Issue 6.1, Fall 2014

English Poetry, 1690 – 1720

Andreas K. E. Mueller, Guest Editor

Features

• Paying for Poetry at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century, with Particular Reference to Dryden, Pope, and Defoe
  J. A. Downie
• The Difficulties of Quantifying Taste: Blackmore and Poetic Reception in the Eighteenth Century
  Adam Rounce
• “In Prose and Business lies extinct and lost”: Matthew Prior and the Poetry of Diplomacy
  Conrad Brunström
• “The Critick and the Writer of Fables”: Anne Finch and Critical Debates, 1690 – 1720
  Sharon Young

Pedagogies

• The Eighteenth Century / The Closet: Two Introductions – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• The Philosophy of Progress – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• Rooms for Improvement – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• Privacy and Modernity I: The Family – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• Privacy and Modernity II: The Public Sphere – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• The Courtly Closet and the Closet of Devotion – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• The Cabinet of Curiosity and the Dressing Room – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• Privy Pastoral – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• Epistolary Spaces – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker
• (Homo)Erotic Closets – Bobker
  Danielle Bobker

Notes

• Dating Warning or Lanthorn to London
  Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker
• Defoe in the Miscellanies
  Andreas K. E. Mueller

Reviews

• The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India, by Siraj Ahmed
  Reviewed by Margaret J-M. Sönmez
• New Testaments: Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740, by Michael Austin
  Reviewed by John C. Traver
• Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel, by Paula R. Backscheider
  Reviewed by Dustin D. Stewart
• Ends of Enlightenment, by John Bender
  Reviewed by Nathan Gorelick
• The Snare in the Constitution: Defoe and Swift on Liberty, by Zouheir Jamoussi
  Reviewed by Christopher Borsing
• A Spectacular Failure: Robinson Crusoe I, II, III, by Virginia La Grand
  Reviewed by Margaret France
• The Man That Never Was: Daniel Defoe 1644-1731 — A Critical Revision of His Life and Writing, by John Martin
  Reviewed by Sheldon Rogers
• The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770, by Ashley Marshall
  Reviewed by Emrys Jones
• Daniel Defoe, Review, Volume 9, 2 parts, 1712-1713, edited by John McVeagh
  Reviewed by David Walker
• Daniel Defoe: Contrarian, by Robert James Merrett
  Reviewed by Elizabeth R. Napier