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| John Dryden |
 =Student Essay
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 "With Honour Quit the Fort": Ambivalent Colonialism in Dryden's Amboyna - Candy B. K. Schille
"[A] play, which I presume to call original": Appropriation, creative genius, and eighteenth-century playwriting - Paulina Kewes
Anti-colonist discourse, tragicomedy, and the "American" Behn - Adam R. Beach
Meanings of All for Love, 1677-1813 - Tanya Caldwell
John Dryden and John Denham - Tanya Caldwell
Dryden, Pope, and Swift: Intimacy and Eclecticism - Ian McKillop
The
Englishing of Juvenal: computational stylistics and translated texts - John Burrows
Chiasmus and the Making of Literary Tradition:
The Case of
Wordsworth and "The Days of Dryden and Pope" - Sanford
Budick
At the Crossroads: Gendered Desire, Political Occasion, and Dryden and Lee's Oedipus - Candy B. K. Schille
Translating difference: The example of "Dryden's last parting of Hector and Andromache" - Greg Clingham
Images of Women in Three Early Eighteenth-Century Plays - Megan Katovich
| Samuel Butler |
=Student Essay
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Samuel Butler And 'Hudibras' - Ian Jack
On the Hero of Hudibras; Butler Vindicated - Isaac D'Israeli
| Samuel Pepys |
=Student Essay
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Samuel Pepys - Robert Louis Stevenson
Samuel Pepys and His Cookbooks - Roy
Schreiber
The Diary Network in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England - Elaine McKay
An Entrancing Ego: Samuel Pepys - Clara Claiborne Park
| John Bunyan |
=Student Essay
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Trope and Truth in The Pilgrim's Progress - Brenda Machosky
The Sign of the Cross in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding - Peter Goldman
John Bunyan - Andrew Lang
Pilgrim's
Progress: A Review - George Latham
Christian Allegory in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparison of George Herbert and John Bunyan - Rebecca Branham Dimon
The
conflicted Puritan inheritance of John Bunyan's political writings - Galen K. Johnson
The Place of Despair and Hope - Angus Fletcher
Fearful Allegories: Bunyan's Vision of the Christian Life - Nathan Vonnahme
An Introduction to John Bunyan’s The House of the Forest of Lebanon - Sarah Hale
The Significance and Success of Allegory and Dreams in The Pilgrim's
Progress - Anonymous Student at York University
The Author and His Reader: Christian Literature as Conversation - Heather-Ann Wickers
John Bunyan's The Heavenly Footman - Lawrence Bilkes
John Bunyan's The Strait Gate: Rightly Handling the Master's Metaphor - Rob Barrett
John Bunyan's One Thing is Needful - Jennifer Cuthbertson
The Water of Life - Donna McDowell
| Aphra Behn |
=Student Essay
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Anti-colonist discourse, tragicomedy, and the "American" Behn - Adam R. Beach
The politics of adapting Behn's Oroonoko - Anne F. Widmayer
Trying to frame the unframable: Oroonoko as discourse in Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' - Daniel Pigg
Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and the Female Pindaric - Stella P. Revard
Women (Authors) on Top - Julie Crawford
Conning the "Overseers": Women's Illicit Work
in Behn's "The Adventure of the Black Lady" - Margaret Ferguson
(Re)Textualizing the Female Body:
Maternity and
the Negotiations of Power in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko - Sarah Klein
"'Tis pity that when laws are faulty they should not be mended or abolisht":
Authority, legitimations, and honor in Aphra Behn's The Widdow Ranter - Aspasia Velissariou
Caesar's Toils: Allusion and Rebellion in Oroonoko - David E. Hoegberg [.pdf]
Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by 17th-Century English Women Dramatists - Marguérite Corporaal EMLS
Aphra Behn and the Beginnings of a Female Narrative Voice - Ruth Nestvold
Aphra Behn, Racism and the Beginnings of Novelistic Discourse - Ruth Nestvold
Aphra Behn and the impossibility of female authorship (German) - Ruth Nestvold
The Sexual Empowerment of Women in Two of Aphra Behn's Poems - Lisa Devine
Aphra Behn and Sexual Identity: ambiguity and Gender Swapping - David Crook
Patriarchy in Aphra Behn's The Rover - Andrea Edl
| Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
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Staying out late: Anne Finch's poetics of evening - Christopher R. Miller
Anne Finch as a Translator - Ellen Moody
| Matthew Prior |
=Student Essay
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"The most fatal of all faults": Samuel Johnson on
Prior's Solomon and the need for variety - Matthew M. Davis
