Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles from March 2006

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies archives from March 2006

From the editors.
March 22, 2006... The five essays in this issue of JEMCS address in one way or another different strategies for reading the material and social bodies. The first three articles detail approaches to reading and interpreting the human body in familiar and...

Revising theatrical conventions in A Simple Story: Elizabeth Inchbald's ambiguous performance.
March 22, 2006... Sometime in the early 1780s, a beautiful young woman stopped by the home of Thomas Harris, theater manager at Covent Garden. She was an actress in his company, and she had recently given him some plays that she hoped he would produce. Harris,...

Curiosity, wonder, and William Dampier's Painted Prince.
March 22, 2006... William Dampier, buccaneer turned natural scientist, modelled himself on Sir Francis Drake in his narrative of the twelve-year sequence of voyages (1679-1691) that took him "deer rownd the globe." (1) Drake brought back a fortune in gold and...

When Yorick takes his tea; or, the commerce of consumptive passions in the case of Laurence Sterne.
March 22, 2006... How cruelly are our Lots drawn, my dear--both made for happiness--and neither of us made to taste it! --The Journal to Eliza (1767) The thirst of this, continued L as impatient as that which inflames the breast of the connoisseur, has...

"Prisoners in silken bond": obligation, trade, and diplomacy in English voyages to Japan and China.
March 22, 2006... Formerly Portugal presented tribute; Now England is paying homage. They have out-traveled Shu-hai and Heng-chang; My Ancestor's merit and virtue must have reached their distant shores. Though their tribute is commonplace,...

The "Lustful Buggering Jew": anti-Semitism, gender, and sodomy in restoration political satire.
March 22, 2006... In "Sometimes a Scepter is Only a Scepter: Pornography and Politics in Restoration England," Rachel Weil analyzes the implications of the fact that the "manuscript books into which Restoration men and women copied items of current interest...

"New texts in receptive minds": the cross-pollination of genres in the long eighteenth-century.(Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... G. GABRIELLE STARR. Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.298 pp. " Books... are made to a significant extent out of other books.... Texts fermenting with...

J. Douglas Canfield. The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD. The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 252 pp. ISBN 0-87413-834-5. The late Douglas Canfield contributed extensively to the theoretical canon for Restoration and...