Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903739
Thomas Beachdel
abstract:Late eighteenth-century representational strategies of Vesuvius that combine spectacular images of eruption with scientifically informed ones of natural process show a clear, yet inadequately examined connection between the aesthetic category of the sublime and natural history. Visual material, such as that found in the 1768 supplement to the Encyclopédie (1751–72) and in William Hamilton's 1779 supplement to Campi Phlegraei (1776), suggests porous boundaries between aesthetics and natural history. The entwinement of spectacle and specimen was a crucial means of comprehending and describing volcanic phenomena. Examining the relationship between the sublime and natural history furthers a more nuanced comprehension of the sublime beyond the nascent genre of landscape painting or the discrete aesthetic category. It also creates a richer understanding of natural history as it transformed into more specialized, professional—or more "scientific"—disciplines, such as geology and volcanology.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903741
Chet Van Duzer
abstract:This article addresses the annotations in the exemplar of the 1525 edition of Ptolemy's Geography at the Huntington Library. The book has a rich ownership history and a sixteenth-century humanistic program of annotation by multiple hands. These annotations include texts copied from Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map. The manuscript enhancements of the book also include an extension eastward of the modern map of Eastern Europe. The book is a powerful testament to the use of Ptolemy as a matrix for the accumulation of geographic knowledge and to the continuing appreciation of Waldseemüller's 1507 world map.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903738
Jane Rickard
abstract:Ben Jonson's 1623 poem "An Execration upon Vulcan" responds to a fire in his house, which seemingly destroyed some books and papers. Scholarly interest in this work has largely been confined to what biographical information it reveals. Yet this poem is in dialogue with Cervantes's Don Quixote, Rabelais's Pantagruel, and Donne's The Courtier's Library, and it engages with the genre of the mock library catalogue. By bringing together these works, the essay not only contributes to ongoing study of such Jonsonian concerns as censorship, interpretation, and the value of learning but also highlights his interest in contemporary European comic literature and the closeness of his association with Donne. It sheds light on early modern literature's self-consciousness about the library as a malleable concept, a self-consciousness with important methodological implications for critics and historians of the period.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903737
S. van der Laan, R. Adams
abstract:This essay argues that an examination of the list of books donated to the Bodleian by Sir Michael Dormer in 1603 complicates our assumptions about the audience for Italian Renaissance literature in the Tudor period. Such study causes us to readjust our knowledge of the kinds of books owned by the gentry when set against the known book collections represented in the standard literature. It demonstrates that, by scrutinizing institutional donation lists in granular detail, we can increase the cumulative bibliographical data available to study book ownership across a wider social spectrum than has previously been accessible to scholars across the disciplines.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903742
W. Gibson
abstract:This note revisits a 2009 essay by William Gibson on a proposal to appoint an Anglican bishop for Virginia in 1672. The essay indicated how advanced the planning for the project was and gave information from an archival source of a meeting of five bishops to plan the funding and powers of the bishop. What was not clear was why the project failed. This note, using manuscripts from the Huntington Library, uses letters written in the mid-eighteenth century to explain the reasons for the failure of the project. Principal among these was the distraction of one of the major proposers of the plan, Alexander Murray, by Irish entanglements.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903740
E. Bouldin
abstract:Quakers were early adopters and promoters of inoculation, but the procedure became a contested issue among Friends. This study analyzes eighteenth-century Quaker writings on inoculation, which emphasized both human reason and divine revelation. Highlighting the diversity of ideas about the meaning of smallpox and the value of inoculation, the essay demonstrates how debates over inoculation drew Quakers into broader discourses surrounding religion, disease, and medicine in Enlightenment Britain.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903736
Tracey Sedinger
abstract:This essay reads the 1595 edition of Samuel Daniel's Civil Wars in the context of the unsettled succession and its impact on the career of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Daniel rejected the imitative logic of monarchical-republican historiography in favor of a rhetorical strategy that rendered the past less "real" than notional. He reconfigured Sidneian categories of understanding and structures of feeling, and redeployed figures of speech—prosopopeia and prosopographia—designated as carriers of energeia, to replace reading for imitation with a historiographical poetics that diffuses agency while retaining moral responsibility.
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abstract:This essay about the Huntington Library’s Ellesmere manuscript of Canterbury Tales was originally written to be a research lecture, one of a series of talks on treasures of the Huntington’s collections given in celebration of the Huntington’s centennial in 2019–20. Here, James Simpson uses the manuscript, and particularly its visual depiction of Chaucer as a storytelling pilgrim, as a lens for understanding the role of Chaucer in producing the Tales. He outlines the various ways in which scholarship has divagated from the evidence of this manuscript, yet returned to it. Simpson argues that we should return even more closely to it, admitting the likelihood that Chaucer himself oversaw its production.
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abstract:This essay examines the staging of blank documents in early modern drama for the first time. It demonstrates the prevalence of blanks as props in over two dozen plays and argues for the blank as an important but neglected aspect of early modern textual culture. The permissiveness of the blank is shown to be dangerous within political dramas, both onstage and in real life. The essay also probes the theoretical implications of the blank as a symbol of literary interpretation itself. Attention is paid to historical and political contexts as well as minute bibliographical and typographical detail in a range of plays from Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Shirley, and others.
{"title":"Filling in the Blanks in Early Modern Drama","authors":"Derek Dunne","doi":"10.1353/hlq.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay examines the staging of blank documents in early modern drama for the first time. It demonstrates the prevalence of blanks as props in over two dozen plays and argues for the blank as an important but neglected aspect of early modern textual culture. The permissiveness of the blank is shown to be dangerous within political dramas, both onstage and in real life. The essay also probes the theoretical implications of the blank as a symbol of literary interpretation itself. Attention is paid to historical and political contexts as well as minute bibliographical and typographical detail in a range of plays from Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Shirley, and others.","PeriodicalId":45445,"journal":{"name":"HUNTINGTON LIBRARY QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72708231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Shorthand, which dates back to antiquity and stretches to the present day, witnessed widespread interest in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and New England, especially among students as a tool to take sermon notes. Among the few considerations of early American shorthand, most have overemphasized the use of stenography for recording secrets. But such uses were not typical. Outside of the classroom, many schoolchildren mastered shorthand, which they used to record sermons. These notes were organized in a notebook, which served to teach future generations shorthand, and thereby create more notebooks, more knowledge. Shorthand thereby enabled a virtuous circle of pedagogical potential, leaving an unmistakable—yet underappreciated—mark on early American archives and culture alike.
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