Contents

Contents

Faustus's Blood and the (Messianic) Question of Ethics 1
LOWELL GALLAGHER

Dido, Queen of England 31
DEANNE WILLIAMS

"We all expect a gentle answer, Jew": The Merchant of Venice and the Psychotheology of Conversion 61
HEATHER HIRSCHFELD

Catholic Martyrdom in Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martir and the Contemporary Threat of "Turning Turk" 83
JANE HWANG DEGENHARDT

Humanist Schooling and Ben Jonson's Poetaster 119
JULIAN KOSLOW

Virgil and Bacon in the Schoolroom 161
ANDREW WALLACE

The End of Reading: The Practice and Possibility of Reading Foxe's Actes and Monuments 187
RYAN NETZLEY

Incest and Empire in The Faerie Queene 215
KENT LEHNHOF

At Home with Mammon: Matter, Money, and Memory in Book II of The Faerie Queene 245
DAVID LANDRETH

Lucy Hutchinson Writing Matter 275
JONATHAN GOLDBERG

Solitude, Singularity, Seriality: Whitman vis-á-vis Fourier 303
MICHAEL MOON

The Secret Memoirs of Lemuel Gulliver 325
MELINDA RABB

"Describing What Never Happened": Jane Austen and the History of Missed Opportunities 355
WILLIAM GALPERIN

"Naked Truth is the Best Eloquence": Martineau, Dickens, and the Moral Science of Realism 383
ELEANOR COURTEMANCHE

"One More Picture": Robert Browning's Optical Unconscious 409
IVAN KREILKAMP

Sympathy and Telepathy: The Problem of Ethics in George Eliot's The Lifted Veil 437
THOMAS ALBRECHT

Cacotopianism, the Paris Commune, and England's Anti-Communist Imaginary, 1870-1900 465
MATTHEW BEAUMONT

The Victorian Critic as Naturalizing Agent 489
JASON CAMLOT

Terminal Satire and Jude the Obscure 519
AARON MATZ

Object-loss and Object-bondage: Economies of Representation in Hardy's Poetry 549
MARJORIE LEVINSON

Construction Sites: The Architecture of Anne Clifford's Diaries 581
ANNE M. MYERS

Joseph Addison's Opera Rosamond: Britishness in the Early Eighteenth-Century 601
BREAN HAMMOND

Court Culture and Political News in London's Eighteenth-Century Newspapers 631
ANN C. DEAN

The "Dial's Moral Round": Charting Wordsworth's Evening Walk 651
JOHN AXCELSON

Racisim and Radicalism in Jamaican Gothic: Cynric R. Williams's Hamel, The Obeah Man 673
JANINA NORDIUS

Spectacles of Disaffection: Politics, Ethics, and Sentiment in Walter Scott's Old Mortality 695
ANDREW D. KRULL

"Doing Business with Totalitaria": British Late Modernism and the Politics of Reputation 729
MARINA MACKAY

The Zemblan Who Came in from the Cold, or Nabokov's Pale Fire, Chance, and the Cold War 755
STEVEN BELLETTO

Chronicles of Wasted Time: Anthony Munday, Romance, and Literary Labor 781
JOSHUA PHILLIPS

Reasonableness and Domestic Fiction 805
AMIT YAHAV-BROWN

Custom, Association, and the Mixed Mode: Locke's Early Theory of Cultural Reproduction 831
JAD SMITH

Lord Egremont's Dogs: The Cynosure of Turner's Petwoarth Landscapes 855
MARTIN WALLEN

Virtual Conduct: Disinterested Agency in Hazlitt and Keats 885
JACQUES KHALIP

"Come buy": The Crossing of Sexual and Consumer Desire in Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market 913
VICTOR ROMAN MENDOZA

"The Rude Contact of Some Actual Circumstance": Hawthorne and Salem's East India Marine Museum 949
JEE YOON LEE

Being There: Gothic Violence and Virtuality in Frankenstein, Dracula, and Strange Days 975
JULES LAW