Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisStorytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Table of ContentsEmily E. Thompson, Introduction Part I: Putting the Real into Words Chapter 1. Amy Graves Monroe, “The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers” Chapter 2. Kathleen Loysen, “‘Ceste histoire veritable’: Women’s Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douleureuses” Chapter 3. Marian Rothstein, “The Queen’s Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample Déclaration” Chapter 4. David LaGuardia, “Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants” Part II: Playing with Expectations Chapter 5. Colette H. Winn, “Urania in Physician’s Robes or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530)” Chapter 6. JoAnn DellaNeva, “Storytelling at the Crossroads of Diplomacy, History, and Poetry: ‘The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England,’ by Lancelot de Carle” Chapter 7. Emily E. Thompson, “In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership” Chapter 8. Dora E. Polachek, “Recasting the Heptaméron Novellas in Brantôme’s Vie des dames galantes” Part III: Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms Chapter 9. Cathy Yandell, “Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion” Chapter 10. Sheila ffolliott, “Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen” Chapter 11. Phillip John Usher, “The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France” Works Cited About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective significance of their reproductive bodies to leverage audience support and interest to advance their careers, and eighteenth-century London patent theatres even capitalized on their pregnancies. Carrying All Before Her uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women (Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen, Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, George Anne Bellamy, Sarah Siddons, and Dorothy Jordan) to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception and interpretation of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development and performance of new plays, and had substantial economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked. Deepening the fields of celebrity, theatre, and women's studies, as well as social and medical histories, Phillips reveals an untapped history whose relevance and impact persists today.Trade Review"Phillips's most significant contribution is her move to focus on the gravid body and its realities as well as significance(s), something both earlier histories of actresses and cultural histories of maternity have shied away from. The book's dialogues and echoes across and between different case studies – and with our own time – are significant for eighteenth-century, celebrity, and theatre studies." -- Elaine McGirr * editor of Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660-1830 *Table of ContentsFiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Inheriting Greatness: Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen and Anne Oldfield2 Pregnant Sensibility: Susannah Cibber and George Anne Bellamy3 Conceiving Genius: Sarah Siddons4 Prolific Muse: Dorothy JordanConclusion: Celebrity Pregnancy, Then and NowAppendix: Birth and Christening DatesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture, theater history, literary analyses and to historical investigations, the essays not only present a fuller picture of cultural life in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but also reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives. The collection concludes with the final scholarly presentation of the late Professor Jenkins, a study of the eighteenth-century English newspaper The World (1753-1756). Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDaniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson1 Inchbald for Our TimeMisty G. Anderson2 The Structure of Fable in Inchbald’s Nature and ArtMartha F. Bowden3 Narratives of Emerging Markets and Mercantilist Mappings in Defoe’s LondonMita Choudhury4 Thomas Jefferson’s Sojourn in N.mes: Revolutionary Politics and ArchitectureRobert M. Craig5 “Uncle to All the World”: The Virtual Afterlives of Captain Tobias Shandy, 1831–1948W. B. Gerard6 “My Business Ashore”: Libertine Conduct and Maritime Context in The RoverRanda Graves7 Speaking through the Prophets: Anne Finch, Politics, and ReligionClaudia Thomas Kairoff8 “That Unnatural Mixture”: Nostalgia and Anxiety in Late Restoration TragicomedyCynthia J. Lowenthal9 Speculum Mundi: Caricature and the StageHeather McPherson10 “Hazardous Purchasing Almost Anything”: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth-Century Book TradeHugh Reid11 After the Great War: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century on the London Stage, 1919–1929John A. Vance12 One of Thomas Bray’s Apostles of Literacy: Thomas BaconCalhoun Winton13 The World of The WorldAnnibel JenkinsAfterword: Dr. Jenkins and Mrs. InchbaldPaula R. BackscheiderHer Worded World: A Tribute to Annibel JenkinsDon RussNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also see evidence that she used her literary texts, especially the Heptaméron, as an exploratory space in which to generate a creative vision for institutional reform. The Heptaméron’s approach to reform emerges from statistical analysis of the text’s seventy-two tales, which reveals new insights into trends within the work, including the different categories of wrongdoing by male, institutional representatives from the Church and aristocracy, as well as the varying responses to injustice that characters in the tales employ as they pursue reform. Throughout its chapters, The Visionary Queen foregrounds the trope of the labyrinth, a potent symbol in early modern Europe that encapsulated both the fallen world and redemption, two themes that underlie Marguerite's project of reform.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Marguerite de Navarre: The Visionary Queen Part I: Labyrinthine Motifs in Marguerite’s Era, Endeavors, and Spiritual Outlook 1. The Labyrinth as Structure and Symbol: From Experience to Writing in the Medieval and Early Modern Contexts 2. From the Labyrinth, a Vision: Competing Influences on Marguerite’s Religious, Political, and Creative Endeavors 3. “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”: Exegesis, Pilgrimage, and Labyrinthine Connections in the Reformation Part II: The Heptaméron as Textual Labyrinth 4. Into the Labyrinth: Mirroring Sin, Prompting Reform 5. Down Tortuous Paths: Exploring Approaches to Justice and Reform 6. Above the Labyrinth: A Higher Vision for Reforming the Self and Society Conclusion. The Empirical Reader at Labyrinth’s End: Responding to Marguerite’s Vision Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal and political experiences in both England and Scotland in a series of manuscript meditations and an autobiographical narrative called A True Account of My Life. Royalism, romance, and contemporary religious debates are central to Halkett’s vivid portrayal of her life as a single woman, wife, mother, and widow. Collectively, the materials edited here offer the opportunity to explore how Halkett’s meditational practice informed her life writing in the only version of her writings to date available in a fully modernized edition. The forty-four meditations in this volume redefine the importance of Halkett’s contribution to seventeenth-century life writing. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations INTRODUCTION A TRUE ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE (1677–1678) SELECTED MEDITATIONS APPENDIX 1: Anne, Lady Halkett, “Letter to the Earl of Lauderdale” (ca. 1672) APPENDIX 2: Anne, Lady Halkett, “Letter to Her Stepson, Sir Charles Halkett” (n.d.) APPENDIX 3: Anne, Lady Halkett, “An Information of What Was Left Me by My Mother” (n.d.) APPENDIX 4: Items from Simon Couper, The Life of the Lady Halket (1701) 1. “Experiences in Fyvie.” 2. “Books by the Lady Halket.” 3. Biblical References in the “Books by the Lady Halket.” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England. E. Polwhele (c. 1651-c. 1691) was one of the first women to write for the stage in Restoration London. This book presents the first printed edition of Polwhele’s first play, The Faithful Virgins, which until now has existed only in an unsigned manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. A tragicomedy apparently performed in London by the Duke's Company ca. 1669–1671, The Faithful Virgins is altogether different in tone from Polwhele's later, better-known prose comedy, The Frolicks; or, The Lawyer Cheated (1671). The introduction to this modern-spelling edition of The Faithful Virgins discusses the play in terms of radical changes in English stage practices following the restoration of the monarchy after England’s civil war and situates Polwhele’s play within the social and political life of seventeenth-century London. Trade Review"This fine volume makes available a play long overlooked in Restoration drama studies: Polwhele’s The Faithful Virgins (ca. 1669–1671). Ann Hollinshead Hurley’s informative introduction and carefully edited text disclose Polwhele’s imaginative response to rapidly changing theatrical tastes in the1660s. The stage directions show Polwhele skillfully using the spectacular effects of which Restoration stagecraft was capable, while the text reveals a fascinating mélange of dramatic forms. The Faithful Virgins marries in a singular manner tragicomedy to masque and includes a dumb show, proving once again, that the phrase “Restoration drama” is by no means synonymous with comedy of manners. The editor’s introduction also provides for scholars and students alike useful information on the Restoration stage, in addition to making available the most thorough biographical material on Polwhele to date." -- Deborah C. Payne, Professor of Literature, American UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations INTRODUCTION THE FAITHFUL VIRGINS APPENDIX: Title page: The Gentlewomans Companion; or, a GUIDE to the FEMALE SEX On His ROYAL HIGHNESS: His Expedition against the DUTCH Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Shakespeare and Jung - The God in Time literary critic and philosopher James Driscoll presents original arguments for the existence and nature of God. He traverses the boundaries of art, philosophy, psychology, and religion to draw on Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and A. N. Whitehead to define and illuminate the interconnections of God and time.Time’s irreversibility and continuous creation of novelty makes it the medium and engine of order, value, and meaning. Time connects and differentiates all, thereby making reality relational and allowing for feeling, thought, art, and science. Shakespeare, the writer with the greatest insight into human nature, dramatized the primacy of time in our lives. Time is the de facto God of Shakespeare’s worlds. Shakespeare anticipated our own age when time began to displace eternity as the ground of reality. Jung gave us a new map of the psyche and terminology to explore more deeply the human condition, bound as it is in time, and the nature of deity. Driscoll carries Jung’s insights further into the three paradigmatic revelations of the Western Godhead: The Book of Job, the Gospels, and Shakespeare’s King Lear. Shakespeare the artist grasped the dynamics of the Western Godhead giving us a singular revelation of its dominant archetypes, Yahweh, Job, Prometheus, and Christ.The archetypes of the Western Godhead shaped the development of art, science, and technology and energized the ideals of progress and freedom. The West advanced rapidly in science, the arts, and human rights because of the unique archetypal dynamics of its God in Time.

