Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2007

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2007

Clashing masculinities in Aphra Behn's The Dutch Lover.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Aphra Behn's incentive for creating Haunce van Ezel, the "lover" of the title of her 1673 comedy, The Dutch Lover, grew out of the ongoing Third Anglo-Dutch War. Along with John Dryden's rabidly anti-Dutch Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch...

Truth, wonder, and exemplarity in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... [T]he historian, wanting the precept, is so tied, not to what should be but to what is, to the particular truth of things and not to the general reason of things, that his example draweth no necessary consequence, and therefore a...

Jane Barker and the politics of Catholic celibacy.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... "Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self!" --John Keats (1) INTRODUCTION Through the simile of a dreary bell tolling time, the speaker in John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" is jarred...

The Sexual Politics of microscopy in Brobdingnag.(place in "Gulliver's Travels")(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Marjorie Nicolson's well-known analysis of the microscopical subtext of the first two sections of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels has remained the standard reading on the subject since the publication of her 1935 essay "The Microscope and...

Hume, romance, and the unruly imagination.(David Hume)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Jerome Christensen has observed that "[f]or Hume and his fellow men of letters the general term that subsumed 'discourse' and 'conversation' was 'correspondence,'" and that "correspondence" was so multivalent in the eighteenth century that it...

Odes of absorption in the Restoration and early eighteenth century.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... The story of the eighteenth-century ode maintains that Restoration histrionics give way to midcentury meditations. In the hands of William Collins and Thomas Gray, the story says, odes undergo a change of phase. Midcentury odes cease the...

Tristram cyborg and Toby toolmaker: body, tools, and hobbyhorse in Tristram Shandy.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Despite the omnipresence of the human body in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the body and mind in Laurence Sterne's strange novel function in a state of discontinuity, dissonance, and miscommunication. In no character is...

Radicalism, caution, and censorship in Elizabeth Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Throughout her lifetime and indeed till the present day, Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), actress, playwright, novelist, and drama critic, has been prominently identified as a radical. In present-day criticism she has been famously inscribed as...

Recent studies in the Restoration and eighteenth century.
June 22, 2007... Like previous SEL reviewers, I have found myself answerable for a staggering variety of monographs, editions, annuals, casebooks, sourcebooks, and anthologies. This made for a strange way of life. Eighteenth-century peoples' styles of prayer...