47.2 Fall 2023
Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum and the“J. O.” conundrum
By Kathleen E. Taylor and Gillian Wright
“Wedded to Strange Singularities”: Margaret Cavendish’s Natural Philosophy on Marriage
By Jennifer Birkett
“He Best Can Turne, Enforce, and Soften Things”: Of the Danger and “To the Queen” as Waller’s Earliest Poems
By Richard Hillyer
From John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding to the Novels of Daniel Defoe: Enquiries into the Mind as Permeable Spirit
By Orla Smyth
Some Current Publications
Rose Botaish
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Special Issue 46.2-47.1 Fall 2022/Spring 2023
Introduction: Genre Liaisons in Restoration Prose Fiction: Influences,Texts and Reception
By Sonia Villegas-López
“Made on purpose, and lin’d with velvet”: Containing the Amours of Messalina (1688-90)
By John McTague
Experiments with the Romance Form and the Receding Baroque: Aretina, The English Lovers, and Eliana
By Tomás Monterrey
The Reception of Histoire galante in England in a Competitive Market: The Case of Aphra Behn’s Agnes de Castro (1688)
By Line Cottegnies
Contemporary European Fiction Available in Restoration England
By Leah Orr
(Trans)historical Fiction in Saint-Réal’s Don Carlos
By Rafael Vélez-Núñez
Performativity and Spectacle in the Oriental Novel: The Harem as Dramatic Space in Sébastien Brémond’s The Happy Slave
By Sonia Villegas-López
Letter Matters: Corporeality, Physicality, Epistolarity
By Gerd Bayer
Authorship in Female Disguise: Love in Distress; or, The Lucky Discovery. A Novel Written by the Honourable Lady * * *
By María José Coperías-Aguilar
“A Devoted Heart Attones for a Worthless Offering”: Mary Pix’s Dedication of The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) to Princess Anne
By Nora Rodríguez-Loro
Book Reviews
Review of Liam Semler, The Early Modern Grotesque: EnglishSources and Documents 1500–1700. London: Routledge, 2019. 338 pp. ISBN 9780367664961. Review by Rocío G. Sumillera.
Review of The 18th-Century Common. A Public Humanities Website for Enthusiasts of 18th-Century Studies. Review by Mayron E. Cantillo Lucuara.
Review of Penny Pritchard, Before Crusoe: Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry. New York: Routledge, 2019. 177 pp. ISBN 9780367664381. Review by Patricia Rodrigues.
Review of John Dryden, Todo por amor, o el mundo bien perdido (All For Love; or, The World Well Lost), edited and translated by Rocío G. Sumillera. Madrid: Publicaciones de la Asociación deDirectores de Escena de España, 2018. ISBN: 9788417189112. Review by Víctor Huertas-Martín.
Some Current Publications
Rose Botaish
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46.1 Spring 2022
“A Spirituall Song of Submission”: The Eikon Basilike, Prayer and Poetry in a Seventeenth-Century Royalist Miscellany
By Francesca Cioni
“Pox on kindred:” The Anonymous Counterfeit Bridegroom (1677) and its Middletonian Source
By Jennie Challinor
Marwood, Milton, and Monstrous Women: The Neglected Villain of The Way of the World
By Rachel Ewing
Remaking Orinda: The Role of Manuscript Copying and Print Technology in Fabricating Katherine Philips’ Legacy
By Paul Trolander
Book Reviews
Review of Zachary Lesser, Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 232 pp. Review by Dylan Lewis.
Review of Kirsten Sandrock, Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707. Edinburgh University Press. 242 pp. Review by Laura J. Rosenthal.
Some Current Publications
Garth Libhart
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Special Issue 45.2 Fall 2021
Introduction: Pandemic/Post-Pandemic
by David Mazella
“Dreadful Visitations”: Witnessing Disasters”
by Alessa Johns
Foes in Isolation
by Elizabeth Kraft
Noticing Grass
by David Alff
Plague Literature and Pandemic Pedagogy
by Mattie Burkert
“As So Many Dead Corpses”: Religious Tolerance from Beyond the Grave
by Alison Conway
Keeping in Touch, or Wanting to, while Teaching Plague
by Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz
“I am emailing you to inform you that another member of my family has passed away“: A Response to Restoration’s Special Issue on COVID/Defoe
by Al Coppola
Book Reviews
Review of Wendy Beth Hyman, Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry. Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 201 pp. Review by Ryan Netzley.
Review of Andreas K.E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley, eds., Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years. Bucknell University Press, 2021. 234 pp. Review by Laura J. Rosenthal.
Review of Erin Webster, The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 pp. Review by Wendy Beth Hyman.
Some Current Publications
Garth Libhart
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45.1 Spring 2021
“The Vice of the Time”: Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II
by Dayne C. Riley
Utiles Nugae: Restoration Plays in Samuel Pepys’s Library
by Juan A. Prieto-Pablos
Groping in the Dark: Reading Touch in Restoration Comedy
by Shawn J. Watkins
Traumatic Pregnancy, Queer Virginity, and Asexual Reproduction in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure
by Megan Cole
Book Reviews
Review of Liz Bellamy, The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 248. Review by Laura J. Rosenthal
Review of Daniel Gustafson, Lothario’s Corpse: Libertine Drama and the Long-running Restoration, 1700-1832. Bucknell University Press. 2020. 238 pp. Reviewed by Elaine McGirr.
Some Current Publications
Dylan P. Lewis
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44.2 Fall 2020
Articles
Beyond Woolf ’s Falling Flowers: Aphra Behn’s Poetry among the Edwardians
by Daniel J. Ennis
Swift after Cowley
by Daniel Cook
Whom Did He Mean? The Restoration Context of Pope’s “Phryne” and “Artimesia”
by Rebecca Ferguson
Engaging Imperfect Texts: The Ballad Tradition and the Investigation of Chanteys
by Jessica Floyd
Book Reviews
Hope Frew-Costa. Kewes, Paulina, and Andrew McRae, eds., Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 371 pp.
Some Current Publications
Dylan P. Lewis
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