Description
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 ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson
1 Inchbald for Our Time
Misty G. Anderson
2 The Structure of Fable in Inchbald’s
Nature and ArtMartha F. Bowden
3 Narratives of Emerging Markets and Mercantilist Mappings in Defoe’s London
Mita Choudhury
4 Thomas Jefferson’s Sojourn in N.mes: Revolutionary Politics and Architecture
Robert M. Craig
5 “Uncle to All the World”: The Virtual Afterlives of Captain Tobias Shandy, 1831–1948
W. B. Gerard
6 “My Business Ashore”: Libertine Conduct and Maritime Context in
The RoverRanda Graves
7 Speaking through the Prophets: Anne Finch, Politics, and Religion
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
8 “That Unnatural Mixture”: Nostalgia and Anxiety in Late Restoration Tragicomedy
Cynthia J. Lowenthal
9
Speculum Mundi: Caricature and the Stage
Heather McPherson
10 “Hazardous Purchasing Almost Anything”: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade
Hugh Reid
11 After the Great War: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century on the London Stage, 1919–1929
John A. Vance
12 One of Thomas Bray’s Apostles of Literacy: Thomas Bacon
Calhoun Winton
13 The World of
The WorldAnnibel Jenkins
Afterword: Dr. Jenkins and Mrs. Inchbald
Paula R. Backscheider
Her Worded World: A Tribute to Annibel Jenkins
Don Russ
Notes on Contributors
Index
