Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 1998

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 1998

Apolitical Shakespeare; or, the Restoration 'Coriolanus.' (Shakespearean adaptations)
June 22, 1998... Several recent critical studies of Shakespeare's historical evolution into the figure Michael Dobson calls "the national poet" have considerably enriched our understanding of how Shakespearean adaptations functioned politically and culturally on...

Identity in Dryden's 'Amphitryon': cuckolds of order. (Restoration period dramatist John Dryden)
June 22, 1998... Unlike other Restoration dramatists, John Dryden knew artistic and commercial success in both comedy and tragedy. Yet Amphitryon, one of his greatest comic successes, has received surprisingly little critical attention. As a play published...

Wife pandering in three eighteenth-century plays.
June 22, 1998... In Joseph Andrews (1742), Henry Fielding ironically compares the subservient Mrs. Trulliber to the good biblical wife Sarah to illustrate how Christian teachings could be abused to condone marital tyranny: "she had resolved to receive the good...

The poetics of Anne Finch. (18th-century woman poet)
June 22, 1998... Many poets have used the convention of announcing the limits of their ambitions to gain an audience, but Anne Finch's exploration of her poetic limits went so far as to question the assumption of Restoration and early-eighteenth-century poetics...

Three stories of celebrity: 'The Beggar's Opera' "biographies.' (1728 play)
June 22, 1998... Surely there is some secret magic in the Beggars Opera, for ever since they first acted it, which is thirty years ago, scarce a winter has passed away, without its contributing to make some actor famous, who before was nobody. While other...

The space of romance in Lennox's 'Female Quixote.' (1752 novel by Charlotte Lennox)
June 22, 1998... Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote (1752) seems to join a pervasive eighteenth-century effort to dispel as "unreal" and dangerous the romance tradition that English readers had valued for two hundred years. Lennox's heroine, deluded by reading...

Sterne, Descartes, and the music in 'Tristram Shandy.' (Laurence Sterne's 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy' a satire of Rene Descartes' 'Compendium Musicae')
June 22, 1998... Relatively few critics have addressed the role of music in Tristram Shandy, a surprising omission from the corpus of Laurence Sterne criticism given the novel's extensive references to the subject.(1) Like all of Tristram's commentaries, his...

Montagu's 'Turkish Embassy Letters' and cultural dislocation. (1717 missives written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
June 22, 1998... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, written from Turkey in 1717, revised throughout her life, and posthumously published in 1763, offer a rich site for studying the way cultural dislocation enables the emergence of female subjectivities...

Recent studies in the Restoration and eighteenth century.
June 22, 1998... For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between some Grand Seigneurs before going about in order to race with some Younger Turks. New...

Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe.
June 22, 1998... For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between some Grand Seigneurs before going about in order to race with some Younger Turks. New...

Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter.
June 22, 1998... For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between some Grand Seigneurs before going about in order to race with some Younger Turks. New...

Poetry of Opposition and Revolution: Dryden to Wordsworth.
June 22, 1998... For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between some Grand Seigneurs before going about in order to race with some Younger Turks. New...

A Manner of Correspondence: A Study of the Scriblerus Club.
June 22, 1998... For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between some Grand Seigneurs before going about in order to race with some Younger Turks. New...

Professional Imaginative Writing in England, 1670-1740: "Hackney for Bread."
June 22, 1998... For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between some Grand Seigneurs before going about in order to race with some Younger Turks. New...

The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory.
June 22, 1998... Ashfield, Andrew, and Peter de Bolla, eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996. Pp. 314. $59.95 cloth. ISBN 0-521-39545-3. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-521-39582-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that...

Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England.
June 22, 1998... Ayres, Philip. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 245. $54.95. ISBN 0521-58490-6. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

Popular Fiction by Women, 1660-1730: An Anthology.
June 22, 1998... Backscheider, Paula R., and John J. Richetti, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xxvi + 336. $90.00 cloth. ISBN 0-19-871136-0. $18.95 paper. ISBN 0-19-871137-9. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we...

