Contents

Raining Mice and Russian Leather: The Production of Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus CHRISTOPHER D'ADDARIO	1
Reading Milton and Newton in the Radical Reformation: Poetry, Mathematics, and Religion RACHEL TRUBOWITZ	33
The Proper Study of Mankind in Pope and Thomson CLAUDE WILLAN	63
So Close a Connection: Painful Associations in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa SUZANNE TAYLOR	91
Charles Brockden Brown's Romance and the Limits of Science and History PAUL GILMORE	117
"The length, breadth, and depth, of the wound": Irish Historical Violence and Ennui's Amnesiac Aesthetics PATRICK R. O'MALLEY	143
Why Is There So Much French in Villette? WILLIAM A. COHEN	171
The "Desecrated Mind" & Its Alternatives: Dante Rossetti and Political Economy RICHARD ADELMAN	195
Matter, Form, Idea: What Lovejoy's History of Ideas Might Have To Do With Literature HEATHER KEENLEYSIDE	223
Alliterative Meter and English Literary History, 1700–2000 ERIC WEISKOTT	259
ESSAYS FROM THE ENGLISH INSTITUTE
Essays from the English Institute 2015: Figure MARTIN HARRIES	287
Compulsory Figures ARTHUR BAHR	295
Figures in Excess and the Matter of Inversion in the Discourse of the Sublime IAN BALFOUR	315
Literary Agnotology ANAHID NERSESSIAN	339
Leap Year JEFF DOLVEN	361
Figuring Blackness in a Place Without Race: Sweden, Recently MONICA L. MILLER	377
Figure and Ground in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre CHRISTOPHER S. WOOD	399
The Merchant of Venice: Shylock and Covenantal Interplay MARY JO KIETZMAN	423
Mary Wollstonecraft's Cottage Economics: Property, Political Economy, and the European Future CATHERINE PACKHAM	453
George Eliot's Feuerbach: Senses, Sympathy, Omniscience, and Secularism CRISTINA RICHIERI GRIFFIN	475
Why Colin Clout Came Back: English Reformation Literature and Edmund Spenser's Late Work WILLIAM RHODES	503
Licentious Rhymers: John Donne and the Late-Elizabethan Couplet Revival REBECCA M. RUSH	529
A Balsome for Both the Hemispheres: Tears as Medicine in Herbert's Temple and Seventeenth-Century Preaching CLARISSA CHENOVICK	559
Milton's Political Ontology of the Human SHARON ACHINSTEIN	591
Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic TRISTRAM WOLFF	617
Will plus Words plus Worth: What's in a Name? SUSAN J. WOLFSON	649
De Quincey, Dictionaries, and Casuistry J. MARK SMITH	689
"Fumbling Along the Boundaries of the Personal": History and Affect in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September PAUL STASI	715
The Scandal of a Black Ulysses: Wallace Thurman, Richard Bruce Nugent, and the Harlem Reception of Joyce JEREMY BRADDOCK	741
The Formalist Genesis of "Postcolonial" Reading: Brathwaite, Bhabha, and A House for Mr Biswas WILLIAM GHOSH	765
Allegory and the Art of Memory in Book 2 of Spenser's Faerie Queene AMY COOPER	791
Ophelia's Desire JAMES J. MARINO	817
"And palate call judicious": Paradise Lost and the Question of Taste ERIC SONG	841
Daniel Defoe and the Whig Tradition in Satire JOSEPH HONE	865
Joseph Addison's Lucretian Imagination LAURA BAUDOT	891
Fiction, Finance, and Eliza Wharton's "Awful Futurity" in Early America ANDREW KOPEC	919
Viewless Scenes: Nineteenth-Century Ideals of Reading in and through "Gertrude of Wyoming" JULIA HANSEN	943
Conversing in Verse ELIZABETH HELSINGER	979
Thug Life: Confession, Subjectivity, Sovereignty PADMA RANGARAJAN	1005
Dissociating Psychology: Religion, Inspiration and T. S. Eliot's Subliminal Mind JAMIE CALLISON	1029