Bibliography

Bibliography for Primary Presentation Topics

You are neither confined to the bibliographical references outlined under the topics nor required to cover all of the items listed. However, those references highlighted in ochre-colored type must be discussed in the body of your talk.

In those instances where I have placed a "(P)" in front of the entry, you must include a short precis or summary of the text. In the case of poetry, be prepared to talk in depth about the piece(s) and, where feasible, bring enough copies for your colleagues to read in class.

I have placed double asterisks (**) prior to items that will prove especially helpful in assembling material for your talk.

Everyone should read (and try to incorporate elements of it into their talk [if appropriate] Michael McKeon's "Historicizing Patriarchy: The Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-1760" in Eighteenth-Century Studies28.3 (1995): 295-322 (on reserve).

Primary Topics

Medical Knowledge, Gender, and the Body (PART ONE--the "one-sex" model)
- (P) Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud(on reserve), chapters one through four (pp. 1-148).
Patriarchalism
- (P) Robert Filmer, Patriarchain Patriarcha and Other Writings (not on reserve)
The Skimmington & Charivari / Scolds & Shrews / Male Fear of Women on Top

Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France,Chapter Five: "Women on Top" (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1975) (not on reserve).

**Joy Wiltenburg, Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany(Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1992) (not on reserve)

**Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex, and Subordination pp. 201-203, 270-272, 403 and plates 1-11(on reserve)
The Dutch Invasion of 1688

Jonathan Israel, "The Dutch Role in the Glorious Revolution" in The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact, ed. J. Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991): 105-162 (on reserve)

**Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success, failure, and perseverance of the Dutch economy, 1500-1815(New York: Cambridge, 1997), check index for references to "women" (not on reserve)

**Jonathan Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806(Oxford: Clarendon P, 1995), pp. 598, 677; also, check index for other references to "women" (not on reserve)

**C. C. Barfoot, "'Envy, Fear, and Wonder': English Views of Holland and the Dutch 1673-1764" in The Great Emporium: The Low Countries as a Cultural Cross Roads in the Renaissance and the Eighteenth CenturyEds. C. C. Barfoot and Richard Todd (Amsterdam: Rudopi, 1992), pp. 207-247 (not on reserve)

**Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age(New York: Knopf, 1987), pp. 404, 407 and elsewhere (not on reserve)

**Women of the Golden Age: An International Debate on Women in Seventeenth-century Holland, England and Italyeds. Els Kloek, Nicole Teeuwen, and Marijke Huisman (Hilversum: Verloren, 1994); see essays by Mary Prior (esp. pp. 138, 140) and Anne Laurence (esp. p. 133) (not on reserve)

**Tony Claydon, William III and the Godly Revolution (New York: Cambridge UP, 1996) see material on Queen Mary II (not on reserve)

Gender during the Restoration (1660-1688)

Margaret Doody, "Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration," in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650- 1740(New York: Cambridge UP, 1998), pp. 58-81 (not on reserve).

Rachel Weil, "Sometimes a Scepter is Only a Scepter: Pornography and Politics in Restoration England" in The Invention of Pornography(New York: Zone, 1993), pp. 125-156

The "Restoration" Stage (1660-1710)

Arthur Scouten, Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980), pp. 1-13 (not on reserve)

**Rose Zimbardo, A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics, 1660-1732(Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1986) (not on reserve)

Derek Hughes, "Introduction" to English Drama, 1660-1700(Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996) (not on reserve)

**J. Douglas Canfield and Deborah Payne, "Introduction," Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre(Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995), pp. 1-12 (not on reserve)

Robert Hume, "Introduction" to The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century(Oxford: Clarendon, 1976) (not on reserve)

Arthur Scouten, Notes Toward a History of Restoration Comedyin Philological Quarterly45 (1966), pp. 62-70 (not on reserve)

David Roberts, The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama, 1660-1700(Oxford, Clarendon P, 1989) (not on reserve; Green: PR 698 W6 R63 1989)

**John Smith, "Shadwell, the Ladies, and the Change in Comedy" in Modern Philology46 (1948-49), pp. 22-33 (not on reserve)

Literature and 1688

Lois Potter, "Politics and Popular Culture: The Theatrical Response to the Revolution" in The Revolution of 1688-1689,ed. Lois Schwoerer (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992): 184-97 (not on reserve)

