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Huntington Library Quarterly

Studies in English and American History and Literature

Susan Green, Editor

In 2007, the Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) celebrates its 70th anniversary. Tables of contents, sample articles, current subscription rates, and complete ordering information for subscriptions and single copies are available through the University of California Press Web site.

The Huntington Library Quarterly publishes articles on the literature, history, and art of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Britain and America, with special emphasis on:

  • the interactions of literature, politics, and religion;
  • the social and political contexts of literary and art history;
  • textual and bibliographical studies, including the history of printing and publishing;
  • American studies, through the early nineteenth century; and
  • the performance history of drama and music.

The journal also publishes book reviews and review articles on important work in early modern studies. The Intramuralia section now reports comprehensively on the Huntington's acquisitions of rare books, manuscripts, and ephemera.

Current special issues of the journal include "Reconsidering the Bluestockings" (edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg), "The Cultural History of Letter-Writing," "Print and Politics in the Seventeenth Century,""Early Tudor Manuscript and Print" (edited by Alexandra Gillespie), and "The Uses of History in Early Modern England" (edited by Paulina Kewes).

 

Guidelines for Submission:

Scholars working in the history, literature, or art history of the early modern period are encouraged to submit manuscripts of articles for consideration by the journal. We seek outstanding archivally based work, regardless of where it is researched. Scholars of American studies through 1830 are especially encouraged to submit article manuscripts.

  • For Notes and Documents we seek either short pieces on specific subjects or pieces of up to fifteen thousand words devoted to the content of archival materials (including transcriptions of manuscripts).
  • Both article manuscripts and Notes and Documents pieces must include an abstract. Hard copy should be supplemented with a copy on disk. A self-addressed envelope, with postage, should be enclosed if the author desires the return of a hard copy. If a submitted manuscript is under review elsewhere as part of a book project, please give details in the covering note.

 

Editorial Board for 2004–2006:

Thomas Cogswell, University of California, Riverside
Joseph A. Dane, University of Southern California
Barbara Donagan, Huntington Library
Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside
Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology
Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Paul Langford, Lincoln College, Oxford
Peter Mancall, University of Southern California
Felicity Nussbaum, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert C. Ritchie, W. M. Keck Director of Research, Huntington Library
Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Susan Wolfson, Princeton University

Special Issues:

  • Railing Rhymes: Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England, edited by Andrew McRae (2006)
  • The Uses of History in Early Modern England, edited by Paulina Kewes (2005)
  • Early Tudor Manuscript and Print, edited by Alexandra Gillespie (2004)
  • Print, Propaganda, Royalism (2004)
  • Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing (2003)
  • Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg (2003)
  • British Radicals of the 1790s, edited by Robert Maniquis (2000)
  • Forging Connections: Women's Poetry from the Renaissance to Romanticism, edited by Anne Mellor, Felicity Nussbaum, and Jonathan Post (2000)
  • John Dryden: A Tercentenary Miscellany, edited by Susan Green and Steven Zwicker (2000)
  • Enthusiasm and Enlightenment, 1650–1850, edited by Lawrence Klein and Anthony LaVopa (1998)
  • Art and Science in America: Issues of Representation, edited by Amy Meyers (1997)
  • William Blake: Images and Texts (1996)
  • Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature, edited by Seth Lerer (1996)

Recent and Forthcoming Issues:

Vol. 69, no. 2
Vol. 69, no. 1; "Railing Rhymes": Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England
Vol. 68, no. 4
Vol. 68, no. 3
Vol. 68, nos. 1 & 2; The Uses of History in Early Modern England
Vol 67, no. 4

Vol. 67, no. 3
Vol. 67, no. 2; Early Tudor Literature in Manuscript and Print
Vol. 67, no. 1; Print, Propaganda, Royalism
Vol. 66, nos. 3 & 4; Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing
Vol. 66, nos. 1 & 2
Vol. 65, nos. 3 & 4
Vol. 65, nos. 1 & 2; Reconsidering the Bluestockings
Vol. 64, nos. 3 & 4
Vol. 64, nos. 1 & 2
Vol. 63, no. 4; Forging Connections: Women's Poetry from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period
Vol. 63, no. 3; British Radical Culture of the 1790s
Vol. 63, nos. 1 & 2; John Dryden: A Tercentenary Miscellany

