Lucy Hutchinson writing matter

ELH - English Literary History

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 275-301

  Goldberg, Jonathan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950363180     PISSN: 00138304     EISSN: 10806547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/elh.2006.0003     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. Lucy Hutchinson's translation of Lucretius De rerum natura, ed. Hugh De Quehen (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996). Hereafter abbreviated Q. Hutchinson's preface will be cited parenthetically by page number and her translation cited parenthetically by book and line number.
2. For an analysis of the central role played by neo-epicureanism in the thought of the Restoration see part two of Richard W. F. Kroll, The Material Word (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991), 85-179; for Kroll, it underlies a style of scientific inquiry and ethical and political behavior characterized by contingency, openness, and an acute awareness of the role of language.
3. Reid Barbour, "Between Atoms and the Spirit: Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius," Renaissance Papers (1994): 1.
4. See also Barbour, "Lucy Hutchinson, Atomism and the Atheist Dog," in Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700, ed. Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (Phoenix Mill: Sutton, 1997), 122-37.
5. Barbour, "Atomism and the Atheist Dog," 123.
6. Lucy Hutchinson, On the Principles of the Christian Religion, Addressed to her Daughter; and On Theology (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817), 262
7. citing her translation of De Rerum Natura (2. 658-63) with some small changes in punctuation.
8. Barbour, "Atomism and the Atheist Dog," 136.
9. David Norbrook, "Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs," in A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, ed. David Womersley (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 183.
10. Norbrook, "Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson: Identity, Ideology and Politics," In-Between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism 9. 1&2 (2000): 188.
11. See H. A. J. Munro, "Mrs Lucie Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius," Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology 4 (1858): 121-39;
12. and de Quehen, "Ease and Flow in Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius," Studies in Philology 93. 3 (1996): 288-303.
13. Norbrook, "Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson," 189.
14. See Hutchinson, Order and Disorder, ed. Norbrook (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), which reprints the 1679 edition as well as the fifteen further cantos in manuscript. Hereafter abbreviated O. Hutchinson's preface will be cited by page number, her text will be cited by canto and line number, and Norbrook's introduction will be cited by page number in roman numerals.
15. Indeed, in his "Lucy Hutchinson and Order and Disorder: The Manuscript Evidence," English Manuscript Studies 9 (2000): 257-91, Norbrook speculates that Hutchinson may have expected her Lucretius to be published with the preface: "Paradoxically, by rounding so strongly on Lucretius in the dedication she has just about made it possible to see its circulation as legitimate" (277);
16. Order and Disorder would clinch the possibility, he concludes.
17. Norbrook, "Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson," 200.
18. Norbrook, "Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson," 191.
19. Kroll, 95-96.
20. See Thomas Franklin Mayo, Epicurus in England, 1650-1675 (Dallas: Southwest Press, 1934).
21. See Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. N. H. Keeble (London: Everyman, 1995). Hereafter abbreviated M and cited parenthetically by page number.
22. See Norbrook, "Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and the Situation of the Republican Woman Writer," English Literary Renaissance 27 (1997): 468-521; the essay transcribes twenty-one poems, from which citations will be drawn.
23. This is the central point in Gilles Deleuze, "The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy," in The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester and Charles Stivale, ed. Constantin V. Boundas (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1990), 253-79.
24. Deleuze, Logic of Sense, 268
25. Lucretius, De rerum natura, trans. W. H. D. Rouse, rev. ed. Martin Ferguson Smith (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992), 278 note b.
26. See Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, trans. Tom Conley (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993).
27. Delueze, Fold, 6.
28. Sandra Findley and Elaine Hobby, "Seventeenth-Century Women's Autobiography," in 1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Francis Barker (Colchester, Essex: Hewitt Photo-Lith, 1981): "This wife appears in the Memoirs as 'she', whilst the author is 'I' who can stand outside the marriage and is not threatened by the disappearance of the femme covert" (26);
29. Hobby, Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing 1649-88 (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1988): "[W]e find there are two 'Lucy Hutchinsons' in the Life: a 'she' who is a devoted wife, dutiful to her husband in all things and pleased to be so; and an T who is the author, the creating artist who stands outside the relationship"; Hobby continues by commenting on the "necessity" of the representation of the "she" without affirming its truth value (79);
30. N. H. Keeble, '"The Colonel's Shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing and the Civil War," in Literature and the English Civil War, ed. Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990), 227-47.
31. The thesis is reiterated in John Burrows and Hugh Craig, "Lucy Hutchinson and the Authorship of Two Seventeenth-Century Poems: A Computational Account," Seventeenth Century 16 (2001): 259-60.
32. Erica Longfellow, Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004), continues Norbrook's line of analysis in her chapter on Lucy Hutchinson (180-208).
33. She does note, however, that connections between the colonel and Jesus in the Memoirs and elegies "run perilously close to the idolatry that Lucy Hutchinson abjures" (196); despite transcendental aims, "what Lucy Hutchinson has most significantly lost is her husband's body" (202), a point Longfellow does not pursue.
34. Keeble, '"The Colonel's Shadow,'" 240, 244.
35. Hutchinson, Memoirs, 51-52.
36. Norbrook, "Hutchinson's 'Elegies,'" 471, 474.
37. Hutchinson, "The Recovery" [Elegy 10], lines 65-66, transcribed in Norbrook, "Hutchinson's 'Elegies,'" 506-7.
38. The phrase "seeds of all" is Hutchinson's translation of Lucretius's "semina rerum" (1. 59).
39. See Martha C. Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994): "[B]y describing a marital relationship that is, in effect, a form of philia, Lucretius has considerably widened the sphere of the good person's need and interdependency" (187).
40. Diskin Clay, Lucretius and Epicurus (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1983), 240.
41. The position Nussbaum attributes to Clay is more evident in Robert D. Brown, Lucretius on Love and Sex (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987), affirming Lucretius's "wholesale reduction of sexuality to impersonal physical factors" (62; see also 98).
42. Brown insists, moreover, that Lucretius does not advocate marital procreation above sexual pleasure, or that if he appears to at the end of book four it is because of the "strong analogy he sees between the genital semina and the invisible semina rerum" (69).
43. Laurie Shannon, "Nature's Bias: Renaissance Homonormativity and Elizabethan Comic Likeness," Modern Philology 98 (2000): 183-210.
44. Deleuze, Fold, 58.
45. See Erich Auerbach, '"Figura,"' trans. Ralph Manheim from the German original in Neue Dantestudien (1944), reprinted in Scenes from the Drama of European Literature (New York: Meridian, 1959), 11-76.
46. Auerbach, 17.
47. It is worth recalling Christopher Hill's bracing estimation in "Colonel John Hutchinson, 1615-1664: A Tercentenary Tribute," Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 69 (1965): "John Hutchinson's republicanism was undemocratic and doctrinaire" (85); as Hill also notes, his puritanism was scarcely the asceticism usually supposed (by Norbrook, among others): Lucy Hutchinson makes clear her admiration for his flowing locks.
48. Auerbach, 57.
49. Hutchinson, On the Principles of the Christian Religion, 42.
50. Kroll, 106-7.
51. I demur here from Norbrook's insistence on Lucy Hutchinson's guilt for the forgery, which he attaches in his discussion of the manuscript of Order and Disorder to her guilt for translating Lucretius. See Norbrook, "Lucy Hutchinson and Order and Disorder," 259.