British Literature 1640-1789 Book

	A Note on the Form of Reference
	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Areopagitica, Censorship, and the Early Modern Public Sphere	13
2	Milton and the Fit Reader	40
3	The Balance of Power in Marvell's "Horatian Ode"	69
4	Oroonoko's Blackness	86
5	Lordly Accents: Rochester's Satire	105
6	Dryden's "Anne Killigrew": Towards a New Pindaric Political Ode	114
7	Ironic Monologue and "Scandalous Ambo-dexter Conformity" in Defoe's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters	126
8	Strange Complicities: Atheism and Conspiracy in A Tale of A Tub	142
9	The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epic	169
10	Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Private Self	186
11	The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Hume	204
12	Mary Leapor Laughs at the Fathers: Reading "Crumble-Hall"	218
13	O Lachrymarum Fons: Tears, Poetry, and Desire in Gray	233
14	The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England	251
15	Theater and Counter-Theater in Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France	271
16	Cowper's Hares	287
17	Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth-Century England	302
18	Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton	333
	Select Bibliography	348
	Index	367