Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from June 2008

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from June 2008

Ignoramus, The Woman Turned Bully, and Restoration satire on the common lawyer.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The mid-1670s stand as a period of apogee in Restoration drama. The two patent companies enjoyed the advantages of new playhouses, a steady flow of scripts from both established and new playwrights, and substantial success in...

Restoration poetry and the failure of English Tangier.(Tangier, Morocco)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Like many colonial endeavors, the acquisition of the English colony in Tangier (1661-84) initially sparked grandiose, imperial visions. In what still stands as the preeminent history of the colony, E. M. G. Routh comments that, upon obtaining...

Commodity and religion in Pope's The Rape of the Lock: Alex Eric Hernandez.(Alexander Pope)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Critics reading Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock typically identify the bathetic placement of items on Belinda's toilette as an example of the proliferation of consumables in the poem. The heroine's "Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles,...

Imagining military conflict during the Seven Years' War.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... I The second year of the Seven Years' War, 1757, was a frustrating one for bellicose British patriots such as John Brown, author of the best-selling pamphlet An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. The losses of Minorca and...

Adam Ferguson's aesthetic idea of community spirit.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Critical commentary on the work of Adam Ferguson generally places him in the civic tradition of political philosophy. To this tradition, whose major British phase unfolded in the hundred years or so preceding him, Ferguson owes many of his...

Chatterton, Ossian, Africa.(Thomas Chatterton)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Two quotations from the late works of Thomas Chatterton: On Tiber's banks, where scarlet jasmines bloom, And purple aloes shed a rich perfume: Where, when the sun is melting in his heat. The reeking tygers find a cool retreat;...

William Cowper's gypsies.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... In going about his Task and having wandered from the sofa to enjoy "Nature's works far lovelier," William Cowper narrates an encounter with a group of gypsies. (1) It is a passage often passed over by criticism, but close attention to Cowper's...

The sentimental satire of Sophia Baddeley.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... The actress and courtesan Sophia Baddeley and her biographer and companion Elizabeth Steele challenged conventional narratives of female identity at the end of the eighteenth century. In their brief years of cohabitation, recounted in The...

Recent studies in The Restoration and Eighteenth Century.(Recommended readings)
June 22, 2008... Several years back Steven Zwicker began his survey of recent studies by asking if there were any such age as "The Restoration and Eighteenth Century." (1) The question strikes me as still more relevant now, after I've perused a year's work in...

Books received.
June 22, 2008... 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 14 (2007). Ed. Kevin L. Cope. New York: AMS Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 432. $163.50. ISBN 0-404-64414-7. Ahern, Stephen. Affected Sensibilities: Romantic Excess and the...

Abstracts.
June 22, 2008... Adam R. Beach, Restoration Poetry and the Failure of English Tangier My essay investigates three poems that respond to the Moroccan siege of English Tangier in 1680 and its aftermath: an anonymous satire, "Rochester's Farewell"; a...