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Papers by Patrick Spedding
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood, ed. Tiffany Potter. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature., 2020
[Draft of an essay published February 2020] In this essay, I examine the broad correlation betwee... more [Draft of an essay published February 2020] In this essay, I examine the broad correlation between the increased access to Haywood’s works and the increase in the scholarship on those works, providing an account of the multiplying forms of access to Haywood’s works over the last century and the increasing volume of scholarship that has become available on those works since the 1980s. While the broad correlation of access to scholarship is clear, it is, however, incomplete. For a handful of Haywood’s works, increased access has not led to an increase in scholarship. My analysis of the distribution of scholarship suggests that the primary reason for the imperfect correlation of access to scholarship may be that there is a general bias among teachers, students, and scholars toward Haywood’s prose fiction and periodicals over her drama, nonfiction, and many translations.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2017
[Draft of an article published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction] A series of printed images and o... more [Draft of an article published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction]
A series of printed images and ornaments greatly influenced eighteenth-century conceptions of Eliza Haywood as an author. In this article, I build on the work of Janine Barchas and Sarah Creel, exploring the ways in which Haywood was visually represented in editions of her works. I consider the role played by Haywood and her publishers in establishing a series of authorial eidolons (personas or avatars). Drawing on images not previously discussed by Haywood scholars, bibliographical information on ornament usage, and contemporary reader-responses to images and ornaments, I argue for a renewed focus on Haywood as the author of Love in Excess (1720) and a greater focus on reader-responses to Haywood’s works.
Notes and Queries, 2016
This essay corrects my 2004 claim that The History Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788) in comprised of ... more This essay corrects my 2004 claim that The History Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788) in comprised of a "miscellaneous collection of manuscript material" written by Eliza Haywood. It is now clear that all four stories printed in Leonora Meadowson had been previously published, and two of them were reprinted from sources that post-date Haywood’s death. Although there are intriguing connections to Aaron Hill in the stories in this collection, Haywood did not write "The History of Melinda Fairfax," "The History of an Italian Gentleman and a Mahometan Slave" or "Cornaro and the Turk."
1650–1850: Ideas, Æsthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 18. ed. Kevin L. Cope, Jan 1, 2011
This 27-page essay, based on two 1744 advertisements for "The genuine Household Goods of Mrs. Eli... more This 27-page essay, based on two 1744 advertisements for "The genuine Household Goods of Mrs. Eliza Haywood," identifies the exact location, and interior arrangement of Haywood's Covent-Garden house and shop at the "Sign of Fame," as well as suggesting a likely value of those goods. The essay uses other, recently-discovered advertisements to extend our knowledge of Haywood's publishing and book selling activities at this time, and to revise the information provided in Spedding's Bibliography of Eliza Haywood (2004).
[See also my blog entry on a view of Haywood's house and shop: http://patrickspedding.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/eliza-haywoods-house-in-great-piazza.html]
Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and the Female Spectator, Jan 1, 2006
This essay examines a wide range of empirical evidence in an attempt to establish the popularity ... more This essay examines a wide range of empirical evidence in an attempt to establish the popularity of Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator, comparing it with a range of competing literary journals (such as Samuel Johnson's Rambler). The evidence suggests that, while The Female Spectator was quite successful, it was not as popular as many of the best-known literary journals from the eighteenth-century.
This essay provides evidence (copyright receipts) that Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett transla... more This essay provides evidence (copyright receipts) that Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett translated Crébillon Fils's The Sopha in 1742, and discusses the implication of this discovery.
