Table Of Content

CONTENTS Shakespeare and The Ethical Question: Leo Léwenthal in memoriam 1 GEOFFREY HARTMAN The Alimentary Structures of Incest in Paradise Lost 25 MINAZ JOOMA “Boundless the Deep”: Milton, Pascal, and The Theology of Relative Space 45 CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN Putting out the Fire in Her Imperial Majesty's Apartment: Opposition Politics, Anticlericalism, and Aesthetics 79 RONALD PAULSON The Circulation of Genres in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 109 PETER GOSGROVE The Question of Blake’s Hostility Toward the Jews 139 KAREN SHABETAI Performing Business, Training Ghosts: Transcoding Nickleby 153 JOHN BOWEN Disappearing Authors and Resentful Readers in Late-Nineteenth Century American Fiction: The Case of Henry James 177 BARBARA HOCHMAN From Weydon-Priors to Tower Green: The Sources of The Yeoman of the Guard 203 ALAN FISCHLER The New Critics and the Text-Object 227 DOUGLAS MAO Elizabethan England’s Other Reformation of Manners 255 EDWIN DAVENPORT The Collaborator as Thief: Ralegh’s (Re) Vision of The Faerie Queene 279 JAMES P. BEDNARZ Faustus’s Fortunes: Commodification, Exchange, and the Form of Literary Subjectivity 309 GRAHAM HAMMILL “All Language then is Vile”: The Theatrical Critique of Political Rhetoric in Nathaniel Lee’s Lucius Junius Brutus 337 VICTORIA HAYNE Thinking Parables: What Moll Flanders Does Not Say 367 STEVEN C. MICHAEL The Emergence of “Literature”: Making and Reading the English Canon in the Eighteenth Century 397 TREVOR ROSS The Fall of Robespierre and the Sublime Machine of Agency 423 WILLIAM JEWETT The 1798 Lyrical Ballads and the Poetics of Late Eighteenth-Century Book Production 453 ALAN D. BOEHM Henry James, Jack the Ripper, and the Cosmopolitan Jew: Staging Authorship in The Tragic Muse 489 SARA BLAIR The Myth of the Whole: Ford’s English Review, the Mercure de France, and Early British Modernism 513 MARK MORRISSON Chaucer's Former Age and the Fourteenth-Century Anthropology of Craft: The Social Logic of a Premoderist Lyric 535 ANDREW GALLOWAY A Woman's Touch: Astrophil, Stella and “Queen Vertue’s Court” 555 SALLY MINOGUE Cato’s Tears 571 JULIE ELLISON The Character of Credit: Defoe’s “Lady Credit,” The Fortunate Mistress, and the Resources of Inconsistency in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain 603 JOHN F. O'BRIEN Sara Fielding’s Dashing Style and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture 633 JANINE BARCHAS Wordsworth’s “Nutting” and the Violent End of Reading 657 ROBERT BURNS NEVELDINE Romantic Professionalism in 1800: Robert Southey, Herbert Croft, and the Letters and Legacy of Thomas Chatterton 681 BRIAN GOLDBERG Legislators of the Post-Everything World: Shelley's Defence of Adorno 707 ROBERT KAUFMAN Double Bonds: Charles Lamb’s Romantic Collaborations 735 ALISON HICKEY Jane Eyre and Victorian Medical Geography 773 ALAN BEWELL Coriolanus and the Failure of Performatives 809 JOHN PLOTZ “Love’s Friend and Stranger to Virginitie”: The Politics of the Virginal Body in Ben Jonson’s Hymenaei and Thomas Campion’s The Lord Hay’s Masque 833 MARIE LOUGHLIN The Paradoxes of Tender Conscience 851 STEVEN N. ZWICKER The Cultural Logic of Late Feudalism: Placing Spenser in the Eighteenth Century 871 JONATHAN BRODY KRAMNICK Wordsworth’s “Solitaries” and the Problem of Literary Reference 893 SCOTT DYKSTRA Lesbianism and Romantic Genius: The Poetry of Anne Bannerman 929 ANDREW ELFENBEIN Literate Species: Populations, “Humanities,” and Frankenstein 959 MAUREEN NOELLE McLANE Estranging David Copperfield: Reading the Novel of Divorce 989 KELLY HAGER Subversive Anti-5talinism: Race and Sexuality in the Early Essays of James Baldwin 1021 GERALDINE MURPHY Enduring Recurrence: Samuel Beckett's Nihilistic Poetics 1047 STEVEN MISKINIS