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CONTENTS “Curtesy Doth It Yow Lere”: The Sociology of Transgression in the Digby Mary Magdalene THERESA COLETTI Constructing the Sexual Subject of John Skelton \. W. BARNES The Spider. the Fly, and the Commonwealth: Merrie John Heywood and Agrarian Class Struggle 53 JAMES HOLSTUN Shakespeare's Jestbook: Wit, Print, Performance IAN MUNRO Caesar's Gift: Playing the Park in the Late Seventeenth Century 115 DAVID ROBERTS William Blake’s Androgynous Ego-Ideal 14] TOM HAYES “What a World we Make the ¢ )ppressor and the ¢ )ppressed” George Cruikshank, Percy Shelley, and the Genderingo f Revolution 167 \SHLEY J. CROSS Hannah More and the Invention of Narrative Authority EMILY RENA-DOZIER Nonstandard Language and the Cultural Stakes of Stoker’s Dracula CHRISTINE FERGUSON The Art Of Discrimination ARTHUR RISS The Old/New Question of ¢ lomparison in Literary Studies: \ Post-European Perspective REY CHOW Comparative Literature (Response to Rey Chow SIMON DURING Comparing the Literatures: Textualism and Globalism Response to Rev Chow FRANCES FERGUSON English Response to Rey Chow JONATHAN GOLDBER¢ Comparative Literatures, American Languages Response to Rey Chow MICHAEL MOON Preposterous ( hatterton K. K. RUTHVEN The Birth of the Birthp! we: Bread Street and Literary Tourism before Stratford AARON SANTESSO Floating Capital: The Trouble with Whit Twain's Mississippi STEPHALEN MIENEAG ER Forgotten Writers, Neglected Histories: Charles Reade and the Nineteenth-Centur Transtormation of the British Literary Field MARY POOVEY Marlowe's Theater of Night: Doctor Faustus and( apital RICHARD HALPERN Sacred Subjects and the Aversive Metaphysical Conceit Crashaw, Serrano, Offi RICHARD RAMBUSS Now Wo Now Gladin SSé if ] of Pr) inces MAURA NOLAN Renaissance Intertheater and the Staging of Nobody ANSTON BOSMAN From the Desk of Anne Clifford AARON KUNIN Anonymous Milton, or, A Maske Masked 609 ANN BAYNES COIRO A History of “Ludicrous MATTHEW KAISER Reading Virgil’s Georgics as a Scientific Text The Eighteenth-Century Debate between Jethro Tull and Stephen Switzer FRANS DE BRUYN Minstrels, Goes to Market Prize Poe mis Minstre | ¢ ontests and Romantic Poetn ERIK SIMPSON Articulating Social Agency in Our Mutual Friend: Problems with Performances, Practices, and Political Efficacy MOLLY ANNE ROTHENBERG Joseph ¢ onrad’s “Wild Story of a Journalist MATTHEW RUBERY Howellsian Chic: The Local Color of ( osmopolitanism BRAD EVANS Local Modernity, Global Modernism: Bloomsbury and the Places of the Literary SARA BLAIR Thinking for Oneself: Realism and Defiance in Arendt RELTERADA Hospitality in Autobiography: Levinas Chez De Quincey E.S. BURT Autobiographical Acts in Robinson Crusoe DAVID MARSHALI His Mind Was Full of Absences: Whitman at the Scene of Writing KEITH WILHITI The Crying of Lost Things JONATHAN LAMB Crying Game: Operatic Strains in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads GILLEN DARCY WOOD Meaning and Misinterpretation in Cranford 1001 ALYSON J. KIESEI Talking with the Dead: Leo Africanus, Esoteric Yeats, and Early 1019 Modern Imperialism OLIVER HENNESSEY Leviathan Is a Skein of Networks”: Translations of Nature and 1039 Culturei n Moby-Dick PHILIP ARMSTRONG Liking Men: Ben Jonson's Closet Opene¢ 1065 LORNA HUTSON