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... insight into an era of aesthetic transition. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 mirror theater acting manners gesture performance • “The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form”: The Histrionic Mirror...

...Howard D. Weinbrot The stern royalist Act of 12 Car. 2, c.30 in 1662 reprobated the “abominable” regicide of Charles I on 30 January 1649 (n.s.). The act mandated that on every 30 January every Anglican church or chapel in every parish in British dominions should read a sermon deploring the murder...

... commentators, Addison's Cato was a model not only to be applauded but also imitated. In this essay, I take seriously this disconnection between current interpretation and immediate reception. I first attend to the tragedy's fifth act, where we see a concerted attempt both to flag the protagonist's fallibility...

... and original author over copyist, I examine acts of selection, adaptation, and copying, indicated by naming and signing, in a representative selection of miscellanies from the database Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820. I also consider such patterns of selection in four miscellanies extending across...

... present different and mutually supportive forms of authority. In this case, print is referred to through citation, graphic imitation, and paratextual format, whilst at the same time, the virtuoso scribal acts of transcribing and refining within the volume operate as an alternative index of textual...

... as a practice of Christian virtue without teleological ends or rewards. The rewards of virtue would appear to become virtual and immanent, available in the act of reading itself. And this is to merge religion with literature so that together they enter the logic of post-secularity. Copyright 2017 by Duke...

... performing sexual acts. In “Fanny’s Feeling,” I argue instead that Fanny Hill tells the story of the heroine’s development of emotional sophistication, which provides the key to her success. Other novelists, such as Samuel Richardson and Eliza Hay-wood, depict characters that acquire emotion sophistication...

....” These narratives claim to expose clandestine acts, to pull away veils that hide petty motives, and to expose abuses underlying the exercise of power. In Swift’s work, however, the impulse to dig up embarrassing or disillusioning secrets serves yet another purpose; it allows more painful realities to remain buried...

..., or enables, people to act as humans. Duke University Press 2009 R Person, Animal, Thing: The 1796 Dog Tax and the Right to Superfluous Things Lynn Festa Rutgers University...

...William Gibbons The magician Zoroastro plays a critical role in Handel's opera Orlando (1733). He opens the first act with a dramatic monologue, keeps the hero Orlando from wreaking too much havoc in his madness, and eventually brings the opera to a peaceful conclusion. Despite his importance...

... of Scotland at a time when the nation's very existence was under threat. Such a rereading of Watson's collection also contributes toward a reevaluation of the impression that Scottish literature after the Act of Union is pathologically split, a reflection of what G. Gregory Smith referred...

... an account of attribution as a slow and repetitive process rather than a singular moment or act. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 R Attribution and Repetition: The Case of  Defoe and the Circulating Library Mark...

... pro-French sentiment; Jacobite themes of exile and lost love are also present. Haywood glorifies the victories and conquests of Charles XII of Sweden, who was a Jacobite hero, and who acts as a surrogate for Charles Edward Stuart in the novel. In that part of the novel concerned with love and amorous...

... anecdotes describe incidents that unsettle normative assumptions about how beings do or ought to act, and so help generate new knowledge of human nature. Mr. Spectator’s anecdotal method gave the papers the appearance of novelty for its original readership, but it was also the cause of the steep decline...

... before the Marriage Act of 1753 in England and Wales, especially the notorious clandestine marriage trade of London, I argue that there is a strong suggestion throughout that Sarah may not be simply a discarded mistress, but actually the rake's first wife. By contemplating ways in which the moral lesson...

... the Licensing Act was passed in the wake of a series of his scurrilous and scatological politi- cal satires. During those nine years, Henry Fielding wrote, revised, presented, and published an extraordinary number of plays. Some were performed but not Eighteenth-Century...

... to Drams for consolation, from time immemorial,” while “widows tears” and the “Shreeks of desponding Matrons”4 are supposed to have greeted the passage of the Gin Act of 1736. The story of women and gin exists on two planes: for some it was an economic commodity to be sold with other goods...

... credentials. Although Hardwicke’s Marriage Act effectively outlawed clandestine marriage in 1753, novelists tended to ignore the legal changes the act effected, and clandestine marriage remained a popular plot device into the early nineteenth century.1 From Richardson to Aus- ten, novelists used...

... sphere depended largely on the political and social circumstances of Protestant Dissent before and after the Act of Tol- eration, without which the public sphere as defined by Habermas could not have developed.6 One of its key provisions allowed Dissenters...

... on the Action Proper for the Pulpit. Fordyce advocated nurturing virtuous passions so that persuasive expressions were naturally marked upon the body (57), and he anticipated efforts to codify acting techniques for appearing natural onstage. Goring’s second chapter takes up the sensational “Orator Henley...