1653
in Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World
March 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 26177 words.
A new mode of autobiographical narrative was rapidly codified in England and its Atlantic colonies in the 1650s, with a burst of publications. A strict emphasis on methodologies of assent unified...
A ‘True Spy’ in Scotland
in Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions
February 2003; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 11182 words.
Daniel Defoe left for Scotland on September 13, 1706. If his letters to Robert Harley are any indication of his state of mind, he had spent much of the summer trying to pacify his creditors and to...
‘A Cat on a Post’: Animal Events in Seventeenth-century Writing
in Renaissance Transformations
October 2009; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 7274 words.
This chapter examines a different Renaissance imaginative sense of embodiment, which is how the soul inhabits the body. It looks at how the sense of transformation in sacramental processes was...
‘A dame, an owner, a defendresse’
in 'Grossly Material Things'
May 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 15310 words.
Chapter Two addresses the question of patronage, briefly charting existing scholarship in the field before moving on to examine a number of neglected sources, which offer more concrete evidence of...
‘A Devil on’t, the Woman Damns the Poet’: Aphra Behn's Fictions of Feminine Identity
in Seductive Forms
April 1998; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 19560 words.
This chapter examines the fiction of Aphra Bren. It argues that a properly historicist and feminist account of Behn's prose writing must cease to view Behn's texts as mere sources for biographical...
‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
in ‘The Horrid Popish Plot’
February 2010; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 16482 words.
This chapter focuses on the Duke of York and the crisis over the succession, which was precipitated in part by Oates' allegations. It sets concerns over a potential Catholic successor in several...
‘A free Government & Religion rational & pure’: Two Versions of Nation
in Madam Britannia
December 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 18949 words.
This chapter contrasts two interpretations of Britain as a nation of Liberty. The first half of the chapter discusses Elizabeth Montagu’s trip to France. She described herself as particularly blessed...
‘A free Stationers wife of this companye’
in 'Grossly Material Things'
May 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 22785 words.
Chapter Three moves into the world of the printing house, and the civic and corporate life of the Stationers. It provides a wealth of information about the extent and variety of women's work within...
‘A Genius for Love’: Sex as Politics in Delarivier Manley's Scandal Fiction
in Seductive Forms
April 1998; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 16623 words.
This chapter examines the fiction of Delarivier Manley. Delarivier Manley's first major scandal novel The New Atalantis reincarnates the figure of Aphra Behn's fictional and poetic persona, Astrea,...
‘A Good One though Rather for the Foreign Market’: Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and the Romantic Mercenary
in Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830
May 2010; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 16005 words.
This chapter discusses Walter Scott and Lord Byron, who use Quentin Durward and Don Juan to visualize a type of patriotic autonomy that is available to soldiers in the company of mercenaries. These...