...Andreas Mueller This article argues that Richard Hurd was more directly engaged than previously appreciated with the Anglo-Scottish cultural wars of the early 1760s over the nature of and center of gravity of an emergent British literary tradition. It establishes the ways Hurd’s Moral and Political...

..., which is to say, “bastards” (27). Forgeries are texts without legiti- mate parents, nodes for fabulations of self-­creation, self-­invention, and self- ­romancing. In this fog of figuration, the literal state of affairs — the “naked letter” — escapes us, as it did Richard Hurd, whose quest...

... eighteenth cen- tury we consider central to literary study: Richard Hurd’s Letters on Chiv- alry and Romance and Thomas Warton’s History of English Literature. The gothic is, and there’s an end on’t. It is not the purpose of this paper to off er a new defi nition of the gothic nor to critique those...

... commentators. Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester and Addison's Regency-era editor, noted that though the “sentiment is not in character,” Addison chose “to violate decorum” in the “interests of religion and virtue,” while Moore, in his Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide , applauded the lines...

... is not designing. Eighteenth-century garden theorists themselves rejected the idea of the garden as a completely open and infinitely interpretable. James Thomson calls the landscape garden “the regulated wild,” and these regulations are generally understood as directing the viewer's experience. For Richard Hurd...

... it as a work of the literary canon that had sig- nificantly shaped the development of the period s poetry. It had, by then, also helped Richard Hurd, Thomas and Joseph Warton, and others, theo- rize about a type of gothic genre that did not adhere to the rules of the epic, but that nevertheless possessed...

... Horace’s epode and “Clau- dian’s Old Man of Verona” in its second volume. The Works enjoyed twelve editions between 1668 and 1721, with an apparent hiatus until 1772 and Richard Hurd’s Select Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley, followed by a third edition in 1777. Hurd chose the best of Cowley’s still...

... the century is borne out by the evidence, and also looks at the ways in which the posthumous careers of Abraham Cowley and Sir Richard Blackmore are affected by posterity, according to the patterns of their reprinting in miscellany culture. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 poetry canon...

.... (p. iv) Skillfully combining the theory of romance developed by critics such as Richard Hurd with concepts of lyric derived from the theory of the sub- lime,33 Barbauld turns “pure poetry” into the quintessential Romantic category—a supra-genre...

... Sterne, and Richard Hurd, for example.4 As we shall see, the law could be casually enforced. Some parishes lacked a resident priest, vicar, or even a functioning church; harsh winter travel in rural areas inhibited both the congregants and the ministers; these certainly recycled old sermons...