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 1999
In this essay, I announce the discovery of a copy of the last of Eliza Haywood's posthumous publi... more In this essay, I announce the discovery of a copy of the last of Eliza Haywood's posthumous publications: The History of Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788). After surveying the history of this text in Haywood criticism, offering an explanation for its abrupt disappearance in the late eighteenth century, and its fortuitous rediscovery more than two hundred years later, I offer a detailed description of the Fales library copy. [NB: the information in this essay was revised in my Bibliography of Eliza Haywood (2004) and my "Twice-Told Tales in Eliza Haywood’s Leonora Meadowson" (2016)]
In this essay, I offer some personal reflections on the origin and value of Gale-Cengage's "Archi... more In this essay, I offer some personal reflections on the origin and value of Gale-Cengage's "Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Part 3: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century" (ASG3)—an archive comprised of the British Library's previously-secret "Private Case" collection of erotica, plus nearly sixteen hundred books from the New York Academy of Medicine, and nearly one thousand books from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. This essay will be published by Gale-Cengage as part of ASG3 in June 2019.
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2018
[Draft of article published Jan. 2018] The Potent Ally: Or, Succours from Merryland (1741), a ... more [Draft of article published Jan. 2018]
The Potent Ally: Or, Succours from Merryland (1741), a small collection of erotic works containing three poems in praise on condoms, is it particularly useful to medical historians seeking information on the early history of contraception and prophylaxis. Many of the earliest, and by far the most detailed, accounts of condoms appear in works of literature. Only a few medical writers discussed them openly, and some of those few did so only to explain why they do not work, should not be used, or why it would be wrong to discuss them in detail. As well as offering an analysis of the poems themselves, the present study establishes the date and context in which the poems were composed and how, and when and where they circulated. An edited transcript of a previously-unpublished 1706 poem in praise of condoms is included in an appendix. The study of content and context provides valuable information concerning the way in which condoms were first used, and reflects the sexual practices, beliefs and values in the early eighteenth century. A major finding of this study is that there is a consistent Anglo-Scottish connection among all of the earliest references to condoms, supporting the claim that the word itself may have been an Anglo-Scottish coinage.
Notes & Queries, 2018
In this essay, we announce the discovery of a lost, erotic it-narrative: The Adventures of An Iri... more In this essay, we announce the discovery of a lost, erotic it-narrative: The Adventures of An Irish Smock (1782–83).
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Jan 1, 2011
This essay explores some of the difficulties in conducting research using such scanned text-bases... more This essay explores some of the difficulties in conducting research using such scanned text-bases as Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). As well as providing an account of the origin, scope and limitations of ECCO, Spedding demonstrates the limitations of the search feature by searching for references to condoms.
Script and Print, 2017
In this essay I examine the manuscript catalogues of a modest personal library. The catalogues ar... more In this essay I examine the manuscript catalogues of a modest personal library. The catalogues are of interest not only for their mix of literature, theology, history and science, but also for the evidence they contain of private borrowing in the 1720s and 30s.
Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster, 2017
A general introduction to Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural Hist... more A general introduction to Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster, edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 1–7.
This essay establishes accurate dates for the reviews that appeared in the later issues of the Bi... more This essay establishes accurate dates for the reviews that appeared in the later issues of the Bibliothèque Britannique—especially those in issues delayed by “unfortunate circumstances”—such as the lengthy and important review of Haywood’s Female Spectator which appeared in July 1746.
This article establishes that Thomas Gardner printed fourteen plays by William Shakespeare for Ja... more This article establishes that Thomas Gardner printed fourteen plays by William Shakespeare for Jacob Tonson's The Works of Shakespeare (1735).