Steven Zwicker, "Representing the Revolution: Politics and High Culture in 1688" in By Force or By Default? The Revolution of 1688-1689,ed. Eveline Cruickshanks (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1989): 109-134 (not on reserve)

Michael Cordner, "Marriage Comedy after the 1688 Revolution: Southerne to Vanbrugh" in The Modern Language Review85.2 (1990), pp. 273-289 (not on reserve)

**Rose Zimbardo, "Chapter Six: Imitation of the Inner Arena: Sentimental, Pornographic, or Novelistic" in The Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics, 1660-1732(Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1986) (not on reserve)

**Leo Braudy, "Unturning the Century: The Missing Decade of the 1690s " in Fins de Siecle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990Ed. Elaine Scarry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994), pp. 65-93 (not on reserve).

David Bywaters, Dryden in Revolutionary England(Berkeley, U of California P, 1991) (not on reserve).

John Locke and Liberalism

(P) John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (First Treatiseonly) (on reserve)

**John Yolton, "John Locke" in The Age of William III and Mary II: Power, Politics, and Patronage 1688-1702, ed. by Robert Maccubbin and Martha Hamilton-Phillips, pp. 153-156

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Mary Astell and Liberalism

Ruth Perry, "Mary Astell and the Feminist Critique of Possessive Individualism" in Eighteenth-Century Studies23 (1990): 444-57 (not on reserve)

Ruth Perry, "Mary Astell's Response to the Enlightenment" in Women and the EnlightenmentEd. Margaret Hunt (New York: Haworth, 1984), pp.13-40 (not on reserve)

**Carol Barash, "'The Native Liberty . . . of the Subject': Configurations of Gender and Authority in the Works of Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Fyge Egerton, and Mary Astell" in Women, Writing, History: 1640-1799Eds. Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman (Athens: U of Georgia P, 1991), pp. 55-69 (not on reserve).

Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract(on reserve)

The Societies for the Reformation of Manners

Dudley Bahlmann, The Moral Revolution of 1688(New Haven: Yale UP, 1957) (not on reserve)

**Robert Shoemaker, " Reforming the City: The Reformation of Manners Campaign in London, 1690-1738" in Stilling the Grumbling Hive: The Response to Social and Economic Problems in England,ed. Lee Davison et al (1992) (pp. 99-120) (not on reserve)

Tony Claydon, William III and the Godly Revolution(New York: Cambridge UP, 1996) (not on reserve)

Reform of Male Manners

G. J. Barker-Benfield, "The Reformation of Male Manners" (ch. 2) in Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain(Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992) (not on reserve)

**Anthony Fletcher, "The Construction of Masculinity" in Gender, Sex & Subordination(on reserve)

**Shawn Lisa Maurer, "Reforming Men: Chaste Heterosexuality in the Early English Periodical" in Restoration16.1 (1992): 38-51 (not on reserve)

Conduct Books and the Construction of Femininity

Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse, "The "Literature of Conduct, the Conduct of Literature, and the Politics of Desire: an Introduction" in The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality (New York: Methuen, 1987): 1-24 (not on reserve)

**Jacques Carre (ed), The Crisis of Courtesy: Studies in the Conduct-Book in Britain, 1660-1900 (Leiden: Brill, 1994) (not on reserve)

**Anthony Fletcher, "The Construction of Femininity" in Gender, Sex, and Subordination (on reserve)

Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction (Oxford, 1987) (not on reserve)

Marriage & Divorce / Marriage Law in 18th-Century Britain

**R. B. Outhwaite, Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500-1850(London: Hambledon Press, 1995) (not on reserve)
**Lawrence Stone, Broken Lives(Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993) (not on reserve)
Lawrence Stone, Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660-1753(Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992) (not on reserve)
**Susan Staves, Players' Scepters,ch. 3(?) (on reserve)
Susan Staves, Married Women's Separate Property, 1660-1833(Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990), 1-5, 178-95 (not on reserve)
Lloyd Bonfield, Marriage Settlements, 1601-1740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement(New York: Cambridge UP, 1983) (not on reserve)
H. J. Habukkuk, "Marriage Settlemens in the Eighteenth Century" in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society4th series, 32 (1950): 15-30 (not on reserve)
William Horne, Making a Heaven of Hell: The Problem of the Companionate Ideal in English Marriage Poetry, 1650-1800 (Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993) (not on reserve)
Lawrence Stone, Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660-1753 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992) (not on reserve)
Randolph Trumbach, The Rise of the Egalitarian Family: Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-Century England (New York: Academic Press: 1978) (not on reserve)
Stephen Parker, Informal Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law 1750-1989(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990) (not on reserve)

