Acknowledgements. A Note on the Form of Reference. 1. Areopagitica, Censorship, and the Early Modern Public Sphere: David Norbrook. 2. From a Milton and the Fit Readera , Sharon Achinstein. 3. a The Balance of Power in Marvella s "Horatian Ode"a : Thomas M. Greene. 4. a Oroonokoa s Blacknessa : Catherine Gallagher. 5. a Lordly Accents: Rochestera s Satirea (1994): Claude Rawson. 6. From Brittaniaa s Issue, a Drydena s "Anne Killigrew": Towards a New Pindaric Political Ode": Howard Weinbrot. 7. Ironic Monologue and a Scandalous Ambro--dexter Conformitya " in Defoea s The Shortest Way with the Dissenters": D. N. DeLuna. 8. a Strange Complicities: Atheism and Conspiracy in A Tale of a Tuba : Roger Lund. 9. From Resemblance and Disgrace, a The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epica : Helen Deutsch. 10. From English Womena s Poetry 1649--1714, a Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Selfa : Carol Barash. 11. a The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Humea : Adam Potkay. 12. From The Muses of Resistance, a An English Sappho Brilliant, Young and Dead?a Mary Leapor Laughs at the Fathersa : Donna Landry. 13. O Lachrymarum Fons: Thomas Graya s Sensibility: George E. Haggerty. 14. a The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth--Century Englanda : Terry Castle. 15. From The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke, a Theater and Counter--Theater in Burkea s Reflections on the Revolution in Francea : Frans De Bruyn. 16. Cowpera s Hares: David Perkins. 17. Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in Eighteenth--Century England: Ruth Perry. 18. Unparodying and Forgery: The Augustan Chatterton: Claude Rawson. Bibliography. Index.