Anne Finch and Lady Mary Montagu: Sister Poets - Ellen Moody
"I hate such parts as we have plaid today" - Ellen Moody
The Elephant as Disgruntled Literary Critic and An Elephant Fretting to No Purpose - Ellen Moody
Anne Finch Surveys Womankind - Joyce Cornette Palmer
| Daniel Defoe |
=Student Essay
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Daniel Defoe's Moll Flancers: A Fictional Confession to Mend an Author's Soul - Daniel C. Bolja
A Sermon by the "Queen of Whores" - Marilyn Westfall
Reading and Righting Moll Flanders - Thomas Grant Olsen
"I wou'd be a Man-Woman": Roxana's Amazonian threat to the ideology of marriage - Shawn Lisa Maurer
"Roxana": The 1740 Version - Robert J. Griffin
The Institution of the English Novel: Defoe's Contribution - Homer Brown
At home in England; or, projecting liberal citizenship in Moll Flanders - Amit Yahav-Brown
Commercial Paper, Commercial Fiction: The Compleat English Tradesman and Defoe's Reluctant Novels - S. Sherman
Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood - Walter Coppedge
Bunyan, Defoe, and the Novel - Peter J. Leithart
Robinson Crusoe: An Evolution of Political Religion - Sean Cox
Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Defoe's "Shortest-Way" - Bruce Seaton
How Property and Ownership lead to Moral Economy in Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe and Locke's Second Treatise of Government - Sarah Jacobson
Religion and Economics: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and
Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Meghan Harrigan
Shame on You: Defoe and Locke - Tripp Cook
Property According to John Locke and Daniel Defoe - Larisa Otto
Locke and Defoe on Property - Jenny Poppert
| Jonathan Swift |
=Student Essay
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Swift on false witness - Jeanne Clegg
Reading the Material Text of Swift's Verses on the Death - Stephen Karian
The Revolutionary Role of Venus Athena and Other Goddesses in "Cadenus and Vanessa" - Suzanne Poor
Dryden, Pope, and Swift: Intimacy and Eclecticism - Ian McKillop
Swift and the Idea of the Primitive Church - Anne Barbeau Gardiner
Public Certainty, Private Doubt: Swift in and out of the Pulpit -
Michael DePorte
The Dean and the Dissenters - Ruth A. Herman
On Jonathan Swift's 'On the Day of Judgement' - W. J. McCormack
The Satirist and his Faith: an Overview - Brean S.Hammond
Swift and Sin - Dr Robert Mahony
'Hand in hand to posterity'? Reading politics in Swift and Pope -
Valerie Rumbold
The 'Radical' Swift: The Fullback's Dilemma - Christopher J. Fauske
Swift, The Wild Boy of Hanover, and Queen Caroline - Christine Gerrard
Swift's Thoughts on Religion - Denis Donoghue
The Politics of A Modest Proposal - Ian Higgins
Swift and the Physicians: Aspects of Satire and Status - C. T. Probyn
Satire out of Time - Philip Hensher
Swift and Kafka - Jeffrey Meyers
Comparison of Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room" and Pope's "Rape of the Lock" - Susan Siferd
Jonathan Swift's Satire and Irony - Elena Taralunga Tamura [.pdf]
Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Defoe's "Shortest-Way" - Bruce Seaton
Some Thoughts Concerning Satire: An Exploration
of Lockean Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels - Lauren Jarecki
| William Congreve |
=Student Essay
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A "double Portion of his Father's Art": Congreve, Dryden, Jonson and the drama of theatrical succession - Harold Weber
Congreve und Molière: Literar-Historische Untersuchung (1890) - Alexander Bennewitz
| John Gay |
=Student Essay
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Handelian Opera in England - Roy Lisker
Music in The Beggar's Opera - Bareket, Eisendrath, & Selig
| Mary Astell |
=Student Essay
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Mary Astell and Metaphysics - Alice Sowaal
Mary Astell: A Brush with Spinoza - Sarah Ellenzweig
De l'invisibilité du genre dans la théorie politique. Le débat Locke/Astell - E. Pisier & E. Varikas [.pdf]
Mary Astell: Christian Feminist - Margret Taube
| Joseph Addison |
=Student Essay
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Macaulay's Essay on Addison - Google Books
From Stage to Folk: A Note on the Passages from Addison's Rosamond in the "Truro" Mummers' Play - Tom Pettitt
Juba's Roman Soul: Addison's Cato and Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism - Laura J. Rosenthal
Defining the Rake and Identifying His Demise in Addison and Steele's Spectator and Tattler - Theresa Hemsoth
| Sir Richard Steele |
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Richard Steele and the Genealogy of Sentimental Drama: A Reading of The Conscious Lovers - Peter Hynes
