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...Mark Vareschi While much scholarly attention has been paid to attributing or de-attributing the texts associated with Daniel Defoe properly, less attention has been paid to the process of attribution itself and the context in which these attributions were made. This essay examines the various means...

...Jennifer Batt As records in the Digital Miscellanies Index (DMI) reveal, verse in miscellanies was printed without attribution or was attributed via descriptive epithets, pseudonyms, or partial indications of a poet's name at least as often as it was printed with a clear and unambiguous...

... conventional imperial attributes that characterized Napoleonic imagery at the time. On one level, the portrait can be understood according to Christian iconography or as an allegory of the new French order according to ancient Roman mythology. I argue, however, that Prud'hon subscribed to early nineteenth...

..., Consisting of Tales, Fables, Epigrams, &c. &c. By Nobody . His attribution of his poetry to Nobody was playful, but, in an irony of history, it has turned out to be prophetic. Despite the relative success of this volume — it went through three additional editions in his lifetime — and despite...

... of these extracts are firmly attributed to Shakespeare, others are the consequence of adaptation and revision, and some have no provenance at all. What does this tell us about the cultural consumption and assimilation of Shakespeare at this moment of anthologizing? What cultural needs and attitudes do these textual...

... as the foremost court poet of the Restoration. The Rochester the volume presented—as well as the poems it attributed to him—evolved across the early editions of The Works , and it was in the hands of the notorious bookseller Edmund Curll that its vision of Rochester took its most influential turn. Inserting...

... for avoiding print. For a poet who avoided print so assiduously, every erroneous attribution is significant; these poems offer a picture of who she was to her contemporaries, and reveal the risks that appearing in print represented to women. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Lady Mary...

... realms we can dig up lawsuit testimony, but plaintiff and defendant rarely agree. What seems plausible is not always true, and the improbable can sometimes be proven. Attribution is a particularly knotty problem, as the horrible messes in the canons of Defoe and Fielding remind us. Memoirs...

... attention to a number of curious details, including early critiques of Johnson's work, and mentions of Johnsonian publications or attributions that have been sometimes overlooked. The whole is intended to be a contribution to the understanding of Johnson's near-contemporary reception and reputation. Duke...

... and interpret his writings. For a variety of reasons—having to do with the nature of his life and work, the lack of much personal record, the anonymity and attribution problems—we are simply not on solid ground, as we are with Dryden, Pope, Fielding, or Swift. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Gillian Skinner The idea that Burney features in her own journals and letters as a novelistic heroine is something that readers over the years have noted and attributed variously to straightforward egotism or to a need for compensation. In this article, I read narrative performances Burney produced...

... of a poem. I begin with attribution—how compilers represent the origins of the verse they copy—as an indicator of the degree to which the poetic universe is understood to be organized around authors as proprietors and as guarantors of meaning and value. 7 The options here may seem self-evident: texts...

.... In the “traditional, post-Romantic emphasis on indi- vidual authors,” we customarily attribute authorship to “an individual who could be linked to the work through the medium of a proper name, who could then be understood to be possessed of both an identifiable intention and an originative agency.” 7 Greene’s...

...—not even her forename. Most of Meeke’s novels appeared with her marital ascription on their title-pages, meaning that her married surname was the only trace by which she might be iden- ti‡ed. The longest-standing attribution was provided in the Dictionary of National Biography at the close...

..., the relationship between popularity and canonicity, and the connections between notions of authorship and practices of attribution. From close to distant reading, these essays model how the DMI might be used to generate new hypotheses concerning the ways that eighteenth-century readers and writers...

... Onslow as speaker of the Commons), events that took place between November 1740 and February 1743. The editors also follow George Birkbeck Hill and F. V. Bernard in attributing to Johnson two brief earlier debates on naval affairs published in 1740 and 1741, here printed as an appendix. Also...

..., albeit of a different sort, but was also the next phase of Defoe's evolution. The original Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy is an attribution quagmire. Most scholars agree that the first volume, published in three parts between 1684 and 1686, in Italian and in French (consisting of 102 letters...

... questions of attribution or authorship are not pressing. In most manuscripts, the scribe's activity is unattributed. Even in the case of two long-time scriveners who produced large numbers of works, direct attribution is minimal and tends to be self-effacing: Sister Cecily Joseph signs one book, MS 13...

... and circulated poetry, has definitively attributed one new poem to PWP and has made another speculative attribution. 7 By searching for PWP in new archives, these scholars contribute to a long tradition of reconstructing Wheatley's writing and its wider circulation. Rather than fixating on the tragic loss...

...). Pp viii + 250. £60 paper J The attributes and centrality of reason in Enlightenment culture are called into question yet again in two recent studies of eighteenth-­century French lit- erature. In The Fiction of Enlightenment, Heidi Bostic contends that Enlight...