Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

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Volume 97

Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 97
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Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau

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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN LC, VOLUME 97, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, v. 1, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, v. 14, Summer, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Biographical Research Center. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Caliban, v. 8, April, 1972. Copyright © 1978 by Caliban. Reproduced by permission.—The Cambridge Quarterly, v. 3, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by the Editors. Reproduced by permission.—Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, v. 12, Winter, 1983 for “Time and Metaphor in Gibbon’s History” by Curt Hartog. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 105, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Reproduced by permission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.—The Dalhousie Review, v. 54, Summer, 1974 for “More Blood Than Brains: Robert Dodsley and the ‘Cleone’ Affair” by James Gray. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Eighteenth-Century Life, v. 8, October, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Eighteenth-Century Life. Reproduced by permission.—Eighteenth-Century Studies, v. 15, Spring, 1981-82. Reproduced by permission.—English Studies, v. 48, October, 1967. Reproduced by permission.—Enlightenment Essays, v. 5, Summer, 1974 for “Enlightenment Historiography and Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Albert C. Labriola. Copyright © 1974 by Enlightenment Essays. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Etudes Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis, v. 41, April-June, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Etudes Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Ecclesiastical History, v. 43, April, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of the History of Ideas, v. 38, 1977; v. 42, 1981. Copyright © 1977, 1981 by Journal of the History of Ideas. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Milton Quarterly, v. 35, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Milton Quarterly. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Quarterly, v. 51, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Philology, v. 85, May, 1988 for “Historical Discovery and Literary Invention in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall” by Patricia Craddock. Copyright © 1988 by University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v. 88, June, 1994 for “Dodsley’s Collection of Poems and the Ghost of Pope: The Politics of Literary Reputation” by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— The Quarterly Journal of Speech, v. 70, February, 1984 for “‘Meditating Tacitus’: Gibbon’s Adaptation to an Eighteenth-Century Audience” by Arthur Quinn. Copyright © 1984 by the Speech Communication Association. http://www.tandf.co.uk/ journals/titles/00335630.html. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis and the author.—Research Studies, v. 46, September, 1978 for “Gibbon’s Narrative Attitudes and Values in the Decline and Fall” by Martine Watson Brownley. Copyright © 1978 by Research Studies. Reproduced by permission of the author.—RSA Journal, v. 131, July-August, 1983. Reproduced by permission.—Shakespeare Studies, v. 11, 1978. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Bibliography,

v. 31, 1978. © The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Burke and His Time, v. 15, 1973 for “Child and Adult: Historical Perspective in Gibbon’s Memoirs” by Robert Folkenflik. Copyright © 1973 by Studies in Burke and His Time. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, v. 19, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, v. 13, Summer, 1973. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English, v. 68, December, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Swets & Zeitlinger. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Philology, v. 67, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by Studies in Philology. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Writings, v. 8, 2001 for “‘Lawfull Avarice’: Rachel Speght’s Mortalities Memorandum and the Necessity of Women’s Education” by Linda Vecchi. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN LC, VOLUME 97, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Beilin, Elaine. From Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Greaves, R. W. From

“The Working of the Alliance: A Comment on Warburton” in Essays in Modern English Church History. Edited by G. V. Bennett and J. D. Walsh. Adam & Charles Black, 1966. Copyright © 1966 A. and C. Black Ltd. Reproduced by permission. —Jones, Ann Rosalind. From The Renaissance Engishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon. Edited by Ann M. Haselkorn and Betty M. Travitsky. The University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Kliman, Bernice W. From Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. © 1998 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Lewalksi, Barbara Kiefer. From Writing Women in Jacobean England. Harvard University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Nyquist, Mary. From Re-membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions. Edited by Mary Nyquist and Margaret W. Ferguson. Methuen, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Mary Nyquist. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Solomon, Harry S. From The Rise of Robert Dodsley: Creating the New Age of Print. Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. Reproduced by permission. —Suarez, Michael F. From “‘Trafficking in the Muse’: Dodsley’s ‘Collection of Poems’ and the Question of Canon,” in Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon. Edited by Alvaro Riberio, S.J. and James G. Basker. Clarendon Press, 1996. © the contributors, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Tierney, James E. From an introduction to The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley, 1733-1764. Edited by James E. Tierney. Cambridge University Press, 1988. © Cambridge University Press, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Walker, Kim. From Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Twayne Publishers, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Welcher. Jeanne K., and Richard Dircks. From an introduction to An Essay on Fable, by Robert Dodsley. Edited by Jeanne K. Welcher and Richard Dircks. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965. Reproduced by permission.

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