Ashley Marshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5640344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley Marshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley |
| FAMILY NAME | Marshall |
| SIGNATURE | MARSHALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6018-9779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defoe’s Periodical Journalism
This chapter situates Daniel Defoe’s prolific production of periodical journalism in the broader context of a burgeoning media culture in early eighteenth-century Britain which followed the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695. Defoe’s most sustained and successful venture was the Review (1704–13), and the chapter traces the developing political objectives and allegiances of this journal, as well as its social commentary, its formal innovations, an…
William Hogarth and Richard Steele
William Hogarth and Richard Steele were in many ways part of the same intellectual and religiopolitical milieu, one that also links them both to the radical Whig cleric Benjamin Hoadly. Modern scholars have almost always connected Steele to Joseph Addison, emphasizing Steele's morals-and-manners journalism—but this is not a fair representation of his output. Identifying the connections between Steele and Hogarth allows us to appreciate each man's…
Dynastic Uncertainty: Queen Anne Takes the Throne
Book Review| January 01 2020 Dynastic Uncertainty: Queen Anne Takes the Throne Hone, Joseph. Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2017). Pp. vi + 209. $81 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall University of Nevada, Reno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 98–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-7993666 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Thinking about Satire
What did eighteenth-century writers and critics have to say about satire? The relevant primary material is voluminous, including Dryden’s Discourse, Pope’s Epilogue to the Satires, essays and sermons on ridicule, authorial prefaces, and passing strictures upon particular satires. The commentary is often occasional, subjective, and partisan, usually either focusing on single works or operating in the realm of abstraction. Satire was a contentious …
Radical Steele: Popular Politics and the Limits of Authority
In modern critical imagination, Richard Steele is almost always seen as Joseph Addison's friend and collaborator, as half of the periodical essay-writing team devoted to the promotion of civility, urbanity, and a moral and well-mannered lifestyle. Scholars focus almost exclusively on the Tatler , the Spectator , and Steele's sentimental drama, The Conscious Lovers (1722), virtually ignoring his substantial canon of party journalism and pamphlets.…
Swift and History: Politics and the English Past
The Epistolary Canon of the “Man of Mercury”
Book Review| September 01 2015 The Epistolary Canon of the “Man of Mercury” The Unpublished Letters of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, ed. Lashmore-Davies, Adrian, advisory ed. Goldie, Mark, 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013). ; Vol. 1: Pp. lxx+ 379. Vol. 2: Pp. 429. Vol. 3: Pp. 397. Vol. 4: Pp. 438. Vol. 5: Pp. 375. $795 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Ce…
Reading Swift: Papers from The Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
Construing and Deconstructing Swift’s A Tale of a Tub
Book Review| April 01 2013 Construing and Deconstructing Swift’s A Tale of a Tub Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh. Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 2011). Pp. 396. $85Walsh, Marcus, ed. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 1: A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2010). Pp. xc+ 594. $140 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteen…
Fabricating Defoes: From Anonymous Hack to Master of Fictions
The “Defoe” to be found in the major modern biographies and the criticism of the last four decades is a radically different person and writer from earlier Defoes. Although the notion of a “constructed” author is by now an over-worked cliché, Defoe represents an especially problematic case. Dryden, Pope, and Fielding as we now conceive them are constructions built on the basis of relatively clear (if not uncontested) materials; the evidence we pos…
The State of Swift Studies 2010
Book Review| April 01 2010 The State of Swift Studies 2010 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 83–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2009-017 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ash…
The Myth of Scriblerus
Daniel Defoe as Satirist
Scholars think of Defoe primarily as a novelist,secondarily as a journalist and a commentator on politics and economics. Most assume that he wrote as most profited him, and changed his convictions as convenient or perhaps had none. In recent revisions to the bibliography of Defoe's writings, satire occupies a prominent place, and in this article Ashley Marshall shows Defoe's consistency of argument and approach in satires written over a period of…
The Myth of Scriblerus
Daniel Defoe as Satirist
Scholars think of Defoe primarily as a novelist,secondarily as a journalist and a commentator on politics and economics. Most assume that he wrote as most profited him, and changed his convictions as convenient or perhaps had none. In recent revisions to the bibliography of Defoe's writings, satire occupies a prominent place, and in this article Ashley Marshall shows Defoe's consistency of argument and approach in satires written over a period of…
