Abstract:Sydney Owenson’s bestselling 1806 novel, The Wild Irish Girl, not only functions as an apologia for Irish culture but also powerfully demonstrates that Ireland’s cultural heritage and production—as well as the Irish people’s hope for survival—are intimately related to Irish diet. For Owenson, Irish agriculture, often of a subsistence variety, produces and sustains Irish culture and Irish bodies. Written at a transitional point in Irish political and literary history, the novel counters agricultural reformer Arthur Young’s portrayal of Irish agriculture as the lowliest link on a chain ascending to the British state. Owenson instead focuses on the local world of peasant agriculture and the mouths it feeds, as well as the cultural production and appreciation that this agriculture sustains.
{"title":"The Wild Irish Girl Diet","authors":"S. C. Hall","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Sydney Owenson’s bestselling 1806 novel, The Wild Irish Girl, not only functions as an apologia for Irish culture but also powerfully demonstrates that Ireland’s cultural heritage and production—as well as the Irish people’s hope for survival—are intimately related to Irish diet. For Owenson, Irish agriculture, often of a subsistence variety, produces and sustains Irish culture and Irish bodies. Written at a transitional point in Irish political and literary history, the novel counters agricultural reformer Arthur Young’s portrayal of Irish agriculture as the lowliest link on a chain ascending to the British state. Owenson instead focuses on the local world of peasant agriculture and the mouths it feeds, as well as the cultural production and appreciation that this agriculture sustains.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80080727","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:This article demonstrates how Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure critiques early modern experimental science based upon her engagement with contemporary philosophical and religious thought. In addition to its pointed critiques of early modern marriage, The Convent of Pleasure explores the epistemological foundations of scientific knowledge and religious belief. The play’s dissonant ending, which includes the dissolution of Lady Happy’s voluntary religious society, dramatizes Cavendish’s rejection of imitative study in favor of imaginative creation. By considering The Convent of Pleasure in conversation with contemporary texts, including John Locke’s A Letter concerning Toleration, this article shows how Cavendish’s work reflects contemporary debates about early modern science and religious toleration.
{"title":"Experimental Science and Speculation in Cavendish’s Convent of Pleasure","authors":"Donovan E. Tann","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article demonstrates how Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure critiques early modern experimental science based upon her engagement with contemporary philosophical and religious thought. In addition to its pointed critiques of early modern marriage, The Convent of Pleasure explores the epistemological foundations of scientific knowledge and religious belief. The play’s dissonant ending, which includes the dissolution of Lady Happy’s voluntary religious society, dramatizes Cavendish’s rejection of imitative study in favor of imaginative creation. By considering The Convent of Pleasure in conversation with contemporary texts, including John Locke’s A Letter concerning Toleration, this article shows how Cavendish’s work reflects contemporary debates about early modern science and religious toleration.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78548943","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: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.
{"title":"Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century","authors":"D. Womersley","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79606768","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:This article reconsiders Jane Austen’s least-liked heroine, Fanny Price, as a character whose famous unlikableness is linked to her physical and mental fragility. Rereading Austen’s Mansfield Park through the lens of current work in disability studies, this article argues that Fanny has much to teach us about the intersectional nature of sexist, classist, and ableist oppression. Far from being unlikable, Austen’s characterization of Fanny is powerful in the ways in which it forces readers to confront a different type of heroine and thus challenges ableist stereotypes that tie ill health and disability with flaws of characters.
{"title":"Fanny Price as Disabled Heroine in Mansfield Park","authors":"Ula Lukszo Klein","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article reconsiders Jane Austen’s least-liked heroine, Fanny Price, as a character whose famous unlikableness is linked to her physical and mental fragility. Rereading Austen’s Mansfield Park through the lens of current work in disability studies, this article argues that Fanny has much to teach us about the intersectional nature of sexist, classist, and ableist oppression. Far from being unlikable, Austen’s characterization of Fanny is powerful in the ways in which it forces readers to confront a different type of heroine and thus challenges ableist stereotypes that tie ill health and disability with flaws of characters.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74001017","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:This article examines James Boswell’s still-unpublished “Dictionary of the Scots Language,” contextualizing it within eighteenth-century debates about Scots and emphasizing the ways that it diverges from the work of Boswell’s peers. While Samuel Johnson’s dictionary follows literary precedent, and the work of the Scottish literati encourages readers to minimize the Scottishness of their speech and writing, Boswell’s dictionary features a surprisingly familiar and conversational form of the Scots language. As such, the dictionary both highlights Boswell’s own interest in the vernacular and points to an alternative thread in eighteenth-century thinking about Scots.