Vol. 69, no. 2

The Secret Sharers: "Anthony Rivers" and the Appellant Controversy, 1601-2
Patrick Martin and John Finnis

The Early Poetic Career of Edmund Waller
Timothy Raylor

Of "Origenian Platonisme": Joseph Glanvill on the Pre-existence of Souls
Rhodri Lewis

Michael van Meer's Album Amicorum, with Illustrations of London, 1614-15
June Schlueter

Review Essays by Alexandra Gillespie and Tobias Gregory

Vol. 69, no. 1; "Railing Rhymes": Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England

Reading Libels: An Introduction
Andrew McRae

Part 1
Reading Libels: Rhetoric, Genre, Textuality, Theory

Verse Libels and the Epideictic Tradition in Early Stuart England
David Colclough

Epigrams and Political Satire in Early Stuart England
James Doelman

"Love-song weeds, and Satyrique thornes": Anti-Courtly Love Poetry and Somerset Libels
Joshua Eckhardt

"Reade in one age and understood i'th' next": Recycling Satire in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
Adam Smyth

On Exegetical Duty: Historical Pragmatics and the Grammar of the Libel
James Loxley

Part 2
Libels in Action: Authorship, Transmission, Interpretation

The Poor Man's Petition: Anthony Atkinson and the Politics of Libel
Gabriel Heaton

Performing Politics: The Circulation of the "Parliament Fart"
Michelle O'Callaghan

"The Feminine part of every Rebellion": Francis Bacon on Sedition and Libel, and the Beginning of Ideology
Martin Dzelzainis

"Songs of baser alloy": Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed and the Circulation of Manuscript Libels
James Knowles

Singing Libel in Early Stuart England: The Case of the Staines Fiddlers, 1627
Alastair Bellany

Vol. 68, no. 4

“The Book of Nature is Open to All Men”: Geology, Mining, and History in Joseph Wright’s Derbyshire Landscapes
Andrew Graciano

Aristocratic Faction and Reformist Politics in Eighteenth-Century Hampshire:
The Election of December 1779
David Underdown

The Shelleys’ Enthusiasm
Jasper Cragwall

“Master of their language”: Education and Exile in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
John Bugg

The Grenville Militia List for Buckinghamshire, 1798–1799
Lois G. Schwoerer

Review Essays by Timothy Erwin, Emily Hodgson Anderson, and Peter Brier

Vol. 68, no. 3

Time and the Satyr
Anthony Parr

Folios Fit for a King: James I, John Bill, and the King's Printers, 1616-1620
Maria Wakely and Graham Rees

Dr. Temple's Pew: Sex and Clerical Status in the 1630s
Christopher Haigh

The Struggle for Mercurius Britanicus: Factional Politics and the Parliamentarian Press, 1643-1646
Jason Peacey

A Conjurer and a Quack?: The Lives of John Dee and Simon Forman
Mordechai Feingold

Editing Instability
Arthur F. Kinney

Vol. 68, nos. 1 & 2; The Uses of History in Early Modern England

History and Its Uses: Introduction
Paulina Kewes

From Hystories to the Historical: Five Transitions in Thinking about the Past, 1500–1700
Daniel Woolf

Historians and Poets
Blair Worden

Against the Teleology of Technique
David Womersley

Appropriating History: Catholic and Protestant Polemics and the National Past
Felicity Heal

Guides to Reading Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
John N. King

“A Pestilent and Seditious Book”: Nicholas Sander’s Schismatis Anglicani and Catholic Histories of the Reformation
Christopher Highley

“Methinks the truth should live from age to age”: The Dating and Contexts of Henry V
Richard Dutton

Discourses of History in Elizabethan and Early Stuart London
Ian W. Archer

An Empire to End Empire: The Dynamic of Early Modern British Expansion
Arthur H. Williamson

Remembrancers of the Revolution: Histories and Historiographies of the 1640s
David Cressy

