Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 1993

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 1993

The renegade in English seventeenth-century imagination.
June 22, 1993... In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English travelers to Ottoman territories were struck by the sight of Christians who had converted to Islam. These "renegado" Greek, Arab, Albanian, Italian, Spanish, French, and English...

Gender and style in seventeenth-century commendatory verse.
June 22, 1993... Poems commending poets in the seventeenth century were expected to do three things: treat the poet as miraculous, or capable of producing wonder; praise the poet's wit, either for its boldness or, later in the century, for its restraint; and...

Aphra Behn, gender, and pastoral. (seventeenth-century writer)
June 22, 1993... In Scaliger's Ars Poetica, written in 1561, the author identifies pastoral poetry as "the mildest, the most naive, and the most inept."(1) E.K., the commentator in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender, notes that pastoral is an exercise that enables...

"We'll learn that of the men": female sexuality in Southerne's comedies. (seventeenth-century writer Thomas Southerne)
June 22, 1993... Thomas Southerne's three Restoration comedies--Sir Anthony Love: Or, The Rambling Lady (1690), The Wives' Excuse: Or, Cuckolds Make Themselves (season of 1691-1692), and The Maid's Last Prayer: Or, Any Rather than Fail (1693)--give an...

Shaftesbury's just measure of irony. (third earl of Shaftesbury)
June 22, 1993... John Hayman has justly linked the third earl of Shaftesbury to Augustan satiric reformers such as Addison and Steele, who were intent on curbing the malice of contemporary raillery and providing a proper model of good humored mental...

"Aesthetics" and the rise of lyric in the eighteenth century.
June 22, 1993... In the literary theory of the eighteenth century we habitually confront two opposed views of poetry and in particular of what a succession of critics identifies as the oldest and most "poetical" kind of poetry: lyric. Both are views that an...

Fielding's "orientalist" moment: historical fiction and historical knowledge in Tom Jones. (Henry Fielding)
June 22, 1993... The Gypsy Episode in Fielding's Tom Jones(1) negotiates between competing constructions of alterity, between prevailing notions of what is English, what is art, what is human, and the conceptual negatives which give rise to these notions. This...

James Harrison, 'The Novelist's Magazine,' and the early canonizing of the English novel.
June 22, 1993... By 1979, when the bookseller James Harrison initiated The Novelist's Magazine, serialized throughout the 1780s, the novel had enjoyed four decades of growing popularity in England, but was still piously denounced in pulpit and press as a...

Subversion of romance in 'The Old Manor House.' (novel by eighteenth-century writer Charlotte Smith)
June 22, 1993... In both her life and her career as a novelist, Charlotte Smith continually transgressed conventional expectations. After twenty-two years of living with a dissolute, debt-plagued husband, she took the unusual step of separating from him, and...

Recent studies in the restoration and eighteenth century. (canon of restoration and eighteenth-century literature)
June 22, 1993... Two words in the name of this journal, "Literature" and "English," are usefully interrogated by much of the best work on writing between 1660 and 1800 considered in this review. The question of what constitutes the canon of Restoration and...