...Sarah Haggarty Duke University Press 2010 R “The Ceremonial of Letter for Letter”: William Cowper and the Tempo of Epistolary Exchange Sarah Haggarty Newcastle University...

...Erin Parker Sharing decadent meals and living space with humans, eighteenth-century pets were often compared to guests who were lavishly treated by their hosts. This article examines the intersections between eighteenth-century pet keeping and hospitality in the writings of William Cowper...

... “Westminster Boy” was among the most familiar characters of late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century Lon- don. Though the alumni of the school included Ben Jonson, George Her- bert, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, Matthew Prior, Charles Churchill, Robert Lloyd, and William Cowper...

.... Attempts to adjudicate the rival claims of Judith Cowper Madan and William Pattison to a response to Pope’s “Eloisa to Abelard” rested on the different kinds of textual evi- dence, in manuscript and print, that were available to different editors. In 1720, Judith Cowper (1702–81, from 1723, Judith...

... represented in this special issue is truly long, as espionage letters of the 1680s brush shoulders with the correspondence of Cowper, Blake, and Hayley in the 1790s. And the epistolary is at present a growth area in eighteenth-­century studies, as evidenced by major projects such as Clare Brant’s...

...: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon, 2000), 332–33. 3. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719), ed. Evan R. Davis (Peterborough: Broadview, 2010), 52. 4. William Cowper, “The Castaway” (1800), online at < https...

... taking orders was one avenue of securing a living, success in this field required both ambition and connections, aptly expressed by William Cowper’s comment in “Tirocinium or a Review of Schools”: “The parson knows enough who knows a duke.”31 Families in this period were too hasty to push sons...

... despotism.” Later, the text continues, “All that is done in this castle is arbitrary.”23 Most notoriously, William Cowper in his 1783 – 84 poem The Task wrote about France’s “house of bondage . . . – the Bastile. / Ye horrid tow’rs, th’abode of broken hearts, / Ye dungeons and ye cages of despair...

... Cowper wrote: A Letter may be written upon any thing or Nothing, just as that any thing or Nothing happens to Occur. . . . A Letter is Written, as a Conversation is maintained, or a Journey perform’d, not by preconcerted, or premeditated Means, by a New Contrivance...

... the knowledgeable gentleman at work with his own hands, often engaged in a new kind of scientific agriculture. His gen- tle status is sometimes reinforced by the contrasting figure of the common laborer. William Cowper’s The Task (1785) carefully makes this distinction, as Dustin Griffin has shown.31 Both...

... inœuence was William Cowper s The 1 5 6 Eighteenth-Century Life Task, to the force, clearness, and sublimity of which she pays homage in her dedicatory letter (v). Favret uses The Task as her starting point in War at a Distance, claiming with respect to Cowper s domestic newspaper reading that wartime...

..., R ichard. Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). Pp. 216. $89.95. ISBN 0-7546-0623-6 Weaver, Karol K. Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 2006). Pp. 163. 7...

... literary work, but with the correspondence of a West Indian plantation owner, Martin Madan, and his wife, the poet Judith Cowper Madan, who inflect their financial discussions and even romantic flirtations with the metaphors of slavery and bondage. The implication behind this choice of text is clear...

...- ments, the origins of syphilis, Cowper’s rabbits, Goethe’s botany, the pos- sible connections between gin and gender, displays of anatomical speci- mens (I’m thinking of the article on Frederick Ruysch’s Kunstkammer, where pieces of babies were preserved...

...) doesn't let the genre of the academic monograph hem him in. Between the book's sections are brief interludes that sketch out “a shadow book of sorts” (73)—a tale about the persistence of “the mortalist impulse” (71) in the nature poetry of James Thomson, Thomas Gray, and William Cowper, which offers...

... emotion as well as channel it” (154). The chapter offers an excellent close reading of William Cowper’s “The Negro’s Complaint” (162 – 63) as well as a sustained analysis of Wedgwood’s famous medallion with the chained, kneeling slave surrounded by the words, “Am I not a man and a brother?” (164...

... was perceived as the ungodly, irrational, and dissolute effects of collective ple- beian leisure, from drunken singing to bawdy jesting. In The Task in 1785, for instance, William Cowper glowingly depicted the deserving poor as “industrious, modest, quiet, neat,” whereas work-shy artisans were charac...

... in the decades surrounding the turn of the century, and Seward’s letters abound with casually mentioned detec- tions of  borrowings in the works of Virgil, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Sterne, Gray, Chatterton, Cowper, Burns, Southey, as well as others. For Seward, literary...

... Rousseau and Smith, as well as the poetry of Cowper, Yeardsley, Wordsworth, and Shelley, not to mention par- liamentary hearings, and lesser-­known journalism and literary works. In a New Work on Money, Finance, and Thought    1 1 1 compelling chapter on antislavery poetry...

...-521-83331-0 Brace, Jeff rey. The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeff rey Brace, ed. Kari J. Winter (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin, 2004). Pp. 260. 5 ills. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-299-20144-9 Brunström, Conrad. William Cowper: Religion, Satire, Society...