Recent studies in the English Renaissance.

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Cheney, Patrick | Copyright information

The books on nondramatic English Renaissance literature are notable this year for featuring a veritable renaissance of the author. Of the eighty-nine books received, forty were on single authors--whether in monographs, editions, collections of essays, or reference books. This statistic highlights a change from the omnibus reviews published in these pages between 2001 and 2006, when the average for single-author books was a little over twenty. In 2006, for instance, Mary Ellen Lamb ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
Albion ; Paola Pugliatti. Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. vii, 233. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0344-X. Paola Pugliatti's argument involves assuming that literary historians and critics have not grasped the source of the early modern English anxiety, recorded in a
Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion.(Book Review)
College Literature ; Paster, Gail Kern, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, eds. 2002. Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $47.96 hc. $19.96 sc. 392 pp. Reading the Early Modern Passions, a collection of essays edited by Gail
Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J.
The Catholic Historical Review ; Early Modern European Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W.O'Malley, S.J. Edited by Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2001. Pp. xxxvi, 324. $70.00 cloth, $27.50 paperback.) As the editors rightly assert in their preface, this is not
Betraying Ourselves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Renaissance Quarterly ; Henk Dragstra, Sheila Ottway and Helen Wilcox, eds., Betraying Ourselves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2000. x + 266 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 0-312-23149-0. The editors of this collection, one of the titles in the Early Modern Literature in
Queer/Early/Modern.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly ; Carla Freccero. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 182 pp. index. bibl. $74.95. (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8223-3678-2 (cl), 0-8223-3690-1 (pbk). For scholars working on gender in early modern texts, this book is both a useful synthesis of some of the most significant
Review of Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture.(Book Review)
Early Modern Literary Studies ; Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan, eds. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. xvi + 301 pp. ISBN 0 521 55819 0 (paper) 0 521 55249 4 (cloth). Martine van Elk California State University, Long Beach mvanelk@csulb.edu Van
Jennifer A. Low, Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture.(Book Review)
Medium Aevum ; Jennifer A. Low, Manhood and the Duel. Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture, Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1550-1700 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). 238 pp.; 3 figures. ISBN 1-40396-130-1. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Jennifer A. Low's Manhood and the Duel. Masculinity in Early
Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly ; Sherry Velasco. Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. xviii + 210 pp. + 14 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. append. $29.95. ISBN: 0-8265-1516-9. This book is entertaining, provocative, even titillating--but,
Interpreting communities: private acts and public culture in early modern England.(Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England)(Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England)(Common Bodies: Women, Touch, and Power in Seventeenth-Century England)(Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society)(Book Review)
Criticism ; ... Why; is it not arrived there yet, the news? A new foundation, sir, here i' the town ... she will be a stateswoman, know all the news: what was done at Salisbury, what at the ... literature in its broadest sense: the matter of news, pamphlets, and ballads. Yet the testimonies ...
Beyond encounters: religion, ethnicity, and violence in the early modern Atlantic world, 1492-1700.
Journal of World History ; In the aftermath of the 1992 quincentennial commemoration of Christopher Columbus's first expedition and the beginning of transatlantic contact, historian James Axtell assessed the explosion of new publications concerning the significance and historical legacy of the 1492 voyage: One can safely