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood, ed. Tiffany Potter. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature., 2020
[Draft of an essay published February 2020] In this essay, I examine the broad correlation betwee... more [Draft of an essay published February 2020] In this essay, I examine the broad correlation between the increased access to Haywood’s works and the increase in the scholarship on those works, providing an account of the multiplying forms of access to Haywood’s works over the last century and the increasing volume of scholarship that has become available on those works since the 1980s. While the broad correlation of access to scholarship is clear, it is, however, incomplete. For a handful of Haywood’s works, increased access has not led to an increase in scholarship. My analysis of the distribution of scholarship suggests that the primary reason for the imperfect correlation of access to scholarship may be that there is a general bias among teachers, students, and scholars toward Haywood’s prose fiction and periodicals over her drama, nonfiction, and many translations.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2017
[Draft of an article published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction] A series of printed images and o... more [Draft of an article published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction]
A series of printed images and ornaments greatly influenced eighteenth-century conceptions of Eliza Haywood as an author. In this article, I build on the work of Janine Barchas and Sarah Creel, exploring the ways in which Haywood was visually represented in editions of her works. I consider the role played by Haywood and her publishers in establishing a series of authorial eidolons (personas or avatars). Drawing on images not previously discussed by Haywood scholars, bibliographical information on ornament usage, and contemporary reader-responses to images and ornaments, I argue for a renewed focus on Haywood as the author of Love in Excess (1720) and a greater focus on reader-responses to Haywood’s works.
Notes and Queries, 2016
This essay corrects my 2004 claim that The History Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788) in comprised of ... more This essay corrects my 2004 claim that The History Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788) in comprised of a "miscellaneous collection of manuscript material" written by Eliza Haywood. It is now clear that all four stories printed in Leonora Meadowson had been previously published, and two of them were reprinted from sources that post-date Haywood’s death. Although there are intriguing connections to Aaron Hill in the stories in this collection, Haywood did not write "The History of Melinda Fairfax," "The History of an Italian Gentleman and a Mahometan Slave" or "Cornaro and the Turk."
1650–1850: Ideas, Æsthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 18. ed. Kevin L. Cope, Jan 1, 2011
This 27-page essay, based on two 1744 advertisements for "The genuine Household Goods of Mrs. Eli... more This 27-page essay, based on two 1744 advertisements for "The genuine Household Goods of Mrs. Eliza Haywood," identifies the exact location, and interior arrangement of Haywood's Covent-Garden house and shop at the "Sign of Fame," as well as suggesting a likely value of those goods. The essay uses other, recently-discovered advertisements to extend our knowledge of Haywood's publishing and book selling activities at this time, and to revise the information provided in Spedding's Bibliography of Eliza Haywood (2004).
[See also my blog entry on a view of Haywood's house and shop: http://patrickspedding.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/eliza-haywoods-house-in-great-piazza.html]
Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and the Female Spectator, Jan 1, 2006
This essay examines a wide range of empirical evidence in an attempt to establish the popularity ... more This essay examines a wide range of empirical evidence in an attempt to establish the popularity of Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator, comparing it with a range of competing literary journals (such as Samuel Johnson's Rambler). The evidence suggests that, while The Female Spectator was quite successful, it was not as popular as many of the best-known literary journals from the eighteenth-century.
This essay provides evidence (copyright receipts) that Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett transla... more This essay provides evidence (copyright receipts) that Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett translated Crébillon Fils's The Sopha in 1742, and discusses the implication of this discovery.
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 1999
In this essay, I announce the discovery of a copy of the last of Eliza Haywood's posthumous publi... more In this essay, I announce the discovery of a copy of the last of Eliza Haywood's posthumous publications: The History of Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788). After surveying the history of this text in Haywood criticism, offering an explanation for its abrupt disappearance in the late eighteenth century, and its fortuitous rediscovery more than two hundred years later, I offer a detailed description of the Fales library copy. [NB: the information in this essay was revised in my Bibliography of Eliza Haywood (2004) and my "Twice-Told Tales in Eliza Haywood’s Leonora Meadowson" (2016)]
In this essay, I offer some personal reflections on the origin and value of Gale-Cengage's "Archi... more In this essay, I offer some personal reflections on the origin and value of Gale-Cengage's "Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Part 3: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century" (ASG3)—an archive comprised of the British Library's previously-secret "Private Case" collection of erotica, plus nearly sixteen hundred books from the New York Academy of Medicine, and nearly one thousand books from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. This essay will be published by Gale-Cengage as part of ASG3 in June 2019.
