'Initiators of Discursive Practices': Authorship, attribution, and intent in the debates between philosophes and anti-philosophes

This article focuses on the “social side” of pseudonymity—on how writers and readers compete to influence the critical destiny of a pseudonymous work. By analyzing pseudonymity and attribution in both the specific context of Voltaire’s 1760 staging of the play, Le café ou l’écossaise, and in larger debates in the emerging fields of anonymity, pseudonymity, and attribution studies, I hope to show how literary scholars at present can address the individuality of each pseudonymous case while not letting go of trans-historical, general problems of anonymous strategies. Voltaire’s use of multiple pseudonyms before and after releasing L’Ecossaise, a comédie sérieuse in which Voltaire attacks his enemy Elie-Cathérine Fréron, supports his philosophe friends at a crucial moment in history, and exemplifies his emerging taste for serious comedy and British drama calls into question traditional takes on pseudonymity, anonymity, and attribution by refusing to fit into the binary arguments of anonymous vs. attributed and authorial intent vs. the reader’s control.

An examination of Dr. Tyler's Vindication of his "Strictures" on the Christian Spectator.

Evangelus Pacificus [pseud.] is identified as Rev. Hubbard Winslow in Franklin B. Dexter's Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College, v. 5, New Haven, 1911, p. 721, and in William Cushing's Initials and pseudonyms, v. 2, Waltham, Mass., 1963, p. 303.

An explanatory and pronouncing dictionary of the noted names of fiction.

Mode of access: Internet.

Johannis Alberti Fabri, Decas decadum; sive, Plagiariorum & pseudonymorum centuria, accessit Exercitatio de lexicis græcis eodem auctore.

Mode of access: Internet.

Biblioteca hispano americana setentrional.

Vol. 4: Comprende los anónimos que dejó escritos el autor, las adiciones del Dr. Osores y otras añadidas posteriormente por las personas que se expresan. José Toribio Medina publícalo ahora con una introd. bio-bibliográfica. Santiago de Chile, Impr. Elzeviriana, 1897.

The letters of Algernon Sydney, in defence of civil liberty and against the encroachments of military despotism /

Algernon Sydney identified as Benjamin Watkins Leigh in: Initials and pseudonyms / William Cushing. Waltham, Mass. : Mark Press, 1963.

Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, composes, traduits ou publiés en français, avec les noms des auteurs, traducteurs et editeurs; accompagne de notes historiques et critiques.

Vol. 3-4 have title: Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes composés, traduits ou publiés en français et en latin.

Letter from a gentleman in Boston to a Unitarian clergyman of that city.

Buff printed paper cover.

An address to the people of Rhode-Island; proving that more than eight millions of the public money has been wasted by the present administration. By a landholder.

Attributed to Updike in William Cushing's Initials and pseudonyms ..., Waltham, Mass., 1964, v.1, p.164.

Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain : including the works of foreigners written in, or translated into the English language /

Mode of access: Internet.

Words to song of Hugh Allone, sailor ...

Songs signed by pseudonyms.

Gallerie deutscher pseudonymer Schriftsteller vorzüglich des letzen Jahrzehents. Ein Beitrag zur neuesten Literargeschichte,

Mode of access: Internet.

Fr. Rassmann's Kurzgefasstes Lexicon deutscher pseudonymer Schriftsteller : von der ältern bis auf die jüngste Zeit aus allen Fächern der Wissenschaften /

Mode of access: Internet.

Book-prices current : a record of prices at which books have been sold at auction.

Report year irregular.

Bibliograficheskii︠a︡ zapiski. Ezhemi︠e︡si︠a︡chnoe illi︠u︡strirovannoe izdanīe

Mode of access: Internet.