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Book SynopsisIn-depth critical discussions of William Shakespeare's play - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content of this great literary reference.Romeo and Juliet examines many aspects of Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers including the history of the play's criticism, issues of confession, trauma and uses of the imagination. Essays on film adaptations and parodies as well as pluralistic appraoches to the balcony scene are also included.Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources: About This Volume Critical Context: Original Introductory Essays Critical Readings: Original In-Depth Essays Further Readings Detailed Bibliography Detailed Bio of the Editor General Subject Index

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Book SynopsisLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2 Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility 3 Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing 4 The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility.Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *"This volume of essays advances the field not only because it focuses on a new topic but also because of the patient and imaginative analysis in the various essays. The audience here extends beyond Johnsonians because so many other figures of interest are included, from Frances Burney, Burke, Warton, Seward, and Arthur Murphy to Goldsmith and of course Boswell." -- Steven Lynn * University of South Carolina *"An invaluable, erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the study of Samuel Johnson's life, philosophy, and literary work, Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle is an extraordinary body of informative and deftly scripted scholarship." * Midwest Book Review *"The scholarship is of a consistently high level, and the prose is clear and well edited. Community and Solitude provides a salutary reminder that authorship is not always the solitary activity that many people assume. Recommend." * Choice *"This collection of ten essays begins with three solid essays, all making good use of correspondence." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Lee, as editor, sets out to counterbalance Johnson’s need for solitude to accomplish his literary works with his at times almost desperate search for company to alleviate his periods of despair and disillusion. How could someone with such a sociable character and love of conversation succeed in creating such a corpus of work that within its pages we can find epithets suitable for most occasions in life?" * The New Rambler *"These essays, well presented in this volume by Bucknell University Press, bring context, color, and an array of information that should prove of value to students and scholars of Johnson’s expansive circle." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"The book uses...discussions to provide an engaging illustration of time, place, and character for a wide audience. For scholars who know Boswell’s biography and eighteenth-century London well, the book offers primarily a useful synthesis of biographies and cultural history." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"As a monograph designed for considering the historical interconnectedness in readings of literature, history, and culture, Community and Solitude, part of Bucknell University Press's Transits series, accomplishes its goal with welcome fidelity." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *Table of Contents List of Tables… vAbbreviations … vi Introduction ... 1Part I. Personal Relationships: Letters and Conversation ... 11 One Connecting with Three “Young Dogs”: Johnson’s Early Letters to Robert Chambers, Bennet Langton, and James Boswell ... 12John Radner Two James Elphinston and Samuel Johnson: Contact, Irritations, and an “Argonautic” Letter ... 44Christine Jackson-Holzberg Three The Case of the Missing Hottentot: John Dun’s Conversation with Samuel Johnson in Tour to the Hebrides as Reported by Boswell and Dun ... 79James CaudlePart II. Literary Relationships: Major Texts and Topics ... 118 Four Oliver Goldsmith’s Revisions to The Traveller ... 119James E. May Five “Down with her, Burney!”: Johnson, Burney, and the Politics of Literary Celebrity ... 165Marilyn Francus Six In the First Circle: The Four Narrators of the Life of Savage ... 205Lance Wilcox Seven “Under the shade of exalted merit”: Arthur Murphy’s A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M. ... 236Anthony W. Lee Eight Johnson, Burke, Boswell, and the Slavery Debate ... 258Elizabeth Lambert Nine Samuel Johnson and Anna Seward: Solitude and Sensibility ... 295Claudia Thomas Kairoff Ten Johnson, Warton, and the Popular Reader ... 331Christopher CataneseAcknowledgments... 358Bibliography ... 360Index ... 389About the Contributors ... 390

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Book SynopsisDuring the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch found in these attitudes valuable ways of responding to the uncertainties of their own time. Composed during a period of brutal conflict in Rome, Virgil’s agricultural poem distrusts easy stability, urging its readers to understand that lasting peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Like the ancient poet, who famously depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Cultivating Peace is an extremely smart examination of what might be called 'the georgic mode' in English verse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, starting with Virgil … It is a significant piece of scholarship that should be of interest both to classicists and to scholars of English poetry in the long eighteenth century. The writing is clear and jargon free, the readings perceptive; we not only get a much richer, more complex, sense of how the georgic mode worked than we had before, but we also see it in historical context." -- Cedric D. Reverand II * University of Wyoming *"Melissa Schoenberger's important, compelling study provides an innovative re-evaluation of English georgic's development in the early modern period and its relationship to the laborious art of peace-making. Schoenberger identifies how poets from Marvell to Smart respond to the political aspects of Virgil's Georgics, particularly with regard to the farmer/statesman's ceaseless toil against disorder and chaos and his failure to secure a stable future. In doing so, this study convincingly presents peace-making as a fundamentally georgic act and advances our understanding not only of Virgil himself but also his wider cultural legacy." -- Ian Calvert * University of Bristol *"A well written and cogently argued book that should be welcomed for its refreshingly new reading of the Virgilian georgic mode in English poetry of the long eighteenth century. Its strengths are many, not least, its juxtaposition of close reading with a keen sensitivity to social and political contexts." * The Review of English Studies *"The narrative voice will often alight delicately on its objects only for them to morph into new ones almost as soon as they are observed. This, too, is a lovely imitative echo of Virgil’s light didactic touch....Rich and evocative." * Marvell Studies *"Cultivating Peace is a fascinating book about Virgil's didactic agricultural poem The Georgics and the poetry and political thinking that it inspired in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Melissa Schoenberger recovers, from Virgil's poem, a distinctively georgic understanding of peace as mutable and contingent." * Eighteenth Century Studies *"Cultivating Peace is an extremely smart examination of what might be called 'the georgic mode' in English verse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, starting with Virgil … It is a significant piece of scholarship that should be of interest both to classicists and to scholars of English poetry in the long eighteenth century. The writing is clear and jargon free, the readings perceptive; we not only get a much richer, more complex, sense of how the georgic mode worked than we had before, but we also see it in historical context." -- Cedric D. Reverand II * University of Wyoming *"Melissa Schoenberger's important, compelling study provides an innovative re-evaluation of English georgic's development in the early modern period and its relationship to the laborious art of peace-making. Schoenberger identifies how poets from Marvell to Smart respond to the political aspects of Virgil's Georgics, particularly with regard to the farmer/statesman's ceaseless toil against disorder and chaos and his failure to secure a stable future. In doing so, this study convincingly presents peace-making as a fundamentally georgic act and advances our understanding not only of Virgil himself but also his wider cultural legacy." -- Ian Calvert * University of Bristol *"A well written and cogently argued book that should be welcomed for its refreshingly new reading of the Virgilian georgic mode in English poetry of the long eighteenth century. Its strengths are many, not least, its juxtaposition of close reading with a keen sensitivity to social and political contexts." * The Review of English Studies *"The narrative voice will often alight delicately on its objects only for them to morph into new ones almost as soon as they are observed. This, too, is a lovely imitative echo of Virgil’s light didactic touch....Rich and evocative." * Marvell Studies *"Cultivating Peace is a fascinating book about Virgil's didactic agricultural poem The Georgics and the poetry and political thinking that it inspired in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Melissa Schoenberger recovers, from Virgil's poem, a distinctively georgic understanding of peace as mutable and contingent." * Eighteenth Century Studies *Table of Contents Introduction: The Arts of Peace Chapter 1: Mutability: Cycles of War and Peace On Mutability: Virgil’s First Lesson Before Marvell: Georgic Mutability in England The Trap of War and The Map of Paradise: Marvell’s Vision of Peace Chapter 2: Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697 The English Virgil Dryden’s Georgics: “Nor When the War is Over, Is it Peace” From Peace to War: The Aeneis Chapter 3: Contingency: The Georgic Poetry of Anne Finch A Virgilian Retreat Finch and the Force of Fable Chapter 4: Imitation: The Georgics before and after 1713 John Philips and the Inmate Orchat From Didactic to Descriptive After Thomson: Christopher Smart, The Hop-Garden, and the End of Georgic Peace Conclusion: “At Their Hours of Preparation” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch found in these attitudes valuable ways of responding to the uncertainties of their own time. Composed during a period of brutal conflict in Rome, Virgil’s agricultural poem distrusts easy stability, urging its readers to understand that lasting peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Like the ancient poet, who famously depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Cultivating Peace is an extremely smart examination of what might be called 'the georgic mode' in English verse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, starting with Virgil … It is a significant piece of scholarship that should be of interest both to classicists and to scholars of English poetry in the long eighteenth century. The writing is clear and jargon free, the readings perceptive; we not only get a much richer, more complex, sense of how the georgic mode worked than we had before, but we also see it in historical context." -- Cedric D. Reverand II * University of Wyoming *"Melissa Schoenberger's important, compelling study provides an innovative re-evaluation of English georgic's development in the early modern period and its relationship to the laborious art of peace-making. Schoenberger identifies how poets from Marvell to Smart respond to the political aspects of Virgil's Georgics, particularly with regard to the farmer/statesman's ceaseless toil against disorder and chaos and his failure to secure a stable future. In doing so, this study convincingly presents peace-making as a fundamentally georgic act and advances our understanding not only of Virgil himself but also his wider cultural legacy." -- Ian Calvert * University of Bristol *"A well written and cogently argued book that should be welcomed for its refreshingly new reading of the Virgilian georgic mode in English poetry of the long eighteenth century. Its strengths are many, not least, its juxtaposition of close reading with a keen sensitivity to social and political contexts." * The Review of English Studies *"The narrative voice will often alight delicately on its objects only for them to morph into new ones almost as soon as they are observed. This, too, is a lovely imitative echo of Virgil’s light didactic touch....Rich and evocative." * Marvell Studies *"Cultivating Peace is a fascinating book about Virgil's didactic agricultural poem The Georgics and the poetry and political thinking that it inspired in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Melissa Schoenberger recovers, from Virgil's poem, a distinctively georgic understanding of peace as mutable and contingent." * Eighteenth Century Studies *"Cultivating Peace is an extremely smart examination of what might be called 'the georgic mode' in English verse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, starting with Virgil … It is a significant piece of scholarship that should be of interest both to classicists and to scholars of English poetry in the long eighteenth century. The writing is clear and jargon free, the readings perceptive; we not only get a much richer, more complex, sense of how the georgic mode worked than we had before, but we also see it in historical context." -- Cedric D. Reverand II * University of Wyoming *"Melissa Schoenberger's important, compelling study provides an innovative re-evaluation of English georgic's development in the early modern period and its relationship to the laborious art of peace-making. Schoenberger identifies how poets from Marvell to Smart respond to the political aspects of Virgil's Georgics, particularly with regard to the farmer/statesman's ceaseless toil against disorder and chaos and his failure to secure a stable future. In doing so, this study convincingly presents peace-making as a fundamentally georgic act and advances our understanding not only of Virgil himself but also his wider cultural legacy." -- Ian Calvert * University of Bristol *"A well written and cogently argued book that should be welcomed for its refreshingly new reading of the Virgilian georgic mode in English poetry of the long eighteenth century. Its strengths are many, not least, its juxtaposition of close reading with a keen sensitivity to social and political contexts." * The Review of English Studies *"The narrative voice will often alight delicately on its objects only for them to morph into new ones almost as soon as they are observed. This, too, is a lovely imitative echo of Virgil’s light didactic touch....Rich and evocative." * Marvell Studies *"Cultivating Peace is a fascinating book about Virgil's didactic agricultural poem The Georgics and the poetry and political thinking that it inspired in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Melissa Schoenberger recovers, from Virgil's poem, a distinctively georgic understanding of peace as mutable and contingent." * Eighteenth Century Studies *Table of Contents Introduction: The Arts of Peace Chapter 1: Mutability: Cycles of War and Peace On Mutability: Virgil’s First Lesson Before Marvell: Georgic Mutability in England The Trap of War and The Map of Paradise: Marvell’s Vision of Peace Chapter 2: Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697 The English Virgil Dryden’s Georgics: “Nor When the War is Over, Is it Peace” From Peace to War: The Aeneis Chapter 3: Contingency: The Georgic Poetry of Anne Finch A Virgilian Retreat Finch and the Force of Fable Chapter 4: Imitation: The Georgics before and after 1713 John Philips and the Inmate Orchat From Didactic to Descriptive After Thomson: Christopher Smart, The Hop-Garden, and the End of Georgic Peace Conclusion: “At Their Hours of Preparation” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAround 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to them, the Germans made these games more theoretical still. Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European–and, above all, German–Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. The preface is a prompt for playful thinking with texts, as much as it is conventionally the prosaic product of such an exercise. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"a study of tremendous academic rigor with original insights. it shows deep knowledge of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy and the many conversations in contemporary literary studies pertaining to them.it is an achievement in scholarship pertaining to the age of Goethe, romanticism, and literary studies at large."— The German Quarterly "Recommended."— Choice "Pretexts for Writing discusses the history of the literary and philosophical self-authored preface in the German speaking world around 1800 with an intensity and analytical depth previously unachieved in scholarship."— Till Dembeck, University of Luxembourg "This debut book, in short, contains much that is scintillant and surely announces the arrival of an important new scholarly voice in Germanistik."— Modern Language Review "Pretexts for Writing is an insightful, original, and persuasive work—compelling pretexts for reading." — Goethe Yearbook "This book is perceptive, timely, and ambitious: perceptive in that it zeroes in on serious gaps in research, the exploration of which may alter our views of eighteenth-century German literature."— Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch XLVIIITable of Contents Abbreviations ... v A Note on Translations... vi Introduction: What Prefaces Are Not: Pedantic Notes ... 1 Historical Context and Precedent Paratextual Theory and Textual Autonomy Rhetorical Caesura: Comprehending Romanticism Writing to Write 1 Goethe: A Playful and Resistive Set of Preface Strategies ... 66 Zero Prefaces Ambiguous Prefaces Poetic Prefaces Embedded Prefaces Belated Prefaces A Hypertrophic Preface 2 Jean Paul: Autoprefacing ... 144 Baroque Beginnings: The Preface as Brow, Morsel, and Porch Reviewers and Readers Writers and Preface-Writers Prefatory Procrastination and Textual Foreplay The Logic of Length; Or, Digressive Fragmentation Countering Captatio Benevolentiae? Beyond Eloquence Conclusion: Preface to Prefatorial Philosophy (and Theory) 3 Hegel: Prefatorial Polemic Becomes Philosophy ... 237 Starting with Sterne? Literature and Philosophy around 1800 Descriptive Induction versus Performative Prefacing A New Style of Preface Sublation of Conventional Prefatory Content A Superior Preface Philosophical and Rhetorical Preface Paradigms Post-Structuralist Postscript Conclusion... 311 Acknowledgements ... 328 Bibliography ... 330 Index ... 371 About the Author ... 372