{"title":"Boswell’s Dictionary and the Status of Scots Dialect in the Eighteenth Century","authors":"Taylor F. Walle","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines James Boswell’s still-unpublished “Dictionary of the Scots Language,” contextualizing it within eighteenth-century debates about Scots and emphasizing the ways that it diverges from the work of Boswell’s peers. While Samuel Johnson’s dictionary follows literary precedent, and the work of the Scottish literati encourages readers to minimize the Scottishness of their speech and writing, Boswell’s dictionary features a surprisingly familiar and conversational form of the Scots language. As such, the dictionary both highlights Boswell’s own interest in the vernacular and points to an alternative thread in eighteenth-century thinking about Scots.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84317696","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:This article argues that by reclaiming the evidentiary function of anecdote, The Natural History of Selborne (1789) marks an inflection point in the writing of natural history. Gilbert White’s use of anecdote not only invested the form with renewed scientific precision but also invited readers to bring nature home to themselves. His approach paved the way for the late eighteenth-century obsession with anecdote to persist in popular works of Victorian science. For in the decades after White’s book appeared, naturalists and scientific popularizers followed him in making anecdote a fundamental epistemological and affective unit of natural history.
{"title":"Gilbert White, Anecdote, and Natural History","authors":"M. Sodeman","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that by reclaiming the evidentiary function of anecdote, The Natural History of Selborne (1789) marks an inflection point in the writing of natural history. Gilbert White’s use of anecdote not only invested the form with renewed scientific precision but also invited readers to bring nature home to themselves. His approach paved the way for the late eighteenth-century obsession with anecdote to persist in popular works of Victorian science. For in the decades after White’s book appeared, naturalists and scientific popularizers followed him in making anecdote a fundamental epistemological and affective unit of natural history.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91251057","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:This article argues that Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania and Margaret Cavendish’s The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World engage in an unrecognized form of utopianism that is situated in women’s friendship. This utopianism departs from the traditional definition of utopia as an idealized geographical place and instead acts as a heuristic device for imagining alternatives to the present. As women’s friendships in these works blur binaries to imagine new categories, they enact a form of utopian thinking that offers new political and philosophical possibilities while remaining aware of their limitations. This article thus makes the case for Wroth’s unrecognized influence on Cavendish’s work as well as for a new understanding of early modern women’s friendship and utopianism.
{"title":"Utopian Friendships in Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish","authors":"Alexandra Verini","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania and Margaret Cavendish’s The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World engage in an unrecognized form of utopianism that is situated in women’s friendship. This utopianism departs from the traditional definition of utopia as an idealized geographical place and instead acts as a heuristic device for imagining alternatives to the present. As women’s friendships in these works blur binaries to imagine new categories, they enact a form of utopian thinking that offers new political and philosophical possibilities while remaining aware of their limitations. This article thus makes the case for Wroth’s unrecognized influence on Cavendish’s work as well as for a new understanding of early modern women’s friendship and utopianism.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81979301","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:This article offers a renewed examination of the darkness and the body in William Blake’s The Book of Urizen (1794) in light of Old Norse creation myths found in Völuspá (ca. 1270) and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda (ca. 1220). These texts provide sources for the figure Urizen. The Book of Urizen presents readers with a version of creation filled with desolation and destruction and tracks the appearance of an unknown entity named “Urizen.” His darkness exposes a deformed body at the center of this new universe, one which is arguably heavily influenced by the Old Norse primordial void known as the ginnungagap.
{"title":"Deformed Bodies and Norse Origins in William Blake","authors":"S. Choe","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a renewed examination of the darkness and the body in William Blake’s The Book of Urizen (1794) in light of Old Norse creation myths found in Völuspá (ca. 1270) and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda (ca. 1220). These texts provide sources for the figure Urizen. The Book of Urizen presents readers with a version of creation filled with desolation and destruction and tracks the appearance of an unknown entity named “Urizen.” His darkness exposes a deformed body at the center of this new universe, one which is arguably heavily influenced by the Old Norse primordial void known as the ginnungagap.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74785535","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:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of Tudor and Stuart Drama and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.
{"title":"Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama","authors":"L. Munro","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of Tudor and Stuart Drama and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85717177","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:Despite the extensive critical literature on the practical spatial arts in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, little attention has been paid to rhetorical function of number itself in the play's frequent scenes of accounting. This article reads Tamburlaine's steadily advancing figures against contemporary arithmetical narratives of exponential growth, newly popularized in Elizabethan manuals of Arabic computation and operating with particular force in the commercial discourse surrounding New World exploration. Attending to the romance of number in Tamburlaine, I argue, both helps make sense of contemporary responses to the play and suggests ways in which drama participates in shaping the scientific imaginary of its age.
{"title":"Number and Narrative in Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great","authors":"Lisa A. Wilde","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Despite the extensive critical literature on the practical spatial arts in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, little attention has been paid to rhetorical function of number itself in the play's frequent scenes of accounting. This article reads Tamburlaine's steadily advancing figures against contemporary arithmetical narratives of exponential growth, newly popularized in Elizabethan manuals of Arabic computation and operating with particular force in the commercial discourse surrounding New World exploration. Attending to the romance of number in Tamburlaine, I argue, both helps make sense of contemporary responses to the play and suggests ways in which drama participates in shaping the scientific imaginary of its age.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82761155","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}
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