Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2001

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2001

Reading and Righting Moll Flanders.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Kinship laws, which govern the system of combinations in mating, correspond to linguistic laws governing the combinations of words in a sentence or letters in a word... [I]ncest is bad grammar. Maud Ellmann The connection between the...

A Sermon by the "Queen of Whores".(Daniel Defoe's 'Roxana')(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Daniel Defoe's Roxana seems to resist interpretation, though it has been scrutinized for its likeness to a trade manual, a spiritual autobiography, and a "'woman's novel.'" [1] Leopold Damrosch, for instance, remarks with some exasperation on...

Eliza Haywood's Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Prince Frederick, heir apparent to the English crown, landed in England on 7 December 1728 from Hanover. Three months later, on Tuesday, 4 March 1729, Eliza Haywood's hastily written tragedy, Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh dedicated to...

Reading the Material Text of Swift's Verses on the Death.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Most modern readers of Jonathan Swift's greatest poem encounter a text that eighteenth-century readers would never have known. When we read a modem edition of Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, we generally find a single version, entirely...

Georgic Transformations and Stephen Duck's "The Thresher's Labour".(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Who casts to write a living line, must sweat Ben Jonson No early-eighteenth-century poet sweated more, both in and about his poetry, than Stephen Duck. [1] A glance at "The Thresher's Labour" reveals five descriptions of sweating in...

Charlotte Smith's Melancholia on the Page and Stage.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Whether to praise or condemn Charlotte Smith's art, the late-eighteenth-century readers of her collection Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems similarly describe her work as poetry of "touching melancholy," "pleasing melancholy," or even as "a mere...

James Cobb, Colonial Cacophony, and the Enlightenment.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Could it be that with the increasing strength of the Abolition movement and the eventual outlawing of the slave-trade, slavery became capable of functioning as its opposite, a metaphor for freedom? In an age of rapid global changes...

Change and Fixity in Sense and Sensibility.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... In his introduction to Sense and Sensibility, Tony Tanner notes Marianne Dashwood's relish for the language of the early Romantic poets, "a language of solitude rather than society," and remarks that Jane Austen, too, had a special affinity...

Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
June 22, 2001... There are two novels that many of this year's studies refer to either directly or obliquely. They are Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Sophia Lee's best seller, The Recess. Both of these Gothic novels question closely and acutely from the...