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Book SynopsisIntelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents. A second tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft, Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the “otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Samara A. Cahill has produced a comprehensive study of one of the central tropes in the evolution of feminist orientalism, from the turbulent 1690's to the revolutionary 1790's, with detailed analyses drawing on a variety of discourses, both competing and complementary, from an impressive array of genres and texts." -- Martine W. Brownley * Emory University *"In Intelligent Souls, Cahill shows how an especially disturbing aspect of anti-Islamic thought—the false notion that Muslims believe women do not have souls—found purchase not only in eighteenth-century Christian theology, but also in British feminism. Troubling and important, this study is crucial reading for all who wish to understand how racism and religious bigotry informed early assertions of (European, Christian) women’s rights, and thus how the work of assembling more intersectional, inclusive feminisms can proceed". -- Laura M. Stevens * The University of Tulsa *"Theologically rich." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Intelligent Souls? contributes many new avenues for scholarly exploration...Cahill challenges us to understand how Islamophobia entered the proto-feminist rhetoric of the eighteenth century and, further, how it has remained a staple in Western feminism, all without excusing its presence in either period. She handles the most misogynistic of texts without endorsing them. She highlights factually inaccurate information that circulated in eighteenth-century writing, particularly regarding the Islamic faith, and arms her readers with sound analysis that corrects misconceptions about Quranic teachings without giving into the convenience of presentism. Cahill’s interventions in Intelligent Souls? are as much literary as they are historical, theological, and political, and she effortlessly passes between disciplines to produce rich and rewarding scholarship." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Intelligent Souls? is well written and argued and presents vignettes from hundreds of treatises and novels. Where too many plot synopses can be considered a fault in a work of literary criticism, Cahill shows how this can be done in an interesting way. At the same time, she gives readers access to obscure texts they would not otherwise read but should read if they want to understand the role of Islam in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English intellectuals’ engagement in polemics around women’s rights as human rights." * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Samara A. Cahill has produced a comprehensive study of one of the central tropes in the evolution of feminist orientalism, from the turbulent 1690's to the revolutionary 1790's, with detailed analyses drawing on a variety of discourses, both competing and complementary, from an impressive array of genres and texts." -- Martine W. Brownley * Emory University *"In Intelligent Souls, Cahill shows how an especially disturbing aspect of anti-Islamic thought—the false notion that Muslims believe women do not have souls—found purchase not only in eighteenth-century Christian theology, but also in British feminism. Troubling and important, this study is crucial reading for all who wish to understand how racism and religious bigotry informed early assertions of (European, Christian) women’s rights, and thus how the work of assembling more intersectional, inclusive feminisms can proceed". -- Laura M. Stevens * The University of Tulsa *"Theologically rich." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *"Intelligent Souls? contributes many new avenues for scholarly exploration...Cahill challenges us to understand how Islamophobia entered the proto-feminist rhetoric of the eighteenth century and, further, how it has remained a staple in Western feminism, all without excusing its presence in either period. She handles the most misogynistic of texts without endorsing them. She highlights factually inaccurate information that circulated in eighteenth-century writing, particularly regarding the Islamic faith, and arms her readers with sound analysis that corrects misconceptions about Quranic teachings without giving into the convenience of presentism. Cahill’s interventions in Intelligent Souls? are as much literary as they are historical, theological, and political, and she effortlessly passes between disciplines to produce rich and rewarding scholarship." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Intelligent Souls? is well written and argued and presents vignettes from hundreds of treatises and novels. Where too many plot synopses can be considered a fault in a work of literary criticism, Cahill shows how this can be done in an interesting way. At the same time, she gives readers access to obscure texts they would not otherwise read but should read if they want to understand the role of Islam in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English intellectuals’ engagement in polemics around women’s rights as human rights." * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Intelligent Souls is essential reading for anyone interested in learning how intelligence, civic personhood, and patriarchal norms were reconstituted through a bigoted fallacy about Islam… In dismantling this Eurocentric narrative, Cahill has laid the groundwork for an intersectional, anti-racist feminism in our time.” -- Humberto Garcia * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Foreign Intelligence … 1Part I: Islam and the Trinitarian Controversy Chapter 1: The Negative Ideal … 23Part II: Feminist Orientalism Chapter 2: Minding the Gap … 81 Chapter 3: The Canal of Pleasure … 146 Chapter 4: A “Foreign and Uninteresting” Subject … 227 Chapter 5: The “Mahometan Strain” … 262 Epilogue: Save Our Souls? … 308 Bibliography … 315

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Book SynopsisNarrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body and the introduction of consciousness as humanity’s newfound soul found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person). In the six novels examined in this monograph—Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison; Sarah Fielding's David Simple and Volume the Last; Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling; and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho—the appearance of the relic/relict signals narrative mourning and expresses (often obliquely) changing cultural attitudes toward the dead. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Oliver’s study represents a fascinating and welcome addition to eighteenth-century literary studies. Considering the novel of sensibility and the gothic novel in relation to death, Narrative Mourning addresses contemporary beliefs about death, the dead body, the soul, and the material objects associated with death. Oliver explores relics—objects such as waxen transi and hair jewelry—and relicts—the people left behind after a death occurs. Throughout, she offers a number of insightful readings, from the high body count of David Simple and its sequel, to Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison with the mock-widow and pseudo-ghost Clementina della Porretta, to the haunting narrative strategies of The Man of Feeling." -- Bonnie Latimer * author of Making Gender, Culture and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson *"With its extensive close readings of both the novel of sensibility and the Gothic novel, Kathleen M. Oliver’s Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel compellingly argues for the cultural disappearance of the dead in its lucid examination of relics and relicts in fictional representations of death and loss. Its distinctive focus on objects, persons, and ghosts offers a fascinating and well-needed study of the role of melancholy and mourning in the eighteenth-century novel." -- Jolene Zigarovich * author of Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel *"'Death and loss haunt the eighteenth-century British novel,'" writes Kathleen M. Oliver in her compelling study, Narrative Mourning. From Clarissa Harlowe's mourning rings to her own corpse in Clarissa; from portraits to wax effigies in The Mysteries of Udolpho; from relics to relicts in David Simple, Volume the Last, and Grandison; from torn manuscript to lively spectral narrator in The Man of Feeling, Oliver's careful readings limn the dynamic 'lives' of eighteenth-century literary remains." -- Mary Elizabeth Hotz * author of Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England *"[Narrative Mourning's] clearly marked conclusions...eloquently and often lyrically summarize the concerns of each chapter and section while signposting the more difficult arguments in the interest of accessibility." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: The Relic Objects 1 “With My Hair in Crystal”: Commemorative Hair Jewelry and the Entombed Saint in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1748) 2 “You Know Me Then”: The Relic versus the Real in Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) Part I. The Secret Life of Portraits Part II. Death as the Lost Beloved Persons 3 “All the Horrors of Friendship”: Counting the Bodies in Sarah Fielding’s David Simple (1744) and Volume the Last (1753) Part I. The Sorrows of Young David: Melancholia Part II. Double Vision: Allegory 4 “It is All for You!”: Dying for Love in Samuel Richardson’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753) Ghosts 5 “‘Tis at Least a Memorial for Those Who Survive”: The It-Narrator, Death Writing, and the Ghostwriter in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) Conclusion: Death and the Novel Acknowledgments Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWe are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, Kant, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul, Schleiermacher, and Fröbel. While drawing on more recent theories of play by thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Donald Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the debates around play in German letters of this period to be far richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more relevant for our current engagement with play. Indeed, modern debates about what constitutes good rather than bad practices of play can be traced to these foundational discourses. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Play in the Age of Goethe is a brilliantly conceived and edited volume that explores the topic of "play" with a view to both its historical development and its contemporary importance. While canonical authors receive their due, the essays likewise address domains of research not usually treated in literary historical studies. Theory and practice are skillfully blended and the various perspectives represented in the essays are mutually enhancing. The contributions fully realize the intention of the volume to make clear how rich and various, how intellectually compelling and fecund the thoughts about and fictional treatments of play in the German­-speaking lands at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries in fact were." -- David E. Wellbery * author of The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism *"This is a superb collection of essays on a topic of central interest to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and culture, as well as students of continental philosophy and theoreticians of play. The introduction is lively and intriguing, setting the stage for the essays to come and maintaining interest via a very concise, yet wide-ranging account of the importance of play and games in contemporary life and what is at stake in the practice." -- Gail K. Hart * author of Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetic, and the Poetics of Punishment *"This collection's strength is evident in the care each author takes with the theme, material, and development of what amount to multiple interlocking frameworks for understanding play circa 1800." * Monatshefte *“[Play in the Age of Goethe] is another impressive work in the series New Studies in the Age of Goethe and clearly demonstrates the productivity of scholars in the field and their many interdisciplinary connections.” * Goethe Yearbook, 2023 *"This is a superb collection of essays on a topic of central interest to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and culture, as well as students of continental philosophy and theoreticians of play. The introduction is lively and intriguing, setting the stage for the essays to come and maintaining interest via a very concise, yet wide-ranging account of the importance of play and games in contemporary life and what is at stake in the practice." -- Gail K. Hart * author of Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetic, and the Poetics of Punishment *"This collection's strength is evident in the care each author takes with the theme, material, and development of what amount to multiple interlocking frameworks for understanding play circa 1800." * Monatshefte *"Play in the Age of Goethe is a brilliantly conceived and edited volume that explores the topic of 'play' with a view to both its historical development and its contemporary importance. While canonical authors receive their due, the essays likewise address domains of research not usually treated in literary historical studies. Theory and practice are skillfully blended and the various perspectives represented in the essays are mutually enhancing. The contributions fully realize the intention of the volume to make clear how rich and various, how intellectually compelling and fecund the thoughts about and fictional treatments of play in the German­-speaking lands at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries in fact were." -- David E. Wellbery * author of The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Play in the Age of Goethe and Today Part 1: Free Play Chapter 1: Beauty and Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry’s Transformation of Aesthetic Philosophy Christian P. Weber Chapter 2: Free Play in German Idealism and Poststructuralism Samuel Heidepriem Part 2: Games of Chance Chapter 3: “Mit dem Spiele spielen”: Lessing’s Play for Tolerance Edgar Landgraf Chapter 4: Play with Memory and Its Topoi: Faust Nicholas Rennie Part 3: Children’s Play Chapter 5: Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and the Passage from Egocentric to Social Play Elliott Schreiber Chapter 6: Playthings: Goethe’s Favorite Toys Patricia Anne Simpson Chapter 7: Kindergarten and the Pedagogy of Play in the German Educational Revolution Ian F. McNeely Interlude Chapter 8: Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi’s Sock 1799 Christiane Frey Part 4: The Play of Language Chapter 9: Between Speaking and Listening: Jean Paul’s Word-Play Michael Powers Chapter 10: Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher’s Metalangual Poetics David Martyn Chapter 11: Playing with Words in Early German Romanticism Brian Tucker Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWriting Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Rich and thought-provoking, Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers fresh perspectives on figures at the centre of studies of eighteenth-century life writing, including James Boswell and Frances Burney, and engages them in a fascinating dialogue with less prominent writers, such as Isabelle de Charrière and Alicia LeFanu. The essays are deeply knowledgeable, elegantly written, and pose important questions for studies of the genre. Collectively, they will be of significant value to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and life writing." -- Amy Culley * author of British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration *"Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers a rich and expansive collection of essays by accomplished scholars, demonstrating how underserved the topic of life writing has been in the field that, arguably, invented its modern form." -- Laura Rosenthal * author of Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century *"Rich and thought-provoking, Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers fresh perspectives on figures