesian Other in Congreve’s Comedies”

 

Defoe:

 Alker, Sharon. “The Soldierly Imagination: Narrating Fear in Defoe’s Memoirs of a Cavalier

 Neumann, Brigit. “A Discourse of Patriots—Constructions of Britishness in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing. Alexander Jardine’s Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal and Daniel Defoe’s A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain

 Newman, Judie. “Desperately Seeking Susan: J.M. Coetzee, Robinson Crusoe, and Roxana

 Rogers, Sheldon. “The Ancestry of Daniel Defoe”

 

Dryden:

 Baird, John D. “Dryden and Lee, Oedipus: A Probable Performance in January or February 1697/98”

 Baker, Alvin L. “A Vindication of Creech’s Horace, and of Dryden’s Good Name”

 Maurer, Shawn Lisa. “Fathers, Sons, and Lovers: The Transformation of Masculine Authority in Dryden’s Aureng-Zebe

 Schille, Candy B. K. “‘Man Hungry’: Reconsidering Threats to Colonial and Patriarchal Order in Dryden and Davenant’s The Tempest

 Winn, James A. “‘Thy wars brought nothing about’: Dryden’s Critique of Military Heroism”

 

Finch:

 Jordan, Nicolle. “‘Where Power Is Absolute’: Royalist Politics and the Improved Landscape in a Poem by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea”

 

Gay:

 Mannion, Elizabeth. “The Poetry Behind the Newgate Pastoral: Precursors to The Beggar’s Opera

 Reed, Peter. “Conquer or Die: Staging Circum-Atlantic Revolt in Polly and Three-Finger’d Jack

 

Haywood:

 Flannery, Kathryn T. “Eliza Haywood: Mainstreaming Women Writers in the Undergraduate Survey”

 Harzewski, Stephanie. “The Fantomina Phenomenon: Eliza Haywood and the Formation of a Heroine”

 Hultquist, Aleksondra. “Haywood’s Re-Appropriation of the Amatory Heroine in Betsy Thoughtless

 King, Kathryn R. “Eliza Haywood, Savage Love, and Biographical Uncertainty”

 

Pope:

 Baines, Paul. “Crime and Punishment”

 Erskine-Hill, Howard. “Pope and the Poetry of Opposition”

 Fairer, David. “Pope and the Elizabethans”

 Kelsall, Malcolm. “Landscapes and Estates”

 Lashmore-Davies, Adrian. “A Hitherto Incomplete Letter from Sir William Trumbull to Alexander Pope”

 Latimer, Bonnie. “Alchemies of Satire: A History of the Sylphs in The Rape of the Lock

 Pritchard, Jonathan. “Alexander Pope at the Savoy”

 Walls, Kathryn. “Pope’s Essay on Criticism, ll. 205-6: A Source in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus”

 Womersley, David. “Pope, Welsted, Denham, and Beer”

 

Richardson:

 Chico, Tita. “Details and Frankness: Affective Relations in Sir Charles Grandison

 Fizer, Irene. “Rags of Immortality: Clarissa’s Clothing and the Exchange of Second-Hand Goods”

 Keymer, Thomas. “Parliamentary Printing, Paper Credit, and Corporate Fraud: A New Episode in Richardson’s Early Career”

 Soni, Vivasvan.  “The Trial Narrative in Richardson’s Pamela: Suspending the Hermeneutic of Happiness”

 

Rochester:

 Baker, Oliver R. “Cribbage in Tunbridge Wells”

 Bourne, Don. “‘If I Appear to Any One Like a Counterfeit’: Liminality in Rochester’s Alexander Bendo’s Brochure

 

Smollett :

 Gibson, William. “Smollett, Goldsmith, Nash, and Tobit’s Dog: The Biography of a Joke”

 Kahan, Lee F. “Fathoming Intelligence: The ‘Impartial’ Novelist and the Passion for News in Tobias Smollett’s Ferdinand Count Fathom

 Shields, Juliet. “Smollett’s Scots and Sodomites: British Masculinity in Roderick Random

 

Sterne:

 Duguid, Paul. “Inheritance and Loss: A Brief Survey of Google Books”

 Kim, James. “‘good cursed, bouncing losses’: Masculinity, Sentimental Irony, and Exuberance in Tristram Shandy

 Lennartz, Norbert. “Charles Dickens Abroad: The Victorian Smelfungus and the Genre of the Unsentimental Journey”

