The crying of lost things

ELH - English Literary History

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 949-967

  Lamb, Jonathan ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60949948605     PISSN: 00138304     EISSN: 10806547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/elh.2004.0049     Document Type: Review

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2. Defoe, True, 7.
3. Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1957), 29.
4. Henry Fielding, The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great, ed. David Nokes (London: Penguin, 1982), 139.
5. Bernard Mandeville, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (London: J. Roberts, 1725), 3-4.
6. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1960), 328.
7. Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, ed. G. A. Starr (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1971), 290.
8. Anonymous, The Adventures of a Whipping Top (London, n.d.);
9. Anon., The Adventures of a One Pound Note: A Poem (London: T. Jones, 1819);
10. Ann Elizabeth Oulton, The Adventures of a Parrot (London: W. Cole, 1826);
11. Helenus Scott, The Adventures of a Rupee (London: John Murray, 1783);
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18. See Appadurai, 55.
19. Defoe, Moll Flanders, 128.
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21. Daily Courant, 31 July 1725;
22. Heathcote's Intelligencer, 31 July 1724.
23. Post-Boy, 7 July 1722.
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30. Spectator 577 (6 August 1714).
31. Daily Courant, 10 January 1718.
32. Mandeville, 11.
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34. Daily Courant, 19 January 1717.
35. Gentleman's Magazine, April 1731, 167.
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37. Anonymous, The Adventures of a Bank-Note (1770), 207;
38. Anon., The Adventures of a Watch (London: G. Kearsely, 1788), 22;
39. Anon., The Adventures of a Corkscrew (London: T. Bell, 1775), 20;
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41. Gildon, 116.
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43. Smith, 2.
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50. LRB, 23 August 2001.
51. LRB, 7 February 2002.
52. British Museum Satirical Prints 9446; 23 October 1799.
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