Abstract:Francis Stainforth (1797–1866), a British Anglican curate, owned the largest private library of Anglophone women’s writing in the nineteenth century, comprised of works published between 1546 and 1866. This article argues that a study of Stainforth’s library catalog, and the thousands of rarely studied works and authors within it, recovers women’s book history from a historical perspective. Further, digital humanities (DH) methods, like mapping, are especially useful for studying and recovering women’s book history at scale, as demonstrated by The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing project.
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Abstract:This article argues that Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous statement on the willing suspension of disbelief was borrowed from Henry Fielding’s novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. Coleridge adapted Fielding’s view of fiction as a hypothetical space for interrogating the foundations of knowledge. He adopts a dilemma in Fielding’s fiction between the willing suspension of disbelief as a form of knowledge, and the notion, derived from Samuel Richardson, that aesthetic experience suspends the will. The result is a contradictory concept of the will as both present and absent in aesthetic experience, implicit in Fielding’s fictions and accentuated in Coleridge’s literary theory.
{"title":"How Samuel Taylor Coleridge Suspended Henry Fielding’s Disbelief","authors":"Zoe Beenstock","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous statement on the willing suspension of disbelief was borrowed from Henry Fielding’s novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. Coleridge adapted Fielding’s view of fiction as a hypothetical space for interrogating the foundations of knowledge. He adopts a dilemma in Fielding’s fiction between the willing suspension of disbelief as a form of knowledge, and the notion, derived from Samuel Richardson, that aesthetic experience suspends the will. The result is a contradictory concept of the will as both present and absent in aesthetic experience, implicit in Fielding’s fictions and accentuated in Coleridge’s literary theory.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87112731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Between the 1780s and the 1820s, Britain would transition from the solar-powered Holocene into the fossil-powered Anthropocene, seemingly motivated by new visions of the value of coal. King Coal’s Levee (1818) by John Scafe is one piece of literary culture that helped facilitate the transition to coal and Britain’s transformation into a fossil leviathan. Scafe’s poem, now mostly forgotten, was curiously popular between 1819 and 1820, going through four editions and the addition of extensive scientific notes by Oxford geologists William Buckland and William Daniel Conybeare. King Coal’s Levee helped create petroaesthetics whereby coal was not merely the fuel of the “English fire” but also the inexhaustible key to hegemony, sovereignty, and the future of the British nation.
摘要:在18世纪80年代到19世纪20年代之间，英国将从太阳能驱动的全新世过渡到化石驱动的人类世，这似乎是受到煤炭价值新愿景的推动。约翰·斯卡夫(John Scafe)的《煤王的大堤》(1818)是一部文学文化作品，它帮助推动了向煤炭的过渡和英国向化石利维坦的转变。斯卡夫的这首诗现在几乎被人遗忘了，但在1819年至1820年间，它奇怪地流行了起来，经历了四个版本，牛津地质学家威廉·巴克兰(William Buckland)和威廉·丹尼尔·康尼贝尔(William Daniel Conybeare)还添加了大量的科学注释。《煤王大堤》帮助创造了岩石美学，煤不仅是“英国之火”的燃料，也是霸权、主权和英国民族未来的取之不尽的关键。
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1353/sel.2021.a903394
Suvir Kaul
Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow. Prices are those listed at the time books were received by SEL for review.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1353/sel.2021.a903391
Annika Mann
Abstract:This article suggests that Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head (1807) operates as a rejoinder to a larger medico-poetic discourse during the Romantic period, one that claimed poetry could move and thereby return its readers to health. Romantic-era poets and physicians regularly claimed that poetry can stimulate measured bodily motions, but the form and contents of Smith's poem are instead productive of interruption and stasis. Ruminating on the causes of rather than the cures for immobility, Smith's Beachy Head ultimately severs connections between poetry and healthfulness in favor of providing a record of chronic pain—of lives held in suspense.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1353/sel.2021.a903388
E. Wilputte
Abstract:The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia is not simply a fanciful delivering of history but also a clever interrogation of biography and fiction. A narratological analysis of Sarah Fielding's introduction and The Lives reveals how Fielding's adaptation is simultaneously true and untrue, and how she subtly parallels her authorial practice with Cleopatra's contrivances. Fielding's constant elision among author, subject, and genres reveals the unsettling, yet alluring, power of fiction, and of prose narrative generally. Exposing the false dialectic between biography and fiction, Fielding challenges readers to judge the eponymous women, her own artful performances, and the purported dialectic between fiction and history.
{"title":"Sarah Fielding's Double Stratagem in The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia","authors":"E. Wilputte","doi":"10.1353/sel.2021.a903388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.a903388","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia is not simply a fanciful delivering of history but also a clever interrogation of biography and fiction. A narratological analysis of Sarah Fielding's introduction and The Lives reveals how Fielding's adaptation is simultaneously true and untrue, and how she subtly parallels her authorial practice with Cleopatra's contrivances. Fielding's constant elision among author, subject, and genres reveals the unsettling, yet alluring, power of fiction, and of prose narrative generally. Exposing the false dialectic between biography and fiction, Fielding challenges readers to judge the eponymous women, her own artful performances, and the purported dialectic between fiction and history.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74402419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1353/sel.2021.a903387
A. Persons
Abstract:This article analyzes the relationship between verse citation and gendered violence in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48). While critics have shown the influence of women writers on Richardson's novels, none has observed the role of verse citation or the element of gendered violence connected discursively to that influence in Clarissa. Verse citation in Clarissa evidences both Clarissa's ultimate agency and the role of women writers in shaping Richardson's novel and, perhaps, the development of the eighteenth-century novel. Simultaneously, verse citation in Clarissa suggests the degree to which that development may have naturalized violence against women and the appropriation of their writings.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1353/sel.2021.a903392
{"title":"The Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sel.2021.a903392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.a903392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78006730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1353/sel.2021.a903386
Catherine Addison
Abstract:Rhyme in verse, by limiting verbal choices according to what a language can provide, reduces the degree of rational control over discourse. The reduction increases with the number of repetitions. This is probably why, in the age of Alexander Pope, triplet variants of the dominant heroic couplet were frowned upon. However, in the earlier Restoration period, John Dryden and John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, used triplets fairly frequently in their couplet poems. This article examines the triplet in Rochester's tightly controlled decasyllabic verse, where it registers not only climax and excess, but also a loosening of control that admits undertones of rage, outrage, and irrationality.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1353/sel.2021.a903390
H. Linkin
Abstract:Anna Seward commended Mary Tighe's 1795 sonnet for the Ladies of Llangollen shortly before she composed her own poem for Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, "Llangollen Vale" (1796). When Tighe revised her "Addressed to the Ladies of Langollen Vale" for her 1805 collection Verses, she positioned it within a sonnet sequence that critiques Seward's poem and Seward's sonnet theories. Tighe's critique highlights the different aesthetic values she and Seward espoused as private and public poets.
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