...Anne Barbeau Gardiner The College of William & Mary 2001 Dryden, Bower, Castlemaine, and the Imagery of Revolution, 1682–1687 In 1683, when details of the Rye House Plot emerged, there was a sharp swing of public opinion...

... as a central principle of human nature. Questions about the mind/soul's “agitations” were crucial to a wide range of Enlightenment theories about mental imagery, rhetorical persuasion, and aesthetic beauty. Many writers, including John Dennis, linked the aesthetic import of spatial movement to Newtonian laws...

... literary works of the time, and was particularly associated with Freemasonry. Using Zoroastro/Zoroaster as a starting point, this article reveals the presence Masonic imagery and ideology in Orlando , and suggests that Handel and his librettist were tailoring their operas to the wealthy Masonic-friendly...

... conventional imperial attributes that characterized Napoleonic imagery at the time. On one level, the portrait can be understood according to Christian iconography or as an allegory of the new French order according to ancient Roman mythology. I argue, however, that Prud'hon subscribed to early nineteenth...

..., imagery, and ideas. Prints in albums or prints on walls could therefore operate as “museums of images”—each format ostensibly encouraged viewers to respond emotionally or intellectually to prints. Yet there is strong evidence to suggest that prints in print rooms and in print collections were perceived...

... wasteland were the same rubble, rubbish, and dust that had appeared most recently in sectarian pamphlets of the 1640s and 1650s as images of radical vio- lence.12 But apocalyptic imagery, previously associated in people’s minds with upheaval, shock, and uncertainty, now supplied a symbolic register...

... The Castle of Otranto gives ample space to the bumbling domestics and flaunts its recourse to the supernatural, its relation to Shakespeare’s death imagery is far more equivocal. If The Castle of Otranto is a “version of Ham- let,” as one critic has recently put it, it is a decidedly selective version.7...

... for elaborate descriptive imagery and personification. These preoccupations are noted below in the headnotes to the draft leaves. The body of drafts in the logbook shows Falconer developing his technique and gaining confidence, his labors leading him to perfect the lyric published as “Written at Sea” as well...

... as in the stylistic terms of his use of imagery inflected by Alexander Pope, which produces “a voice that is textually ambiguous or subverts the conventions of sex, gender, or sexuality.” 7 I understand Stephens's gender fluidity, on the other hand, as originating from within and from without. Stephens assumes...

... University of York Introduction This essay is concerned with optical telegraphs and their representation in literary texts, newspapers, and visual imagery in the late eighteenth cen- tury. The optical telegraph, of course, differs broadly from its successor, the electrical telegraph...

...). At the beginning of the eighteenth century this structure and its ide- ological implications of mutual respect, although present and acted out in the approved manner, was overshadowed by adulation of royalty and abso- lutist imagery. In the descriptive literature on the royal entry...

... is not so much a contribution to the field, as a historiographical event. The Silent Rhetoric of the Body tells a fascinating story. In the early eigh- teenth century, a newly commercialized business of undertaking started to multiply and debase the traditional imagery of death that characterizes...

... to astronomy. Second, he begins using “recurring patterns of imagery as an allusive ‘counterplot,’ ” a practice he seems to have learned from Virgil.16 In his other major pre-Restoration poem, the Heroique Stanzas to the Glorious Memory of Cromwell (1659), Dryden uses both these strategies...

... of Prussia’s Travels in India, 1844–46. Courtesy National Library of Australia. exotic imagery and expansionist politics, paying particular attention to the cultural arguments implicit in the works of serious scientists like Count de Buffon and pseudo-scientists...

..., and honeybee imagery—in Milton, and in Sylvia Plath. Adam Potkay has since 1990 been both Bob Maccubbin’s colleague at the College of William and Mary and an advisory editor of Eighteenth-Century Life. His books include The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume (1994...

... these multivalent comparisons, Goethe reinterprets Julie in Elective Affinities through key scenes involving water, a recurring psychologi- cal motif throughout Goethe’s oeuvre: he transforms the mostly latent water imagery in Rousseau’s work into an objectification of repressed passion, sig- nifying thereby...

... and popular imagery.22 Much of this imagery, which can be traced back to the middle ages, was originally religious, but with the Reformation it acquired a pow- erful political and historical valence as well. From that context it was eas- ily converted to the purposes of secular political propaganda...

... that energizes it. Ossian’s extensive arboreal imagery, rep- resenting an ancient Caledonia in which trees flourished, might seem to be an imaginative alternative to Johnson’s well-known complaints about Scotland’s deforestation. But for Johnson, Ossian’s “faux-ruins,” embodied in the poems’ fragmented...

... for the brilliant close readings he offers in the six chapters of his book. The metaphorics of this term indifference deserve some real attention. Employing the imagery of violence, specifically military violence, Walker writes that “departing from its common sense of mediating neutrality, the term...

... for Williams how in Dickens’ urban imagery, “the most evident inhabitants of cities are buildings…where the house and the life being lived in it are undistinguishable” (pp. 156–57). In con- trast, a visit to a nearby Regent’s Park neighborhood in Catherine Gore’s novel...