Contents

“In My Selfe the Smart I Try”: Female Promiscuity in Astrophil and Stella melissa e. sanchez	1
Faustus, Confession, and the Sins of Omission john parker	29
Community, Credit, and the Prodigal Husband on the Early Modern Stage jennifer panek	61
Studies in Uniquity: Horace Walpole’s Singular Collection james d. lilley	93
Psyche: Mirror and Mind in Vanity Fair heather brink-roby	125
“Things That Are Outside of Ourselves”: Ethnology, Colonialism, and the Ontological Critique of Capitalism in Matthew Arnold’s Criticism t. j. boynton	149
Emotional Insanity, Cynical Reason, and The Gilded Age nathan wolff	173
Virgilian Chesnutt: Eclogues of Slavery and Georgics of Reconstruction in the Conjure Tales sarah wagner-mccoy	199
An Honest Decade: William Empson and the Ambiguities of Writing in the 1930s benjamin kohlmann	221
“Swastika arms of passage leading to nothing”: Late Modernism and the “New” Britain ashley maher	251
Lighting Out for the Global Territory: Postwar Revisions of Cultural Anthropology and Jewish American Identity in Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King eric strand	287
EDITOR’S NOTE
SELECTED ESSAYS FROM THE ENGLISH INSTITUTE (2011) guest edited by joseph r. slaughter
Only Reading: An Introduction joseph r. slaughter	317
Philology, Literature, Style frances ferguson	323
Postures and Places: The Child Reader in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Print patricia crain	343
Reading’s Refrain: From Bibliography to Topology andrew piper	373
The Art of Rereading christopher cannon	401
The Deed of Reading: Toni Morrison and the Sculpted Book garrett stewart	427
False Gifts/Exotic Fictions: Epistemologies of Sovereignty and Assent in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko catherine molineux	455
Schoolhouse Follies: Tristram Shandy and the Male Reader’s Tutelage jessica matuozzi	489
The Self-Made Son: Social Competition and the Vanishing Mother in Franklin’s Autobiography matthew garrett	519
“Searching after the Splendid Nothing”: Gothic Epistemology and the Rise of Fictionality katherine ding	543
The Romantic Political Economy of Reading: Or, Why Wordsworth Thought Adam Smith was the Worst Critic Ever thomas h. ford	575
Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” dustin friedman	597
Reforming the Mystical Body: From Mass to Martyr in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments jennifer r. rust	627
The Mirror and the Feather: Tragedy and Animal Voice in King Lear michael c. clody	661
Love Against Substitution: John Milton, Aphra Behn, and the Political Theology of Conjugal Narratives eric b. song	681
Ossian’s Folk Psychology john savarese	715
The Fate of Style in an Age of Intellectual Property trevor ross	747
Paper Routes: Bleak House, Rubbish Theory, and the Character Economy of Realism patrick chappell	783
The Comparative History of A Tale of Two Cities devin griffiths	811
Feeling Real in Middlemarch summer j. star	839
Ruiz de Burton, Railroads, Reconstruction brook thomas	871
History After Waterloo: Margaret Oliphant Reads Walter Scott elsie michie	897
An Integrative Vernacular: Ellison, Dante, and Social Cohesion in the Post-Civil Rights Era richard purcell	917
The Kindest Cut: Circumcision and Queer Kinship in The Merchant of Venice amy greenstadt	945
Embodied Resonances: Early Modern Science and Tropologies of Connection in Donne’s Anniversaries elizabeth d. harvey and timothy m. harrison	981
Brain-ache: Anne Bradstreet on Sensing branka arsić	1009
Equiano’s Trifles john bugg	1045
Sense and Sensibility and Suffering; or, Wittgenstein’s Marianne? eric lindstrom	1067
Representative Government: The “Problem Play,” Quotidian Culture, and the Making of Social Liberalism michael meeuwis	1093
Because I Do: Trollope, Tautology, and Desire daniel wright	1121
Tortured Sympathies: Victorian Literature and the Ticking Time-Bomb Scenario rachel ablow	1145
Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel zach hutchins	1173
Hamlin Garland’s “Modernism” christine holbo	1205
Fish, Crystal, and Loop: Dreiser’s Histories in the “Trilogy of Desire” t. austin graham	1237