World of Elizabeth Inchbald

DANIEL J. ENNIS is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, where he has been a member of the English department since 1999. He has published on Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, and Christopher Smart. This is his third co-edited collection. E. JOE JOHNSON is a professor of foreign languages at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. A past president of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, he is currently serving as the general editor of the society’s annual journal XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. The author of one monograph and editor of four volumes, he has also published numerous translations of French comic books and graphic novels along with a co-translation of Camille Lebrun’s 1845 novel AmitiÉ et dÉvouement, ou Trois mois À la Louisiane.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDaniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson1 Inchbald for Our TimeMisty G. Anderson2 The Structure of Fable in Inchbald’s Nature and ArtMartha F. Bowden3 Narratives of Emerging Markets and Mercantilist Mappings in Defoe’s LondonMita Choudhury4 Thomas Jefferson’s Sojourn in N.mes: Revolutionary Politics and ArchitectureRobert M. Craig5 “Uncle to All the World”: The Virtual Afterlives of Captain Tobias Shandy, 1831–1948W. B. Gerard6 “My Business Ashore”: Libertine Conduct and Maritime Context in The RoverRanda Graves7 Speaking through the Prophets: Anne Finch, Politics, and ReligionClaudia Thomas Kairoff8 “That Unnatural Mixture”: Nostalgia and Anxiety in Late Restoration TragicomedyCynthia J. Lowenthal9 Speculum Mundi: Caricature and the StageHeather McPherson10 “Hazardous Purchasing Almost Anything”: The Intriguing Relationship of the Wartons, Subscription Lists, and the Eighteenth-Century Book TradeHugh Reid11 After the Great War: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century on the London Stage, 1919–1929John A. Vance12 One of Thomas Bray’s Apostles of Literacy: Thomas BaconCalhoun Winton13 The World of The WorldAnnibel JenkinsAfterword: Dr. Jenkins and Mrs. InchbaldPaula R. BackscheiderHer Worded World: A Tribute to Annibel JenkinsDon RussNotes on ContributorsIndex