Table of contents
Series editor’s preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Notes on authors
xiii
IntroductionWords, books, images, and the long eighteenth century: Essays for Allen Reddick
1
Part I.Words
Going feral: Peter the wild boy among royals, natural philosophers, and the London literati
19
John Dunton’s The Ladies Dictionary
: Active reading for rational conduct
37
Samuel Johnson and the “Shackles of Lexicography”
59
Edward Lear’s new words
81
Part II.Words and books
Battles of words and books: Mock-heroic poems and the book trade, 1660–1740
103
“The pretious life-blood of a master spirit”: Thomas Hollis and the spirit and body of John Milton
121
Frankenstein and Romantic scrapbook culture
151
Part III.Words, books, images
The paper museum of John Aubrey
171
Picturing the harmonious body in Richardson’s novels
189
Authorial gestures: Joshua Reynolds’ literary portraits
207
Illustrating Byron’s Prisoner of Chillon
: Biopolitics and the art of bearing witness
227
Index
247
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