...Sarah Prescott The College of William & Mary 2001 Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections, and Noble Friends: Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Female Authorship in Early Eighteenth-Century England ’Twas...

... reading: those poems, the authorship of which was (or appeared to be) disputed. This article considers how, through accident or design, misattributions entered into and persisted in the printed record. Each case of disputed authorship provides insight into the reception history of the poem under...

...Kathleen Lawton-Trask A sometime friend, sometime adversary of Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu largely resisted publication, sharing her work privately and denying authorship of some of her poems that made their way into print. Nevertheless, today she is considered a prominent literary...

... with the infamous Minerva Press, which issued staggering levels of new fiction written primarily by women. Meeke’s title-pages employed a complex system of authorship: some works carried her name (“Mrs. Meeke”); others were anonymous; a third strain employed the pseudonym “Gabrielli.” As an author of numerous...

... friends, and his authorship in 1761 of the Institutes of Health , which details how individual well-being could be promoted by exercise, hygiene, and a good diet. Cleland Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure editing sexuality health Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Devoney Looser This essay considers Frances Burney’s last published work, Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832), for its sustained attention to gender, aging, and authorship. When the Memoirs is read from cover to cover, significant and previously unnoticed patterns emerge that offer new insights...

...Peter M. Briggs Dunton's journalistic Athenian Mercury and his proto-novel A Voyage Round the World , both from 1691, imply through their strategies of presentation significantly different ideas of authorship. Experimenting with a participatory format that paired readers' questions on a variety...

... in individual subjectivity, and coalescing copyright laws in the wake of the 1710 Statute of Anne, Johnson’s contemporaries were ready to consider authorship as a legitimate category of ownership that helped make periodization, based on author- ship, possible. As a figure of English identity...

...Misty Krueger misty.krueger@maine.edu Hilary Havens . Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2019 ). Pp. 242 . $99.99 cloth. $29.99 paper. Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Hilary...

...Erin Mackie Powell Manushag N. . Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals . ( Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xii + 289 . $85 Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay Periodical...

...), and important scholarly advances that bear directly on Cleland and his work: a more nuanced understanding of the history of gender and sexuality; a renewed interest in print culture, the history of the book, and shifting ideas about authorship; the establishment of postcolonial studies and an increased...

... is a nineteenth-­century invention.1 These two stories seem at odds with each other. Each is, however, about attribution: the former, the attribution of genre, the latter, of authorship. From the beginning, describing the rise of the novel meant placing Defoe’s novels in a lineage alongside those...

...Martin Maner Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan, eds. British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics, and History (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005). Pp. 205. 2 ills. $65. ISBN 1-4039-4931-8; Helen Thompson. Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power...

.... Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1999). Pp. 182. $38.50. ISBN 0-8018-6139-X McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Marketplace 1678–1730 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999...

... against Abolishing Christianity and A Description of a Morning seemingly in a few days each. He was, arguably, the best ironist of all time and all countries. Swift also lived a full life as a publisher of books, pamphlets, and poems, sometimes openly admitting his authorship, often playing...

... the limitations of a gendered artistic culture, it also positioned her as a pub- lic professional in an unregulated public market, in which the lionized author and the celebrated work were treated as almost interchangeable. As I argue elsewhere, Burney’s resistance to performing her authorship...

... that she uses the terminology of botanical taxonomy to express anxieties about authorship, I want to apply to new chronologi- cal and conceptual territory Leah Knight’s recent interest in the “ways in which a culture of plants and a culture of texts met” in this period.10 Knight primarily addresses...

... made famous by The Spectator was waning in popular- ity, while regularly published miscellanies “that more closely resemble mod- ern magazines” grew more numerous (Powell, Performing Authorship, 192). These miscellanies usually targeted a female audience; for Robert D. Mayo, Lennox’s periodical...

... In—ected by the irony that often characterizes Burney’s re—ections on her own authorship, this remark might seem self-deprecating or even dismissive. There is, though, a serious side to the mock-heroic manifesto. Burney was constantly mindful—as is dem- onstrated repeatedly in her letters, journals...

... in the narrative of unrecognized genius pioneered by writers like Savage. The genealogy of these sentiments can “explicitly show the differ- ent stages of the transformation of the idea of authorship towards a romantic and post-romantic mode, . . . ​where the genius of artistry is often necessarily at odds...