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...: Univ. of Delaware, 2005). Pp. 417. $40. ISBN 0-87413-874-4 Duke University Press 2007 Review Essay Reconfi guring the Idea of Eighteenth-Century Literature in a New Epoch: Moving from the Augustan to the Menippean...

...Roger D. Lund The College of William & Mary 2003 The Ghosts of Epigram, False Wit, and the Augustan Mode Roger D. Lund Le Moyne College Despite the efforts of Augustan poets...

... a surprising amount of contemporary recognition both as a player and as a poet, he has now totally disappeared from literary history. I suggest how and why he lost his place in the canon and what value there is in reading his work today, especially as a signpost of the relative persistence of Augustan satire...

...Sara Landreth This article examines early eighteenth-century attempts to explain how poetic descriptions of physical motion generated vivid scenes in the imagination. Motion was central to neo-Augustan theories of representation because, for much of this period, writers understood motion...

... literature, a thriving school of Romantic criticism invoked Joseph Warton’s notion of “pure poetry” to deprecate the former age. Never mind that the Romantic era was one of the great eras for satire—in the popular mind, satire and rational- ism would be inextricably associated with Augustan “verse...

...  Eighteenth-Century Life ality increases her significance” (3). But how likely is it, really, that present- ing Seward as a belated-­Augustan-­pre-­Romantic will lend her the status of a “major” writer? (3). Why not argue that Seward’s importance lay in being a “middling” author, a mediator, neither...

... Brett D. Wilson College of William & Mary Abigail Williams. Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture, 1681 – ­1714 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005). Pp. 304. $140 J In 1997, David Womersley reminded readers of  Augustan...

... from Christian and Augustan perspectives: “The emotion of pity, aroused by earlier lines, is modified by Pope’s sug- gestion that Rome suffered chastisement for imperial hubris.”1 One way in which this ambivalence manifests itself can be seen in lines 9–10, the calculated appositive mix-ups...

... book-­buyers from corrupt copies of fugitive copies of their works. But this diffident rhetoric should not distract us from three important kinds of formal signifi- cance in miscellany publications that the Augustans themselves comment upon frequently. First, books called miscellanies...

... of the diverse groups that were represented by what these groups, their opponents, and historians call “Whigs.” This becomes clear if, again, we take into account some of the work of histori- ans of Augustan society and political thought ignored and misread by literary critics bent on making Addison...

...., 2000); Robin Sowerby, Augustan Dryden, Translation and Literature 10 (2001): 51 66, and The Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan Translation of the Classics (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2006); Paul Davis, Translation and the Poet s Life: The Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646 1726 (Oxford...

... to the margins of the post-Pope, pre-Romantic canon. This age (still “Augustan” for Leavis) “had not favoured any very interesting use of minor talents. . . . And since unconvinced and undistinguished verse in Augustan modes . . . is pretty obviously uninteresting, minor talents took largely to the meditative...

... documents how Locke’s account of consciousness and personal identity influences philo- sophical/theological circles and the Augustan literary scene; James Tully’s An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts (1993), which includes a pow- erful, scholarly account of Locke’s changing views...

... product and emblem of a valuable meaning- ­­making process, she sweeps Defoe’s corpses, the waste land that exercised sev- enteenth and eighteenthcentury improvers, the Edenic abundance described by Milton, and the garbage and excrement familiar from Augustan satire into a single, heaping category...

... of the Criticisms, Burlesques, Parodies, and Adaptations of Richardson’s ‘Pamela’. Furthermore, a number of the selections have also been reproduced previously in modern fac- simile editions. As the editors point out, the Augustan Reprint Society had published...

... of their chosen field have always been unstable and somewhat arbitrary, awkwardly encompassing as they do a number of much-discussed transitions, from Restoration to Augustan literatures, to literatures of Sensibility and Romanticism. Specifically Irish evolutions are at issue in this volume, which very...

..., n. 7. 16. See Dennis Rubini, “Sexuality and Augustan England: Sodomy, Politics, Elite Circles and Society,” in The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe, ed. Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma (New York: Harrington Park, 1989), 349–81, and Paul Hammond...

... subsequent literary research. In its introduction, Carpenter stated that his editorial policy excluded “polite verse . . . ​in which gently cultured (and mostly moneyed) Anglo-Irish poets write in pastoral or Augustan style of the Phyllises in their groves” (4–5). Somewhat surprisingly, the handsome...

...., 2000). Pp. xii + 260. $85. ISBN 0-521-64268-X Prior, Charles W. A., ed. Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays. ELS Mono- graph Series No. 83 (Victoria, B.C.: Univ. of Victoria, English Literary Stud- ies, 2000). Pp. 144. $15.50. ISBN 0-920604-73-0...

..., 2002). Pp. 250. $65. ISBN 0-19-726248-1 Bowen, H. V., Margarette Lincoln, & Nigel Rigby, eds. The Worlds of the East India Company (Rochester: Boydell, 2002). Pp. 246. $75. ISBN 0-85115-877-3 Bradford, Richard. Augustan Measure.Studies in Early Modern English Literature (Burlington...