Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles from March 2008

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies archives from March 2008

From departing editor.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... Since this issue of JEMCS marks the end of my service to the journal, my co-editors have kindly allowed me to compose a final introductory column in propria persona. The five essays appearing in JEMCS 8.1 represent three recurring areas of...

The erotics of mercantile imperialism: cross-cultural requitedness in the early modern period.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract This article explores the early modern vogue for intermarriage narratives, arguing that cross-cultural unions served as both a crucial instrument of and a privileged metaphor for European imperialism. Adapting medieval precedents...

Moshe Sluhovsky Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Moshe Sluhovsky Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 384 pp. $45. The aim of Moshe Sluhovsky's Believe Not Every Spirit is...

Heather C. Easterling Parsing the City: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Heather C. Easterling Parsing the City: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language. New York: Routledge, 2007. 197 pp. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. As many historians and literary critics have noted, the popularity of...

Ben Jonson's Alchemist and early modern laboratory space.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract This essay argues that The Alchemist played an important but largely unrecognized part in the formation of early modern science. It shows how Jonson's innovative combination of alchemical content and neoclassical form produced a...

"Rich like a lady": cross-class dressing in the brothels and theaters of early modern London.(London, England)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract Studies of cross-dressing in early modern London have tended to focus on cross-gender, rather than cross-class, dressing. Archival evidence from the Bridewell Court Books and literary depictions of the practice on the early modern...

Aemilia Lanyer's pathetic phallacy.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract According to Valerie Traub, Renaissance representations of female same-sex desire were split between images of the vilified "tribade" who assumed masculine privileges by cross-dressing or employing phallic substitutes and the...

The king, the nation, and the Moor: imperial spectacle and the rejection of hybridity in The Masque of the Expulsion of the Moriscos.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract This study analyzes the expression of Spanish national identity built to suit the patron's interests in The Masque of the Expulsion of the Moriscos (1617), by Mira de Amescua. Commissioned by King Philip III of Spain's favorite,...