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2018
[Draft of article published Jan. 2018] The Potent Ally: Or, Succours from Merryland (1741), a ... more [Draft of article published Jan. 2018]
The Potent Ally: Or, Succours from Merryland (1741), a small collection of erotic works containing three poems in praise on condoms, is it particularly useful to medical historians seeking information on the early history of contraception and prophylaxis. Many of the earliest, and by far the most detailed, accounts of condoms appear in works of literature. Only a few medical writers discussed them openly, and some of those few did so only to explain why they do not work, should not be used, or why it would be wrong to discuss them in detail. As well as offering an analysis of the poems themselves, the present study establishes the date and context in which the poems were composed and how, and when and where they circulated. An edited transcript of a previously-unpublished 1706 poem in praise of condoms is included in an appendix. The study of content and context provides valuable information concerning the way in which condoms were first used, and reflects the sexual practices, beliefs and values in the early eighteenth century. A major finding of this study is that there is a consistent Anglo-Scottish connection among all of the earliest references to condoms, supporting the claim that the word itself may have been an Anglo-Scottish coinage.
Notes & Queries, 2018
In this essay, we announce the discovery of a lost, erotic it-narrative: The Adventures of An Iri... more In this essay, we announce the discovery of a lost, erotic it-narrative: The Adventures of An Irish Smock (1782–83).
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Jan 1, 2011
This essay explores some of the difficulties in conducting research using such scanned text-bases... more This essay explores some of the difficulties in conducting research using such scanned text-bases as Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). As well as providing an account of the origin, scope and limitations of ECCO, Spedding demonstrates the limitations of the search feature by searching for references to condoms.
Script and Print, 2017
In this essay I examine the manuscript catalogues of a modest personal library. The catalogues ar... more In this essay I examine the manuscript catalogues of a modest personal library. The catalogues are of interest not only for their mix of literature, theology, history and science, but also for the evidence they contain of private borrowing in the 1720s and 30s.
Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster, 2017
A general introduction to Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural Hist... more A general introduction to Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster, edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott and Patrick Spedding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 1–7.
This essay establishes accurate dates for the reviews that appeared in the later issues of the Bi... more This essay establishes accurate dates for the reviews that appeared in the later issues of the Bibliothèque Britannique—especially those in issues delayed by “unfortunate circumstances”—such as the lengthy and important review of Haywood’s Female Spectator which appeared in July 1746.
This article establishes that Thomas Gardner printed fourteen plays by William Shakespeare for Ja... more This article establishes that Thomas Gardner printed fourteen plays by William Shakespeare for Jacob Tonson's The Works of Shakespeare (1735).
Ancora Press, 2018
In the first extended scholarly treatment of the subject in English, Dr Patrick Spedding outlines... more In the first extended scholarly treatment of the subject in English, Dr Patrick Spedding outlines the history of “private case” collections — the restricted access collections of purportedly dangerous, indelicate or obscene books in libraries from the Vatican to the British Museum, from the New York Public Library to France's Bibliotheque Nationale, and even at the State Library of Victoria.
Drawing on records of dozens of private case collections, he describes the range, purpose and common characteristics of such collections, explaining the lengths that various libraries went to obscure to the existence of their collections and prevent readers from gaining access to the books—or even the titles of the books—within them.
This book, a revised and much-expanded version of Spedding’s 2016 Foxcroft lecture, contains a substantial appendix, enumerating more than thirty-five private case collections and summarising the scholarship available on each of them.
One of the popular metropolitan pastimes of the nineteenth century was the singing of ribald song... more One of the popular metropolitan pastimes of the nineteenth century was the singing of ribald songs. These songs, forced off the streets by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, were sung by professional actors and singers in theatres, music halls, gardens and other public venues. But they were also sung by amateurs in cider and coal-hole cellars, coffee-houses and gentlemen’s clubs. Because almost no songbooks survive from the first half of the nineteenth century, this species of popular entertainment has, until recently, been almost completely overlooked in favour of the rural and street ballads which were collected by respectable gentlemen-scholars.
