Contents

Vacant Time in The Faerie Queene j. k. barret	1
“I Lack Advancement”: Public Rhetoric, Private Prudence, and the Political Agent in Hamlet, 1561–1609 andrás kiséry	29
Donne’s Biathanatos and the Public Sphere’s Vexing Freedom james kuzner	61
The Dream of a Literal World: Wilkins, Hobbes, Marvell stephen hequembourg	83
The Politics of Shakespeare Criticism in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century maximillian e. novak	115
David Hume, History Painter jacob sider jost	143
The Poetic Limit: Mathematics, Aesthetics, and the Crisis of Infinity rachel feder	167
Black Books: Sedition, Circulation, and The Lay of the Last Minstrel penny fielding	197
Dramatizing Intimacy: Confessions and Free Indirect Discourse in Sense and Sensibility rebecca richardson	225
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Protagonist anna e. clark	245
History, Historicism, and Agency at Byron’s Ismail matthew c. borushko	269
No Second Friend?: Perpetual Maidenhood and Second Marriage in In Memoriam and “The Conjugial Angel” mary jean corbett	299
Floating Worlds: Émigré Poetry and British Culture jason r. rudy	325
Towards a New Architecture: Basil Bunting’s Postwar Reconstruction alex niven	351
Encounter Magazine and the Twilight of Modernism greg barnhisel	381
ESSAYS FROM THE ENGLISH INSTITUTE 2012: TEXT
Introduction rita copeland and frances ferguson	417
The Sociable Text of the “Troilus Frontispiece”: A Different Mode of Textuality mary carruthers	423
The Body of the Text david scott kastan	443
“Ex-” in Text: An Excursus in Barthesian Text Theory jean-michel rabaté	469
The Voice of Jacob: Entextualization, Contextualization, and Identity michael silverstein	483
[concept / object] [text / event] bill brown	521
Disgust c. 1600 benedict robinson	553
Arbitrary Government: Tristram Shandy and the Crisis of Whig History john owen havard	585
Ambiguous Progress and its Poetic Correlatives: Percy’s Reliques and Stadial History john regan	615
Adulterated Form: Violet Fane and the Victorian Verse-Novel stefanie markovits	635
Rupert Brooke’s Poetic Deaths joseph bristow	663
Marlowe, Ramus, and the Reformation of Philosophy john guillory	693
The Poet, the Skeptic, his Witches and their Queen: Political Theology and Poetic Charms in Sidney’s Defence ethan guagliardo	733
Spenser’s Irish Hubbub thomas ward	757
Classical Quotation in Titus Andronicus pramit chaudhuri	787
The Child’s Two Bodies: Shakespeare, Sovereignty, and the Ends of Succession joseph campana	811
Hamlet’s Poem to Ophelia and the Theater of the Letter seth lerer	841
Milton and the Microscope david thorley	865
Libel and Satire: The Problem with Naming andrew bricker	889
Filiation to Affiliation: Kinship and Sentiment in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative ramesh mallipeddi	923
“The Great measur’d by the Less”: The Ethnological Turn in Eighteenth-Century Pastoral joshua crandall	955
Conjectures on Beachy Head: Charlotte Smith’s Geological Poetics and the Ground of the Present kevis goodman	983
Decadent Form stephen arata	1007
Anti-Colonial Metrics: Homeric Time in an Indian Prison, ca. 1909 tamara chin	1029
“Contagious Emotions” and the Ghost Dance Religion: Mooney’s Science, Black Elk’s Fever matthew taylor	1055
Beauty and the Beastly Prime Minister john su	1083
Protestant Animals: Puritan Sects and English Animal-Protection Sentiment, 1550–1650 robert n. watson	1111
Seeing Things Through “Images Sensible”: Emblematic Similitudes and Sensuous Words in Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy pavneet aulakh	1149
Contingency, Codex, the Eighteenth-Century Novel christina lupton	1173
Shelley’s Antimasques of Life: Re-Visioning The Triumph barbara estermann	1193
Item of Mortality: Lives Led and Unled in Oliver Twist james buzard	1225
Pip’s Life claire jarvis	1253
Discerning Syntax: George Eliot’s Relative Clauses sarah allison	1275
The Dandified Dick: Hardboiled Noir and the Wildean Epigram len gutkin	1299
Pound Sign jeffrey blevins	1327
“The Greedy Dialectic of Time and Eternity”: Karl Barth, T. S. Eliot, and Four Quartets david soud	1363