History and Ideology: Milton, the Levellers, and the Council of State in 1649
Martin Dzelzainis

Clarendon, Tacitism, and the Civil Wars of Europe
Paul Seaward

“A special kindness for dead bishops”: The Church, History, and Testimony in Seventeenth-Century Protestantism
John Spurr

Contested Histories of the English Church: Gilbert Burnet and Jeremy Collier
Andrew Starkie

The Tory Interpretation of History in the Rage of Parties
Mark Knights

“Secret History”: Or, Talebearing Inside and Outside the Secretorie
Eve Tavor Bannet

History and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Karen O’Brien

Afterword
F. J. Levy

Vol. 67, no. 4

Plague, the Printing Press, and Public Health in Seventeenth-Century London
Stephen Greenberg

A Crisis in English Public Life: The Popish Plot, Naboth’s Vineyard (1679), and Mock-Biblical Satire’s Exemplary Redress
Michael Suarez S. J.

Dryden and the Historiography of Exile: Milton and Virgil in Dryden's Late Period
Christopher D'Addario

“Tales of Love and Gallantry”: The Politics of Oroonoko
Richard Kroll

Deborah Franklin, Lord Loudoun, and Franklin’s Autobiography
J. A. Leo Lemay

"Some kind friends": Scott's Harold the Dauntless (HM 1937) and Frederick Locker-Lampson
Emma Mason

Review Essays by Kent Cartwright and Julie Candler Hayes

Vol. 67, no. 3

Giordano Bruno in England, Revisited
Mordechai Feingold

Volpone and Beast Fable: Early Modern Analogic Reading
Richard Dutton

Ben Jonson and the Legacies of the Past
Mark Bland

Francis Rous and "scabby or itchy children": The Problem of Toleration in 1645
J. Sears McGee

A Transcription of MS. EL 2360
Heidi Brayman Hackel and Peter C. Mancall

Review Essays by David Carnegie, David Gants, Ian Frederick Moulton, and David Randall

Vol. 67, no. 2; Early Tudor Literature in Manuscript and Print

Caxton’s Romances and Their Tudor Readers
Yu-Chaio Wang

Poets, Printers, and Sammelbände
Alexandra Gillespie

What’s in a Name? "John Skelton, Laureate" in Manuscript and Print
Jane Griffiths

Lord Berners and His Books: A New Survey
Joyce Boro

John Mychell and the Printing of Lydgate in the 1530s
Julia Boffey

Manuscripts of the Verse of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
A. S. G. Edwards

Poetry in Embassy: Thomas Wyatt’s Egerton Manuscript and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad
Jason Powell

"These fewe scribbled rules": Representing Scribal Intimacy in Early Modern Print
Cathy Shrank

Wanting the First Blank: Endpaper on the Frontispiece to the Huntington Library Copy of Caxton’s Recuyell of the Histories of Troy
Joseph A. Dane

Vol. 67, no. 1; Print, Propaganda, Royalism

Newsbooks and the Duke of Buckingham's Expedition to the Île de Ré
Thomas Cogswell

"The counterfeit silly curr":
Money, Politics, and the Forging of Royalist Newspapers during the English Civil War
Jason Peacey

Mixed Messages:
Royalist Newsbook Reports of Charles I's Execution and of the Leveller Uprising
Amos Tubb

The Politics of Sexual Libel:
Royalist Propaganda in the 1640s
Jason McElligott

Describing Popularity in Early Modern England
Joad Raymond [review article]

Vol. 66, nos. 3 & 4; Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing

Letters from America, 1492–1677
William H. Sherman

Letter Writing among the Jesuits:
Antonio Possevino's Advice in the Bibliotheca Selecta (1593)
Grant Boswell

French Letters and English Anxiety in the Seventeenth Century
Lawrence D. Green

The Correspondence of Esther Masham and John Locke:
A Study in Epistolary Silences
Susan Whyman

The Manners of the Page: Prescription and Practice in the
Visual Organization of Correspondence
Sue Walker

Entertainment and Instruction:
Women's Roles in the English Epistolary Tradition
Linda C. Mitchell