at the centre of studies of eighteenth-century life writing, including James Boswell and Frances Burney, and engages them in a fascinating dialogue with less prominent writers, such as Isabelle de Charrière and Alicia LeFanu. The essays are deeply knowledgeable, elegantly written, and pose important questions for studies of the genre. Collectively, they will be of significant value to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and life writing." -- Amy Culley * author of British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration *"Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century offers a rich and expansive collection of essays by accomplished scholars, demonstrating how underserved the topic of life writing has been in the field that, arguably, invented its modern form." -- Laura Rosenthal * author of Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art of Writing Lives Tanya Caldwell Chapter 1: Dr. Johnson’s Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale’: Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LLD Lisa Berglund Chapter 2: The Education of Alexander d’Arblay: “The Idol of the World” Peter Sabor Chapter 3: Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D’Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography Marilyn Francus Chapter 4: The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: ‘Written by Herself’ Victoria Warren Chapter 5: Clashes of conversations in James Boswell’s Hebrides and Life of Johnson and ‘My Firm Regard to Authenticity’ James J. Caudle Chpater 6: Charles Burney’s Handel Reconsidered Todd Gilman Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade’s endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context. Contributors trace the Robinsonade’s roots from the eighteenth century to generic affinities in later traditions, including juvenile fiction, science fiction, and apocalyptic fiction, and finally to contemporary adaptations in film, television, theater, and popular culture. Taken together, these essays convince us that the genre’s adapt- ability to changing social and cultural circumstances explains its relevance to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"An impressively ambitious and comprehensive collection of essays on Robinsonades." -- John Richetti * editor of the Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe *“Rewriting Crusoe collects a wide range of international scholars to look at the Robinsonade tradition in various media across three centuries. The collection exhibits the range of responses to Robinson Crusoe and considers how they reflect various cultural and literary concerns.” -- Leah Orr * author of Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730 *"Rewriting Crusoe offers invigorating re-examinations of a timeless and timely genre. The broad scope of texts examined and the international profile of its authors makes this book an important contribution to studies of the Robinsonade and testament that this genre still holds power." -- Rebecca Weaver-Hightower * author of Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest in Post/Colonial Island N *"Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media assembles an international group of scholars who present exciting new approaches to the cultural afterlives of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel. Robinson Crusoe is one of the most successful books of all time, ubiquitous first in Europe and then around the world. Novel historians credit it with transforming prose fiction with psychological realism. It has been translated into dozens of languages and it has directly and indirectly inspired a plenitude of adaptations and appropriations in that time. The essays in Rewriting Crusoe follow the Robinsonades themselves across genres and media—fiction, film, plays, and TV—and they respond to a range of works, from immediate, direct responses in Britain to more distant and looser echoes across the globe. What is original and distinctive about the volume is its demonstration of how Robinsonades not only challenge key aspects of the archetypal castaway narrative—masculine individualism, literary realism, and ecological and colonial domination—but that these ideologies have always been in a process of contestation. Together the essays illuminate what editor Jakub Lipski calls 'the potential of the Robinsonade to adapt to changing circumstances, in terms of content and genre, and … its continuous relevance in new contexts.' The book provides a model for the potential of collaborative approaches to diffuse literary afterlives, and it is essential reading for those interested in the impact of eighteenth-century ideas through the ages." -- Nicholas Seager * Co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"An impressively ambitious and comprehensive collection of essays on Robinsonades." -- John Richetti * editor of the Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe *“Rewriting Crusoe collects a wide range of international scholars to look at the Robinsonade tradition in various media across three centuries. The collection exhibits the range of responses to Robinson Crusoe and considers how they reflect various cultural and literary concerns.” -- Leah Orr * author of Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730 *"Rewriting Crusoe offers invigorating re-examinations of a timeless and timely genre. The broad scope of texts examined and the international profile of its authors makes this book an important contribution to studies of the Robinsonade and testament that this genre still holds power." -- Rebecca Weaver-Hightower * author of Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest in Post/Colonial Island N *"Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media assembles an international group of scholars who present exciting new approaches to the cultural afterlives of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel. Robinson Crusoe is one of the most successful books of all time, ubiquitous first in Europe and then around the world. Novel historians credit it with transforming prose fiction with psychological realism. It has been translated into dozens of languages and it has directly and indirectly inspired a plenitude of adaptations and appropriations in that time. The essays in Rewriting Crusoe follow the Robinsonades themselves across genres and media—fiction, film, plays, and TV—and they respond to a range of works, from immediate, direct responses in Britain to more distant and looser echoes across the globe. What is original and distinctive about the volume is its demonstration of how Robinsonades not only challenge key aspects of the archetypal castaway narrative—masculine individualism, literary realism, and ecological and colonial domination—but that these ideologies have always been in a process of contestation. Together the essays illuminate what editor Jakub Lipski calls 'the potential of the Robinsonade to adapt to changing circumstances, in terms of content and genre, and … its continuous relevance in new contexts.' The book provides a model for the potential of collaborative approaches to diffuse literary afterlives, and it is essential reading for those interested in the impact of eighteenth-century ideas through the ages." -- Nicholas Seager * Co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsNote on the Edition Used Foreword by Robert Mayer IntroductionJakub Lipski Part I: Exploring and Transcending the Genre Mushrooms, Capers, and other sorts of Pickles”: Remaking Genre in Peter Longueville’s The Hermit (1727)Rivka Swenson“If I had …”: Counterfactuals, Imaginary Realities and the Poetics of the Postmodern RobinsonadePatrick Gill Part II: National Contexts Castaways and Colonialism: Dislocating Cultural Encounter in The Female American (1767)Przemysław UścińskiSetting the Scene for the Polish Robinsonade: The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki and the Early Reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland, 1769-1775Jakub LipskiThe Rise and Fall of Robinson Crusoe on the London StageFrederick BurwickIslands in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886): A Counter-RobinsonadeMárta Pellérdi Part III: Ecocritical Readings Stormy Weather and the Gentle Isle: Apprehending the Environment of Three RobinsonadesLora E. GeriguisRobinson’s Becoming-Earth in Michel Tournier’s Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967)Krzysztof Skonieczny Part IV: The Robinsonade and the Present Condition “The True State of Our Condition”: The Twenty-First-Century Worker as CastawayJennifer Preston Wilson Gilligan’s Wake, Gilligan’s Island, and Historiographizing American Popular CultureIan Kinane Coda: Rewriting the RobinsonadeDaniel Cook Acknowledgements Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s works such as the Rambler (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), the contributors—all members of the half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese writers, including Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). If the state of Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Foreword by Greg Clingham Note on Reference Introduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan Hideichi Eto Chapter 2: Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan Noriyuki Harada Chapter 3: Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Kimiyo Ogawa Chapter 4: Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan: The Domestication of Realism in Soseki Natsume’s Theory of Literature (1907) Yuri Yoshino Chapter 5: Johnson the Tea Poet: A Scholarly Role Model and a Literary Doctor in Modernizing Japan Mika Suzuki Chapter 6: Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet Miki Iwata Chapter 7: Abyssinian Johnson Noriyuki Hattori Chapter 8: Johnson’s Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer Tadayuki Fukumoto Chapter 9: An Analysis of Johnson's View of Knowledge: A Corpus Stylistic Approach Masaaki Ogura Chapter 10: Johnson’s Final Words: With Particular Reference to Boswell’s Dirty Deed on Sastres Hitoshi Suwabe Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s works such as the Rambler (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), the contributors—all members of the half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese writers, including Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). If the state of Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *"In conveying the ‘state of play’ of Johnson’s reputation in a world that might not previously have been thought receptive, Johnson in Japan makes a significant mark . . . successful in offering new critical insights, its presence means that there are important implications for Johnson’s cultural penetration (and therefore the kind of writer he is)." -- Philip Smallwood * author of Johnson’s Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment *"Samuel Johnson was fascinated by travel, and the Orient particularly took his fancy. He once seriously recommended that Boswell undertake a trip to see the Great Wall of China, because it would distinguish him in the eyes of other Britons. More recently, the East has reciprocated this interest, as scholars in Japan and China formed Johnsonian societies and published important books and articles on the Great Cham. Johnson in Japan draws together a number of intriguing and valuable essays under a rubric that is original and persuasive. It at once advances our knowledge of the intersection between Johnson and the East forward considerably, yet it perhaps more urgently encourages that Western scholars explore this richly fertile yet largely untapped field with greater assiduity." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"It is a pleasure to read these essays, eloquently written, informative and free of jargon." * The New Rambler *“To publish contemporary critical essays together with the historical review of Johnson studies makes an important statement about the vibrancy of Johnson scholarship, past and present, in Japan.” -- Lisa Berglund * Eighteenth Century Fiction *Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Foreword by Greg Clingham Note on Reference Introduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan Hideichi Eto Chapter 2: Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan Noriyuki Harada Chapter 3: Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Kimiyo Ogawa Chapter 4: Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan: The Domestication of Realism in Soseki Natsume’s Theory of Literature (1907) Yuri Yoshino Chapter 5: Johnson the Tea Poet: A Scholarly Role Model and a Literary Doctor in Modernizing Japan Mika Suzuki Chapter 6: Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet Miki Iwata Chapter 7: Abyssinian Johnson Noriyuki Hattori Chapter 8: Johnson’s Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer Tadayuki Fukumoto Chapter 9: An Analysis of Johnson's View of Knowledge: A Corpus Stylistic Approach Masaaki Ogura Chapter 10: Johnson’s Final Words: With Particular Reference to Boswell’s Dirty Deed on Sastres Hitoshi Suwabe Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDuring his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein’s life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"As its title indicates, Pen, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, is a festschrift honoring the late head and owner of AMS Press, a stalwart house that devoted much of its energies to promoting scholarship of the long eighteenth century. This collection of innovative and largely stylistically lucid essays written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field will be of keen interest to most eighteenth-century scholars and of particular importance to those specializing in print studies and publishing, neglected authors, and reevaluations of important writers such as Pope, Swift, and Blake." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"[T]he collection is well balanced, with a good mix of subjects and methodologies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement is marked by the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that has always characterized most of the best work in eighteenth-century studies." -- Martine Brownley * author of Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson *"Kudos to Bucknell University Press for publishing this book, which has many of the characteristics of a traditional festschrift despite not being in honor of a still-living academic. Rather this is a tribute by academics to a non- academic publisher who was as important to the pursuit of 18th-century studies as any other single person. It appears in an era when too many collections are simply rewritten conference papers of dubious quality and only an alleged thematic unity. It is refreshing to read...Everyone will find something of interest here." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017) Cedric D. Reverand II Introduction Kevin L. Cope Section I: On Publishing Chapter 1: Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennet Cerf J. T. Scanlan Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon Leah Orr Chapter 3: Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer in Dublin, 1715–1727 James E. May Section 2: Neglected Authors Chapter 4: Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka Susan Spencer Chapter 5: Frances Brooke, Rosina, Sense and Sensibility Linda Troost Chapter 6: “Justus Lipsius, Alexander Pope, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Manuel Schonhorn Section 3: Reevaluating Literary Modes Chapter 7: “When Worlds Collide”: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical and Monthly Review Brett C. McInelly Chapter 8: Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower David Venturo Chapter 9: Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values Philip Smallwood Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisDuring his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein’s life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"As its title indicates, Pen, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, is a festschrift honoring the late head and owner of AMS Press, a stalwart house that devoted much of its energies to promoting scholarship of the long eighteenth century. This collection of innovative and largely stylistically lucid essays written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field will be of keen interest to most eighteenth-century scholars and of particular importance to those specializing in print studies and publishing, neglected authors, and reevaluations of important writers such as Pope, Swift, and Blake." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"[T]he collection is well balanced, with a good mix of subjects and methodologies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement is marked by the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that has always characterized most of the best work in eighteenth-century studies." -- Martine Brownley * author of Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson *"Kudos to Bucknell University Press for publishing this book, which has many of the characteristics of a traditional festschrift despite not being in honor of a still-living academic. Rather this is a tribute by academics to a non- academic publisher who was as important to the pursuit of 18th-century studies as any other single person. It appears in an era when too many collections are simply rewritten conference papers of dubious quality and only an alleged thematic unity. It is refreshing to read...Everyone will find something of interest here." