THE SCRIBLERIAN AND THE KIT-CATS Vol. LIII, No. 1 Autumn 2020
CONTENTS
In Memoriam: William Blake Gerard (1960-2020)
RECENT ARTICLES Addison:
BERNARD, STEPHEN. “The First Advertisement for the Spectator” —— .“The Bibliographical History of the Spectator”
STRAWN, MORGAN. “Addison’s Anglican Rationalism, Cato’s Tragic Flaw, and Stoicism”
Astell:
TANN, DONOVAN. “Ascetic Cosmopolitanism: Imagining Religious Retreat in Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II and Letters Concerning the Love of God” Behn:
APPLER, VIVIAN. “‘Shuffled Together under the Name of a Farce’: Finding Nature in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon”
RUBIK, MARGARETE. “The House, the City, and the Colony in the World of Aphra Behn: Gendered Spaces and the Freedoms and Dangers They Afford”
Cavendish:
KLAEGER, FLORIAN. “Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century.” See entry under Swift, pp.00.
Defoe:
DIENER, SAMUEL. “Eighteenth-Century Pipes and the Erasure of the Disposable Object”
GOLLAPUDI, APARNA. “Criminal Children in the Eighteenth Century and Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack”
HONE, JOSEPH. “Daniel Defoe and the Whig Tradition in Satire”
MARSHALL, ASHLEY. “Robert Harley and the Politics of Daniel Defoe’s Review, 1710-1713”
PRITCHARD, PENNY. “Young Saints and the Knot of Satan: Moral Exemplarity, Ministry and Youth in Early Modern Dissenters’ Writing”
WALMSLEY, PETER. “The African Artisan Meets the English Sailor: Technology and the Savage for Defoe”
—— . “Robinson Crusoe’s Canoes”
Dryden:
MARSHALL, SIMONE CELINE. “Middle English Chaucer in Dryden’s Fables”
ZWICKER, STEVEN N. “Imagining a Literary Life: Dryden Dwells Among the Moderns and the Ancients”
Fielding, Henry:
BOWERS, TERENCE N. “Fielding’s Odyssey: The Man of Honor, the New Man, and the Problem of Violence in Tom Jones”
DIAMOND, DAVID. “Secular Fielding”
ENGETSU, YUKO. “Hissing Eurydice Hiss’d: Henry Fielding and the Licensing Act”
STUCHINER, JUDITH. “Fielding’s Latitudinarian Doubt: Faith ‘versus’ Works in Joseph Andrews”
WEINBROT, HOWARD D. “Historical Criticism, the Reclamation of Codes, and Repairs to Literary History: The Examples of Fielding and Richardson”
Gay:
LOVERIDGE, MARK. “Such Means of Locomotion: Transits of Voices in Gay’s Trivia”
Hume:
BUDD, ADAM. “Men of Consequence”
Johnson, Samuel:
CLINGHAM, GREG. “Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England”
DEMARIA, ROBERT, JR. “Careful and Careless”
KLAEGER, FLORIAN. “Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century.”
ORCHARD, JACK. “Dr. Johnson on Trial: Catherine Talbot and Jemima Grey Responding to
Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler”
Lennox:
KLAEGER, FLORIAN. “Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century.”
Locke:
HAMOU, PHILIPE. “Philosophy in the Margins: Pierre Coste’s Annotations to the French Translation of Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding”
Manley:
OZMENT, KATE. “‘She writes like a Woman’: Paratextual Marketing in Delarivier Manley’s Early Career”
Pope: OHSUMI, MEGUMI. “Visualizing Alexander Pope’s ‘Altars of Japan’”
PERSONS, ANNIE. “The Parson and the Poetess in Pope’s An Epsitle to Dr Arbuthnot”
PRITCHARD, JONATHAN. “Pope’s ‘Floors of Plaister’ and “Stucco Floors’”
Richardson:
BOLTE, ULRIKE AND A. D. HARVEY. “Richardson and the Emblems on Clarissa’s Coffin”
CALLIS, JONATHAN. “Allegories of Error in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa”
KAY, AILSA. “‘A Reformation So Much Wanted’: Clarissa’s Glorious Shame”
PARK, JULIE. “Detachable Pockets and Letter Folds: Spatial Formalism and the Portable Interiors of the Eighteenth-Century Novel”
PRITCHARD, WILL. “Pamela’s Wedding Night”
WEINBROT, HOWARD D. “Historical Criticism, the Reclamation of Codes, and Repairs to Literary History: The Examples of Fielding and Richardson.”
Rochester:
OWEN, JIM. “Lucretius and the Radical Imagination: John Wilmot and The Nature of Things”
SÁNCHEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ELENA. “Two Pole-Vaulters of Their Times: The Poetry of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and Irving Layton”
Smart:
HALL, WILLIAM. “Technofacts: Christopher Smart and the Curiosity Cabinet”
Shaftesbury:
ALVAREZ, DAVID AND PATRICK MÜLLER. “Anatomies of Unbelief: Clandestine Dialogues between Swift and Shaftesbury.”