Daniel Defoe and the Status of Women

(P) Daniel Defoe, "An Academy for Women" in An Essay upon Projects,ed. Joyce Kennedy et al (New York: AMS Press, 1999); also cover the section following this one (not on reserve)

(P) Daniel Defoe, "Of the Tradesman's letting his Wife be Acquainted with his Business," a chapter in The Complete English Tradesman(1727) (not on reserve) (contained in The Works of Daniel DefoeEd. John Keltie (Edinburth: Willaim Nimmo, 1870, pp. 548-590) (see the instructor if you have trouble locating this piece).

**Shirlene Mason, Daniel Defoe and the Status of Women(St. Alban's VT: Eden Press, 1978)

**Spiro Peterson, "The Matrimonial Theme of Defoe's Roxana" in PMLA 70.1 (1955): 166-91 (not on reserve)

Paula Backscheider, Daniel Defoe, His Life(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989) (not on reserve)

Paula Backscheider, Daniel Defoe: Ambition and Innovation(Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1986)

F. Bastian, Defoe's Early Life(London, Macmillan P, 1981) (not on reserve).

Manuel Schonhorn, Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and Robinson Crusoe(New York: Cambridge UP, 1991) (not on reserve)

The Rise of the Novel

William Warner, Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750(Berkeley: U of California P, 1998) (not on reserve)
**Michael McKeon, The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987) (not on reserve)

**Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel(not on reserve)

Epistolarity

Janet Gurkin Altman, Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form(Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1982) (not on reserve: GREEN: PN3448.E6 A4).
Robert Adams Day, "Speech Acts, Orality, and the Epistolary Novel" in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation21 (1980): 187-97 (not on resereve)
Elizabeth Goldsmith (ed.), Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature(Boston: Northeastern UP,1989) (not on reserve).

The Samuel Richardson-Henry Fielding Rivalry

(P) Henry Fielding, Shamela in Joseph Andrews and Shamela(New York: Crowell Critical Library, 1972) (not on reserve)

**Richard Gooding, "Pamela, Shamela, and the Politics of the Pamela Vogue," in Eighteenth-Century Fiction7.2 (1995), 109-130 (not on reserve).

**Allen Michie, Richardson and Fielding: The Dynamics of a Critical Rivalry(London: Bucknell UP, 1999) (not on reserve).

George Sherburn, "Introduction," Clarissa(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962) (not on reserve).

Albert Rivero, "Pamela/Shamela/Joseph Andrews: Henry Fielding and the Duplicities of Representation" in Augustan SubjectsAlbert Rivero (ed.) (U of Delaware P Associated UP Newark, DE London, England 1997), pp. 207-28 (not on reserve).

Sentiment / Sensibility

**Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Literature and Medicine during the 18th-Century.(New York: Routledge, 1993) (not on reserve)
Gillian Skinner, Sensibility and Economics in the Novel, 1740-1800,(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999) (not on reserve)
R. F. Brissenden, Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade.(London: Macmillan, 1974) (not on reserve)
Robert Markley, "Sentimentality as Performance: Shaftesbury, Sterne, and the Theatrics of Virtue" in The New 18th-Century: Theory, Politics, English LiteratureEds. Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown (New York: Routledge, 1987) (not on reserve)

Medical Knowledge, Gender, and the Body (PART TWO--emergence of the "two-sex" model)

(P) Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud(on reserve), chapters five and six (pp. 149-243).

Katharine Park and Robert Nye, review of Laqueur's Making Sexin The New Republic204.7 (Feb. 18, 1991), 53-57 (not on reserve)

**Anthony Fletcher, "Part Three: Towards Modern Gender" (especially "Prologue: New Thinking, New Knowledge" (pp. 283-296) in Gender, Sex, and Subordination(on reserve)

Lovelace's Dream

(P) Terry Castle, "Lovelace's Dream" in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culturevol. 13 (1984), ed. O. M. Brack Jr. (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1984), pp.29-41 (not on reserve)

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