THE SCRIBLERIAN
Spring and Autumn 2012
Vol. XLIV, No. 2–XLV, No. 1
RECENT ARTICLES
Astell:
REYNOLDS, PAIGE. ‘‘Spiritual Sovereignty and the Meaning of Marriage: Mary Astell and
John Milton’’
Barbauld:
MONTINI, DONATELLA. ‘‘Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s Ethics of Sentiment’’
Barker:
KVANDE, MARTA. ‘‘Jane Barker’s Exilius: Politics, Women, Narration, and the Public’’
Behn:
BEACH, ADAM R. ‘‘Behn’s Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early Modern
Atlantic World’’
MARTIN, JUDITH. ‘‘Oroonoko in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Race and Gender in Luise
Mu¨hlbach’s Aphra Behn’’
WALLINGER, HANNA. ‘‘The ‘Royal Slave’ Oroonoko in Aphra Behn and Luise Mu¨hlbach’’
SNIDER, ALVIN. ‘‘The Curious Impertinent on the Restoration Stage’’
Congreve:
ROY, SONA. ‘‘Congreve’s Debt to Plautus’’
WIDMAYER, ANNE F. ‘‘Scandalous Will, Or, Congreve’s Library and Female Power’’
Defoe:
AVILA-PIRES, FERNANDO DIAS DE. ‘‘Robinson Crusoe’s Illness’’
LESSENICH, ROLF. ‘‘Daniel Defoes historische Romane’’ (‘‘Daniel Defoe’s Historical
Novels’’)
STARR, G. A. ‘‘Defoe and China’’
Dryden:
AIREY, JENNIFER L. ‘‘Eve’s Nature, Eve’s Nurture in Dryden’s Edenic Opera’’
GELINEAU, DAVID. ‘‘Following the Leaf through Part of Dryden’s Fables’’
GREENWOOD, MARIA K. ‘‘What Dryden Did to Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale, or Translation
as Ideological Input’’
NEILL, MICHAEL. ‘‘ ‘An artificiall following of nature’: Dryden, Etherege, and the Perfection
of Art’’
WALLS, KATHRYN. ‘‘Titus Oates as ‘Monumental Brass’ in Absalom and Achitophel’’
WINN, JAMES A. ‘‘ ‘Confronting Art with Art’: The Dryden-Purcell Collaboration in King
Arthur’’
Fielding:
FLETCHER, ANGUS AND MICHAEL BENVENISTE. ‘‘Defending Pluralism: The Chicago
School and the Case of Tom Jones’’
LEE, ANTHONY W. ‘‘ ‘The winding labyrinths of nature’: The Labyrinth and Providential
Order in Tom Jones’’
NYE, EDWARD. ‘‘Modernity in Desfontaines’s Translations of Joseph Andrews’’
ROGERS, VANESSA. ‘‘Fielding’s Ballad Operas and Eighteenth-Century English Musical
Theatre’’
ROTHSTEIN, ERIC. ‘‘Joseph Andrews, Realism, and Openness’’
Gay:
BARKER, ANTHONY. ‘‘Big City Corruption, Small Town Venality: Gay’s The Beggar’s
Opera (1728) in Ayckbourn’s A Chorus of Disapproval (1984)’’
MCKENZIE, ANDREA. ‘‘The Real Macheath: Social Satire, Appropriation, and Eighteenth
Century Criminal Biography’’
Handel:
MCGEARY, THOMAS. ‘‘Handel as Art Collector: Art, Connoisseurship, and Taste in
Hanoverian Britain’’
Haywood:
SCHOFIELD, MARY ANNE. ‘‘A Brief Note on Haywood Scholarship: or, The Fatal Inquiry
into the Timely Discovery and Fruitful Enquiry into the Fatal Fondness of Contemporary
Scholars for Eliza Haywood’’
Mandeville:
HENKE, CHRISTOPH. ‘‘Pernicious Reason and Good Sense: Ethics and Common Sense in
Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and Samuel Johnson’s Writings’’
Pope:
CLEARY, SCOTT M. ‘‘Slouching toward Augusta: Alexander Pope’s 1736 ‘Windsor Forest’ ’’
DOYLE, CHARLES CLAY AND CLEMENT CHARLES DOYLE. ‘‘ ‘Wretches Hang That Jury
Men May Dine’ ’’
ENGELL, JAMES. ‘‘Johnson on Blackmore, Pope, Shakespeare—and Johnson’’
HAMMOND, BREAN. ‘‘Pope and Young on Night’’
INGRAM, ALLAN. ‘‘The Dark Side of the Moon: Anti-Illumination in the Poetry of Pope’’