Tobias Smollett and the Malevolent Philip Thicknesse:
Travel Narratives, Public Rhetoric, and Private Letters
Amy Elizabeth Smith

Model Letters, Moral Living:
Letter-Writing Manuals by Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson
Victoria Myers

Reading Romantic Letters:
Charlotte Smith at the Huntington
Nichola Deane

"More Than an Accomplishment":
Advice on Letter Writing for Nineteenth-Century American Women
Deirdre M. Mahoney

Letter-Writing Instruction Home on the Range
Dana C. Elder

Vol. 66, nos. 1 & 2

The Haunting of St. James’s Library: Librarians, Literature, and The Battle of the Books
Mark McDayter

From Beefsteak to Turtle: Artists’ Dinner Culture in Eighteenth-Century London
Holger Hoock

Empire and Occasional Conformity: David Fordyce’s Complete British Letter-Writer
Eve Tavor Bannet

Thomas Gainsborough and the “thin brilliant Style of Pencilling of Vandyke”
David A. Brenneman

The Style of Natural Catastrophes
Noah Heringman

Recentering Blake’s Marginalia
Jason Snart

English Lotteries and “The Lotterie,” A Manuscript Play Probably by Margaret Cavendish
James Fitzmaurice

Jane Porter’s Portrait of Benjamin West
Thomas McLean

Five Letters from D. G. Rossetti to John Payne
Andrew M. Stauffer

Contexts and Companions
Lorna Clymer

Anxiety and Contention in the Political Nation
Michael S. Smith

Radicalism and Utopianism
Nicole Pohl

Vol. 65, nos. 3 & 4

From Penitent to Suspect: Law, Purgatory, and Renaissance Drama
Lorna Hutson

The Historia General y Natural de las Indias by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
Jesús Carrillo

Selden’s Historie of Tithes: Genesis, Publication, Aftermath
G. J. Toomer

Reflections on the Reputation of Francis Bacon’s Philosophy
Graham Rees

Preaching to the Converted: Religious Justifications for the English Civil War
Edward Vallance

An Overlooked Tract by Francis Bacon
Brother Kenneth Cardwell

A Newly Discovered Performance by Henrietta Maria
Melinda J. Gough

Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life
Helen Speight

The Legacy of Francisco Hernández
Dan Lewis

The Politics of Religious and Literary Culture in Reformation and Post-Reformation England
David Loewenstein

John Milton in the New Millennium
Tobias Gregory

A City Divided Against Itself: Milton Scholars and the agon over Simon Agonistes
Alan Rudrum

Writing Gender and Class in Early Modern England
Melissa E. Sanchez

The Instabilities of Books
David R. Carlson

Vol. 65, nos. 1 & 2; Reconsidering the Bluestockings
Edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg

The Elizabeth Robinson Montagu Collection at the Huntington Library
Mary L. Robertson

Biographical Sketches of the Principal Bluestocking Women
compiled by Anna Miegon

A Bluestocking Bibliography
compiled by Janice Blathwayt

Bluestocking Feminism
Harriet Guest

Church of England Clergy and Women Writers
Susan Staves

Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State
Gary Kelly

"Out rushed a female to protect the Bard": The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare
Elizabeth Eger

Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman
Elizabeth Child

The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium
Emma Major

Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott
Betty Rizzo

Subjectivity Unbound: Elizabeth Vesey as the Sylph in Bluestocking Correspondence
Deborah Heller

"Rags of Mortality": Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters
Jane Magrath

Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire
Susan S. Lanser

 

Vol. 64, nos. 3 & 4

"The State is out of Tune": Nicholas Rowe's Jane Shore and the Succession Crisis of 1713-14
Paulina Kewes

The Finances of the Dukes of Chandos: Aristocratic Inheritance, Marriage, and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
P. G. M. Dickson & J. V. Beckett

High Art and Low Politics: A New Perspective on John Wilkes
Jonathan G. W. Conlin

William Hogarth and the Aesthetics of Nationalism
Timothy Erwin

Resonating Resins: "Listning to the voices of the ground" in William Blake's Book of Urizen
Lisa Kozlowski