Defining the Rake and Identifying His Demise in Addison and Steele's Spectator and Tattler - Theresa Hemsoth
| Alexander Pope |
=Student Essay
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Pope's Epistle to Bathurst and the meaning of finance - Tom Jones
Pope: Rape of the Lock - Ian McKillop
Dryden, Pope, and Swift: Intimacy and Eclecticism - Ian McKillop
Alexander Pope's portrayal of Belinda and her society
in The Rape of the Lock - Ian Mackean
Defining Self and Others: Pope and Eighteenth-century Gender Ideology - Carole Fabricant
Alien voices, ancient echoes: Bakhtin, dialogism, and Pope's Essay on Criticism - Mary Ellen Bellanca
Precious to grace: Necessary desolation in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard - Mary Elizabeth Hotz
The Epic of Bibliography: Alexander Pope and Textual Criticism - Tom Davis
The Letters of Alexander Pope Considered - Henry Hubert Schmitz
'Hand in hand to posterity'? Reading politics in Swift and Pope -
Valerie Rumbold
Comparison of Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room" and Pope's "Rape of the Lock" - Susan Siferd
| Samuel Johnson |
=Student Essay
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Samuel Johnson's "love of truth" and literary fraud - Jack Lynch
Samuel Johnson, urban culture, and the geography of Post-fire London - Nicholas Hudson
Johnson and his "readers" in the epistolary Rambler essays - Manushag N. Powell
Reading the "religious" language of Samuel Johnson's Sermons - Thomas G. Kass
The Englishing of Juvenal: Computational Stylistics and Translated Texts - John Burrows
Allegory in the Rambler - Lisa Berglund
The Georgian Way of Death - Kate Chisholm
Formal verse imitation and the rhetorical principles of imitation
in the Neo-Latin poetry of Samuel Johnson - David F. Venturo
Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress - Jack Lynch
Restless Wrestling: Johnson's Rasselas - N. Hilton
Samuel Johnson's Rasselas: A Perspective on Islam - Richard F. Fleck
Johnson's Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia and the Culture of the East - Said I. Abdelwahed
Pursuit as Happiness: The Dilemma of Rasselas - Lance Wilcox
The History of Rasselas - Ian McKillop
Adventures in Literary Sleuthing: An Old Edition of Samuel Johnson's Works - Jack Stark
"The most fatal of all faults": Samuel Johnson on
Prior's Solomon and the need for variety - Matthew M. Davis
Rasselas' Answer to Vanity - Anthony House
Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare: Then and Now - Anthony House
Station in Life and the Search for Meaning for Thel and Rasselas - Anthony House
The Search for Happiness: Rasselas in Jane Eyre - Shelby White
| Thomas Gray |
=Student Essay
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Elegy unto Epitaph: Print Culture and Commenorative Practice in Gray's "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" - Michele Turner Sharp
Gray, the Marketplace, and the Masculine Poet - Linda Zionkowski
Explication of Elegy Written
In a Country Churchyard - Michael J. Cummings
Explication of A Long Story - Martin Porter
| Oliver Goldsmith |
=Student Essay
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Unreliable narration and the historical variability of values and norms:
The Vicar of Wakefield as a test case of a cultural-historical narratology - Vera Nunning
| William Cowper |
=Student Essay
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Localizing the Problem of Evil: William Cowper and the Poetics of Perspectivalism
- Samuel Joeckel
Hope and Despair in the Writings of William Cowper - Barbara Packer
The Meticulous Melancholia of a Poet - Gina Maranto
Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of a Saint: Reflections on the Life of William Cowper - John Piper
| William Collins |
=Student Essay
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The Aesthetics of Separation: Collins's "Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson." - Karen A. Wiseman
| Christopher Smart |
=Student Essay
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Diagnosing Christopher's case: Smart's readers and the authority of Pentecost - Alan Jacobs
Smart's bawdy politic: masculinity and the second age of horn in 'Jubilate Agno.' - Clement Hawes
Insolent Women and Crest-fallen Men: Christopher Smart,The Midwife, and Literary Travestism - Ross King
| James Thomson |
=Student Essay
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Thomson's Poetry of Reverie and Milton - David Reid
"A just balance between patronage and the press": The case of James Thomson - James Sambrook
"[A] play, which I presume to call original": Appropriation, creative genius, and eighteenth-century playwriting - Paulina Kewes
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