PRITCHARD, JONATHAN. ‘‘Pope at Chiswick’’
QUINSEY, KATHERINE M. ‘‘Dualities of the Divine in Pope’s Essay on Man and The
Dunciad’’
ROUSSEAU, GEORGE. ‘‘Medicine and the Body’’
Richardson:
MONTINI, DONATELLA. ‘‘Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s Ethics of Sentiment’’
Rochester:
LAUTEL-RIBSTEIN, FLORENCE. ‘‘A Libertine’s Protracted Night: Rochester Redivivus ac
Gallice Redditus’’
Rowe:
BACKSCHEIDER, PAULA R. ‘‘Elizabeth Singer Rowe: Lifestyle as Legacy’’
Smollett:
CORSE, TAYLOR. ‘‘Slavery in Roderick Random’’
MAY, JAMES E. ‘‘Descriptive Bibliography with Collations of Variant Readings for the
Lifetime Editions of Smollett’s Continuation’’
MAY, JAMES E. ‘‘The Publication and Revision of Smollett’s Continuation of the Complete
History of England, 1760–1771’’
RODDEN, JOHN. ‘‘In Love with Narcissa: Smollett’s Roderick Random as Narcissus’’
TABATA, TOMOJI. ‘‘‘Wickedly, Falsely, Traitorously, and Otherwise Evil-adverbiously,
Revealing’ the Author’s Style: Correspondence Analysis of -ly Adverbs in Dickens and
Smollett’’
Sterne:
COLIPCAˇ , GABRIELA IULIANA. ‘‘Shandying Translation, Translating Shandeism’’
DAY, W. G. ‘‘Attribution Problems in Sterne’s Ecclesiastical and Secular Politickings’’
DESCARGUES-GRANT, MADELEINE. ‘‘Sterne and the Miracle of the Fragment’’
JONES, DARRELL. ‘‘Difference and Representation in Locke and Sterne’’
LEONARD, ANNE. ‘‘Sterne, Sutton, and Bohemia’’
NEW, MELVYN. ‘‘An Examination of Kenneth Monkman’s Attributions to Sterne, 1745
1748’’
NEW, MELVYN AND PETER DE VOOGD. ‘‘A Sterne Holograph’’
NEW, MELVYN. ‘‘John Carr and Laurence Sterne’s Ghost’’
NEWBOULD, M. C. ‘‘Fly-on-the-wall: Toby’s Fly and ‘Parasitic’ Parody’’
NEWBOULD, M-C. ‘‘ ‘The utmost fluidity exists with the utmost permanence’: Virginia
Woolf’s un-Victorian Sterne’’
NICHOLLS, HILARY. ‘‘Sterne and Catherine Fourmantel’’
RICHARDSON, ROBBIE. ‘‘Consuming Indians: Tsonnonthouan, Colonialism, and the
Commodification of Culture’’
Swift:
FAUSKE, CHRISTOPHER J. ‘‘A Most Unlikely Friendship? Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley,
and the Bonds of Philosophy with, Perhaps, an Answer to an Age-Old Problem’’
FURBANK, P. N. ‘‘Misreading Gulliver’’
HAMMOND, BREAN S. AND NICHOLAS SEAGER. ‘‘Jonathan Swift’s Historical Novel: The
Memoirs of Capt. John Creichton (1731)’’
LYNALL, GREGORY. ‘‘ ‘An Author Bonoe Notoe, and an Adeptus,’ Swift’s Alchemical Satire
and Satiric Alchemy in A Tale of a Tub’’
MCDOWELL, NICHOLAS. ‘‘Tales of Tub Preachers: Swift and Heresiography’’
MOORE, SEAN. ‘‘Swift and Ireland’s Revenue: The Public Finance Context of Irish Economic
Pamphleteering’’
PALMERI, FRANK. ‘‘Satire and the Psychology of Religion in Swift and Nietzsche’’
REAL, HERMANN J. ‘‘Confessions of a Coffee Drinker: or, How Coffee Became Sex(y)’’
REAL, HERMANN JOSEF. ‘‘The Dean and the Lord Chancellor: or, Swift Saving his Bacon’’
SHUFELT, JOHN. ‘‘The Trickster as an Instrument of Enlightenment: George Psalmanazar and
the Writings of Jonathan Swift’’
WARD, JAMES. ‘‘Bodies for Sale: Marketing A Modest Proposal’’
Thomson:
CONNELL, PHILIP. ‘‘Newtonian Physico-Theology and the Varieties of Whiggism in
James Thomson’s The Seasons’’
KEENLEYSIDE, HEATHER. ‘‘Personification for the People: On James Thomson’s The
Seasons’’
Young:
BAKER, JOHN A. ‘‘Is There a Youngian Night?’’
