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...Ann Campbell This essay argues that Frances Burney in Cecilia; or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) critiques political debates and literary conventions focused on clandestine marriage. Through two plots of this novel, one economic and one focused on courtship, Burney interprets clandestine marriage...

....” These narratives claim to expose clandestine acts, to pull away veils that hide petty motives, and to expose abuses underlying the exercise of power. In Swift’s work, however, the impulse to dig up embarrassing or disillusioning secrets serves yet another purpose; it allows more painful realities to remain buried...

... before the Marriage Act of 1753 in England and Wales, especially the notorious clandestine marriage trade of London, I argue that there is a strong suggestion throughout that Sarah may not be simply a discarded mistress, but actually the rake's first wife. By contemplating ways in which the moral lesson...

... Irregular marriages included a variety of forms of clandestine marriage. And as R. B. Outh- waite has explained, clandestine marriage was any marriage that breached canon law to some degree, whether by taking place outside the church, or outside the time or dates prescribed by the church, or, more...

... techniques of functional ambiguity” with “clandestine presses and decoy imprints” as twin “strategies of circumvention” (22–23), the one favored by authors, and the other by printers. And yet Keymer has very little to say about the methods of bibliographical dissimilation devised by printers, many of them...

... clandestine marriage to polyamory, to polygamy, to polyandry, scarcely a sexual permutation goes unimagined. Such themes drew charges of pru- rience from Darwin’s censorious contemporaries.2 Recent scholars have treated Darwin’s erotics more admiringly while conceding their masculin- ist cast.3...

..., though the notion of a clandestine polemic remains a little vague. The second premise seems more tenuous, and in an evidence- heavy book, it is conspicuously under- documented. Personally, I would have been glad to see a little sharper differentiation between Hone s take on The Shortest- Way and my own...

.... Not coincidentally, the theater, a primary public amusement, was the rage in that decade, and the declama- tion of actors provided another model. So in the 1750s oratory became the passion of tradesmen and appren- tices who formed spouting clubs and produced clandestinely acted plays.7 Before speaking...

...- riage rites further the reform of unruly marriage practices at home, such as those celebrated at London’s Fleet and other flourishing urban clandestine marriage markets? I shall argue that the interests and categories within marriage-rites literature helped normalize...

... Mem, ) that the marriage by license in St. George’s Chapel, Mayfair, may have been clandestine to keep their illegitimate child secret, but half of the marriages in London took place in “clandestine” centers in the mid-eighteenth century. See Jacob Field, “An Examination of Fleet Weddings...

.... Obviously, secret societies, with their vows of secrecy and esoteric modes of identif ication and communication, and with established international networks, would be attractive to Jacobites seeking by clandestine means to effect a Stuart restoration. As Paul Monod has observed, the central mystery...

...), although they would not appear publicly until 1735, when they would be included as part of the supposedly clandestine collection that “trickster Pope” covertly fed to Curll. The occasion for the 1729 collection involved another of Pope’s antagonists, Lewis Theobald, who in 1728 was selling his...

... perspective. Certainly, given his father’s opposition to Mary Dunkley as a future wife, it is not sur- prising that Bentham supported these limitations, going so far as to defend clandestine marriage even though he himself never married. In his first ECL26202-22-chiu.q4 5/28...

... of consuming fiction that the attacks on the novel imagined. Emma’s clandestine and unguarded reading develops an overactive imagination: she lies awake at night “conjuring up in [her] imagination” all the tragic scenes she has read and persuades herself that they have happened to her friends (51...

... sur le 18° Siècle, no. 10, ed. Bruno Bernard and Manuel Couvreur (Brussels: Univ. of Brussels, 2004). Pp. 352. 19 ills. 25€ paper. ISBN 2-8004-1335-2 Love, Harold. English Clandestine Satire, 1660 – 1702 (New York: Oxford Univ., 2004). Pp. 442. $125. ISBN 0-19-925561-x 96...

.... Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2012). Pp. xi + 342. 49 color ills. $55 Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-­Century Women Poets (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2013). Pp. xii + 303. 12 ills. $90 King, Kathryn R. A Political Biography...

... surely betrays our clandestine feminist agenda. Although separated by 200 years, the objects that embody the “It” factor of celebrity for Wil- liam Shakespeare and Jane Austen tell strikingly par- allel tales about how objects Figure 2. Oil painting of David Garrick Leaning on a for all...

... attempting to deal with Swift’s so-called History of the Four Last Years of the Queen (written 1712–13). The clandestine peace negotiations carried out between Oxford’s minis- try and the French, beginning in December 1710, are, of course, not explic- itly documented in Bolingbroke’s letters...

... d’Eon de Beaumont (Amsterdam, 1775). It is discussed in Hammersley, English Republican Tradition, 110–23. 33.  Jean Paul Marat, The Chains of Slavery. A Work Wherein the Clandestine and Villainous Attempts of Princes to Ruin Liberty Are Pointed Out, and the Dreadful Scenes of Despotism...

... while he writes.7 The letters also purport to be conveying secret information: that there are actually few political secrets within these letters does not detract from the fact that Swift proclaims the clandestine nature of his information partly as a way of demonstrating his affection...