Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2005

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2005

To our readers.(Obituary)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 22, 2005... On 2 March, after a brief illness, University of Pennsylvania Professor Paul Korshin died. Paul was a generous supporter of SEL. Not only did he bring his unparalleled knowledge of the Age of Johnson to bear on numerous essays, but also he...

The hunted stag and the beheaded king.
June 22, 2005... Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart, Here didst thou fall, and here thy hunters stand, Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe. O world! thou wast the forest to this hart, And this indeed, O world, the...

Modern warfare in early-eighteenth-century poetry.
June 22, 2005... The five years between 1704 and 1709 were for the allies the high point of the War of the Spanish Succession, as under the leadership of the Duke of Marlborough they won pitched battles at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), Oudenarde (1708),...

Pope, John Rackett, and the slave trade.
June 22, 2005... Several members of Alexander Pope's family made their living in trade. His father was a merchant who ran a profitable business exporting linens, at times to the American colonies. This enterprise was a long-standing partnership with his elder...

Staying out late: Anne Finch's poetics of evening.(A Nocturnal Reverie)
June 22, 2005... I When William Wordsworth assessed the state of descriptive poetry between Paradise Lost and The Seasons, he saw very little to admire besides Alexander Pope's "Windsor Forest" and a poem by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, called "A...

Wit and The Spectator's ethics of desire.
June 22, 2005... One of the most valuable critical insights to emerge during the 1980s was the notion--derived in large part from Michel Foucault--that the eighteenth century witnessed the widespread internalizing of all sorts of regulatory precepts. John...

The Scriblerian sublime.
June 22, 2005... THE Sublime and the Pathetic are the two chief nerves of all genuine poesy. What is there transcendently Sublime or Pathetic in POPE? For WIT and SATIRE are transitory and perishable, but NATURE and PASSION are eternal. --Joseph...

Virtuous voyages in Penelope Aubin's fiction.(The Noble Slaves)
June 22, 2005... Maria, a character in Penelope Aubin's extremely popular work The Noble Slaves, finds herself in a fairly typical situation insofar as heroines in eighteenth-century fiction are concerned. She is on the verge of being ravished. Maria's would-be...

Authorship, print, and public in Chesterfield's Letters to His Son.(Philip Dormer Stanhope's, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, works)
June 22, 2005... The appearance of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son in 1774 was a publishing event. The book went through eight editions in the first year from publishers in London and Dublin, and by 1800 had been published in Edinburgh, Boston, Paris,...

Recent studies in the Restoration and eighteenth century.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2005... I began reading for this review aiming to seize the SEL opportunity, in customary fashion, to reflect on current trends in the field. I soon found it was easy enough to identify a recurrent theme. More difficult was the problem of sorting out...