Miscellaneous:
BARRY, KEVIN. ‘‘Learned Blindness: Irish Counter-Enlightenment’’
CALDWELL, TANYA M. ‘‘Restoration Parodies of Virgil and English Literary Values’’
ENGELL, JAMES. ‘‘Johnson on Blackmore, Pope, Shakespeare—and Johnson’’
FABIAN, BERNHARD AND MARIE-LUISE SPIECKERMANN. ‘‘The English Book on the
Continent’’
FORSTER, JEAN-PAUL. ‘‘Lighting at Night and Darkness at Noon’’
IRIMIA, MIHAELA. ‘‘Our Demotic Augustinianism, a Pattern Launched by the Eighteenth
Century Novel’’
JUHAS, KIRSTEN. ‘‘Du Cros, Leibniz, and An Answer to a Scurrilous Pamphlet: New Light on
Sir William Temple’s French Adversary’’
LINKER, LAURA. ‘‘Catharine Trotter and the Humane Libertine’’
MACMAHON, BARBARA. ‘‘The Effects of Sound Patterning in Poetry: A Cognitive
Pragmatic Approach’’
MANNING, DAVID. ‘‘Theological Enlightenments and Ridiculous Theologies:
Contradistinction in English Polemical Theology’’
NU¨ NNING, VERA. ‘‘Civilising Women? Women, Morals, and Manners in Eighteenth
Century Britain’’
POLLACK, ELLEN. ‘‘The Future of Feminist Theory and Eighteenth-Century Studies’’
STANZEL, FRANZ KARL. ‘‘Two Cultures? Newton and Darwin—Pope, Thomson, Young,
Akenside et al.’’
VARNEY, ANDREW. ‘‘The Dark Desire for Narrative: Night in Eighteenth-Century Fiction’’
BOOK REVIEWS
PAT ROGERS. A Political Biography of Alexander Pope
Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne, ed. W. B. Gerard
HENRY FIELDING. Plays Volume II, 1732–1734, ed. Thomas Lockwood
E. DEREK TAYLOR. Reason and Religion in ‘‘Clarissa’’: Samuel Richardson and ‘‘The
Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton’’
Exploring the Richardson Circle Using theOrlando Database, http: / / orlando.cambridge.org
MARY HELEN MCMURRAN. The Spread of Novels: Translation and Prose Fiction in the
Eighteenth Century
ELIZABETH KRAFT. Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684–1814: In the Voice of
Our Biblical Mothers
PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS. Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry
British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology, ed. Paula R. Backscheider
and Catherine E. Ingrassia
PATRICK MU¨ LLER. Latitudinarianism and Didacticism in Eighteenth-Century Literature:
Moral Theology in Fielding, Sterne, and Goldsmith
BOOKS BRIEFLY NOTED
JONATHAN SWIFT. A Modest Proposal and Other Writings, ed. and intro. Carole Fabricant
HENRY FIELDING. Amelia, ed. Linda Bree
MARGARET COHEN. The Novel and the Sea
ALEXANDER POPE. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, 2 volumes, intro. Steven Shankman,
illus. Avery Lawrence
John Gay’s ‘‘The Beggar’s Opera’’ 1728–2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings, ed. Uwe Bo¨ker
et al.
The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735), ed. Tiffany Potter
Staging Pain, 1580–1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theatre, ed. James Robert Allard
and Mathew R. Martin
VAUGHAN HART. Sir John Vanbrugh, Storyteller in Stone
JEREMY MUSSON. The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh
ELAINE MCGIRR. Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660–1745
NICHOLAS AMHURST. Terrae-Filius or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford (1721;
1726), ed. William E. Rivers.
JOHN MULLAN. Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature
CHANTEL M. LAVOIE. Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700–1780
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, http:
orlando.cambridge.org
The Public’s Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century
England, ed. Laura Engel
Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571–1845, ed. David A. Valone and Jill Marie Bradbury
Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks, ed. Rivka Swenson and Elise
Lauterbach
SUSAN E. WHYMAN. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660–1800
Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England, eds. Michelle M. Dowd and Julie
A. Eckerle
DANIEL E. RITCHIE. The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Postmodernity from Defoe to
Gadamer
SUSAN LAMB. Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative
Literature in the Eighteenth Century
The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern-London, ed. Paula Humfrey.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Standard Edition: Complete Works, Selected
Letters and Posthumous Writings, ed. Wolfram Benda, et al.
Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650–1800, ed.
