...Laura Tallon This essay seeks to expand our understanding of ekphrasis and its dynamics by analyzing the poetry of Anne Finch. In the standard model constructed by critics from the eighteenth century to the present, ekphrasis represents a contest between poetry and visual art that applies...

...Ashley Marshall Hone Joseph . Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2017 ). Pp. vi + 209 . $81 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 1, January 2020 doi...

...Philip Smallwood Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Winn James Anderson . Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts . ( New York : Oxford Univ. , 2014 ). Pp. xxi + 792. 35 b/w ills., 18 color inserts, 28 musical examples. $39.95 Review Essay...

...Lina Jiang This article focuses on Ann Murry's serial essay “The Moral Zoologist, or Natural History of Animals,” which appeared in the Lady's Magazine in sixty‐seven letters between 1800 and 1805. I argue that Murry's “The Moral Zoologist” contested the bounds of women's scientific knowledge...

..., both in the later eighteenth century and the present day. It focuses specifically on two poets who formulated the private sublime: Freneau in the 1781 British Prison-Ship and Ann Eliza Bleecker in the poems that she wrote after her daughter’s death in 1777. While Freneau’s poetry emphasizes terror...

... not coexist with otherwise conservative political or religious beliefs, I analyze conduct books by Evangelical Christians such as Hannah More, Isaac and Ann Taylor, and Jane West. I intend to demonstrate that many conduct books by conservative Christians normalized and even validated behavior traits like...

...Anne M. Thell Published in collaboration with the Royal Society of London in 1697, William Dampier’s A New Voyage Round the World was the most popular and influential travel account of the first half of the eighteenth century. Yet despite the astonishing success of New Voyage within commercial...

...Anne M. Thell Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 3, September 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8718622 Copyright 2020 by Duke...

...Rebecca Anne Barr The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics . ( Cork : Cork Univ. , 2014 ), ed. Carpenter Andrew and Collins Lucy . Pp. xiv + 418 . €39 , £35 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Anne Barbeau Gardiner The College of William & Mary 2001 Dryden, Bower, Castlemaine, and the Imagery of Revolution, 1682–1687 In 1683, when details of the Rye House Plot emerged, there was a sharp swing of public opinion...

...Timothy Erwin Marshall Ashley , ed. Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson . ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2015 ). Pp. 269 . 44 ills . $80 Reverand Cedric D. II , ed. Queen Anne and the Arts . ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2015...

... (Hetty) 5 Others Key Ann OR Charles 1749 – 1832 Hannah = Biological Descent...

... that “this is quite a female case.”7 Anne Elliot’s opinions turn out to agree with those of Sir Charles Grandison. She says “Nursing does not belong to a man, it is not his province,” and adds “A sick child is always the mother’s property, her own feelings generally make it so” (P, 56). As the plot progresses...

... in Queen Anne’s reign by Chief Justice Holt (1642–1710) to use his severe interpretation of seditious libel law as a means of press control is one instance of the continuance of such anxieties into the eighteenth century.2 The two instances of censorship in 1707 and 1743–44 explored below fur- ther...

... at war; at age thirty-two, shortly after his return to Parliament in 1710, he was appointed secretary of state for the Northern Department. Bolingbroke and Robert Harley, Queen Anne’s last lord treasurer and prime minister, were the principal engineers of the controversial Treaty of Utrecht...

... of   locating histories of the actress within literary rather than economic or social history, have elided her from being considered as a working or professional woman.5 Yet more than anything, this is exactly what she was. Those actresses, like Susan- nah Cibber, Anne Oldfield, and Dora Jordan, who...

... in the Age of Queen Anne (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2005). Pp. 341. 4 ills. $125. ISBN 0-19-927439-8 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay Ye Jacobites by Name? Brean Hammond University of Nottingham...

... are as frequent, and owe their rise to the same principles, as those in the political world. — Pique, resentment, ambition, or interest, which ever motive happens to preponderate, brings them about.” George Anne Bellamy, An Apology for the Life (1786) G The London stage...

... competing readings. In a closely argued essay on Dryden’s “Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire,” admirably attentive to details of politics in the period, Anne Cotterill detects an “undercurrent of hostility” beneath Dryden’s “hyperbolic praise” of his patron Dorset. Her essay...

...” (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 2007). Pp. 280. 10 ills. $54.50. ISBN 0-87413-966-x J In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Anne Elliot and Captain Benwick form an inti- macy through their shared love of literature. The narrator remarks, “Having talked of poetry...