Whore Biographies is a two-part collection of selected texts focused on eighteenth-century sexual... more Whore Biographies is a two-part collection of selected texts focused on eighteenth-century sexuality and prostitution. The texts include autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets. The collection provides a useful resource for the study of sexuality, gender, women's studies and the literature and history of the eighteenth century.
[For a list of the included texts, see https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6733540]
Although scholars of the British eighteenth century have become increasingly attuned to questions... more Although scholars of the British eighteenth century have become increasingly attuned to questions of sexuality, corporeality, and legalism, they have not heretofore had easy access to one of the period's richest funds of data: the erotica and pornography that permeated the culture.
This set reprints many of the period's most notorious works, including eight from The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head (1707) to Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1786(?)–93) that resulted in highly publicized court battles and in some instances helped shape laws on censorship that survived into modernity. As they did in the eighteenth-century bookshop, 'homosexual' and 'heterosexual' works intermingle, alongside of works that claim legal, medical, or political legitimacy, and works that pretend to nothing but prurience. Virtually all the works have been out of print since the eighteenth century
Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural History of the Songster, 2017
Edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding. This book is a cultural history of the nin... more Edited by Paul Watt, Derek B. Scott, Patrick Spedding. This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture and facilitated their consumption. Taking an international perspective, chapters focus on songsters from Ireland, North America, Australia and Britain and the varied public and private contexts in which they were used and exploited in oral and print cultures.
This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of s... more This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture and facilitated their consumption. Taking an international perspective, chapters focus on songsters from Ireland, North America, Australia and Britain and the varied public and private contexts in which they were used and exploited in oral and print cultures.
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A review of Anders Rydell’s The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race... more A review of Anders Rydell’s The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance (2017), a monograph that examines the fate of European libraries during the Second World War.
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](Modern Philology, 2018
[Final draft of review published June 2018] A review of Leah Orr’s Novel Ventures: Fiction and Pr... more [Final draft of review published June 2018] A review of Leah Orr’s Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690–1730, a monograph that examines the publication industry and the rise of the novel (especially genre fiction), from a book-historical perspective.
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](Script & Print, 2018
An extended review of Mark R. Godburn, Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets (2016), a landmark study o... more An extended review of Mark R. Godburn, Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets (2016), a landmark study of the origin of dust jackets (or dust wrappers), and an excellent companion to G. Thomas Tanselle’s, more scholarly, Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use (2011).
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](The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2018
A review of Patrick Kearney’s The Private Case, A Supplement (2016), an expansion of Kearney’s gr... more A review of Patrick Kearney’s The Private Case, A Supplement (2016), an expansion of Kearney’s groundbreaking 1981 bibliography on the clandestine erotica collection held by the British (Museum) Library.
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A review of Leah Orr’s 2017 monograph, Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690... more A review of Leah Orr’s 2017 monograph, Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690–1730, a New Historicist, and cultural materialist (i.e., a book historical) approach to the history of the rise of the novel.
An Ahead of Print version (published 15 June 2018) is presently still available for free here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698962
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A review of Carol Stewart’s 2014 edition of Haywood’s Invisible Spy, a volume in the Chawton Hous... more A review of Carol Stewart’s 2014 edition of Haywood’s Invisible Spy, a volume in the Chawton House Library series, written for Women’s Writing in 2016.
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In this review of Ian Gibson, The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee (London: F... more In this review of Ian Gibson, The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee (London: Faber and Faber, 2001), I question Gibson's intepretation of the evidence fo rAshbee's authorship of My Secret Life (1888-94).
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A review of The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade, 1550-1990, edited by Robin Myers and Mich... more A review of The Stationers' Company and the Book Trade, 1550-1990, edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris (1997)