Laura L. Runge and Pat Rogers
RYAN J. STARK. Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
JULIE HIRST. Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic
PHYLLIS MACK. Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early
Methodism
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Brett C. McInelly. Vol. 1
TARA GHOSHAL WALLACE. Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth
Century Literature
MICHAEL RAGUSSIS. Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian
Britain
GREG FORSTER. John Locke’s Politics of Moral Consensus
John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings, ed. and introd. Mark Goldie
The Lives of the Poets, ed. John H. Middendorf
Samuel Johnson: The Lives of the Poets, A Selection, ed. Roger Lonsdale and John Mullan
ANTTI MATIKKALA. The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours
System, 1660–1760
Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan, ed. Vera J. Camden
RAYMOND F. HILLIARD. Ritual Violence and the Maternal in the British Novel, 1740–1820
DENNIS TODD. Defoe’s America
GUGLIELMO SANNA. Il Craftsman. Giornalismo e cultura politica nell’Inghilterra del
Settecento (The Craftsman: Journalism and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century
England)
FELICITY NUSSBAUM. Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century
British Theatre
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and ‘‘Lucina’s Rape’’
SCARLET BOWEN. The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
DALE B. J. RANDALL AND JACKSON C. BOSWELL. Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century
England: The Tapestry Turned
PALMIRA FONTES DA COSTA. The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal
Society of London in the Eighteenth Century
GABRIEL GLICKMAN. The English Catholic Community 1688–1745: Politics, Culture and
Ideology
JENNIFER BOWERS AND PEGGY KEERAN. Literary Research and the British Renaissance
and Early Modern Period: Strategies and Sources
RUTH MACK. Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century
Britain
JONATHAN KRAMNICK. Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson
The authors and titles in Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne are:
Martha F. Bowden, ‘‘Sterne and the Eminent Protestant Preachers: William Rose’s The
Practical Preacher’’
Arthur H. Cash, ‘‘The Sermon in Tristram Shandy’’
Madeleine Descargues-Grant, ‘‘Sterne’s Dramatic Persuasion’’
Robert A. Erickson, ‘‘Swift, Sterne, and the Anglican Sermon Performed’’
Christopher J. Fauske, ‘‘On Being Orthodox: The Sermons of Laurence Sterne and the
Church of England Context’’
James S. Gow, ‘‘A Brief Account of Sterne’s Homiletic Piracy’’
Jack Lynch, ‘‘Reading and Misreading the Genres of Sterne’s Sermons’’
Melvyn New, ‘‘Reading the Occasion: Understanding Sterne’s Sermons’’
Geoff Newton, ‘‘The Sermons of Laurence Sterne, Neoplatonism, and Two Short
Works’’
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, ‘‘Sterne and the Art of War Sermons’’
Donald R. Wehrs, ‘‘Cognitive Science, Religious Conceptuality, and the Convergence
of the Literary and Ethical in Sterne’s Sermons’’
The authors and titles in John Gay’s ‘‘The Beggar’s Opera’’ 1728–2004: Adaptations and
Re-Writings are:
Uwe Bo¨ker, Ines Detmers and Anna- Christina Giovanopoulos, ‘‘From Gay to Brecht
andBeyond: Imitation and Re-Writing of The Beggar’s Opera—1728 to 2004’’
Frank Engelmann, ‘‘A Late Eighteenth-Century Ballad Opera and John Wilkes: The
Bow-Street Opera (1773)’’
Ian Gallagher, ‘‘The Beggar’s Opera and its Criminal Law Context’’
Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos, ‘‘Robert Walpole und Jonathan Wild: Die satirischen
Bezugspersonen von John Gays The Beggar’s Opera’’
Horst Ho¨hne, ‘‘Die Fortsetzung der Beggar’s Opera: Polly (1728)’’
Anja Mu¨ller, ‘‘Alan Ayckbourn’s Beggar’s Opera as A Chorus of Disapproval’’
The authors and titles in The Public’s Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in
Eighteenth-Century England are:
Nadia Bishai, ‘‘Women and Performance on Stage and Scaffold in Late SeventeenthCentury England’’
Helen E. M. Brooks, ‘‘Women and Theatre Management in the Eighteenth Century’’
Gilli Bush-Bailey, ‘‘The Mystery of Revival: Performance and Reception of Susanna
Centlivre on the Modern Stage’’
Amy Scott Douglass, ‘‘Aphra Behn’s Covent Garden Drollery: The first History of
Women in the Restoration Theatre’’
Penny Gay, ‘‘ ‘So persuasive an Eloquence,’ Roles for Women on the Eighteenth
Century Stage’’
Carol Howard, ‘‘A Female Freemason on Stage? Eliza Heywood’s Patriotism at
Henry Fielding’s Haymarket Theatre’’
Rita Allison Kondrath, ‘‘Subverting Hierarchy and Vying for Agency: Mistresses
and Maidservants in Pix’s The Beau Defeated and Behn’s The Rover’’
Liberty Smith, ‘‘ ‘There will be all the world there’: Sexual Trouble and the Fans of
Castrati in Henry Fielding’s The Historical Register’’
Mary Trull, ‘‘Lucretius’s Performing Simulacra and Aphra Behn’s ‘Unresistable
idea’ in Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister’’
The authors and titles in Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571–1845 are:
Jill Marie Bradbury and David A. Valone, ‘‘Introduction’’
Jill Marie Bradbury, ‘‘Domestic, Political, and Moral Economies in Swift’s Irish
Writings’’
Scott C. Breuninger, ‘‘Berkeley and Ireland: Who are the ‘we’ in ‘We Irish think
otherwise’?’’
