Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. ESSAYS
5. “A Picture of My Mind, My Sentiments All Laid Open to Their View”: Lady Chudleigh’s Printed Verse, the Coterie Reader, and the Modern Editor 3
6. Addison’s Anglican Rationalism, Cato’s Tragic Flaw, and Stoicism 32
7. Robert Harley and the Politics of Daniel Defoe’s Review, 1710–1713 54
8. “All for Duty”: Dryden’s Critical Agenda in All for Love 98
9. William Congreve as Satirist 120
10. Classical Example and Gospel Rhetoric in the Sermons of Independent Preacher Thomas Brooks 145
11. Expanding Identity through Imagination; or, How Thomas Tryon Becomes the Marginalized 167
12. Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in Mid-Eighteenth- Century England 178
13. Technofacts: Christopher Smart and the Curiosity Cabinet 243
14. Catesby’s Eclecticism and the Origin of His Style 263
15. SPECIAL FEATURE
16. Introduction to Special Feature 289
17. Portuguese Religious Architecture, Beliefs, and Practices in Northern European Travel Accounts, 1750s–1850s 292
18. Ascetic Cosmopolitanism: Imagining Religious Retreat in Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II and Letters Concerning the Love of God 305
19. Convent and Crown: Redecorating Santa Chiara in Naples, 1741–1759 328
20. Book reviews 353
21. About the Contributors 441