Fabricating Defoes: From Anonymous Hack to Master of Fictions
The “Defoe” to be found in the major modern biographies and the criticism of the last four decades is a radically different person and writer from earlier Defoes. Although the notion of a “constructed” author is by now an over-worked cliché, Defoe represents an especially problematic case. Dryden, Pope, and Fielding as we now conceive them are constructions built on the basis of relatively clear (if not uncontested) materials; the evidence we pos…
The State of Swift Studies 2010
Book Review| April 01 2010 The State of Swift Studies 2010 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 83–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2009-017 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ash…
Daniel Defoe as Satirist
Scholars think of Defoe primarily as a novelist,secondarily as a journalist and a commentator on politics and economics. Most assume that he wrote as most profited him, and changed his convictions as convenient or perhaps had none. In recent revisions to the bibliography of Defoe's writings, satire occupies a prominent place, and in this article Ashley Marshall shows Defoe's consistency of argument and approach in satires written over a period of…
The Myth of Scriblerus
The State of Swift Studies 2010
Book Review| April 01 2010 The State of Swift Studies 2010 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 83–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2009-017 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ash…
Fabricating Defoes: From Anonymous Hack to Master of Fictions
The “Defoe” to be found in the major modern biographies and the criticism of the last four decades is a radically different person and writer from earlier Defoes. Although the notion of a “constructed” author is by now an over-worked cliché, Defoe represents an especially problematic case. Dryden, Pope, and Fielding as we now conceive them are constructions built on the basis of relatively clear (if not uncontested) materials; the evidence we pos…
Reading Swift: Papers from The Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
Construing and Deconstructing Swift’s A Tale of a Tub
Book Review| April 01 2013 Construing and Deconstructing Swift’s A Tale of a Tub Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh. Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 2011). Pp. 396. $85Walsh, Marcus, ed. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 1: A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2010). Pp. xc+ 594. $140 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteen…
Swift and History: Politics and the English Past
The Epistolary Canon of the “Man of Mercury”
Book Review| September 01 2015 The Epistolary Canon of the “Man of Mercury” The Unpublished Letters of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, ed. Lashmore-Davies, Adrian, advisory ed. Goldie, Mark, 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013). ; Vol. 1: Pp. lxx+ 379. Vol. 2: Pp. 429. Vol. 3: Pp. 397. Vol. 4: Pp. 438. Vol. 5: Pp. 375. $795 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Ce…
Thinking about Satire
What did eighteenth-century writers and critics have to say about satire? The relevant primary material is voluminous, including Dryden’s Discourse, Pope’s Epilogue to the Satires, essays and sermons on ridicule, authorial prefaces, and passing strictures upon particular satires. The commentary is often occasional, subjective, and partisan, usually either focusing on single works or operating in the realm of abstraction. Satire was a contentious …
Radical Steele: Popular Politics and the Limits of Authority
In modern critical imagination, Richard Steele is almost always seen as Joseph Addison's friend and collaborator, as half of the periodical essay-writing team devoted to the promotion of civility, urbanity, and a moral and well-mannered lifestyle. Scholars focus almost exclusively on the Tatler , the Spectator , and Steele's sentimental drama, The Conscious Lovers (1722), virtually ignoring his substantial canon of party journalism and pamphlets.…
Dynastic Uncertainty: Queen Anne Takes the Throne
Book Review| January 01 2020 Dynastic Uncertainty: Queen Anne Takes the Throne Hone, Joseph. Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2017). Pp. vi + 209. $81 Ashley Marshall Ashley Marshall University of Nevada, Reno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 98–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-7993666 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
William Hogarth and Richard Steele
William Hogarth and Richard Steele were in many ways part of the same intellectual and religiopolitical milieu, one that also links them both to the radical Whig cleric Benjamin Hoadly. Modern scholars have almost always connected Steele to Joseph Addison, emphasizing Steele's morals-and-manners journalism—but this is not a fair representation of his output. Identifying the connections between Steele and Hogarth allows us to appreciate each man's…
Defoe’s Periodical Journalism
This chapter situates Daniel Defoe’s prolific production of periodical journalism in the broader context of a burgeoning media culture in early eighteenth-century Britain which followed the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695. Defoe’s most sustained and successful venture was the Review (1704–13), and the chapter traces the developing political objectives and allegiances of this journal, as well as its social commentary, its formal innovations, an…
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