Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles from March 2009

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies archives from March 2009

From the Editors.(Editorial)
March 22, 2009... In the summer of 2001, the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies was launched as a scholarly enterprise that sought, perhaps paradoxically, to put into the comparative fixity of print some expression of the intellectual energy of the Group...

Early modern "how-to" books: impractical manuals and the construction of Englishness in the Atlantic world.(Report)
March 22, 2009... In 1620 the ship named Supply brought essential cargo to the struggling colony at Jamestown. Among sixty tons of food, clothing, and tools were two husbandry manuals by Gervase Markham. The surviving account book of the ship reflects the needs...

"Pulchrum spargitur hic chaos": Crashaw's meta-commentary.(Richard Crashaw)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... In Cambridge in 1646, Daniel Heinsius published his Crepundia Siliana, a commentary on the Punica of Silius Italicus. At the very end of the book, a note from the printer to the reader states that in order "ne detur vacuum" ("that no gap exist";...

Kenneth Burke Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Kenneth Burke Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare. Ed. Scott L. Newstok. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007. 368 pp. $30. This collection of Kenneth Burke's complete writings on Shakespeare, gathered together for the first time in Scott...

Invisibility speaks: servants and portraits in early modern visual culture.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... I always wanted to have my picture taken. You know how you have your picture taken when you pose for it. I thought that would make you somebody. I posed for the police. They told me I wasn't nothing but a sorry-ass criminal. I say, 'Okay, just...

Illicit privacy and outdoor spaces in early modern England.(Report)
March 22, 2009... Historians such as Lawrence Stone, Marc Girouard, and Alice Friedman have traced the development of domestic privacy in England in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, linking an increasing desire for privacy with...

Catholic prophylactics and Islam's sexual threat; preventing and undoing sexual defilement in The Renegado.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Philip Massinger's The Renegado (1624) stages a confrontation between Christians and Muslims in the cross-cultural North African port city of Tunis. The plot revolves around two potential interfaith unions and the recuperation of a renegade...

Green seraglios: tulips, Turbans, and the global market.(Report)
March 22, 2009... The last few years have seen a renewed fascination with the tulip, expressed in the form of a series of popular histories of the flower. For these books, the key moment in the tulip's history is the so-called Dutch "tulip mania" of the 1630s,...