The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century
The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century
edited by Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson contributions by Randa Graves, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Cynthia J. Lowenthal, Heather McPherson, Hugh Reid, John Vance, Calhoun Winton, Annibel Jenkins, Paula R. Backscheider, Don Russ, Daniel J. Ennis, E. Joe Johnson, Misty G. Anderson, Martha F. Bowden, Mita Choudhury, Robert Craig and W.B. Gerard
University of Delaware Press, 2022 Paper: 978-1-64453-256-0 | Cloth: 978-1-64453-257-7 | eISBN: 978-1-64453-259-1 Library of Congress Classification PR442.W675 2022 Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9005
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the Restoration to the nineteenth century. Ranging from visual culture, theater history, literary analyses and to historical investigations, the essays not only present a fuller picture of cultural life in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but also reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives. The collection concludes with the final scholarly presentation of the late Professor Jenkins, a study of the eighteenth-century English newspaper The World (1753-1756).
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
DANIEL J. ENNIS is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, where he has been a member of the English department since 1999. He has published on Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, and Christopher Smart. This is his third co-edited collection.
E. JOE JOHNSON is a professor of foreign languages at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. A past president of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, he is currently serving as the general editor of the society’s annual journal XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. The author of one monograph and editor of four volumes, he has also published numerous translations of French comic books and graphic novels along with a co-translation of Camille Lebrun’s 1845 novel Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson
1 Inchbald for Our Time
Misty G. Anderson
2 The Structure of Fable in Inchbald’s Nature and Art
Martha F. Bowden
3 Narratives of Emerging Markets and Mercantilist Mappings in Defoe’s London
Mita Choudhury
4 Thomas Jefferson’s Sojourn in N.mes: Revolutionary Politics and Architecture
Robert M. Craig
5 “Uncle to All the World”: The Virtual Afterlives of Captain Tobias Shandy, 1831–1948
W. B. Gerard
6 “My Business Ashore”: Libertine Conduct and Maritime Context in The Rover
Randa Graves
7 Speaking through the Prophets: Anne Finch, Politics, and Religion
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
8 “That Unnatural Mixture”: Nostalgia and Anxiety in Late Restoration Tragicomedy
Cynthia J. Lowenthal
9 Speculum Mundi: Caricature and the Stage
Heather McPherson
10 “Hazardous Purchasing Almost Anything”: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade
Hugh Reid
11 After the Great War: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century on the London Stage, 1919–1929
John A. Vance
12 One of Thomas Bray’s Apostles of Literacy: Thomas Bacon
Calhoun Winton
13 The World of The World
Annibel Jenkins
Afterword: Dr. Jenkins and Mrs. Inchbald
Paula R. Backscheider
Her Worded World: A Tribute to Annibel Jenkins
Don Russ
Notes on Contributors
Index