Smollett:
JONES, CATHERINE. “Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing, and Medical Botany”
JONES, RICHARD J. “Continued Continuations of Complete Histories: Tobias Smollett and the Work of History”
Sterne:
MANGANARO, THOMAS SALEM. “Akrasia and the Explanation of Action in Rousseau and Sterne”
WIEHE, JARRED. “No Penis? No Problem: Intersections of Queerness and Disability in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”
Swift:
ALVAREZ, DAVID AND PATRICK MÜLLER. “Anatomies of Unbelief: Clandestine Dialogues between Swift and Shaftesbury”
COL, NORBERT. “True-to-Life History? What the Dead Say in Gulliver’s Travels, or: Sensational Disclosures (Gulliver Tells All)”
DOWNIE, J. A. “The Biographer as Historian”
FERGUSON, REBECCA. “His Hob-Nailed Shoes: Time as a Creature and Reformation Polemic in Swift’s A Tale of a Tub”
FREIBURG, RUDOLF. “‘These you distil in balneo Mariæ’: Swift’s Use of Alchemy in A Tale of a Tub”
HAMMOND, EUGENE. “What Do Young Men Know? All-Too-Powerful Inferences Masquerading as Facts”
INGRAM, ALLAN. “Travels with Horses: Swift, ‘Bolingbroke’ and ‘Stay-behind’s mare’”
KLAEGER, FLORIAN. “Thalesian Lessons: Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long
Eighteenth Century”
RABB, MELINDA ALLIKER. “Swift, Defoe, Civil War, and the Meaning of (Bare) Life”
WALSH, MARCUS. “Swift, the Church, and Religion: The Sermons, the Tale, and the Critics”
Tryon:
BOONE, N. S. “Expanding Identity through Imagination; or, How Thomas Tryon Becomes the Marginalized”
Miscellaneous:
ALFF, DAVID. “Satiric Drama in History”
BERLAND, KEVIN JOEL. “Classical Example and Gospel Rhetoric in the Sermons of Independent Preacher Thomas Brooks”
BERNARD, STEPHEN. “The Other Jacob Tonson”
BOGEL, FREDRIC V. “Satire and Materialism in the Long Eighteenth Century”
BOUR, ISABELLE. “William Kenrick as Translator of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
BULMAN, WILLIAM J. “Secularist Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, c. 1660-1730”
COLEMAN, DEIRDRE. “Antislavery Satire before Abolition”
CUNNINGHAM, RORY. “A First-Hand Description of the Aftermath of the Great Lisbon Earthquake”
DE MONTLUZIN, E. LORRAINE. “The ‘Death-Hunter’ Denied: Retractions and Corrections of John Nichols’s Gentleman’s Magazine Obituaries”
DEUTSCH, HELEN. “Disgust and Embodiment”
DOMINGO, DARRYL P. “The Satiric Page”
FLUDERNIK, MONIKA. “The Fiction of the Rise of Fictionality”
GALLIEN, CLAIRE. “Orientalist Pococke: Brokering Across Borders, Disciplines, and Genres”
HINDLE, STEVE. “Representing Rural Society: Labor, Leisure, and the Landscape in an Eighteenth-Century Conversation Piece”
HOPKINS, DAVID. “‘Mr Vernon,’ Translator of Ovid”
INGRASSIA, CATHERINE. “Gendered Satires in Dialogue”
MACIULEWICZ, JOANNA. “Authors as Objects: The Representation of Authorship in It- Narratives”
NOWICKI, WOJCIECH. “Prosopopeia, Anthropomorphism and (False) Agency in It-Narratives”
PHELAN, JAMES. “Fictionality, Audiences, and Character: A Rhetorical Alternative to Catherine Gallagher’s ‘Rise of Fictionality.’” See entry under Fludernik.
SELTZER, ALEX. “Catesby’s Eclecticism and the Origin of his Style”
TYLDESLEY, PETER J. “A Jacobite Standard 1715”
NOTE
E. DEREK TAYLOR AND MELVYN NEW. Mary Astell, John Norris, and A Small Mystery
BOOK REVIEWS
JULIA BANISTER, Masculinity, Militarism, and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689-1815
KRISTINA BOOKER. Menials: Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650-1850
DEBORAH BOYLE. The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
JAMES BUCHAN. John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century
TITA CHICO, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment
The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, by Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier, ed. Carolyn Woodward
BEN DEW. Commerce, Finance and Statecraft: Histories of England, 1600-1780
JOSEPH DRURY. Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain
Gentry Life in Georgian Ireland: The Letters of Edmund Spencer (1711-1790), ed. Duncan Fraser and Andrew Hatfield
LEONIE HANNAN. Women of Letters: Gender, Writing and the Life of the Mind in Early Modern England
JESSICA HANSER. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global
Empire
STEPHANIE INSLEY HERSHINOW. Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel
JOSEPH HONE. Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne
ROBERT G. INGRAM, Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post- Revolutionary England
JONATHAN KRAMNICK. Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness
EDWARD LEGON, Revolution Remembered: Seditious Memories after the British Civil Wars
ROGER MAIOLI. Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel
JULIE PEAKMAN. Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture
The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance, ed. Daniel O’Quinn, Kristina Straub, and Misty G. Anderson
K. J. SAVILLE-SMITH. Provincial Society and Empire: the Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829
NICHOLAS D. SMITH. An Actor’s Library: David Garrick, Book Collecting and Literary Friendships
JONATHAN SWIFT. Jonathan Swift, Irish Political Writings after 1725: A Modest Proposal and Other Works, ed. D. W. Hayton and Adam Rounce
MARGARET WILLES. The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
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SCRIBLERIANA Roy Wolper (1931-2020) Paul K. Alkon (1935-2020) Philip Harth (1926-2020) Even More Acknowledgements iSuffle in the Eighteenth Century