The Selected Works of Delarivier Manley (review)

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-515
Author(s):  
Rosalind. Ballaster
Keyword(s):  
Delarivier Manley

Periodical Publications: Journalism, Politics, and Polite Entertainment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
Delarivier Manley ◽  
Opinion Writing

New formats for periodical publications in this decade included the newspaper, which replaced the earlier newsbooks and handwritten subscription newsletters and which created new opportunities for journalism. In addition to news, they were also important to the development of advertising and opinion writing. While some periodicals were associated with political parties, such as the Tory Examiner for which Jonathan Swift and Delarivier Manley wrote, others such as the Athenian Mercury, the Tatler, and the Guardian were more concerned with polite entertainment and literary matters.

Laws Regulating Publication, Preaching, and Performance, 1700–1714

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Delarivier Manley ◽  
Richard Steele ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Stamp Act

After the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, the amount of literary periodicals and propaganda created to influence elections notably increased for both pro- and anti-government sentiment. Richard Steele, John Tutchin, Delarivier Manley, and Daniel Defore, all were charged at different times for seditious libel for their political writings. Because of a proliferation of pirated editions, the desire of authors to control their works through copyright resulted in the Act for the Encouragement of Learning in 1709, while the 1712 Stamp Act targeted newspapers and pamphlet publications in an indirect form of censorship. The trial of Henry Sacheverell for preaching and publishing against the Toleration Act created intense interest and prompted further publications.

A NEW ATTRIBUTION TO DELARIVIER MANLEY?

2001 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-403
Author(s):  
RUTH HERMAN
Keyword(s):  
Delarivier Manley

The Female Wits

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Claudine van Hensbergen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women Playwrights ◽  
Delarivier Manley ◽  
Mary Pix

Taking as its focus the satirical play The Female Wits: or, the Triumvirate of Poets at Rehearsal (1696) this chapter reconstructs the satirical milieu around female dramatists at the turn of the eighteenth century. The leading playwright Susannah Centlivre repeatedly claimed that female dramatists only found success where they obscured their gender, with discriminatory attitudes laying them open to ‘the carping Malice of the Vulgar World’. This chapter explores the extent to which this was true, examining whether we should read The Female Wits as a misogynistic silencing of women playwrights, or rather as a work that speaks to their commercial popularity. By contextualizing this analysis through the writings of Centlivre and her contemporaries Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, and Catharine Trotter, as well as considering their treatment in the stage reform debates, the chapter argues that scholars may have overestimated the power of satire to curtail the careers of female dramatists.

Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Bullard
Keyword(s):  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Politics And Literature ◽  
Delarivier Manley ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Early Novel ◽  
Secret History

This essay analyses the relationship between politics and literature, history and fiction, in secret history—a polemical form of historiography that flourished around the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. It shows that early novelists, including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Delarivier Manley, created a number of different rhetorical effects by reworking the conventions of secret history. It also argues, however, that literary histories which read secret history only as a transient precursor to its more durable cousin, the novel, invariably pass over or flatten out some of this genre’s most distinctive and unusual characteristics.

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