The History of Cobbett's "A History of the Protestant 'Reformation'"
Peter J. Manning

Unidentified Items in the Larpent Collection: Addresses, Prologues, and Epilogues
Pierre Danchin

"Unstoried in History"? Early Histories of Women (1652-1902) in the Huntington Library Collections
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

Charles Henry Collins Baker: Biographical and Bibliographical Note
Shelley M. Bennett

Reviews by D. N. DeLuna, Albert J. Schmidt, Lorna Clymer, Lawrence E. Klein, and Philip Ayres

 

Vol. 64, nos. 1 & 2

Berosus and the Protestants: Reconstructing Protestant Myth
Glyn Parry

Elizabethan Parliamentary Oratory
Peter Mack

Spenser's "Complaints" and the New Poet
Katharine A. Craik

"So Many Shipwracke for Want of Better Knowledge": The Imaginary Husband in Stuart Marriage Advice
Gina Hausknecht

Counting Insatiate Countesses: The Seventeenth-Century Annotations to Marston's "The Insatiate Countess"
Albert H. Tricomi

John Playford: Music and Politics in the Interregnum
Peter Lindenbaum

"Chaucer's Dreame": A Bibliographer's Nightmare
Kathleen Forni

John Dee's "Brytanici Imperii Limites"
Ken MacMillan

Reviews by Anne Middleton, Lena Cowen Orlin, Tim William Machan, Marion Trousdale, Rebecca Lemon, Seth Lerer, Arthur F. Kinney, and Bill Warren

 

Vol. 63, no. 4; Forging Connections: Women's Poetry from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period
Edited by Anne K. Mellor, Felicity Nussbaum, and Jonathan F. S. Post

Beachy Head: The Romantic Fragment Poem As Mosaic
John M. Anderson

Mothers and Daughters: Poetic Generation(s) in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Stuart Curran

Love in All Its Oddness: The Affections in Women's Private Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
Margaret A. Doody

Green Languages? Women Poets as Naturalists in 1653 and 1807
Donna Landry

The Passion of a Female Literary Tradition: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
John Rogers

"My hart is full, my Soul dos ouer flow": Women's Devotional Poetry in Seventeenth-Century England
Helen Wilcox

Charlotte Smith's Emigrants: Forging Connections at the Borders of a Female Tradition
Susan J. Wolfson

 

Vol. 63, no. 3; British Radical Culture of the 1790s
Edited by Robert M. Maniquis

"Fire, Famine, and Slaughter"
John Barrell

The Language of High Treason: Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke, and the Edinburgh Seven
Frederick Burwick

Irish Republicans and Gothic Eleutherarchs: Pacific Utopias in the Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Charles Brockden Brown
Nigel Leask

Filling Up and Emptying Out the Sublime: Terror in British Radical Culture
Robert M. Maniquis

Trading Words, Waging War: The Mystified Relationship between British Radicals and French Révolutionnaires
Philippe Roger

The Loves of the Plants; or, the Cross-Fertilization of Science and Desire at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Fredrika J. Teute

Review by Michael S. C. Smith

 

Vol. 63, nos. 1 & 2; John Dryden: A Tercentenary Miscellany
Edited by Susan Green and Steven N. Zwicker

"Rebekah's Heir": Dryden's Late Mystery of Genealogy
Anne Cotterill

Ignoring The Tempest: Pepys, Dryden, and the Politics of Spectating in 1667
Gavin Foster

John Dryden and the Battle of the Books
Michael Werth Gelber

Cleopatra, Queen of the Seine: The Politics of Eroticism in Dryden's All for Love
Ann A. Huse

The Double Logic of Don Sebastian
Richard Kroll

Poetic Plate-Fleets and Universal Monarchy: The Heroic Plays and Empire in the Restoration
Bridget Orr

Who's Who in Absalom and Achitophel?
Alan Roper

"Our Lineal Descents and Clans": Dryden's Fables Ancient and Modern and Cultural Politics in the 1690s
Sean Walsh

Past and Present in Dryden's Fables
James A. Winn

Reviews by David Bywaters and Phillip Harth

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