Abstract:This article considers the finish—the formal polish—of Thomas Gray's literary style as it relates to his broader concern with endings not only of poems but also of human lives. It pays attention to poems from across Gray's career, from his early lyrics, to the "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard," to his later odes and epitaphs, showing how the elegance and memorability of Gray's manner conceal an intricate and humane quality of phrasing, feeling, and vision.
{"title":"Thomas Gray's Finish","authors":"A. Hodgson","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the finish—the formal polish—of Thomas Gray's literary style as it relates to his broader concern with endings not only of poems but also of human lives. It pays attention to poems from across Gray's career, from his early lyrics, to the \"Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard,\" to his later odes and epitaphs, showing how the elegance and memorability of Gray's manner conceal an intricate and humane quality of phrasing, feeling, and vision.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77046144","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:During the Anglo-Dutch wars of the later seventeenth century, the commercial fishing industry was a nexus of political associations and a storehouse of nationalist sentiments. Drawing upon England's heritage as a fishing culture, Andrew Marvell and John Dryden used the North Sea herring trade to generate political fantasies about the defeat of England's enemies and England's rise as a world power. Through an analysis of Marvell's "The Character of Holland" (1652–53) and Dryden's Amboyna (1673), this article argues that political propaganda catalyzed literary innovation, and it illustrates how literary fishing narratives shaped English identity in this important historical moment, when the nation began its evolution into a maritime empire.
摘要:在17世纪后期的英荷战争中，商业捕鱼业是政治联系的纽带和民族主义情绪的宝库。安德鲁·马维尔(Andrew Marvell)和约翰·德莱顿(John Dryden)利用英国渔业文化的传统，利用北海鲱鱼贸易，制造出一种政治幻想，让人觉得英国打败了敌人，崛起为世界强国。本文通过对马维尔(Marvell)的《荷兰的性格》(The Character of Holland, 1652-53)和德莱顿(Dryden)的《Amboyna》(1673)的分析，论证了政治宣传催化了文学创新，并说明了在这个重要的历史时刻，当英国开始向海洋帝国演变时，文学捕鱼叙事如何塑造了英国人的身份。
{"title":"Marvell, Dryden, and Commercial Fishing Propaganda during the Anglo-Dutch Wars","authors":"Ryan Hackenbracht","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the Anglo-Dutch wars of the later seventeenth century, the commercial fishing industry was a nexus of political associations and a storehouse of nationalist sentiments. Drawing upon England's heritage as a fishing culture, Andrew Marvell and John Dryden used the North Sea herring trade to generate political fantasies about the defeat of England's enemies and England's rise as a world power. Through an analysis of Marvell's \"The Character of Holland\" (1652–53) and Dryden's Amboyna (1673), this article argues that political propaganda catalyzed literary innovation, and it illustrates how literary fishing narratives shaped English identity in this important historical moment, when the nation began its evolution into a maritime empire.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80139405","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:Current literary criticism claims that there was a shift at the beginning of the nineteenth century toward intellectual, rational reading and away from the emotional, affective reading encouraged by popular eighteenth-century genres such as gothic fiction and novels of sensibility. Frances Burney and Maria Edgeworth are often identified as vanguards of this change, paving the way for nineteenth-century realism. By examining Camilla (1796) and Belinda (1801), I will challenge this genre-based chronology of the novel's development by arguing that Burney and Edgeworth valued reading with feeling and that their positive representations of affective reading have shaped the rise of the novel and the reader-text relationship.
{"title":"Reading with Feeling in Camilla and Belinda","authors":"Megan Taylor","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Current literary criticism claims that there was a shift at the beginning of the nineteenth century toward intellectual, rational reading and away from the emotional, affective reading encouraged by popular eighteenth-century genres such as gothic fiction and novels of sensibility. Frances Burney and Maria Edgeworth are often identified as vanguards of this change, paving the way for nineteenth-century realism. By examining Camilla (1796) and Belinda (1801), I will challenge this genre-based chronology of the novel's development by arguing that Burney and Edgeworth valued reading with feeling and that their positive representations of affective reading have shaped the rise of the novel and the reader-text relationship.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88009992","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 suggests that as a precursor to David Garrick's faithful adaptation of Cymbeline, he wrote a satirical rumination on its amalgamation of history and fantasy, titled Harlequin's Invasion, in which Shakespeare, figuratively speaking, dons Harlequin's mask. Harlequin's Invasion's ironic reversals celebrate the pleasurable astonishment of the nearness of difference and attempt a neighborly threefold reconciliation: of the genres of comedy and drama, of the body's passions and humors, and of the warring French and British.
