The Quarterly Journal of

English Literature and the English Language

New Series Volume 49 Number 196 November 1998

Editors
David Bradshaw
Gordon Campbell
Joyce Hill
David Womersley

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New Series, Volume 49, Number 196 (1998)

CONTENTS

ARTICLES
'A talkatiue wench (whose words a world hath delighted in)': Mistress Shore
and Elizabethan Complaint. By Richard Danson Brown 395
Spenser, Seneca, and the Sibyl: Book V of The Faerie Queene. By Malcolm
Bull 416
The Sources of Musical Settings of Thomas Carew's Poetry. By Scott
Nixon 424

NOTES
Mea Culpa: Voltaire's Retraction of his Comments Critical of Congreve. By
D. F. McKenzie 461
Characterization in Mansfield Park: Tom Bertram and Colman's The Heir at
Lam. By Peter C. Giotta 466

REVIEW ARTICLES
Reviewing Medieval Literature. By Joyce Hill 472
Theatrical Use and Editorial Abuse: More Painful Adventures for Pericles. By
Roger Warren 478

REVIEWS
R. C. Alston (ed.), Order and Connexion: Studies in Bibliography and Book History
(James McLaverty) 487
Pauline E. Head, Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old
English Poetry (Bernard O'Donoghue) 488
Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86, introd. Judith Tschann and
M. B. Parkes (T. Hunt) 489
'The Myrour of Recluses': A Middle English Translation of the 'Speculum
Inclusorum', edited by Marta Powell Harley (Wendy Scase) 490
Richard Rastall, The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English Religious Drama I
(Christopher R. Wilson) 491
Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late
Medieval England (Wendy Scase) 493
Neil Cartlidge, Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches 1100-1300 (Gloria
Cigman) 494
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David Williams, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval

Thought and Literature (Dorothy Yamamoto) 495

S. H. Rigby, Chaucer in Context: Society, Allegory and Gender (Nicola F.

McDonald) 496

David Wallace, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in

England and Italy (Peter Brown) 497

Henry Ansgar Kelly, Chaucerian Tragedy (Edward Wilson) 499

Michel Bitot (ed.), 'Divers Toyes Mengled': Essays on Medieval and Renaissance
Culture in Honour of Andre Lascombes (Mishtooni Bose) 500

'The Deidis of Armorie': A Heraldic Treatise and Bestiary, edited by L. A. J. R

Houwen (Sally Mapstone) 501

Charles Ross, The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth (Mishtooni
Bose) 503

Constance C. Relihan (ed.), Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary

Approaches to Early Modem Narrative Prose (Helen Moore) 504

Julia Reinhard Lupton, Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology and

Renaissance Literature (Simon Ditchfield) 505

Judith H. Anderson, Donald Cheney, and David A. Richardson (edd.), Spenser's

Life and the Subject of Biography (Richard A. McCabe) 506

Leeds Barroll (ed.), Shakespeare Studies, Vol. XXIV (N. W. Bawcutt) 507

Shakespeare's Sonnets, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones (Paul Hammond) 508

William Shakespeare, King Lear, edited by R. A. Foakes (Leah Scragg) 510

An Collins, Divine Songs and Meditations, edited by Sidney Gottlieb (Mishtooni
Bose) 513

Sharon Cadman Scclig, Generating Texts: The Progeny of Seventeenth-Century

Prose (Graham Parry) 514

Betty A. Schellenberg, The Conversational Circle: Re-reading the English Novel,

1740-1775 (Brean S. Hammond) 515

EveTett Zimmerman, The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-

Century British Novel (Karen O'Brien) 516

Paul J. Korshin (ed.), The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, Vols. VII and
VIII (Bruce Redford) 518

Robert DeMaria Jr., Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (David Womersley) 519

William Wordsworth, The Five-Book Prelude, edited by Duncan Wu (W. J. B.

Owen) 521

Nicholas Roe, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (Michael O'Neill) 522
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James Hogg, A Series of Lay Sermons on Good Principles and Good Breeding,
edited by Gillian Hughes, with a note on the text by Douglas S. Mack (Fiona
Stafford) 523
The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1: 1843-1873, edited by Antony H.
Harrison (Marion Shaw) 524
Neil Roberts, Meredith and the Novel (Rikky Rooksby) 527
Rikky Rooksby, A. C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life (Francis O'Gorman) 528
Lawrence Danson, Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in his Criticism (Peter
HoUindale) 529
Colin McGinn, Ethics, Evil, and Fiction (A. D. Nuttall) 530
Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid (edd.), High and Low Moderns:
Literature and Culture 1889-1939 (Joseph DiNunzio) 535
Geoffrey Gait Harpham, One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad (John Lyon) 536
Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate (edd.), Women's Fiction and the Great War (Nicola
Bradbury) 538
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, edited by Morris Beja; The Voyage Out, edited by
C. Ruth Miller and Lawrence Miller (David Bradshaw) 539
Rosemary Marangoly George, The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and
Twentieth-Century Fiction (Jon Mee) 542

Index 544

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