 Newbould, Mary. “Sex, Death and the Aposiopesis: Two Early Attempts to Fill the Gaps of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey

 Richardson, John. “Sterne’s Patriotic Shandeism”

 Zimpfer, Nathalie.  “Portrait of the Narrator as a Phallocrat: Tristram from Swiftian Modern to Self-Defeating Shandy”

 

Swift:

 Barnard, Toby. “John Lyon and Irish Antiquarianism in the Time of Swift”

 Carnochan, W. B. “Who Was Podefar? Swift in the Journal to Stella

 Connolly, S. J. “Swift and History”

 Elias, A. C., Jr. “Reforming Mankind: Lemuel Gulliver, Constantia Grierson, and the Limits of Source Studies”

 Fróes, João. “Contemporary Writings in Response to Orrery’s Remarks on Swift

 Higgins, Ian.An Argument against Abolishing Christianity and its Contexts”

 Kelly, Ann Cline. “Gulliver as Pet and Pet Keeper: Talking Animals in Book 4”

 Marshall, Ashley.Gulliver, Gulliverania, and the Problem of Swiftian Satire”

 Pritchard, Jonathan. “Jonathan Swift and the Duke of Savoy”

 ———. “Swift’s Irish Rhymes”

 Rabb, Melinda. “Postmodernizing Swift”

———.  “The Secret Memoirs of Lemuel Gulliver: Satire, Secrecy, and Swift”

 Rogers, Shef. “An Extra Echo to Swift’s Epigraph for Gulliver’s Travels”

 Rumbold, Valerie. “Locating Swift’s Parody: The Title of Polite Conversation

 Weinbrot, Howard D. “Swift’s Thirtieth of January Sermon: Politics, the Pulpit, and the Choice of Strife”

 

Thomson:

 Jung, Sandro. “Updating Summer; or, Revisiting and Recomposing The Seasons

 

Young:

 Farrell, Michael. “William Blake and Edward Young’s Night Thoughts”

 

Miscellaneous:

 Considine, John. “Darby and Joan and the Athenian Mercury

 Dean, Ann C. “Court Culture and Political News in London’s Eighteenth-Century Newspapers”

 Devereaux, Johanna. “‘Affecting the Shade’: Attribution, Authorship, and Anonymity in An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex

 Fisher, Michael H. “England Firsthand: Women and Men from Imperial India, 1614-1769”

 Incorvati, Rick. “The Poetry of Friendship: Connecting the Histories of Women and Lesbian Sexuality in the Undergraduate Classroom”

 Johns, Richard. “‘An Air of Grandeur & Modesty’: James Thornhill’s Painting in the Dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral”

 Jung, Sandro. “Joseph Mitchell (c. 1684-1738): Anglo-Scottish Poet”

 Lanier-Nabors, Benjamin G. “Portals to Knowledge: Confluence and Conflict between Enlightenment and Postmodern Currencies”

 Mills, Rebecca M. “‘To be both Patroness and Friend’: Patronage, Friendship, and Protofeminism in the Life of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)”

 Rogers, Pat. “The Longitude Imposter”

 Rosenthal, Laura J.  “‘All injury’s forgot’: Restoration Sex Comedy and National Amnesia”

 Snider, Alvin.The Curious Impertinent on the Restoration Stage”

 Van Den Berg, Jan. “Thomas Morgan and Alberto Radicati di Passerano, a Non-existing Relationship”

 

Book Reviews

 The Novels of Daniel Defoe, Part 2, Gen. Ed. W. R. Owens and P. N. Furbank. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, ed. Liz Bellamy; A Journal of the Plague Year, ed. John Mullan;  The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque, ed.Maurice Hindle; The Fortunate Mistress, ed. P. N. Furbank; A New Voyage Round the World, ed. John McVeagh

 Stephen Ahearn. Affected Sensibilities: Romantic Excess and the Genealogy of the Novel

 The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe, ed. John Richetti

 The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn, ed. Derek Hughes and Janet Todd

                                                

                                                         Books Briefly Noted

  Kate Loveman. Reading Fictions, 1660–1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture

 Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson, ed. Lisa Zunshine and Jocelyn Harris

 David Oakleaf. A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift

 Roxana: or, The Fortunate Mistress (1724), ed. Melissa Mowry

 Defoe on Sheppard and Wild, ed. Richard Holmes 

 Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay’s Trivia (1716), ed. Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman

 Kevin L. Cope. In and After the Beginning: Inaugural Moments and Literary Institutions in the Long Eighteenth Century

 Steve Newman. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

 Allen Ingram with Michelle Faubert. Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing: Representing the Insane

 William Kupersmith. English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century

 Vic Gatrell. City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London

 On Second Thought: Updating the Eighteenth-Century Text, ed. Debra Taylor Bourdeau and Elizabeth Kraft

 Jack Lynch. Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain

 Corrinne Harol. Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature 

 Will Pritchard. Outward Appearances: the Female Exterior in Restoration London

 Nicole Pohl. Women, Space and Utopia, 1600-1800

 Sophie Gee. The Scandal of the Season

 Performing the “Everyday”: The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Alden Cavanaugh

 Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Alexander Dick and Christina Lupton

 H. R. French. The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England, 1600–1750

 John Styles. Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England

 The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 1712-1715, ed. Craig Horner

 Amelia Rauser. Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints

 Bruce Redford. Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England

 Donna Landry. Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture 

 E ve Tavor Bannet.  Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic

            Correspondence, 1680-1820

 Clare Brant.  Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture

Philip  Pettit. Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

 John Marshall. John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture

 Sarah Ellenzweig. The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760

 Jonathan Sheehan. The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture

 Elliott Visconsi. Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England

 The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, ed. Kenneth O. Morgan

 Gordon E. Bannerman. Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain: British Army Contracts and Domestic Supply, 1739-1763

 

The authors and titles in The Cambridge Companion to Defoe are:

            Srinivas Aravamudan, “Defoe, Commerce, and Empire”

 

Paula R. Backscheider, “Defoe: the Man in the Works”

Hal Gladfelder, “Defoe and Criminal Fiction”


J. Paul Hunter, “Defoe and Poetic Tradition”


Deidre Shauna Lynch, “Money and Character in Defoe's Fiction”


John McVeagh, “Defoe: Satirist and Moralist”


Maximillian E. Novak, “Defoe's Political and Religious Journalism”

 

            Ellen Pollak, “Gender and fiction in Moll Flanders and Roxana”

 

            John Richetti, “Defoe as Narrative Innovator”


Pat Rogers, “Defoe's Tour and the Identity of Britain”

Michael Seidel, “Robinson Crusoe: Varieties of Fictional Experience"


Cynthia Wall, “Defoe and London”

 

 

The authors and titles in The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn are:

Ros Ballaster, “‘The story of the heart’: Love-letters between a Noble-Man and his Sister

Helen M. Burke, “The Cavalier Myth in The Rover

 

Line Cottegnies, “Aphra Behn’s French Translations”

 

Derek Hughes, “Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre”

 

Joanna Lipking, “‘Others’, Slaves, and Colonists in Oroonoko

 

Robert Markley, “Behn and the Unstable Traditions of Social Comedy”

 

Jessica Munns, “Pastoral and Lyric: Astrea in Arcadia”

 

Mary Ann O’Donnell, “Aphra Behn: the Documentary Record”

 

Susan J. Owen, “Behn’s Dramatic Response to Restoration Ppolitics”

 

Jacqueline Pearson, “The Short Ffiction (Excluding Oroonoko)”

 

Laura J. Rosenthal, “Oroonoko: Reception, Ideology, and Narrative Srategy”

 

Susan Staves, “Behn, Women, and Society”

 

Janet Todd and Derek Hughes, “Tragedy and Tragicomedy”

 

Melinda S. Zook, “The Political Poetry of Aphra Behn”

 

 

 

The authors and titles in Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson are:

Janine Barchas, “The Antipodean Pleasures of Teaching Clarissa in Real Time”

Patricia Brückmann, “Vegetable Loves: A Defense, in Part, of Mrs. Jewkes”

Nicky Didicher, “Making Pamela Real for Undergraduates: Sexual Harassment and the Epistolary Form”

Teri Ann Doerksen, “Students in the Cedar Parlor: How and Why to Teach Sir Charles Grandison in the Undergraduate Classroom”

Jocelyn Harris, “Clarissa Lives! Reading Richardson through Rewritings”

David C. Hensley, “Sir Charles Grandison, Literary History, and the Philosophy of Enlightenment”

Tom Keymer, “Assorted Versions of Assaulted Virgins; or, Textual Instability and Teaching”

Elizabeth Kraft, “Pamela: Chastity, Charity, and Moral Reform”

Jayne Lewis, “Bearing Clarissa: Richardson and the Problem of Relevance”

Robert Markley, “Resisting Richardson: Student Skepticism and Teaching”

Keith Maslen, “Samuel Richardson: Printer-Novelist”

Michael McKeon, “Richardson’s Pamela and Political Allegory”

Judith Moore, “Is Clarissa a Woman’s Narrative?”

