Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2000

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2000

Lady State's First Two Sittings: Marvell's Satiric Canon.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Twenty years ago, I strongly supported the case made by George de Forest Lord for Andrew Marvell's authorship of the two Restoration satires, the Second and Third Advices to a Painter, to which Marvell's Last Instructions to a Painter was...

Warrior Women in the Plays of Cavendish and Killigrew.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... The figure of the Amazon or warrior woman repeatedly emerges from classical and Renaissance cultural documents as an integral part of the story of national identity and state formation. Travel narratives, epics, stage plays, masques--these...

Nahum Tate's Revision of Shakespeare's King Lears.
June 22, 2000... In his 1975 edition of The History of King Lear (1681), James Black could still claim that Nahum Tate's notorious adaptation was "one of the most famous unread plays in English." [1] Since then, mainly as a result of an unprecedented interest...

The "Plyant" Discourse of Wycherley's The Country Wife.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... In a spirited defense of the excellences of Restoration culture, John Dryden praises King Charles II for having awakened "the dull and heavy spirits of the English, from their natural reserv'dness; loosen'd them, from their stiff forms of...

Reading the Surfaces of Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... I do here think fit to inform the Reader, that in such Conclusions as these, Reason is certainly in the Right; and that in most Corporeal Beings, which have fallen under my Cognizance, the Outside hath been infinitely preferable to the In:...

Complaisance and Complacence, and the Perils of Pleasing in Clarissa.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... This French ambiguous word Complaisance hath led your Sex into more blame, than all other things put together. (George Savile, marquis of Halifax, Advice to a Daughter) I How does a woman persuade a man that she prefers him above...

The Lawless Language of Macpherson's Ossian.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... James Macpherson's Ossianic forgeries, first published 1760--63, were an immediate sensation, not unlike Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or perhaps director James Cameron's recent film Titanic: they were adored, they were hated, but, in general,...

Clock Time and Utopia's Time in Novels of the 1790s.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... In his Sober Reflections on the Seditious and Inflammatory Letter of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, To a Noble Lord (1796), the radical John Thelwall argues that the integrity of the principles of "equal rights, and equal laws" must be respected...

Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
June 22, 2000... This year's work in eighteenth-century studies can be loosely arranged along an axis between "ancients" and "moderns," between those who would return to the intrinsic nature of earlier texts and contexts, and those who would use modern...