Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles from March 2005

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies archives from March 2005

From the editors.
March 22, 2005... This issue of JEMCS inaugurates a new editorial board and a new editorial procedure. As to the former: the journal is now under the collective supervision of four editors, with equal authority and equivalent responsibilities distributed...

Katherine Austen and the widow's might.
March 22, 2005... Throughout seventeenth-century England the widow often appeared a contradictory figure. The social realities of women who had lost their spouses commonly reenforced both the biblical image of the suffering widow and the word's etymological...

Thieves, bawds, and counterrevolutionary fantasies: The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith.
March 22, 2005... This is an essay about a failed polemic. In 1662, bookseller William Gilbertson offered his patrons the anonymously written Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith. Commonly called Mal Cutpurse. Exactly Collected and now Published for the Delight and...

No time like the present: the mysteries of Udolpho.
March 22, 2005... Suppose that I am going to recite a psalm that I know. Before I begin, my faculty of expectation is engaged by the whole of it. But once I have begun, as much of the psalm as I have removed from the province of expectations and relegated to the...

Lust for luxe: "cashmere fever" in nineteenth-century France (1).
March 22, 2005... ... la feuille de figuier de notre mere Eve etait une robe de cachemire. Theorie de la demarche In the first "Convolute" of The Arcades Project, taking for subject "Arcades, Magasins de Nouveautes, and Sales Clerks," Walter Benjamin...

Writing the lives of women: recent biographies of eighteenth-century women writers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... ANNIBEL JENKINS, I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003.596 pp. $39.95. LYNDA M. THOMPSON, The "Scandalous Memoirists": Constantia Phillips, Laetitia Pilkington and the shame...

Patricia Meyer Spacks. Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS. Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. vii + 242 pp. $36.00. Ever since Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality (1978) provocatively offered a genealogy of a...

Cynthia Lowenthal. Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... CYNTHIA LOWENTHAL. Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. 272 + x pages. $40.00. Reviewed by Jessica Munns Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage seeks...