Jane Barker and the Politics of Catholic Celibacy
Jane Barker's amatory novel, Love Intrigues (1713), presents a snapshot of English Jacobite Catholic culture at James II's exiled Court in St. Germain-en-Laye. As evidenced in her Galesia Trilogy and poetry, Barker's narratives promote Catholic monasticism and its advantages for English women such as retreat, education, and the preservation of a feminist history. That the 1719 edition of Love Intrigues minimizes these overt Catholic emphases suggests that Barker's representation of Royalist Catholic solidarity in the first edition was too controversial later, due to recent and imminent Jacobite activity in England.
A Newer Atalantis : Political and Generic Revolutions
In the final year of Queen Anne’s reign, the infamous publisher Edmund Curll printed a collection of short fictional pieces titled The New Atalantis, for the year 1713.1 The six texts brought together in this collection were not new; but in issuing them together under the rubric of the atalantis, Curll made a particular claim for their public significance. The collection’s title suggests the texts gathered under its banner follow the example set five years earlier by Delarivier Manley’s New Atalantis, revealing the secrets of real-life Londoners in order to generate political scandal. However, the stories bear little resemblance to Manley’s original. They relate aspects of domestic or civic life rather than political gossip, and deal in characters that have no real-life counterparts. The collection forms part of a new and striking phenomenon of the London publishing scene: nearly half of the fictional works published in 1713 and 1714, the final years of Queen Anne’s reign, claimed kinship to Manley’s succes de scandale through their title.2 This phenomenon provides a clear indication of the extent to which the relationship between politics and literature had been reconfigured.
On the Role of Professional Sports in the National Economy Under the Market Economy Conditions
Through the research of the present situations of the professional sports at home and abroad and its influence on economy, this paper points out the opportunities, challenges and the exist- ing main problems that the professional sports faces in the transitional peried-from plan economy to market economy, then elucidates that the professional sports can becompletely developed and improved and play an important role in the national economy under the market economy conditions.