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017) Cedric D. Reverand II Introduction Kevin L. Cope Section I: On Publishing Chapter 1: Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennet Cerf J. T. Scanlan Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon Leah Orr Chapter 3: Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer in Dublin, 1715–1727 James E. May Section 2: Neglected Authors Chapter 4: Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka Susan Spencer Chapter 5: Frances Brooke, Rosina, Sense and Sensibility Linda Troost Chapter 6: “Justus Lipsius, Alexander Pope, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Manuel Schonhorn Section 3: Reevaluating Literary Modes Chapter 7: “When Worlds Collide”: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical and Monthly Review Brett C. McInelly Chapter 8: Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower David Venturo Chapter 9: Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values Philip Smallwood Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisLaurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.Trade Review"This collection brings together a group of distinguished Sterne scholars whose focus on the author’s final publication demonstrates the way new questions, new methodologies, new pairings, and new contexts can invigorate our understanding of Sterne, his world, and his work." -- Elizabeth Kraft * author of Laurence Sterne Revisited *"The prime virtue of this collection is that it combines more traditional literary approaches with more recent models of literary scholarship, influenced by affect theory, gender studies, animal studies, and thing theory. As such, it stands as a valuable snapshot of Sterne studies in the present." -- Jesse Molesworth * author of Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic *"A welcome addition to criticism on Sterne." * XVII-XVIII *"The strength of the resulting volume lies not only in the constituent essays, but also in the intelligence and creativity with which Newbould and Gerard have disposed and framed them, setting them in constantly illuminating conversation with one another. In their expert editorial hands, A Sentimental Journey has never looked so rich in imaginative implication and interpretative possibility." * The Shandean *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould, “Introduction: A Sentimental Journey’s Critical Legacies.” I. Men, Women, and other Animals 1. Shaun Regan, “Refining Masculinity in Yorick’s Journey: Courtesy, Chivalry, Gallantry.” 2. Julia Banister, “Yorick’s War: Patriot Politics, Military Men, and Willing Women in A Sentimental Journey.” 3. Glynis Ridley, “Sterne’s Journey into Animal Affect.” II. Words, Structures, Things 4. Chris Ewers, “Spatial Digression and the Borders of Knowledge in A Sentimental Journey.” 5. Alexander Hardie-Forsyth, “(O)economy and Order: Laurence Sterne’s Chaptering.” 6. Fraser Easton, "Yorick's Speech and the Starling's Song: The Limits of Elocution in A Sentimental Journey" 7. Jennifer Preston Wilson, “Things of the Spirit: Vibrant Matter in A Sentimental Journey.” III. Historical Contexts, Rewritten Texts 8. Melvyn New, “Boswell and Sterne in 1768.” 9. Peter Budrin, “The Shadow of Eliza: Sterne’s Underplot in A Sentimental Journey.” 10. Paul Goring, “Debt, Death, and Literary Inheritance: The Ends of Sterne and A Sentimental Journey.” Pat Rogers, “Afterword” Acknowledgments Works Cited and Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisBoswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.Trade Review"Boswell and the Press is a powerful, intellectually stimulating, and persuasively written book, offering a range of compelling and often luminous chapters by authors expert in Boswellian studies. The book breaks new ground in surveying a large corpus—for example, The Cub, at New-market; A Letter to the People of Scotland; An Account of Corsica—and finds fresh things to say about an author who most of us thought we knew as well as the back of our hand.” -- Anthony Lee * editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *“This groundbreaking volume of new essays on James Boswell is of unusually high quality: the essays are individually eloquent and informative, and as a whole the volume opens up Boswell to new approaches with new information. If you thought that James Boswell was old hat, Boswell and the Press will have you rethinking the career of Johnson’s biographer.” -- George Justice * author of The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Centur *"Among the best of those essays is Newman’s introductory overview of Boswell’s ephemera, which largely avoids the necessary evil of such introductions, namely, a brisk trot through all the following essays in an attempt to illustrate, or create, a unity in the collection. A mere three of the 29 pages are so employed, with the balance providing an excellent summary of the role that producing journalism played throughout the author’s life." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of Contents1. Boswell’s Ephemeral Writing: An Overview Donald J. Newman 2. Anonymity and the Press: The Case of Boswell Paul Tankard 3. James Boswell’s Design for a Scottish Periodical in the Scots Language: The Importance of His Prospectus for the Sutiman Papers (ca. 1770?) James J. Caudle 4. Boswell in Broadside Terry Seymour 5. An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady: Serious Effort or Elaborate Joke? Donald J. Newman 6. "Making the Press my Amanuensis": Male Friendship and Publicity inThe Cub, at New-market Celia Barnes 7. The Hypochondriack and Its Context: James Boswell, 1777–1783 Allan Ingram 8. The Embodied Mind of Boswell’s The Hypochondriack and the Turn-of-the-Century Novel Jennifer Preston Wilson 9. Principle, Polemic, and Ambition: Boswell’s A Letter to the People of Scotland and the End of the Fox-North Coalition, 1783 Nigel Aston Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBoswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.Trade Review"Boswell and the Press is a powerful, intellectually stimulating, and persuasively written book, offering a range of compelling and often luminous chapters by authors expert in Boswellian studies. The book breaks new ground in surveying a large corpus—for example, The Cub, at New-market; A Letter to the People of Scotland; An Account of Corsica—and finds fresh things to say about an author who most of us thought we knew as well as the back of our hand.” -- Anthony Lee * editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *“This groundbreaking volume of new essays on James Boswell is of unusually high quality: the essays are individually eloquent and informative, and as a whole the volume opens up Boswell to new approaches with new information. If you thought that James Boswell was old hat, Boswell and the Press will have you rethinking the career of Johnson’s biographer.” -- George Justice * author of The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England *"Among the best of those essays is Newman’s introductory overview of Boswell’s ephemera, which largely avoids the necessary evil of such introductions, namely, a brisk trot through all the following essays in an attempt to illustrate, or create, a unity in the collection. A mere three of the 29 pages are so employed, with the balance providing an excellent summary of the role that producing journalism played throughout the author’s life." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *"Boswell and the Press is a powerful, intellectually stimulating, and persuasively written book, offering a range of compelling and often luminous chapters by authors expert in Boswellian studies. The book breaks new ground in surveying a large corpus—for example, The Cub, at New-market; A Letter to the People of Scotland; An Account of Corsica—and finds fresh things to say about an author who most of us thought we knew as well as the back of our hand.” -- Anthony Lee * editor of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *“This groundbreaking volume of new essays on James Boswell is of unusually high quality: the essays are individually eloquent and informative, and as a whole the volume opens up Boswell to new approaches with new information. If you thought that James Boswell was old hat, Boswell and the Press will have you rethinking the career of Johnson’s biographer.” -- George Justice * author of The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Centur *"Among the best of those essays is Newman’s introductory overview of Boswell’s ephemera, which largely avoids the necessary evil of such introductions, namely, a brisk trot through all the following essays in an attempt to illustrate, or create, a unity in the collection. A mere three of the 29 pages are so employed, with the balance providing an excellent summary of the role that producing journalism played throughout the author’s life." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of Contents1. Boswell’s Ephemeral Writing: An Overview Donald J. Newman 2. Anonymity and the Press: The Case of Boswell Paul Tankard 3. James Boswell’s Design for a Scottish Periodical in the Scots Language: The Importance of His Prospectus for the Sutiman Papers (ca. 1770?) James J. Caudle 4. Boswell in Broadside Terry Seymour 5. An Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady: Serious Effort or Elaborate Joke? Donald J. Newman 6. "Making the Press my Amanuensis": Male Friendship and Publicity inThe Cub, at New-market Celia Barnes 7. The Hypochondriack and Its Context: James Boswell, 1777–1783 Allan Ingram 8. The Embodied Mind of Boswell’s The Hypochondriack and the Turn-of-the-Century Novel Jennifer Preston Wilson 9. Principle, Polemic, and Ambition: Boswell’s A Letter to the People of Scotland and the End of the Fox-North Coalition, 1783 Nigel Aston Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century. Trade Review"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers Misty Krueger Part One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam Diana Epelbaum 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone Shelby Johnson 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Grace A. Gomashie 4 “The Fair Daughters Of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland Pam Perkins 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas Ula Lukszo Klein Part Two: Fictional Women’s Travels 6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett Jennifer Golightly 7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American Alexis McQuigge 8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour Octavia Cox 9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole Victoria Barnett-Woods 10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House Kathleen Morrissey Afterword Eve Tavor Bannet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century. Trade Review"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers Misty Krueger Part One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam Diana Epelbaum 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone Shelby Johnson 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Grace A. Gomashie 4 “The Fair Daughters Of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland Pam Perkins 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas Ula Lukszo Klein Part Two: Fictional Women’s Travels 6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett Jennifer Golightly 7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American Alexis McQuigge 8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour Octavia Cox 9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole Victoria Barnett-Woods 10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House Kathleen Morrissey Afterword Eve Tavor Bannet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century. For more than two decades, The Age of Johnson has presented a vast corpus of Johnsonian studies "in the broadest sense," as founding editor Paul J. Korshin put it in the preface to Volume 1, and it has retained the interest of a wide readership. In thousands of pages of articles, review essays, and reviews, The Age of Johnson has made a permanent contribution to our understanding of the eighteenth century, and particularly of Samuel Johnson, his circle, and his interests, and has also served as an outlet for writers who are not academics but have something important to say about the eighteenth century. ISSN 0884-5816.Trade Review"Dedicated to publishing the best scholarship on Johnson and the long eighteenth century, The Age of Johnson has carved out a unique place for itself. The unusual amount of space allowed enables contributors to address in depth every facet of Johnson’s work and life from his prayers to his politics (while not ignoring the wider aspects of the age) and the extensive review articles consistently engage with their subject matter at a level which is not possible elsewhere." -- Michael Bundock * author of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Joh *"The era that included Johnson and the epoch that Johnson defined: Both versions of The Age of Johnson merge, mingle, and happily marry in the long-awaited revival of Jack Lynch’s and John Scanlan’s acclaimed journal. Much as 'Dr. Johnson' refracts human experience through the zoom lens of biography, so this first volume from Bucknell University Press peers at the glorious spectrum of eighteenth-century culture through prismatic particularities. Readers of The Age of Johnson will watch with joy and amazement as able authors extract vibrant insights from such gems in the Enlightenment lode as Johnson’s notes to Shakespeare or Hester Piozzi’s verse annotations or even a few dusty portraits of John Milton hanging in a corner of 'the Great Cham’s' powder room. Past, present, singular, and universal converge in inventive studies of Johnson’s place on twentieth-century reading lists, of penal reform, and of Enlightenment notions concerning the identity of epic poet Homer. Johnson recommends that learners scan the world from China to Peru—from Lima to Lisbon and on to Beijing—but Johnson is here outdone by a truly global journal that even includes comments on Pacific explorer James Cook. Energized by snappy reviews and enriched by diligently full-length review essays, the newly upgraded Age of Johnson delivers lively, precise, and, above all, pioneering scholarship. It brings out the best in that select cadre of writers, thinkers, and occasionally even landscapers who, year after year and century after century, refresh and redefine the English Enlightenment." -- Kevin L. Cope * editor of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era *"AJ has been missing from the academic scene for far too long. Here’s to our earnest hope and expectation that the hiatus of the past years is now permanently bridged, and that we may expect from editors Lynch and Scanlan, their publishers, and their future contributors, the thorough, steady, and stable emission of volumes on a regular and timely basis, one volume per year. Johnsonians deserve nothing less, nor does Johnson. AJ, welcome back. It’s good to see you again." * 18th Century Intelligencer *Table of ContentsPreface Essays Milton at Bolt Court Stephen Clarke Mimesis and Understanding in Samuel Johnson’s Notes to Shakespeare (1765) Marcus Walsh Samuel Johnson and the Allen FamilyMatthew M. Davis “Con Amore”: Hester Piozzi’s Annotations upon Johnson’s Early Poetry Anthony W. Lee Johnson (and Boswell) in the Lists: A View of Their Reputations, 1933–2018 Paul Tankard The Curious Case of Charlotte Lennox: Conducting a Professional Literary Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain outside the Bluestocking Circle Susan Kubica Howard Punitive Injustice in Caleb Williams: Godwin’s Vexed Call for Penal Reform Suzanna Geiser Sensibility Reclaimed: Thomas Blackwell, Robert Wood, and the “Conjectural History” of Homer Peter M. BriggsReview Essays Organizing a Life and the “Lives”: Samuel Johnson and the Yale Edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets David Venturo Is Historical Fiction Still Revolutionary? Eric BennettReviews Michael Schmidt, The Novel: A Biography John Richetti David Alff, The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660–1730Jacob Sider Jost Aileen Douglas, Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690–1840Robert DeMaria Jr. Julie Flavell, When London Was Capital of AmericaJoseph F. Bartolomeo John Phibbs, Place-Making: The Art of Capability Brown Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period. Trade Review"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *Table of ContentsContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick WorldRobinson Crusoe’s PrefacePublisher’s Introduction1 Of SOLITUDE2 An Essay upon HONESTY3 of the Immorality of Conversation, and The Vulgar Errors of Behaviour4 An Essay on the present State of Religion in the World5 Of listning to the Voice of Providence6 Of the Proportion between the Christian and Pagan WorldA Vision of the Angelick WorldBibliographic DescriptionsList of Editorial EmendationsSelected BibliographyAbout the EditorsIndex

