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The book reviews the varied cultural accomplishments during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714), including scholarly essays on Anne, her patronage of the arts, coin collecting, poetry, poetical miscellanies, drama, hymns, music, and architecture.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: "Praise the Patroness of Arts"
James A. Winn
Chapter 2: "She Will Not Be That Tyrant They Desire": Daniel Defoe and Queen Anne
Nicholas Seager
Chapter 3: Queen Anne, Patron of Poets?
Juan Christian Pellicer
Chapter 4: The Moral in the Material: Numismatics and Identity in Evelyn, Addison, and Pope
Barbara M. Benedict
Chapter 5: Mild Mockery: Queen Anne's Era and the Cacophony of Calm
Kevin L. Cope
Chapter 6: Great Anna's Chaucer: Pope's January and May and the Logic of Settlement
Philip Smallwood
Chapter 7: The Diverting Muse: Miscellanies and Miscellany Culture in Queen Anne's Reign
Abigail Williams
Chapter 7: Nicholas Rowe's The Fair Penitent and the Performance of Personal Space in Eighteenth-Century London
Julia H. Fawcett
Chapter 8: The Theater in the Age of Queen Anne: The Case of George Farquhar
Brian Corman
Chapter 9: Isaac Watts's Occasional Conformities
Jayne Lewis
Chapter 10: Musical Politics in George Granville's The British Enchanters
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Chapter 11: "Sing Great Anna's Matchless Name": Images of Queen Anne in the Court Ode
Estelle Murphy
Chapter 12: Nicholas Hawksmoor: The Other English Baroque Architect
Cedric D. Reverand II
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Cedric D. Reverand, II is George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Wyoming.