{"title":"Reconciliation in David Garrick's Harlequin's Invasion and Cymbeline","authors":"John M. Crimmins","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article suggests that as a precursor to David Garrick's faithful adaptation of Cymbeline, he wrote a satirical rumination on its amalgamation of history and fantasy, titled Harlequin's Invasion, in which Shakespeare, figuratively speaking, dons Harlequin's mask. Harlequin's Invasion's ironic reversals celebrate the pleasurable astonishment of the nearness of difference and attempt a neighborly threefold reconciliation: of the genres of comedy and drama, of the body's passions and humors, and of the warring French and British.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82578097","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 takes Laurence Sterne and David Hume as two extreme cases of how writers think, feel, and write about the figure and concept of entanglement in the late Enlightenment. The late Enlightenment was an era defined, or so I claim, by an intense investment in and anxiety over relations—among people, objects, ideas, systems, and events. More than any other figure, entanglement registers that simultaneous interest in and aversion to connections. Reading between Sterne—an arch-entangler—and Hume—an arch-separator—we see not only an old trope suddenly taking on new meaning, but also a fraught transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism.
{"title":"\"Incomprehensible Contexture[s]\": Laurence Sterne and David Hume on Entanglement","authors":"Andrew Warren","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article takes Laurence Sterne and David Hume as two extreme cases of how writers think, feel, and write about the figure and concept of entanglement in the late Enlightenment. The late Enlightenment was an era defined, or so I claim, by an intense investment in and anxiety over relations—among people, objects, ideas, systems, and events. More than any other figure, entanglement registers that simultaneous interest in and aversion to connections. Reading between Sterne—an arch-entangler—and Hume—an arch-separator—we see not only an old trope suddenly taking on new meaning, but also a fraught transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89474891","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 the 1790s epistolary novels of radical women writers Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays in light of the British post office's rise to power under the Pitt administration. At a time when many writers abandoned letters in fiction because of mail's association with state surveillance, this particular community of radicals innovated a kind of epistolarity in which letters emphasized and exploited their association with the post's political power. Reading these novels in light of the emerging post and its effects on mail as legal evidence, I consider how such changes transformed the epistolary novel even as the genre lost popularity.
{"title":"Epistolary Form in the Age of the Post Office","authors":"Deven M. Parker","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the 1790s epistolary novels of radical women writers Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays in light of the British post office's rise to power under the Pitt administration. At a time when many writers abandoned letters in fiction because of mail's association with state surveillance, this particular community of radicals innovated a kind of epistolarity in which letters emphasized and exploited their association with the post's political power. Reading these novels in light of the emerging post and its effects on mail as legal evidence, I consider how such changes transformed the epistolary novel even as the genre lost popularity.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SEL.2019.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72421187","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 Charlotte Smith's engagement with the sublime aesthetic in the Elegiac Sonnets. Advancing Sianne Ngai's discussion of noncathartic, negative affects in Ugly Feelings, I argue that Smith develops a noncathartic or ugly version of the sublime feeling. In her sonnets Smith brings the sublime into contact with melancholy, describing scenes that first appear to evoke the sublime feeling but culminate in fatigue, anxiety, and sorrow. In doing so, Smith draws attention to the sense of limited agency her poetic persona experiences due to the very material conditions that drive her to write. This deflated version of the sublime suggests Smith's criticism of the gendered construction of emotional and aesthetic response in eighteenth-century literary culture.
{"title":"Charlotte Smith's Ugly Feelings","authors":"Daniel Froid","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Charlotte Smith's engagement with the sublime aesthetic in the Elegiac Sonnets. Advancing Sianne Ngai's discussion of noncathartic, negative affects in Ugly Feelings, I argue that Smith develops a noncathartic or ugly version of the sublime feeling. In her sonnets Smith brings the sublime into contact with melancholy, describing scenes that first appear to evoke the sublime feeling but culminate in fatigue, anxiety, and sorrow. In doing so, Smith draws attention to the sense of limited agency her poetic persona experiences due to the very material conditions that drive her to write. This deflated version of the sublime suggests Smith's criticism of the gendered construction of emotional and aesthetic response in eighteenth-century literary culture.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73180813","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":"Jayne Lewis","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0030","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":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79236265","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:Drawing on literal and figurative uses of puppetry across five genres of Ben Jonson's writing, this article argues that Jonson's sustained engagement with puppet theater produces a theory of drama and its interpretation. Through Bartholomew Fair, puppet audiences' participation emerges as a form of criticism that constitutes performance, a model inseparable from the formalized literary criticism Jonson enacts through puppetry in A Tale of a Tub. By leveraging puppetry's similarities to the masque to critique Inigo Jones, Jonson offers puppetry as both a vital strand of his early criticism and an alternative model of interpretive engagement.
{"title":"Ben Jonson's Puppet Theater and Modeling Interpretive Practice","authors":"Nicole Sheriko","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on literal and figurative uses of puppetry across five genres of Ben Jonson's writing, this article argues that Jonson's sustained engagement with puppet theater produces a theory of drama and its interpretation. Through Bartholomew Fair, puppet audiences' participation emerges as a form of criticism that constitutes performance, a model inseparable from the formalized literary criticism Jonson enacts through puppetry in A Tale of a Tub. By leveraging puppetry's similarities to the masque to critique Inigo Jones, Jonson offers puppetry as both a vital strand of his early criticism and an alternative model of interpretive engagement.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85738595","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}
A brief introduction to the articles comprising "Shakespeare's Waters."
摘要:简要介绍《莎士比亚的水域》中的文章。
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