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Book SynopsisCollecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.Trade Review"Bringing together game studies and 18th-century French studies, Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France is a most welcome contribution to the study of French literature, history, and culture. The collection introduces us to understudied works and provides fresh approaches to canonical texts, broadening our understanding of the interaction between play, culture, and politics." -- Tracy Rutler * co-creator of Legacies of the Enlightenment *"An enjoyable and stimulating collection, this volume will be of much interest to students and scholars alike. It will undoubtedly spur new scholarly work on the history of play which, as the editors and contributors so convincingly show, is no trivial matter." -- Gemma Tidman * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis 1 Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales Rori Bloom 2 The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language Jean-Alexandre Perras 3 Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage’s Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane Zeina Hakim 4 Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l’Abbé Prévost Masano Yamashita 5 Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune’s Relation du monde de Mercure Erika Mandarino 6 The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera Katharine Hargrave 7 Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société Maria Teodora Comsa 8 Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution Annelle Curulla 9 The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater Yann Robert 10 Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater Jeffrey M. Leichman Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including original poetry. Trade Review"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroductionAnthony W. LeeI. Essays on Samuel Johnson and Boswell1. Mirrored Minds—Johnson and ShakespearePhilip Smallwood2. The General and the Particular: Pope, Johnson, and ReynoldsDavid Hopkins3. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual ScholarshipAnthony W. Lee4. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic FailureAdam Rounce5. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the LandAaron Hanlon6. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s friend, the Fighting QuakerRobert G. Walker7. Not "Just a Macheath": Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763Gordon TurnbullII. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture8. English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: The MemoirMartine Brownley9. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?Cedric D. Reverand10. Poetic Performances: Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and “Swift’s Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”John Richetti11. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimization Though ScaleClement Hawes12. Trans-Plant Perspectives: Western Gardens, Eastern ViewsBärbel Czennia13. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: The Seismic English Enlightenment and Enigmatic ExplanationsKevin L. CopeIII. Personal Reminiscences1. Greg Clingham as Teacher and MentorDominic JermeyElaine WoodCaroline FassettJoseph McNicholasMargaret WilliamsErin LabbiePatrick HenryAdam WalkerKang Tchou2. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University PressGary SojkaNina ForsbergDaniel LittleJames RiceJohn Rickard3. Commemoratory Poems“It is rowing without a port.”Notes by Lady Anne Barnard while in South AfricaAntjie KrogFrances TowneKieron WinnAn Ode: Alexander Pope Reciprocally Writes an Encomium for Samuel Johnson, Aided by Greg ClinghamEmily GrosholzMother JohnsonHarry ThomasCodaKate ParkerGreg Clingham’s PublicationsAcknowledgmentsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisSeafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion through maritime disaster.Trade Review"This is a timely collection of essays that provides students and scholars of early modernity with new perspectives and insights on the importance of shipwrecks as a major cultural and political event. For all the authors in the volume, a shipwreck is the unavoidable partner of empire and colonial expansion, signaling the perilous path of conquest and at the same time revealing the fissures of the entire imperial enterprise. Going beyond rhetoric, the volume argues for a more comprehensive approach to shipwrecks, defined as significant cultural events that expose not only the precarious nature of imperial expansion and colonial rule, but also issues related to gender, sexuality, identity, and morality." -- Luis Avilés * author of Avatares de lo invisible: Espacio y subjetividad en los Siglos de Oro *"Rodríguez-Guridi and Ruiz's Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is an excellent example of the rich interdisciplinary orientation that prevails in the field of Early Modern Hispanic Studies, providing fertile ground for in-depth analyses on resistance to Spanish conquest and colonization." -- Raúl Marrero-Fente * author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de paciencia *"Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is perhaps the only English-language collection of essays structured around this central theme or metaphor in recent times. Now that a number of literary critics, cultural studies scholars, and historians are working on maritime matters in the Spanish-speaking world, the chapters of this book offer a distinctive way of looking at topics relevant to these scholars and to early modernists, generally." -- Elizabeth Davis * author of Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain *"This is a timely collection of essays that provides students and scholars of early modernity with new perspectives and insights on the importance of shipwrecks as a major cultural and political event. For all the authors in the volume, a shipwreck is the unavoidable partner of empire and colonial expansion, signaling the perilous path of conquest and at the same time revealing the fissures of the entire imperial enterprise. Going beyond rhetoric, the volume argues for a more comprehensive approach to shipwrecks, defined as significant cultural events that expose not only the precarious nature of imperial expansion and colonial rule, but also issues related to gender, sexuality, identity, and morality." -- Luis Avilés * author of Avatares de lo invisible: Espacio y subjetividad en los Siglos de Oro *"Rodríguez-Guridi and Ruiz's Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is an excellent example of the rich interdisciplinary orientation that prevails in the field of Early Modern Hispanic Studies, providing fertile ground for in-depth analyses on resistance to Spanish conquest and colonization." -- Raúl Marrero-Fente * author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de pacienc *"Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is perhaps the only English-language collection of essays structured around this central theme or metaphor in recent times. Now that a number of literary critics, cultural studies scholars, and historians are working on maritime matters in the Spanish-speaking world, the chapters of this book offer a distinctive way of looking at topics relevant to these scholars and to early modernists, generally." -- Elizabeth Davis * author of Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain *Table of ContentsForeword Josiah Blackmore Introduction Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 1: Turbulent Waters: Shipwreck in Zayas’s “Tarde llega el desengaño” Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 2: Two Small and Two Large Imperial Shipwrecks by Cervantes and Góngora Julio Baena Chapter 3: The Reader as Castaway: Problematics of Reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora Elena Rodríguez-Guridi Chapter 4: On Moral Truth and the Controversy over the Amerindians: The Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Natalio Ohanna Chapter 5: The Discourse of Poverty in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla Chapter 6: Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez Carmen Hsu Chapter 7: The Manila Galleon Shipwrecks: Writing Crisis and Decline in the Spanish Global Empire Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez Chapter 8: The Shipwreck of the Manila Galleon San Felipe in Seventeenth-Century Histories and Accounts on Japan Noemí Martín Santo Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEngland’s famed Lake District—best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers—is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writing about the region from 1622-1900 with distant approaches to textual analysis. This path-breaking volume exemplifies interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how digital humanities methodologies and geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of a region whose topography has been long recognized as fundamental to the shape of the poetry and prose produced within it.Trade Review"It is rare that one book can influence several disciplines. Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District is such a title. Taylor and Gregory offer a compelling case for the spatial humanities, and in the process, make valuable contributions to literary studies, geography, history, and cultural studies. A truly innovative work."— David Bodenhamer, co-editor of Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives “Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District will quickly become a new standard in the field of literary geography. Its spatial synthesis of aesthetics, Romanticism, sociology, history, literature, and cartography will excite scholars from across the digital-analog divide. I highly recommend the book to every scholar working in these fields, as well as any reader interested in the Lake District and its rich, layered literature and culture."— Ryan Heuser, King's College, Cambridge University "Taylor and Gregory brilliantly demonstrate how digital techniques developed for work at a wide scale can be employed for the full depth of deep mapping. The result is one of the most exciting demonstrations of the value of computational technologies in literary analysis that I’ve read in a long time."— James Loxley, co-editor of Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'Table of ContentsFigures Tables Note on the Data 1 Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing The Distant Reader and the Close: Toward Multiscalar Analysis The Corpus of Lake District Writing Corpus Linguistics and Geographic Information Science Geographical Text Analysis Deep Mapping as Literary Practice 2 Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities Specifying in General: Deep Mapping and the Gilpinian Picturesque The Picturesque in the CLDW Protest against the Wrong: The Problem with Picturesque Data Virtual Playgrounds in Text and on Screen 3 Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies The “Discovery” of the Lake District Keep Moving: Tourism in the Lakes Proceeding at Leisure: Traveling in the Lake District Away from the Show Place: The Inhabitants’ Lakeland 4 Walking in the Literary Lakes Types of Lake District Walking Walking along a Good Road: Taking a Lakeland Excursion “Linger There a Breathing While”: Being a Pedestrian in the Lakes 5 Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District’s Soundscape The Power of Sound, Noise, and Silence Wordsworthian Listening How the Water Comes Down: Listening to Waterfalls The “Most Expensive Luxuries”: Cannon-Fire and English Echoes 6 Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell Mapping Scafell Climbing Scafell The View from the Top Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInsults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.Trade Review"Extremely well-researched and well-written, Dystopias of Infamy is bound to be of interest not just to Hispanists, but also to cultural anthropologists and scholars interested in issues of identity formation among both dominant and marginalized groups."— Anthony J. Cascardi, author of Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics "Dystopias of Infamy shows convincingly how the discourse and practices of insult shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Iberia. The significance of Irigoyen-García’s study lies in an innovative approach that reveals infamy’s resilience as much as its liabilities, its foreseeable victims as much as its unexpected mutations. Through the recuperation of little-known historical documents and incisive interpretation of well-established texts, this book provides fresh, nuanced insights into the social workings of both the dominant and marginalized in pre-modern Spain."— Paul Michael Johnson, author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary MediterraneanTable of ContentsIntroduction: “Names full of vituperations” 1. Insulting as a Social Speech Act: Communities of Affronters 2. Self-deprecation and Social Existence 3. Dystopias of Infamy 4. Fancy sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy 5. “They did not bray in vain”: History, Insult, and Collective Identity Epilogue: Spanish History as sambenito Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of worldmaking and other worlds—on the Enlightenment zest for the discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds, envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around European gardens, over the high seas, across the American frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship. Trade Review"'Had we but world enough and time'; '’Tis the way of the world'; 'To see a world in a grain of sand'—what does 'world' imply in such contexts? In this inspired volume fourteen essayists explicate the 'worlding' of real and imagined spaces across an expanding universe of literary, cartographic, and commercial endeavor." -- David Radcliffe * editor of the digital archive Lord Byron and His Times *Table of ContentsSPECIAL FEATUREWorldmaking and Other Worlds: Restorationto RomanticEdited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph Foreword to the Special FeatureIntroduction to the Special FeatureWorlding and Deworlding Reimagined:A New IntroductionBetty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer OTHER WORLDS: CARTOGRAPHIES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL ORDERS A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of PovertyBrandi R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters “All the kingdoms of the world”: Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedDaniel Vitkus Texts and Tectonists: World-making and World-cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian FrontierAna Schwarz Charlotte Smith’s Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and BeyondDaniel O’Quinn WORLDMAKING: ARTIFACTS, COLLECTIONS, AND MATERIAL CULTURE The Tree and The WorldChris Barrett Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment BritainMita Choudhury Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British MothersFelicity Nussbaum A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-WörlitzBillie Lythberg WORLDING: ECOLOGIES OF BEING AND OTHERING Indigeneity Overlooked: Indigenous Technologies and Criollo Worldmaking in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690)Matthew Goldmark William Dampier’s “Sagacious” WorldmakingSu Fang Ng “To serve them in the other world”: Natural History, Worldmaking, and Funeral Song in Hans Sloane's Voyage to…Jamaica (1707–1725)David S. Mazella Crusoe’s Goat UmbrellaChi-ming Yang Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas PringleJennifer L. Hargrave BOOK REVIEWSEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden AgeReviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds., Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist CultureReviewed by Andrew Black Michael Edson, ed., Annotation in Eighteenth-Century PoetryReviewed by Anthony W. Lee Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern LegacyReviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds., Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth CenturyReviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack Thomas F. Bonnell, ed., The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 4: 1780-1784Reviewed by Anthony W. LeePeter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of CommonsReviewed by Jacqy Sharpe Deborah Heller, ed., Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social RoleReviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in FrankensteinReviewed by Samara Anne Cahill Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls, to the Seaside, to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass EntertainmentReviewed by James Hamby John M. Gingerich. Schubert’s Beethoven ProjectReviewed by Seow-Chin Ong Edina Adam and Julian Brooks with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: VisionaryReviewed by Linda L. Reesman Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane CummingReviewed by Daniel Livesay Abut the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of “family plots” in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Whereas Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and political theory posit the nuclear family as a microcosm for the ideal modern nation-state, literature of the period offers a far more heterogeneous image of kinship structures, one that includes members of various classes and is not defined by blood. Through a radical re-reading of the multifarious kinship structures represented in literature of the long eighteenth century, The Aesthetics of Kinship questions the inevitability of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and invokes alternative futures for conceptions of social and political life.Trade Review“Schlipphacke’s smart style brings the eighteenth-century tableau into vivid life. This wonderfully learned study expands our understanding of the eighteenth-century tableau beyond its immediate theatrical and painterly associations to show how it reframed models of family and kinship. Challenging the long standing presumption that the Bildungsroman coalesced around the nuclear family, Schlipphacke illuminates the tableau’s elastic depiction of porous social relations across an array of genres and media. Her queer, allegorical sensibility draws our attention away from the hermeneutic depths of the Romantic nuclear family onto the tableau’s surface alignments. The Aesthetics of Kinship brilliantly condenses eighteenth-century theories of spectatorship, theater, and the novel.”