Evan R. Davis, ‘‘The Injured Lady, the Deluded Man, and the Infamous Creature:
Swift and the 1707 Act of Union’’
Virginia La Grand, ‘‘Notes from a Native Son: Swift’s Intelligencer’’
Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth, ‘‘Fashioning Identity in Eighteenth-Century Politics: The Case
of John Toland’’
The authors and titles in Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks
are:
J. Paul Hunter, ‘‘Manliness and Poetry, and Pope: Gender, Language, Nation’’
Deborah Kaplan, ‘‘ ‘Adieu Buttock’: Censoring Restoration Comedies for the Early
Eighteenth-Century Stage’’
Gordon Turnbull, ‘‘Boswell’s London Journal, 1762–1763, and Frances Sheridan’s
The Discovery: Imagining the Maternal’
David Vander Meulen, ‘‘The Afterlife of the Imagination: Posthumous Adventures of
Pope’s Essay on Man’’
Cynthia Wall, ‘‘Chasms in the Story’’: Sophia Lee’s The Recess and David Hume’s
History of England’’
Aubrey L. Williams, ‘‘Angelic Ministers, Mortal Coils: Hamlet to The Vicar of
Wakefield’’
The authors and titles in Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England are:
Lara Dodds, ‘‘Margaret Cavendish’s Domestic
Experiment’’
Josephine Donovan, ‘‘ ‘That All the World May Know’: Women’s ‘Defense-Narratives’
and the Early Novel’’
Michelle M. Dowd, ‘‘Structures of Piety in Elizabeth Richardson’s Legacy’’
Julie A. Eckerle, ‘‘Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors, and Constructing Selves: The
Preface as Autobiographical Space’’
Catherine Field, ‘‘‘Many hands hands’: Writing the Self in Early Modern Women’s
Recipe Books’’
Elspeth Graham, ‘‘Intersubjectivity, Intertextuality, and Form in the Self-Writings of
Margaret Cavendish’’
Mary Ellen Lamb, ‘‘Merging the Secular and the Spiritual in Lady Anne Halkett’s
Memoirs’’
The authors and titles in Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers
in England, 1650–1800 are:
Barabara M. Benedict, ‘‘Writing on Writing: Representations of the Book in Eighteenth
Century Literature’’
Evan R. Davis, ‘‘Pope’s Phantom Moore: Plagiarism and the Pseudonymous Imprint’’
Margaret J. M. Ezell, ‘‘Invisible Books’’
J. Paul Hunter, ‘‘Foreword’’
Richard Nash, ‘‘The Book That Wrote an Animal’’
Catherine M. Parisian, ‘‘Intersections in Book History, Bibliography, and Literary
Interpretation: Three Episodes in the Publication History of Frances Burney’s
Cecilia’’
Pat Rogers, ‘‘Edmund Curll and the Publishing Trade’’
Laura L. Runge, ‘‘Introduction’’
Betty A. Schellenberg, ‘‘The Second Coming of the Book, 1740–1770’’
Eleanor F. Shevlin, ‘‘The Warwick Lane Network and the Refashioning of ‘Atalantis’
as a Titular Keyword: Print and Politics in the Age of Queen Anne’’
Phyllis Thompson, ‘‘Uncovering the Traces Left Behind: Manuscript Recipes,
Middleclass Readers, and Reading Practices’’
SCRIBLERIANA
Martin Price, 1920–2010
Editors and Reviewers /Reviewers and Editors
Allen Tate on Swift
The Eighteenth Century in the New Yorker
Eighteenth-Century Novelists in Nineteenth-Century Russia
LETTER