English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714: Politics, Community, and Linguistic Authority.
June 22, 1998... Barash, Carol, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 345. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-811973-9. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between...

The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker.
June 22, 1998... Barker, Jane. Ed. Carol Shiner Wilson. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xlv + 332. $45.00 cloth. ISBN 0-19-508650-3. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-19508651-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we...

Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century British Writing on India.
June 22, 1998... Bhattacharya, Nandini. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1998. Pp. 232. $39.50. ISBN 0-87413612-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century.
June 22, 1998... Black, Jeremy. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997. Pp. xix + 355. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-7509-1414-9. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution.
June 22, 1998... Blakemore, Steven. Madison and Teaneck NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1997. Pp. 273. $39.50. ISBN 0-8386-3714-0. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

Intertextual War: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintosh.
June 22, 1998... Blakemore, Steven. Madison and Teaneck NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1997. Pp. 256. $39.50. ISBN 0-8386-3751-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography.
June 22, 1998... Borck, Jim Springer, gen. ed. New York: AMS Press, 1996. Pp. 489. $112.50. ISBN 0-404-62220-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

The Excursion: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women.
June 22, 1998... Brooke, Frances. Ed. Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1997. Pp. xlix + 181. $40.00 cloth. ISBN 0-8131-1979-0. $15.95 paper. ISBN 0-8131-0881-0. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we...

Institutions of the English Novel: From Defoe to Scott.
June 22, 1998... Brown, Homer Obed. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 228. $29.95. ISBN 08122-3383-2. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

William Blake and the Daughters of Albion.
June 22, 1998... Bruder, Helen P. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 291. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-17481-0. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers.
June 22, 1998... Burroughs, Catherine B. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 238. $39.95. ISBN 0-8122-3393-X. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin...

Sociable Letters.
June 22, 1998... Cavendish, Margaret. Ed. James Fitzmaurice. New York and London: Garland Press, 1997. Pp. xxviii + 229. $45.00. ISBN 0-81532451-0. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson.
June 22, 1998... Clingham, Greg, ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xx + 266. $59.95 cloth. ISBN 0-521-55411-X. $18.95 paper. ISBN 0-521-55625-2. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, vol 3.
June 22, 1998... Cope, Kevin L., ed. New York: AMS Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 445. $74.50. ISBN 0-40464403-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture.
June 22, 1998... Crafton, Lisa Plummer, ed. Contributions to the Study of World Literature 87. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 156. $55.00. ISBN 0-31330496-3. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we...

Frances Burney, Dramatist: Gender, Performance, and the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage.
June 22, 1998... Darby, Barbara. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1997. Pp. 237. $39.95. ISBN 0-8131-2022-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel.
June 22, 1998... Davis, Lennard J. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 245. $16.50 paper. ISBN 0-81221610-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin...

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading.
June 22, 1998... DeMaria, Robert Jr. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 270. $39.95. ISBN 0-80185479-2. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

British Satire and the Politics of Style: 1789-1832.
June 22, 1998... Dyer, Gary. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 23. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 263. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-56357-7. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology...

The Language of the Heart: 1600-1750.
June 22, 1998... Erickson, Robert A. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 273. $36.95. ISBN 0-8122-3394-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

Miscellanies, vol. 3.
June 22, 1998... Fielding, Henry. Volume 3. Ed. Bertrand A. Goldgar and Hugh Amory. Hanover NH: Univ. Press of New England/Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xliv + 370. $85.00. ISBN 0-8195-5298-4. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report...

Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England.
June 22, 1998... Fitzmaurice, James, Josephine A. Roberts, et al., eds. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. 392. $52.50 cloth. ISBN 0-472-09609-5. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-47206609-9. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that...

History of Pedlars in Europe.
June 22, 1998... Fontaine, Laurence. Trans. Vicki Whittaker. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1996. Pp. 280. $49.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8223-17869. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-1794-X. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor.
June 22, 1998... Frank, Judith, Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 230. $39.50. ISBN 0-80472908-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between...

Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship.
June 22, 1998... Gleckner, Robert F. Baltimore and London:Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 231. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-5433-4. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

The High Road: Romantic Tourism, Scotland, and Literature, 1720-1820.
June 22, 1998... Glendening, John. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1997. Pp. 282. $39.95. ISBN 0-31216174-3. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

Reading Daughters' Fictions, 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth.
June 22, 1998... Gonda, Caroline. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 19. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996. Pp. xx + 287. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-55395-4. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

The Delicate Distress.
June 22, 1998... Griffith, Elizabeth. Ed. Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1997. Pp. xxxiii + 267. $45.00 cloth. ISBN 0-8131-2014-4. $16.95 paper. ISBN 0-8131-0925-6. For readers eager to get their bearings in...

Dryden and the Problem of Freedom: The Republican Aftermath, 1649-1680.
June 22, 1998... Haley, David B. New Haven CT and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. x + 285. $30.00. ISBN 0-300-06607-4. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking...

The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680-1750.
June 22, 1998... Herrick, James A. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 245. $29.95. ISBN 1-57003-166-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking...

The Analysis of Beauty.
June 22, 1998... Hogarth, William. Ed. Ronald Paulson. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. lxii + 162. $30.00 cloth. ISBN 0-30007335-6. $15.00 paper. ISBN 0-300-07346-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we...

British Women Writers, 1700-1850: An Annotated Bibliography of Their Works and Works About Them.
June 22, 1998... Horwitz, Barbara J. Magill Bibliographies. Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press; Pasadena CA and Englewood Cliffs NJ: Salem Press, 1997. Pp. 230. $37.00. ISBN 0-8108-3315-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report...

A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy: 1701-1800.
June 22, 1998... Ingamells, John. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. lii + 1070. $75.00. ISBN 0-300-07165-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

Voices of Madness: Four Pamphlets, 1683-1796.
June 22, 1998... Ingram, Allan, ed. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 225. $33.95. ISBN 0-7509-1210-3. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

Johnson and "The Letters of Junius": New Perspectives on an Old Enigma.
June 22, 1998... Katritzky, Linde. The Art of Interpretation 5. New York: Peter Lung, 1996. Pp. 167. $40.95. ISBN 0-8204-3106-0. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

Gulliver's Travels: The Politics of Satire.
June 22, 1998... Knowles, Ronald. Twayne's Masterwork Studies 158. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. Pp. xiii + 169. $23.95. ISBN 0-8057-4617-X. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century.
June 22, 1998... Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth. New York: Columbia Univ Press 1997 P 185 $45.00 cloth. ISBN 0-231-10578-9. $18.00 paper. ISBN 0-231-10579-9. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology...

The English Novel, 1660-1700: An Annotated Bibliography.
June 22, 1998... Letellier, Robert Ignatius. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature 53. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xxxiv + 448. $85.00. ISBN 0-313-30368-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that...

Cultural Institutions of the Novel.
June 22, 1998... Lynch, Deidre, and William B. Warner, eds. Durham NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1996. Pp. 496. $59.95 cloth. ISBN 0-82231854-7. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-1843-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

On Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution: 1790.
June 22, 1998... Macaulay, Catharine. Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834. Intro. Jonathan Wordsworth. Poole UK and Washington DC: Woodstock Books, 1997. Pp. 102. $55.00. ISBN 1-85477-204-X. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report...

Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in "The Tatler" and "The Spectator."
June 22, 1998... Mackie, Erin. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 303. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-5588-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by...

Ossian's Fingal.
June 22, 1998... Macpherson, James. Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834. Intro. Jonathan Wordsworth. Poole UK and New York: Woodstock Books, 1996. Pp. 224. $65.00. ISBN 1-85477-208-2. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we...

The Restoration Mind.
June 22, 1998... Marshall, W. Gerald, ed. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1997. Pp. 275. $44.50. ISBN 0-87413-571-0. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

Origins of the Individual Self: Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791.
June 22, 1998... Mascuch, Michael. Stanford CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 277. $45.00. ISBN 0-8047-2901-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe.
June 22, 1998... Mayer, Robert. Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought 33. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 246. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-56377-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can...