Mark James Morreale, “Richardson, Clarissa, Hypertext”

Felicity A. Nussbaum, “Naughty Pamela’s ‘Sweet Confusion’”

Ruth Perry, “Kinship in Clarissa

John Richetti, “Richardson’s Revisions in the Third Edition of Clarissa: For Better or Worse?”

Peter Sabor, “Teaching Pamela and Clarissa through Richardson’s Correspondence”

Kristina Straub, “Reading the Domestic Servant-Woman in Pamela

Cynthia Wall, “Teaching Space in Sir Charles Grandison

Jeremy W. Webster, “Teaching Pamela and the History of Sexuality”

Janet Aikins Yount, “Pamela Illustrations in the Classroom”

Lisa Zunshine, “Teaching Sir Charles Grandison instead of Pamela to Undergraduates”

 

The authors and titles in On Second Thought: Updating the Eighteenth-Century Text are:

John Adrian, “The Slave, the Scourge, and Society: A Comparison of Gay’s First and Second Series of Fables”

Debra Taylor Bourdeau, “Paula Rego’s After Hogarth: A Portuguese Family’s Marriage à la Mode”

W. B. Gerard, “‘Betwixt One Passion and Another’”: Continuations of Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, 1769-1820”

Michael Hardin, “Nativity and Nationhood: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Carlos Fuentes’s Christopher Unborn as Critiques of Empire”

Emily Hipchen, “‘An Inviolate Preservation’: Immortalizing the Ephemeral Lock”

Sandro Jung, “Updating Summer, or Revising and Recomposing The Seasons”

Elizabeth Kraft, “Writers that Changed the World: Samuel Richardson, Upton Sinclair, and the Strategies of Social Reform”

Elizabeth Kraft and Debra Taylor Bourdeau, “Preface: Twice-Told Tales: When and Why Once is Not Enough”

Brett C. McInelly, “Remaking Crusoe in Derek Walcott’s Pantomime”

Allen Michie, “Far from Simple: Sarah Fielding’s Familiar Letters and the Limits of the Eighteenth-Century Sequel”

Betty A. Schellenberg, “‘The Measured Lines of the Copyist’: Sequels, Reviews, and the Discourse of Authorship in England, 1749-1800”

Robert Scott, “‘Dizzy with the Beauty of the Possible’: The Sot-Weed Factor and the Narrative Exhaustion of the Eighteenth-Century Novel”

Gregory Timmons, “Gay’s Retreatment of The Beggar’s Opera in Polly”

Tamara Wagner, “Rewriting Sentimental Plots: Sequels to Novels of Sensibility by Jane Austen and Another Lady”

 

 

The authors and titles in Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth-Century are:

Mark Blackwell, “Preposterous Hume”

Adam Budd, “Criticism, Sympathy, and the Problem Of Representation In David Hume’s Earliest Works”

Joseph Chaves, “Philosophy and Politeness, Moral Autonomy and Malleability in Shaftesbury’s Characteristics”

Eva Dadlez, “David Hume and Jane Austen On Pride: Ethics in the Enlightenment”

Alexander Dick, “Reid, Writing, and the Mechanics of Common Sense”

Maureen Harkin, “The Primitive in Adam Smith’s History”

Nicholas Hudson, “Philosophy/Nonphilosophy and Derrida’s (Non) Relations with Eighteenth-Century Empiricism”

Jonathan Kramnick, “Locke’s Desires”

Brian Michael Norton, “After the Summum Bonum: Novels, Treatises, and Enquiries after Happiness”

Adam Potkay, “Music vs. Conscience in Wordsworth’s Poetry”

John Richetti, “Hume, Religion, Literary Form: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”

Jonathan Sadow, “The Epistemology of Genre”

Nancy Yousef, “Can Julie Be Trusted? Rousseau and the Crisis of Constancy in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy”

                          

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