Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700

Vandenberghe, Fauve. "Caustic Burns and Moving Hearts: Satire and Affect in Eliza Haywood's The Masqueraders." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 44 no. 1, 2020, p. 39-66. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Thompson, Helen. "Pernicious Science: Artifice and the Form of Narrative in Eliza Haywood's Secret Histories." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 44 no. 1, 2020, p. 9-38. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Cook, Daniel. "Swift after Cowley." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 44 no. 2, 2020, p. 37-54. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Ferguson, Rebecca. "Whom Did He Mean? The Restoration Context of Pope’s “Phryne” and “Artimesia”." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 44 no. 2, 2020, p. 55-109. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Riley, Dayne C. ""The Vice of the Time": Wine, Libertinism, and Commerce in the Age of Charles II." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 45 no. 1, 2021, p. 3-21. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Bayer, Gerd. "Letter Matters: Corporeality, Physicality, Epistolarity." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 47 no. 1, 2022, p. 121-137. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Villegas-López, Sonia. "Performativity and Spectacle in the Oriental Novel: The Harem as Dramatic Space in Sébastien Brémond's The Happy Slave." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 47 no. 1, 2022, p. 103-120. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Vélez-Núñez, Rafael. "(Trans)historical Fiction in Saint-Réal's Don Carlos." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 47 no. 1, 2022, p. 83-101. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Taylor, Kathleen and Gillian Wright. "Abraham Cowley's Sex Libri Plantarum and the "J. O." conundrum." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 47 no. 2, 2023, p. 3-25. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Smyth, Orla. "From John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Undersanding to the Novels of Daniel Defoe: Enquiries into the Mind as Permeable Spirit." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 47 no. 2, 2023, p. 85-113. Project MUSE, dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Wessel, Jane. "Staging the London Charter Crisis and Policing Political Participation in John Crowne’s City Politiques." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 49 no. 1, 2025, p. 23-45. dx.doi.org/10.1353/rst.....

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "satire" in the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results from 2020 on in the thread below and in earlier issues on JSTOR or Project MUSE.

John Gallagher · Quickly Quickly Quickly: Early Modern News In early modern Europe, news took many forms. It could be words exchanged by the people who haunted Venice’s Rialto....

“I don’t want to hear more news, no, no, no.”

A fascinating essay in the @lrb.co.uk, reviewing books about seventeenth century postal services and the news.

Literate Europeans were feeling *overwhelmed* by all the reportage available.

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of literature, history, or culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

Courtship, seventeenth-century style, for Valentine’s Day. From ‘The art of making love: or, rules for the conduct of ladies and gallants in their amours’, published in London in 1676. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social U*.8.82(G). #valentinesday

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England Who wrote in early modern England? What did they write and why did they write it? How did their writing fit into the wider worlds that they inhabited? In this talk, Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell and Michael Powell Davies – all from Birkbeck University of London – will address these questions by introducing their ongoing Leverhulme-funded collaborative project on non-elite writers in England from c.1570 to 1730. Our research explores the writing practices of people below the level of the gentry and clergy, considering their biographical contexts, their motivations and their contributions to written culture. In addition to giving a bird’s eye view of the sorts of writers and texts we are studying, each of the three speakers will discuss a couple of specific examples of particular writers, including the notebooks of a midland villager, the spiritual diary a London wigmaker, and the confessions of a condemned widow. Hybrid | IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, or Online-via Zoom. 5 Mar 2026 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Slide titled Written World with a seventeenth-century painting of a woman writing in a book.

There might be some Other News happening today, but the really important announcement is that...

Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be talking about #WrittenWorlds in early modern England at @ihrscb.bsky.social on Thurs March 5th! 🗃️

Register here:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Something extraordinary about holding a book printed almost 350 years ago.
"Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus ar Slanuigheora Iósa Criosd" (1681) - the New Testament printed for the first time using the old Irish alphabet. Printed on Ave Maria Lane, EC4 & now in St Bride Foundation #IrishLondonHistory

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD

Vacancies - BSECS Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

Have you heard?! We currently have 2 vacancies on the #BSECS Council:

1. Postgraduate Representative
2. Communications Officer (working with me!)

Posts are voluntary but #BSECS pays travel and accommodation costs, the term of office is 3yrs.

Details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly.

www.ecis.ie/news-events/

29 Nov 1678: Eleven peers ask Charles II to remove Queen Catherine of Braganza from #Whitehall Little wonder this 1678 portrait is as regalia-ed as it is (GAC)

"Crisis Texts: Transforming Calprenède into Royal Portraiture" by Paula Backscheider
Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2018, pp. 79-103
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"Pernicious Science: Artifice and the Form of Narrative in Eliza Haywood's Secret Histories" by Helen Thompson
Volume 44, Number 1, Spring 2020, pp. 9-38
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"Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix's Queen Catharine" by Dawn M. Goode
Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 37-60
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“'The abdicated family': Hume’s Partisan Grammar in 'Of the Protestant Succession'” by Toni Bowers
Volume 39, Number 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015, pp. 61-81
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"On Getting over the Restoration" by Daniel Gustafson
Volume 40, Number 2, Fall 2016, pp. 83-89
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"1688: Literature, Politics, and the Long Restoration" by Corrinne Harol
Volume 39, Number 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015, pp. 5-16
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"Enlightened Female Homoeroticism and Social Transformation in Catharine Trotter's Agnes de Castro" by Dawn M. Goode
Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2013, pp. 19-38
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