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"Pox on kindred:" The Anonymous Counterfeit Bridegroom (1677) and its Middletonian Source 《近亲的瘟疫:匿名的假新郎》(1677)及其米德尔顿出处

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-08-14 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2022.0001

Jennie Challinor

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"A Spirituall Song of Submission": The Eikon Basilike, Prayer and Poetry in a Seventeenth-Century Royalist Miscellany “一首顺从的精神之歌”:十七世纪保皇党杂记中的教堂，祈祷和诗歌

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-08-14 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2022.0000

F. Cioni

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Noticing Grass 注意到草地上

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0007

David Alff

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Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry by Wendy Beth Hyman (review) 文艺复兴时期诗歌中不可能的欲望与知识的极限温迪·贝丝·海曼(书评)

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0016

Ryan Netzley

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The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England by Erin Webster (review) 《好奇的眼睛:17世纪英国的光学与想象文学》作者:艾琳·韦伯斯特

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0011

W. Hyman

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Some Current Publications 一些最新刊物

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0014

Garth Libhart

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“I am emailing to inform you that another member of my family has passed away”: A Response to Restoration’s Special Issue on COVID/Defoe “我发邮件通知您，我的另一位家人去世了”:对Restoration关于COVID/Defoe特刊的回应

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0010

Alba Coppola

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“Dreadful Visitations”: Witnessing Disasters “可怕的造访”:目睹灾难

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0012

Alessa Johns

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Plague Literature and Pandemic Pedagogy 鼠疫文学与流行病教育学

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0008

Mattie Burkert

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Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years ed. by Andreas K.E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley (review) 《300年后的鲁滨逊漂流记》安德烈亚斯·k·e·穆勒、格利尼斯·雷德利主编(书评)

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1353/rst.2021.0017

Laura J. Rosenthal

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