Internet resources for The Upstarts of Grub Street

This page is especially aimed at providing full texts of works only partially available, or not at all (i.e., not all of the course readings are listed here), and some useful studies.

Although many (but not all) of our readings are available in various formats, everyone should get to know how the books from and about Grub Street looked.  The best way to do this is through the facsimiles available from the massive online collection known as Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO).  Pretty much everything is here, searchable in many ways.  This is available to Queen’s students through the library website.  From on campus, begin at the library website, choose the Databases link, and type “ECCO” in the search window.  (From off campus, you have to login with the proxy server: https://login.proxy.queensu.ca/login.)

In the list of readings below, whenever a “Gale Document Number” appears, this is a reference to a specific text in the ECCO database (cut and paste the number into the appropriate box at the bottom of the "Advanced Search" page).  I will add some links to the Literature Online (LION) database, which provides machine-readable texts, although sometimes rather inadequately for the purposes of human reading (especially longer works).  I also append useful online secondary sources as introductions.  All are available through the Queen’s databases.

Also of interest for this course is the Internet Library of Early Journals: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/.

Selected Readings:

John Gay, Three Hours after Marriage (1717)

Gale Document Number         CW110778933

LION: http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:dr:Z000082164:0

A decent introduction to Three Hours can be found in: George Sherburn, “The Fortunes and Misfortunes of ‘Three Hours after Marriage’.”  Modern Philology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Aug., 1926), pp. 91-109: http://www.jstor.org/stable/433793

 

Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad appeared in multiple versions over 15 years.  Here are some, but by no means all.

1728: Gale Document Number  CW114388315

1729, with notes Variorum: Gale Document Number  CW424986627

New Dunciad 1742 (i.e., book 4): Gale Document Number  CW3313824008

A machine-readable version of the final 1743 edition, with a terrible footnote apparatus is available through LION: http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z000463680:0

 

Richard Savage, An author to be lett. Being a proposal humbly address’d to the consideration of the knights, esquires, gentlemen, and other worshipful and weighty members of the solid and ancient society of the bathos. By their associate and well-wisher Iscariot Hackney. Numb. I. To be continued. London, 1729.

Gale Document Number         CW124901197

 

Working Class Poets

Some interesting aspects of these poets’ publications (e.g., prefatory comments, testimonies, subscription lists, etc.) are only seen in their original format.  Although we may be reading specified poems, please look at their original context in the ECCO facsimiles.

On the Laboring Class tradition, see the special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 42.3 (Fall 2001), beginning with William J. Christmas’s “Introduction: an eighteenth-century laboring-class tradition”:
http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.queensu.ca/itx/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=AONE&docId=A84396012&userGroupName=queensulaw&version=1.0&searchType=PublicationSearchForm&source=gale

 

Stephen Duck, “The THRESHER's Labour” [from Poems on several occasions (1730)]

Gale Document Number         CW111602302

LION: http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300343190:3

 

Mary Collier, “The Woman's Labour.”

Gale Document Number         CW110292985

http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200649906:2

Poems On Several Occasions, By Mary Collier ... With Some Remarks On Her Life (1762)

Gale Document Number      CW113385096

AN ELEGY UPON STEPHEN DUCK.
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On Duck and Collier, their use of form and their reception:

Peggy Thompson, “Duck, Collier, and the ideology of verse forms.”  Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 44:3 [Summer 2004], p.505-523 http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:abell:R03465782:0

Steve Van-Hagen, “Literary technique, the aestheticization of laboring experience, and generic experimentation in Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour.” Criticism 47.4 (2005): 421-450 Jennifer Batt, “From the field to the coffeehouse: changing representations of Stephen Duck.” Criticism 47.4 (2005): 451-470 http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:abell:R03943871:0

Bridget Keegan, “Georgic Transformations and Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 41:3 [2001 Summer]: 545-62. http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.queensu.ca/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v041/41.3keegan.html

 

Mary Leapor:

Poems upon several occasions. By Mrs. Leapor ... London, 1748.

Gale Document Number         CW110271895

Poems upon several occasions. By the late Mrs. Leapor, ... The second and last volume. Vol. 2. London, 1751.

Gale Document Number         CW112123887

“Crumble-Hall” is available as a stand-alone text through LION:

http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z300653760:3

 

On Leapor:

Richard Greene, “Mary Leapor: the problem of personal identity.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 42.3 (Fall 2001): p218- http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.queensu.ca/itx/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=AONE&docId=A84396014&userGroupName=queensulaw&version=1.0&source=gale

Jeannie Dalporto, “Landscape, labor, and the ideology of improvement in Mary Leapor's ‘Crumble-Hall’.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 42.3 (Fall 2001): p228- http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.queensu.ca/itx/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=AONE&docId=A84396015&userGroupName=queensulaw&version=1.0&source=gale

 

Mary Barber: Poems on several occasions. London, 1734.

Gale Document Number       CW112275057

LION (an abridged selection of Barber’s poems, lacking prefatory matter): Individual poems are most easily found here: http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z000268362:0

 

On Barber and Publication by Subscription

Adam Budd, “'Merit in Distress': The Troubled Success of Mary Barber.” Review of English Studies 53:210 (2002): 204-27. http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.proxy.queensu.ca/resolve/00346551/v53i0210/204_idttsomb&form=pdf&file=file.pdf

Christopher Fanning, “The voices of the dependent poet: the case of Mary Barber,” Women's Writing 8.1 (2001): 81 – 98. http://www.informaworld.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?genre=article&issn=0969-9082&volume=8&issue=1&spage=81

 

Ann Yearsley, Poems on various subjects, by Ann Yearsley, ... being her second work. London, 1787.  This edition is important for Yearsley’s prefatory “Narrative,” and other statements, defending herself against charges by her patron, Hannah More.

Gale Document Number         CW113263648

LION (an abridged selection of Yearsley's poems, lacking prefatory matter): Individual poems are most easily found here:
 http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.queensu.ca/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:author:2339


On Yearsley and More: the patronage controversy

Patricia Demers “‘For Mine's a Stubborn and a Savage Will’: ‘Lactilla’ (Ann Yearsley) and ‘Stella’ (Hannah More) Reconsidered.”  The Huntington Library Quarterly 56.2 (Spring, 1993): 135-150. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3817590

Julie Cairnie, “The Ambivalence of Ann Yearsley: Laboring and Writing, Submission and Resistance.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 27.4 (2005): 353-364. http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.queensu.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=19235827&site=ehost-live