His and hers : essays in restoration and 18th -century literature.

284 Pages·04.517 MB·English

by  Ann Messenger

Hi
and Hers
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His and Hers
fi.says in Restoration and
E'hteenth- Century Literature
Ann Messenger
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY
ISBN: 978-0-8131-5374-2
for Bill
my mainstay
andfor my students
who come andgo
but leave their marks
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Restoring the Picture
A PROBLEM OF PRAISE
I.
John Dryden andAnne Killigrew
NOVEL INTO PLAY
2.
Aphm Behn and Thomas Southerne
3. SELECTED NIGHTINGALES
Anne Finch, Countess of Pinchihea, et al.
4. TOWN ECLOGUES
Lady Mary Brtley Montagu andfin Gay
5. EDUCATIONAL SPECTATORS
Richard Steele,Joseph AddGon, and E(iia Haywood
6. ARABELLA FERMOR, 1714 and 1769
Alexander Pope and Fmnces Moore Brooke
7. HEROICS AND MOCK HEROICS
John Milton, Alexander Pope, andAnna Laetitia Barbauld
8. CHOICES OF LIFE
SamuelJoAnson and Ellir Cornelia Knght
AFTERWORD
Emen: Wn'ting: Derivative or Mainstream?
APPENDIX
Selected Poem
Notes
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SHORTV ERSIONS OF CHAPTER I, "A Problem of Praise,"
and Chapter 8, "Choices of Life," were published in the Zans-
actions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest, volume
13 (Calgary, 1982) and volume 14 (Calgary, 1983)~r espec-
tively; I am grateful to the society for permission to reprint.
An earlier version of chapter 3, "Selected Nightingales," was
published O 1980 by the Association of Canadian University
Teachers of English. It is reprinted from Eng& Studies in Can-
ada, vol. 6, no. 2 (Summer 1980)~p p. 145-53, by permission of
the association. Again, my thanks.
I also thank the Library of the University of British Columbia
for purchasing at my request a microfilm of The Amale Spectator:
And I thank the Province of British Columbia for a Youth Em-
ployment Programme grant (summer 1983) to compensate a
research assistant-and to Diana Relke, who did the job so
well.
On the personal side, I am grateful to many colleagues and
friends for their interest and support, especially at those times
(not infrequent) when I felt like a voice crying in the wilder-
ness. Heartfelt thanks to my parents for a lifetime of love and
encouragement. My dedication says the rest. Among the stu-
dents, I am particularly indebted to Barbara Arnason, Janet Gil-
trow, Anna Jean Mallinson, Juliet McLaren, and Diana Relke; it
has been a privilege to work with them.