The British Novel, 1680-1832: An Annotated Bibliography.
June 22, 1998... Mazzeno, Laurence W. Magill Bibliographies. Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press; Pasadena CA and Englewood Cliffs NJ: Salem Press, 1997. Pp. 247. $40.00. ISBN 0-8108-3249-6. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report...

Thomas Gray: The Progress of a Poet.
June 22, 1998... McCarthy, B. Eugene. Madison and Teaneck NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1997. Pp. 279. $42.50. ISBN 0-8386-3715-9. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Writing.
June 22, 1998... McCormick, Inn, ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. x + 262. $65.00 cloth. ISBN 0-415-13593-8. $18.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-13954-6. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology...

The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire: 1660-1750.
June 22, 1998... McFarlane, Cameron. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 216. $45.00 cloth. ISBN 0-231-10894-X. $16.50 paper. ISBN 0-231-10895-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

Edward Gibbon and Empire.
June 22, 1998... McKitterick, Rosamond, and Roland Quinault, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 351. $64.95. ISBN 0521-49724-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France.
June 22, 1998... Merians, Linda E., ed. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. 269. $39.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8131-1989-8. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-8131-0888-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology...

Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel.
June 22, 1998... Moore, Lisa L. Durham and London: Duke Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 191. $49.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8223-2036-3. $16.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-2049-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite.
June 22, 1998... Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 403. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-295-97577-6. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin...

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 4.
June 22, 1998... Nisbet, H. B., and Claude Rawson, eds. The Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 951. $125.00. ISBN 0-521-30009-6. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

Restoration Theater and Crisis.
June 22, 1998... Owen, Susan J. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 343. $76.00. ISBN 0-19-818387-9. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly between...

Illusory Consensus: Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole, 1730-1737.
June 22, 1998... Pettit, Alexander. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1997. Pp. 254. $39.50. ISBN 0-87413-592-3. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
June 22, 1998... Piper, William Bowman. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1997. Pp. 200. $34.50. ISBN 0-87413-645-8. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama.
June 22, 1998... Quinsey, Katherine M., ed. Lexington? Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. 244. $39.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8131-1945-6. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-8131-0871-3. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with...

Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd.
June 22, 1998... Reinert, Thomas. Durham and London: Duke Univ. Press, 1996. Pp. 195. $45.95 cloth. ISBN 0-82231707-9. $15.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-1717-6. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

Discourses on Art.
June 22, 1998... Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Ed. Robert R. Wark. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xxxiii + 349. $40.00 cloth. ISBN 0-30007345-3. $17.00 paper. ISBN 0-300-07327-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that...

Fielding's Library: An Annotated Catalogue.
June 22, 1998... Ribble, Frederick G., and Anne G. Ribble, eds. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia, 1996. Pp. lxxxv + 435. $30.00. ISBN 1-883631-04-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have...

Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Terms: Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s.
June 22, 1998... Rieder, John. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1997. Pp. 273. $41.50. ISBN 0-87413-610-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible,...

Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin.
June 22, 1998... Rivero, Albert J., ed. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1997. Pp. 311. $45.00. ISBN 0-87413616-4. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking...

Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism: 1660-1790.
June 22, 1998... Runge, Laura L. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 233. $59.95. ISBN 0-52157009-3. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking roughly...

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts, and Crafts, 5 vols.
June 22, 1998... Russell, Terence M., ed. "John Harris Lexicon Technicum: Incorporating Works of Sir Francis Bacon and Sir Henry Wotton." Aldershot UK and Brookfield VT: Ashgate, 1997. Pp. xix + 234. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-062-5. For readers eager to get their...

The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824.
June 22, 1998... Ryan, Robert M. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 24. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. 292. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-57008-5. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever...

The Conversation Circle: Re-Reading the English Novel, 1740-1775.
June 22, 1998... Schellenberg, Betty A. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. 165. $34.95. ISBN 08131-1990-1. For readers eager to get their bearings in advance, we can report that we have run with chronology whenever possible, but begin by tacking...