Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 1995

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 1995

The unauthorized Orpheus of 'Astrophil and Stella.'
January 1, 1995... When Harold Bloom claimed in 1973 that "Shakespeare belongs to the giant age before the flood, before the anxiety of influence became central to poetic consciousness," he indirectly set forth a kind of challenge to Renaissance critics, inviting...

Chivalry unmasked: courtly spectacle and the abuses of romance in Sidney's 'New Arcadia.' (Philip Sidney)
January 1, 1995... In 1584, an exiled Italian Protestant humanist dedicated his translation of twenty-five of the Psalms into Latin hexameters to Philip Sidney. According to Katherine Duncan-Jones, Scipio Gentile laid particular emphasis, in praising Sidney's...

Displacing feminine authority in 'The Faerie Queene.'
January 1, 1995... Perhaps the most potentially disruptive challenge to the patriarchal ideology of sixteenth-century England was the presence of a powerful and successful queen on the throne. For a culture that envisioned order in terms of corresponding...

"The fittest closet for all goodness": authorial strategies of Jacobean mothers' manuals.
January 1, 1995... Among the early women's texts published in England was a small group of advice books known as mothers' manuals. In texts such as Dorothy Leigh's The Mothers Blessing (1616) and Elizabeth Jocelin's The Mothers Legacie to her unborne Childe (1624),...

The audience shift in George Herbert's poetry.
January 1, 1995... The formal theories of rhetoric known by or available to George Herbert do not answer a question that is asked, implicitly, over and over again in his poetry: How do I keep in view the three audiences who have an interest in this poetry - the...

Robert Herrick, the human figure, and the English mannerist aesthetic.
January 1, 1995... Early modern visual and poetic arts in England are often, to varying degrees, diverse outworkings of a common aesthetic. This does not mean that a single aesthetic informs all the arts of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England, but...

Milton's heroical sonnets. (John Milton)
January 1, 1995... Scholars agree that Milton's sonnets to Fairfax, Cromwell, and Vane have so many features in common that they can easily be thought of as forming a special group. The question of what distinguishes that group, however, produces no such consensus....

England deflowered and unmanned: the sexual image of politics in Marvell's "Last Instructions." (Andrew Marvell)
January 1, 1995... Again Crispinus comes; and yet again, And oft, shall he be summoned to sustain His dreadful part - the monster of our times Without one virtue to redeem his crimes: Diseased, emaciate, weak in all but lust - Juvenal, Satire 4 Andrew...

Recent studies in the English Renaissance.
January 1, 1995... I want to begin this review with a warning and an apology. The warning is that it will not be "accurate and unbiased reporting." I hope that what follows is reasonably accurate, but I freely confess that I have seen it as my job to give my "take"...