— Daniel Purdy, author of On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought “Schlipphacke demonstrates an active curiosity and adept intellect as she analyzes literary forms (such as unconventional endings and halted narrative progression) as challenges to the inward-focused, nuclear family as it begins to unfold into the nineteenth century. Rare is the scholar who links the study of social relations to aesthetics.”— Alice Kuzniar, author of The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism “The Aesthetics of Kinship provides a thoroughly new understanding of how German authors, including major ones like Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe, used tableaux, props, and letters to highlight multiple types of family kinships that depict heterogeneous social groupings that highlight diversity, and that defy any narrow definition of ‘family.’”— Susan Gustafson, author of Goethe’s Families of the Heart “Historically significant and extremely timely! Schlipphacke’s fascinating turn to the period tableaux compellingly illustrates aesthetic experiments with diverse forms of relations, fruitfully challenging accounts of the rise of the nuclear family.”— Stefani Engelstein, author of Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of ModernityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Middle Class/Bourgeois/Bürger: The Idiosyncrasies of German Dramatic Realism 2 Tableau/Tableau Vivant: German-French Dramatic Encounters 3 The German Dramatic Tableau beyond Lessing 4 Against Interiority: Letters and Portraits as Dramatic Props 5 Material Kinship: The Economy of Props in G.E. Lessing’s Nathan der Weise 6 The Tableau of Relations: Novels in Stillness and Motion 7 Kinship and Aesthetic Depth: The Tableau Vivant in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften [Elective Affinities] Concluding Reflections Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 28 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will experience two blockbuster multi-author special features that explore both the deep traditions and the new frontiers of early modern studies: one that views adaptation and digitization through the lens of “Sterneana,” the vast literary and cultural legacy following on the writings of Laurence Sterne, a legacy that sweeps from Hungarian renditions of the puckish novelist through the Bloomsbury circle and on into cybernetics, and one that pays tribute to legendary scholar Irwin Primer by probing the always popular but also always challenging writings of that enigmatic poet-philosopher, Bernard Mandeville. All that, plus the usual cavalcade of full-length book reviews. ISSN: 1065-3112 Published by Bucknell University Press, distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review“Once again, 1650-1850 offers readers exciting perspectives, not only on literature of the long eighteenth century but also—especially—on innovative ways of doing research. By expanding and modeling new methods, the authors featured in this double special issue stand to expand the ways we think about and do eighteenth-century studies.” -- Ashley Bender * assistant professor of English, Texas Woman’s University *Table of ContentsSpecial Feature Adaptation and Digitization in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sterneana and BeyondEdited by M-C. Newbould and Helen Williams Introduction to the Special Feature: Fitting Things? Adaptation, Eighteenth-Century Afterlives, and Digital CulturesM-C. Newbould and Helen Williams Linking Austen’s and Sterne’s Reception JourneysDevoney Looser Laurence Sterne and Women’s Writing: Elizabeth Bonhôte, Jane Harvey, Jane Timbury, and Miss StreetHelen Williams “Ye Gods Annihilate Both Space and Time”: Excerpt Culture and the Digital Editing of Eighteenth-Century CorrespondenceJack Orchard Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)Adam James Smith “Gabriel Shandy Looks Me Deeply in the Eye”: Early Sterne Adaptations and the Formation of the Novel in HungaryGabriella Hartvig Three Mid-Eighteenth-Century Mash-Ups: Hybridity and Conflicted Discourse in Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins and Its Early ImitationsJakub Lipski A Distributional Analysis of the Language of Sensibility in the Sterne Corpus and ECCOJohn Regan “[It] Were Wisdome It Selfe, to Read All Authors, asAnonymo’s”: Anonymity, Virtual Communities, and SterneanaM-C. Newbould Authorial Authority and the Mapping of An -AnaPaul GoringSpecial Feature Irwin Primer and Bernard MandevilleEdited by Sir Malcolm Jack Introduction to the Special Feature: Irwin Primer and Bernard MandevilleSir Malcolm Jack “What Strange Contradictions Man Is Made Of!”Rui Romao “Self Still Is at the Bottom”: Mandeville and French MoralistsBéatrice Guion The “System of Nature” and the French Reception ofThe Fable of the Bees in the Eighteenth CenturyEdmundo Balsemão-Pires Mandeville on Happiness, Self-Esteem, and HypochondriaMauro SimonazziBook ReviewsEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Cedric D. Reverand II, ed., Queen Anne and the Arts Reviewed by John Knapp Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki, eds., Johnson in Japan Reviewed by John Stone Kevin L. Cope, ed., Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International EnlightenmentReviewed by Christopher D. Johnson A. Joan Saab, Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 48Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism Reviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack Rory Muir, Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England Reviewed by Paul J. de Gategno About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.Trade Review"A bold and powerfully generative take on the literary shockwaves produced by the massive influx—at once unsettling and inspiring—of Eastern products in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. By centering eating and drinking as the paradigmatic forms of exotic consumption, Yin Yuan surfaces previously unrecognized currents of ironic self-reflexivity with respect to bodily and cultural boundaries set in motion by the period’s insatiable appetites for the Orient. Rarely has such a theoretically astute treatment of the cultural politics of eating made for such devilishly delicious fare."— David Porter, author of The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England "Focusing on early British Orientalism as a distinctly literary effort to negotiate the new material realities of imperial commerce, Alimentary Orientalism locates in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing about exotic comestibles an emergent form of semiotic theory. Imperial self-making, it shows, not only rehearsed mythologies of encounter, but did so as a way of orienting British selfhood in the liminal space where sign meets substance—the space where empire unfolds."— Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins, author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism “Eating, drinking, smoking—the bodies in nineteenth-century British writing took in Chinese influence both cavalierly and copiously. Yin Yuan’s book helps us understand this consumption by explaining, with erudition and grace, how such exotic ingestants navigated Britain’s symbolic and material Oriental encounters on their way to the heart of the empire.”— Elizabeth Hope Chang, author of Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain "Bracingly original, Alimentary Orientalism moves beyond predictable ‘self/other’ binaries to delineate new complexities in British ‘Orientalist’ literary discourse. Focusing on such ‘psychoactive groceries’ as tea and opium, Yuan details how various texts represent the literal incorporation of otherness, even as they self-critically investigate the nature of Orientalist representation itself."— Alan Richardson, author of The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic TextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”: Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.Trade Review"A bold and powerfully generative take on the literary shockwaves produced by the massive influx—at once unsettling and inspiring—of Eastern products in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. By centering eating and drinking as the paradigmatic forms of exotic consumption, Yin Yuan surfaces previously unrecognized currents of ironic self-reflexivity with respect to bodily and cultural boundaries set in motion by the period’s insatiable appetites for the Orient. Rarely has such a theoretically astute treatment of the cultural politics of eating made for such devilishly delicious fare." -- David Porter * author of The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England *“Eating, drinking, smoking—the bodies in nineteenth-century British writing took in Chinese influence both cavalierly and copiously. Yin Yuan’s book helps us understand this consumption by explaining, with erudition and grace, how such exotic ingestants navigated Britain’s symbolic and material Oriental encounters on their way to the heart of the empire.” -- Elizabeth Hope Chang * author of Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain *"Bracingly original, Alimentary Orientalism moves beyond predictable ‘self/other’ binaries to delineate new complexities in British ‘Orientalist’ literary discourse. Focusing on such ‘psychoactive groceries’ as tea and opium, Yuan details how various texts represent the literal incorporation of otherness, even as they self-critically investigate the nature of Orientalist representation itself." -- Alan Richardson * author of The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts *"Focusing on early British Orientalism as a distinctly literary effort to negotiate the new material realities of imperial commerce, Alimentary Orientalism locates in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing about exotic comestibles an emergent form of semiotic theory. Imperial self-making, it shows, not only rehearsed mythologies of encounter, but did so as a way of orienting British selfhood in the liminal space where sign meets substance—the space where empire unfolds." -- Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins * author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism *Table of Contents Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”:Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier’s rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.Trade Review“Mulryan analyzes the social divisions and the reforming policies that are expressed through the representation of urban space. One of the most important contributions of this book lies in the exploration of unpublished texts and of perspectives little addressed by critics such as the religious anchoring of Mercier's thought.”— Geneviève Boucher, associate professor of French, University of Ottawa “A comprehensive exploration of Mercier’s wonderfully entertaining ‘tableaux de Paris’ and his lively, passionate, and multi-faceted commitment to social justice. In this highly informative, highly necessary study, Mulryan demonstrates with great clarity and precision why Mercier is a major late Enlightenment writer.”— Laurence Mall, author of Emile ou les figures de la fiction “This original investigation into pre-and post-Revolutionary Paris and its festive, social, and artistic spaces vividly captures Mercier’s journalisme engagé. A fascinating study worthy of this eclectic, pivotal author.”— Fabienne Moore, author of Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre “Mulryan’s book might as well be about the unannounced birth of sociology some fifty years before Auguste Comte. Through his reading of the urban space of Paris and his representation of the different strands of Parisian society, Mercier exposed in great detail the existence of inequalities, abuses, and injustices that had hitherto mostly been treated theoretically; and as Mulryan shows quite dexterously, this practical, urban approach allows Mercier to give practical solutions to the woes of France, before and after the Revolution.”— Fayçal Falaky, author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in RousseauTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Desolation of Festive Space in Tableau de Paris 2 Authoritarian versus Enlightened Approaches to Urban Space in Tableau de Paris 3 Art and Society in Tableau de Paris 4 Mercier’s “New” Chaotic Paris: Surviving a Moral Vacuum among the Delusional, the Dethroned, and the Disenfranchised 5 The Regeneration of the French Citizen: The “Homme Nouveau” as the Cornerstone Mercier’s Modern Urbs Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier’s rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.Trade Review“A comprehensive exploration of Mercier’s wonderfully entertaining ‘tableaux de Paris’ and his lively, passionate, and multi-faceted commitment to social justice. In this highly informative, highly necessary study, Mulryan demonstrates with great clarity and precision why Mercier is a major late Enlightenment writer.” -- Laurence Mall * author of Emile ou les figures de la fiction *“This original investigation into pre-and post-Revolutionary Paris and its festive, social, and artistic spaces vividly captures Mercier’s journalisme engagé. A fascinating study worthy of this eclectic, pivotal author.” -- Fabienne Moore * author of Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre *“Mulryan’s book might as well be about the unannounced birth of sociology some fifty years before Auguste Comte. Through his reading of the urban space of Paris and his representation of the different strands of Parisian society, Mercier exposed in great detail the existence of inequalities, abuses, and injustices that had hitherto mostly been treated theoretically; and as Mulryan shows quite dexterously, this practical, urban approach allows Mercier to give practical solutions to the woes of France, before and after the Revolution.” -- Fayçal Falaky * author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau *“Mulryan analyzes the social divisions and the reforming policies that are expressed through the representation of urban space. One of the most important contributions of this book lies in the exploration of unpublished texts and of perspectives little addressed by critics such as the religious anchoring of Mercier's thought.” -- Geneviève Boucher * associate professor of French, University of Ottawa *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Desolation of Festive Space in Tableau de Paris 2 Authoritarian versus Enlightened Approaches to Urban Space in Tableau de Paris 3 Art and Society in Tableau de Paris 4 Mercier’s “New” Chaotic Paris: Surviving a Moral Vacuum among the Delusional, the Dethroned, and the Disenfranchised 5 The Regeneration of the French Citizen: The “Homme Nouveau” as the Cornerstone Mercier’s Modern Urbs Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enlightenment. SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019 Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, "whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry". Medieval Scots told stories of restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560Reformation, witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the supernatural. Ghosts re-emerged in scholarly discussion in the late seventeenth century, often in the guise of religious propagandists. As time went on, physicians increasingly reframed ghosts as the conjurations of disturbed minds, but gothic and romantic literature revelled in the emotive power of the returning dead; they were placed against a backdrop of ancient monasteries,castles and mouldering ruins, and authors such as Robert Burns, James Hogg and Walter Scott drew on the macabre to colour their depictions of Scottish life. Meanwhile, folk culture used apparitions to talk about morality and mortality. Focusing on the period from 1685 to 1830, this book provides the first academic study of the history of Scottish ghosts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and examining beliefs across the social spectrum, it shows howghost stories achieved a new prominence in a period that is more usually associated with the rise of rationalism. In exploring perceptions of ghosts, it also reflects on understandings of death and the afterlife; the constructionof national identity; and the impact of the Enlightenment. MARTHA MCGILL completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh.Trade ReviewMcGill's thorough examination of the archive concerning ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland demonstrates the value of careful cultural historical work. * EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION *[A] pioneering study. [...] McGill has produced an extensive and well researched exploration of ghost lore. [A] welcome contribution to scholars across a wide variety of fields. -- INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCOTTISH STUDIES[An] excellent study. * FOLKLORE *An excellent book that provides a new and effective approach to a complicated topic. * SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY *[A]n impressive entrylevel book into the cultural importance of ghosts in Scottish history and a most welcome addition to academic studies of the supernatural. * PRETERNATURE *An enticing, well researched study composed of five carefully structured chapters, each possessing a conclusion that elegantly synthesizes its main points. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *Martha McGill's beautifully written study of ghosts as cultural signifiers provides an important contribution to a growing number of studies into the social and cultural significance of belief in the paranormal. . . . For those readers unconvinced of the value of studying belief in the supernatural as a way into understanding societies and cultures, I would encourage you to sit down with this book. If it does not change your mind, nothing will. And, even if your mind remains unchanged, it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. -- Christopher Partridge * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Medieval and Reformation Ghosts Evangelising Ghosts Scepticism and Debate Gothic and Romantic Ghosts Ghosts in Popular Culture Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan Britain was entranced by stories emanating from the furthest edge of its nascent empire. In the experience of eighteenth-century Britain, Oceania was both a real place, evidencedby the journals of adventurers like Joseph Banks, the voyage books of Captain James Cook and the growing collection of artefacts and curiosities in the British Museum, and a realm of fantasy reflected in theatre, fashion and the new phenomenon of mass print. In this innovative study Ruth Scobie shows how these multiple images of Oceania were filtered to a wider British public through the gradual emergence of a new idea of fame - commodified, commercial, scandalous - which bore in some respects a striking resemblance to modern celebrity culture and which made figures such as Banks and Cook, Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers on Pitcairn Island into public icons. Bringing together literary texts, works of popular culture, visual art and theatrical performance, Scobie argues that the idea of Oceania functioned variously as reflection, ideal and parody both in very local debates over the problemsof contemporary fame and in wider considerations of national identity, race and empire. RUTH SCOBIE is a Stipendiary Lecturer at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.Trade ReviewFor anyone interested in learning more about the reception of Cook's voyages and the rich variety of roles they played in metropolitan culture, this is an intriguing and comprehensive survey of the celebrity culture of the period. * COOK'S LOG *[T]he variety of literary and material examples [Scobie] integrates and the celebrity culture lens through which she contextualizes them are innovative. * EUROPEAN ROMANTIC REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "See modern fame" Otaheite and the scandal of celebrity The immortality of James Cook Consuming the Bounty mutiny Botany Bay and the limits of the public sphere Epilogue: The Unknown Public, and Tahiti as it Was Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition from the novel - newly respectable and increasingly fashionable. But the story is not one of theatre's decline and the novel's rise. As Ros Ballaster shows in this lively and innovative study, the relationship between the two media was one of an intensely creative and productive rivalry. Novelists sent their heroes to the theatre, dramatists appropriated the plots of popular novels, the celebrity status of actors was advanced through guest appearances in printed prose fictions. Some figures, like Richardson's virtuous serving maid Pamela, or Sterne's eccentrichumourist Tristram Shandy, acquired such independent lives in the minds of the public that they migrated into the mainstream of popular culture. Fictions of Presence describes how major authors of the period - Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith - spanned both genres. It charts the movement of popular fictional characters between stage and page. And it looks at the representation of contemporary audiences and readers in the new types of the (female) mimic and the (male) critic. Crucially, Ballaster delineates the ground over which the two media competed: the ability to create 'presence' - a sense of being present with the moment of action, of finding 'being' in fictional worlds - in the mind's eye of readers and theatregoers. In so doing, she not only illuminates the shared history of the theatre and the novel, but describes the power of aesthetic experience itself.Trade Review[T]his analysis of the theater-novel relationship is significant and goes beyond questions of influence or source study. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being There Introducing the Author Eliza Haywood: Authoring Adultery Henry Fielding: Ghost Writing Charlotte Lennox: (In)dependent Authorship Oliver Goldsmith: Keeping up Authorial Appearances From Author to Character Introducing Characters Outdoing Character: Lady Townly The Sway of Character: Pamela The Expanse of Character: Ranger The Play of Character: Tristram From Character to Consumer Introducing Consumers The Mimic The Critic Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) was pivotal for both politics and opera in Britain. In this study, Thomas McGeary brings together a wide range of sources to show how the worlds of politics and opera were entwined. The associations that Italian singing and singers acquired by the 1690s were used in partisan Whig-Tory writings. Rather than a foreign invasion, McGeary shows how the introduction of Italian-style opera was a native product that grew out of plans for a new theatre in the Haymarket. A crucial event for opera was Handel's arrival in London in 1710. While the criticism of opera by Whig writers such as Richard Steele and Joseph Addison is well known, McGeary uncovers how the early promotion and sponsorship of opera was, in fact, largely a Whig enterprise and cultural program. Indeed, major political figures (mostly Whigs) participated in the support and patronage of opera. Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain will be required reading for opera scholars and cultural and political historians of eighteenth-century Britain, as well those interested in the vibrant literature culture of the period.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Opera in the English Manner 2 The Infiltration of Italian Music and Singing 3 Italian and English Singing and Partisan Politics 4 The Haymarket Theatre: A Whig Project 5 Whigs and Opera in the Italian Manner 6 1710: The Year of Great Change in Politics and Opera 7 Whigs Confront Opera: Britain at a Machiavellian Moment 8 Addison: Opera and the Politics of Politeness 9 The Whig Campaign for English Opera; Handel Celebrates the Peace Epilogue Appendix 1: Operatic Works Produced (or Known) in London, ca. 1660-1704 Appendix 2: Principal Independent Theatrical Masques Produced in London, 1676-1705 Appendix 3: Opera Performances by Season in London, 1705-1714 Appendix 4: Aria Types in All-sung Operas Produced in London, 1705-1714. Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWilliam Gilbert, poet, theosophist and astrologer, published The Hurricane: A Theosophical and Western Eclogue in Bristol in 1796, while he was on intimate terms with key members of Bristol literary culture: Coleridge published an extract from The Hurricane in his radical periodical The Watchman; Robert Southey wrote of the poem’s ‘passages of exquisite Beauty’; and William Wordsworth praised and quoted a long passage from Gilbert’s poem in The Excursion. The Hurricane is a copiously annotated 450 line blank verse visionary poem set on the island of Antigua where, in 1763, Gilbert was born into a slave-owning Methodist family. The poem can be grouped with other apocalyptic poems of the 1790s—Blake’s Continental Prophecies, Coleridge's Religious Musings, Southey's Joan of Arc—all of which gave a spiritual interpretation to the dramatic political upheavals of their time. William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism presents the untold story of Gilbert’s progress from the radical occultist circles of 1790s London to his engagement with the first generation Romantics in Bristol. At the heart of the book is the first modern edition of The Hurricane, fully annotated to reveal the esoteric metaphysics at its core, followed by close interpretative analysis of this strange elusive poem.Trade Review'Paul Cheshire is unquestionably the world authority on William Gilbert and The Hurricane. Based on extensive original research, this ground-breaking study will return Gilbert to the forefront of critical attention, locating him in relation to more famous contemporaries and setting-out for the first time his esoteric brand of Romanticism and its many affinities with more familiar Romantic authors and texts, ideas and concepts. Presenting its key text—The Hurricane—in full at its centre, the book fills a conspicuous gap in current understandings and opens numerous new avenues for further research.'Nicholas Roe, Wardlaw Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews 'This is an unusual book about an unusual man. In his engagingly written, intensively researched study of the life and work of William Gilbert, Paul Cheshire illuminates the hermetic vision underpinning Gilbert’s allegorical poem The Hurricane, and widens its scope to explore the influence of western esoteric thought on the imagination of the Romantic poets in a manner which touches on issues still alive and vital in our own transitional times.'Lindsay Clarke, Whitbread Prize-winning author of The Chymical Wedding and The Water Theatre'William Gilbert was a leading member of the utopian, apocalyptic and artistic movement of the 1790s, a remarkable period in British – and European – history. He was a major influence on the Romantic poets, and his presence is felt in Coleridge’s masterpiece, Kubla Khan. Paul Cheshire’s remarkable biography brings this forgotten genius to life, restoring him to his proper place in our artistic and radical history.' Nicholas Campion, Associate Professor in Cosmology and Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David'Other scholars have worked on The Hurricane and William Gilbert; Cheshire’s account draws on their work and goes a considerable way beyond it (not least in considering the horrors of slavery in this context). The fascination of this neglected figure is made plain, as are the critical implications of a work with both esoteric roots and Romantic repercussions.' Michael Caines, Times Literary Supplement ‘Cheshire makes an admirable case for remembering Gilbert… [a] tantalizing study.’ Christy Edwall, The Wordsworth Circle'Paul Cheshire has done us a service in providing here not only a book that places the poem [The Hurricane] in its cultural and historical milieu but a fully annotated scholarly edition of the poem itself. It is an important new contribution to the expanding literature on Romanticism in Bristol and comes highly recommended. For both its language and its themes, The Hurricane is a poem well worth revisiting.' Steve Poole, The Regional Historian'A provocative and illuminating study of William Gilbert… We may hope that Cheshire’s indefatigable and imaginative research will continue to help us rediscover the eccentric and fearless genius who proudly declared: “I am not understood. ’Tis well. / I understand myself. It is better.”' Marsha Keith Schuchard, Common Knowledge'William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism provides an excellent basis for further scholarly work, both on Gilbert, and on the esoteric in Romantic culture more generally.'Jacob Lloyd, The BARS Review‘Cheshire’s readings transform Gilbert’s poem from something inscrutable to something deeply interesting… Cheshire makes a compelling case that “esoterism” is important but overlooked in all the Romantics, expanding how they may be read. The book further expands the geographies of Romanticism through its attention to the sea and Antigua as crucial sites for revolutionary thinking.’ Lawrence Evalyn, Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: William Gilbert in Romantic Culture1. A Magus of the 1790s: William Gilbert in Bristol and London2. Bristol and the First Romantics3. ‘With no unholy madness’: Gilbert and Coleridge4. ‘My astrological friend’: Gilbert and Southey5. The Calenture: Gilbert and WordsworthPart Two: The HurricaneThe Hurricane a Theosophical and Western Eclogue. To which is subjoined, A Solitary Effusion in a Summer’s Evening. 6. The Hurricane and Hermetic Geography7. Decoding the Allegory of the ‘Theosophical and Western Eclogue’8. Son of a Saintly Slave OwnerPart Three: Conclusion 9. Esoteric RomanticismBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this study, Annelle Curulla uses a range of archival material to show that, more than any other subject matter which was once forbidden from the French stage, Roman Catholic religious life provided a crucial trope for expressing theatre's patriotic mission after 1789.Even as old rules and customs fell with the walls of the Bastille, dramatic works by Gouges, Chénier, La Harpe, and others depicted the cloister as a space for reimagining forms of familial, individual, and civic belonging and exclusion.By relating the dramatic trope of religious life to shifting concepts of gender, family, religiosity, and nation, Curulla sheds light on how the process of secularization played out in the cultural space of French theatre.Trade Review'As well-written as it is meticulously researched, Annelle Curulla’s excellent first book not only illustrates the scholarly significance of Revolutionary theater, it also broadens our understanding of it.' Yann Robert, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: the cloister and the stageHistorical contextApproaches and sources1. Theatrical vocations: La Harpe’s Mélanie, ou la Religieuse (1770-1802)Mélanie’s instability: revisions to the text (1770-1802)Mélanie in the salonsFrom salon to stage: Mélanie in the Revolution (1790-1792)Reviving Mélanie (1796-1802)Conclusion2. Changing habits: the monastic trope as secularisation, 1790 and 1791Prisoners of the cloth: impossible love in monastic dramaTaking it off: secularisation as comedyOver the line? Plays that failedConclusion3. Dramaturgies of the cloister in Les Victimes cloîtréesPlaces of the forgotten: legends of monastic prisonsThe origins of the double sceneReading the double sceneConclusion4. Mother–daughter plots in monastic dramaThe pregnant nun in D’Alembert’s Eloge de Fléchier (1778)From sentimental to Gothic motherhood: Pougens’s Julie, ou la Religieuse de NîmesMaternal heroism in Olympe de GougesRepublican family values: Chénier’s Fénelon, ou les Religieuses de CambraiConclusion5. Brotherly orders: soldiers, monks and libertines in monastic comedyPersistent libertines: Les VisitandinesBrotherhood or else: La Partie carréePigault-Lebrun: fraternity between the sexesConclusionConclusion: lessons of the cloisterAppendix 1: examples of the monastic trope in Revolutionary dramaAppendix 2: bibliography of printed examples of the monastic tropeBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAlthough many historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed ‘Age of Reason’, Enlightenment thinkers continued to grapple with the challenges posed by the revival and spread of philosophical skepticism. The imperative to overcome doubt and uncertainty informed some of the most innovative characteristics of eighteenth-century intellectual culture, including not only debates about epistemology and metaphysics but also matters of jurisprudence, theology, history, moral philosophy, and politics. Thinkers of this period debated about, established, and productively worked for progress within the parameters of the increasingly circumscribed boundaries of human reason. No longer considered innate and consistently perfect, reason instead became conceived as a faculty that was inherently fallible, limited by personal experiences, and in need of improvement throughout the course of any individual’s life. In its depiction of a complicated, variegated, and diverse Enlightenment culture, this volume examines the process by which philosophical skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding. The various contributions collectively demonstrate that philosophical skepticism, and not simply unshakable confidence in the powers of reason or the optimistic assumption about inevitable human improvement, was, in fact, the crucible of the Enlightenment process itself. Trade Review'All in all, this is a volume which should be read by every scholar of the eighteenth century, of the history of ideas, and of the history of religion.''The editors are to be congratulated for bringing to fruition this volume of essays, and for making a clear and convincing argument for the importance of skepticism in the Enlightenment.'Dorinda Outram, H-France Review * H-France Review *'The new wave of the scholarship on skepticism that emerges from this [book] is really impressive and will mark a cornerstone for the study of eighteenth-century philosophy.' Gianni Paganini, Erudition and the Republic of LettersTable of ContentsAnton M. Matytsin and Jeffrey D. Burson, Introduction: from an “age Of skepticism” to an “age Of reason” Jeffrey D. Burson, Healing the skeptical crisis and rectifying Cartesianisms: the notion of the Jesuit synthesis revisited Elena Rapetti, “A man who sticks only to his own sentiments”: Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Traité philosophique de la foiblesse de l’esprit humain Martin Mulsow and John Christian Laursen, Georg Michael Heber on legal and (possibly) religious skepticism in early Enlightenment Germany Sébastien Charles, George Berkeley, or the skeptic in spite of himself Rodrigo Brandão, Voltaire and modern skeptical doubt John P. Wright, Skepticism and incomprehensibility in Bayle and Hume Anton M. Matytsin, Taming thought with practice: philosophical skepticism in the Encyclopédie Alan Charles Kors, Political skepticism in Holbach’s circle Summaries Biographies of contributors Bibliography Index

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