Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2002

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2002

Samson Agonistes and the politics of Restoration sport.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... The raising of Maypoles throughout England in the spring of 1660 signified more than the return of monarchy; the Maypoles also symbolized the rejection of Interregnum ordinances that had rendered unlawful the traditional pastimes of the people....

A Puritan subject's panegyrics to Queen Anne.(Mary, Lady Chudleigh)
June 22, 2002... When Mary, Lady Chudleigh, a little-known Devonshire writer of Puritan background, published a collection of poems in 1703, she was among a number of women writers who found themselves empowered to publish under the symbolic authority of the...

Sex, politics, and she-tragedy: reconfiguring Lady Jane Grey.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... The Hanoverian succession was a contentious moment in English political and cultural life, dividing public opinion along political and religious lines. One of the more unusual outgrowths of this change in monarchy was the brief but intense...

Nobility, visibility, and publicity in Colley Cibber's Apology.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Just what kind of book is An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber? While this question has not perhaps been burning in the minds of most readers for some time, those who do pick up the Apology are often just as frustrated by its heterogeneity...

Sarah Fielding and the Salic law of wit.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... What daring female is't who thus complains, In masculine Pindaric strains, Of great Apollo's Salic law? (1) The structure of satire would seem to make it an appropriate, though admittedly complex, form for women who have ready access to the...

Subversive didacticism in Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... You are therefore to make your best of what is settled by law and custome, and not vainly imagine, that it will be changed for your sake. Mark the seeming Paradox, My Dear, for your own instruction. (1) "The Story" of Eliza Haywood, her...

Samuel Johnson, urban culture, and the geography of postfire London.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... On 11 September 1666, with the remains of London still smoldering from the conflagration a week before, Christopher Wren presented to Charles II his plan for reconstructing the city as a grand capital to rival any on the Continent. During the...

Samuel Johnson's "love of truth" and literary fraud.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... I In James Boswell's Life of Johnson, for May 1776, the following exchange appears, important for the light it sheds on Johnson's attitude toward literary deception: "We spoke of Chatterton. BosWELL. 'Has not, Sir, his poetry a claim on...

Recent studies in the Restoration and eighteenth century.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... The separation between the public and private spheres in the long eighteenth century is dead. This is a truth universally acknowledged in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies this year. It colors examinations of genre, gender, history,...

Books received.
June 22, 2002... Age of Johnson 12 (2001). Ed. Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. New York: AMS Press, 2001. Pp. xxx + 584. $112.50. ISBN 0-404-62762-5. Alryyes, Ala. Original Subjects: The Child, the Novel, and the Nation. Harvard Studies in Comparative...