...Kirk Combe The College of William & Mary 2000 Shadwell as Lord of Misrule: Dryden, Varronian Satire, and Carnival Throughout his literary criticism, Dryden instructs us how to read his own creative works.1 It should...

...Adam R. Beach The College of William & Mary 2004  Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and Nationalist Spectacle in Behn’s The Rover Adam R. Beach Ball State University In the epilogue...

... quotes Shaftesbury’s comment in his essay “Sen- sus Communis” in which he imagines an Ethiopian “transported on a sudden” to Paris or Venice during the carnival where everyone wears a mask and cos- tume. She rightly observes that this individual is cast in the role of the moral- ist who laughs...

... and elsewhere. Pyrotechnics, by the late fi fteenth and sixteenth centuries, found their way into civic and religious festivals. The Compa- gnie delle calze sponsored displays, along with masquerades, ballets, and banquets, during carnival in Renaissance Venice. In 1469, the explosions got so out...

... Italian Vista startles Whore-hunting amang groves o’ myrtles: Then bowses drumlie German-water To make himsel look fair an’ fatter, 4 Eighteenth-Century Life An’ clear the consequential sorrows, Love-gifts of Carnival Signioras. For Britain’s guid! For her destruction...

...- tury as a transitional period in which a universal and community ethos present in medieval carnival practice gave way to a privatization of be- havior and representation. Bakhtin identifies as part of this historical transition a shift in the stimulus for laughter: before...

... father s, a certain prince advanced in age. The prince asks where his visitors are headed next. Rhetor ic , the Pox, and the Grand Tour 5 The youth answered, To Venice, for the sake of being present at the carnival. [The prince] no sooner heard this, than he burst into a flood of tears . . . and said...

... confronting dangers or bewildered by tropical heat. Achievements such as successful feats of navigation, on the other hand, were celebrated with pagan carnivals in which sophisticated sea-farers participated as fully as their more simple-minded shipmates. Gallia orientalis brings this out nicely...

...). Mikhail Bakhtin, like Frye, pointed towards the Menippean with arrest- ing eff ect. Not too surprisingly, Bakhtin linked Menippean satire to the idea of carnival, that festive and liberating moment when society’s values are exhilarat- ingly turned upside down. According to Bakhtin, the Socratic...

... (19 April 1718), claimed that masquerades had their origin in “hot Countries (notorious for Lewdness)” and were like the carnivals in such Catholic countries as “Venice, Roam [sic], and Spain” (cited in Castle, p. 7). 28. That the nation’s sins led to God’s...

... akin to carnival. With one party guarding the tent, the others split into two: one goes inland to plant seeds and reconnoi- ter, while another with Lapérouse visits the monuments and houses near the camp. After criticizing Hodges’s drawing and Forster’s assumptions...

... Brewer & John Styles (London: Rutgers Univ., 1980), pp. 21–46. 12. Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, 1550–1640 (London: St. Martin’s, 2000); King, “Decision-Makers”; Thomas W. Laqueur, “Crowds, Carnival and the State...

... gendered nations coexist peacefully, unit- ing only for an annual carnival that sustains the procreation of the spe- cies. However, extended contact as allies against a common foe leads to the initiation of courtship: “From this time the Armies being Chequered...

... was the sub- section on “Festivals and Folklore,” where, despite the highly-staged nature of such events for visiting grandees, there were opportunities for a far greater social mixing than was customary at home, notably in the carnivals in Venice and Rome that lacked the customary boundaries of protocol...

...? 80 Eighteenth-Century Life Identity was a chief preoccupation of eighteenth-century culture in novels, autobiographies, histories, travelogues, theater, carnival, and emerging, empirical science.4 Although recent scholarship has examined how writers defi ned the distinctions between...

.... The election was a political tempest that began on April 1st and ran for six weeks; the exhibition was an obligatory see-­and-­be-­seen that began the third week in April and ran until the end of May. The election was a carnival from which there was simply no escape; the exhibition was a spectacle...

..., kindness, civility, and loyalty” (236). Silvia Mergenthal, in “The Shadow of Shylock: Scott’s Ivanhoe and Edgeworth’s Harrington,” Scott in Carnival: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Scott Conference, Edinburgh, 1991 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1993), 320–31...

.... They were together at the Court of Milan in 1698 – 99, in Venice during the carnival, and Rome in Holy Week. In February 1700, St. John joined Hopkins, Stanhope, Abraham Stanyan, and the Duke of Grafton in Paris. Hopkins returned to England in October 1700, St. John having done so, Hopkins recalled...