Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2003

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2003

The restoration English history plays of Roger Boyle, earl of Orrery.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... The two English history plays written by Roger Boyle, earl of Orrery, during the first decade of the Restoration, The History of Henry the Fifth and The Black Prince, were instrumental in reviving the genre in the late seventeenth century....

Recycling political poetry: Tom D'Urfey's The Progress of Honesty 1680/1739.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... D'Urfey's The Progress of Honesty in 1680 praises Charles II and his brother James under the names of Titus the Second and Resolution and condemns Monmouth, the king's illegitimate son, calling him Marcian. The poem was reissued in 1739 with...

Gender and genre in Susanna Centlivre's The Gamester and The Basset Table.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Examining the texts of two plays by Susanna Centlivre (ca. 1667-1723), The Gamester and The Basset Table, the essay identifies the problematics of the twentieth-century use of the term "sentimental comedy," interrogating its application to...

The outsider narrator in Eliza Haywood's political novels.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Although Eliza Haywood's works have generally not been considered political, examination of three of her novels from the 1720s reveals a significant political component. The narrators of these novels identify themselves as political actors by...

Eliza Haywood's defense of London's body politic.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Critics have often commented on Eliza Haywood's tendency "toward soft-core pornography," particularly in her early fictions. This same tendency also situates her fictions within an eighty-year-old polemical tradition about the dangers of...

Thomson's poetry of reverie and Milton.(James Thomson)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Milton's God makes the world by dividing chaos and by pouring himself into it. It is Milton's second process of creation that Thomson seizes on and develops in The Seasons, both for the subject of his reverie of Nature and for his stylistic...

Frances Sheridan's Faulkland, the silenced, emasculated, ideal male.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... This paper argues for the feminine status of Orlando Faulkland in Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. In his constant display of excessive emotion; in his passivity and helplessness; in his silence and his being silenced; in his...

Aristocratic monstrosity and sublime femininity in De Monfort.(play by Joanna Baillie)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... This article presents Romantic-era playwright Joanna Baillie as a significant theorist of the emotions. The argument proceeds by comparing her assumptions about the passions as provided in her theoretical writings to those of Edmund Burke,...

Recent studies in the Restoration and eighteenth century.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the Restoration and Eighteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received by SEL for consideration follow. ...

Books received.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2003... Age of Johnson 13 (2002). Ed. Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. New York: AMS Press, 2002. Pp. xx + 635. $144.50. ISSN 0884-5816. ISBN 0-404-62762-5. Anderson, Misty G. Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage...