Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 1996

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 1996

Topical Utopias: radicalizing humanism in sixteenth-century England.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... The ascription of political "radicalism" to sixteenth-century humanism constitutes one of the more promising ripostes to the overworked notion of an irremediably "liberal" or "bourgeois" humanism. J. H. Hexter, David Norbrook, and Margo Todd...

Rival discourses of dancing in early modern England.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... Early in his defense of dancing in The Boke named the Governour, Thomas Elyot recalls the legend of Proteus, supposedly the first dancer, who "turned him selfe in to sondry figures, as some tyme to shewe him selfe like a serpent, some tyme like...

Voicing female desire in "Poem XLIX".(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... Much recent criticism in lesbian studies has concerned itself with attempting to solve a difficult problem: how is homoerotic female desire defined and/or articulated in pre-nineteenth-century society and literature. (1) A short, critically...

Puttenham, Shakespeare, and the abuse of rhetoric.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back. --Karl Kraus, Riddles Out of Solutions Around the turn of the seventeenth century the English language saw a remarkable proliferation of...

Milton's Heaven and the model of the English utopia.
January 1, 1996... Historians of ideas usually attribute the dream of a perfect society to the philosophers and jurists of the eighteenth century; but there was as well a military dream of society; its fundamental reference was not to the...

Biblical intertextuality in Samson Agonistes.
January 1, 1996... This essay is a revisionist reading of Milton's Samson Agonistes. It says "amen" from a biblical perspective to efforts of others, most notably Joseph Wittreich, to throw off the critical orthodoxy that the poem is about Samson's spiritual or...

The hermeneutics of opposition in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.
January 1, 1996... I Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes continue to pose awkward political questions for readers of Milton's other works, both the pre-Restoration political tracts and the post-Restoration Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained seems to...

Samson and the Omissa.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... You could for need study a speech of some dozen lines, or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in't, could you not? --Hamlet II.ii.540-3 In the first edition of Samson Agonistes (1671), ten lines are missing...

Marvell's metamorphic "Fleckno".
January 1, 1996... While the narrator of Andrew Marvell's "Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome," progresses through his encounter with the "Priest, Poet, and Musician," the poem's "Chamelion" figure--Fleckno--undergoes a continuing metamorphosis. (1) This early...

Recent studies in the English Renaissance.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1996... To judge by this year's books, the methods of feminism and New Historicism have been well assimilated to the scholarly mainstream. If there comes with this assimilation a decline in the earlier sense of excitement and controversy (and, at...

Books received.
January 1, 1996... Achinstein, Sharon. Milton and the Revolutionary Reader. Literature in History. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 272. $35.00 or [pounds sterling]27.50. ISBN 0-691-03490-7. Allison, A. F., and D. M. Rogers. The Contemporary...

Topical utopias: radicalizing humanism in sixteenth-century England.
January 1, 1996... The ascription of political "radicalism" to sixteenth-century humanism constitutes one of the more promising ripostes to the overworked notion of an irremediably "liberal" or "bourgeois" humanism. J. H. Hexter, David Norbrook, and Margo Todd...

Rival discourses of dancing in early modern England.
January 1, 1996... Early in his defense of dancing in The Boke named the Governour, Thomas Elyot recalls the legend of Proteus, supposedly the first dancer, who "turned him selfe in to sondry figures, as some tyme to shewe him selfe like a serpent, some tyme...

Voicing female desire in 'Poem XLIX.'
January 1, 1996... Much recent criticism in lesbian studies has concerned itself with attempting to solve a difficult problem: how is homoerotic female desire defined and/or articulated in pre-nineteenth-century society and literature.(1) A short, critically...

Puttenham, Shakespeare, and the abuse of rhetoric. (George Puttenham; William Shakespeare)
January 1, 1996... The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back. --Karl Kraus, Riddles Out of Solutions Around the turn of the seventeenth century the English language saw a remarkable proliferation...

Milton's heaven and the model of the English utopia. (John Milton)
January 1, 1996... Historians of ideas usually attribute the dream of a perfect society to the philosophers and jurists of the eighteenth century; but there was as well a military dream of society; its fundamental reference was not to the state of nature, but to...

Biblical intertextuality in 'Samson Agonistes.'
January 1, 1996... This essay is a revisionist reading of Milton's Samson Agonistes. It says "amen" from a biblical perspective to efforts of others, most notably Joseph Wittreich, to throw off the critical orthodoxy that the poem is about Samson's spiritual or...

The hermeneutics of opposition in 'Paradise Regained' and 'Samson Agonistes'.
January 1, 1996... Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes continue to pose awkward political questions for readers of Milton's other works, both the pre-Restoration political tracts and the post-Restoration Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained seems to advocate...

Samson and the Omissa. (Samson Agonistes; poem)
January 1, 1996... You could for need study a speech of some dozen lines, or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in's, could you not? --Hamlet II.ii.540-3 In the first edition of Samson Agonistes (1671), ten lines are missing from...

Marvell's metamorphic 'Fleckno.' (Andrew Marvell; poem)
January 1, 1996... While the narrator of Andrew Marvell's "Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome," progresses through his encounter with the "Priest, Poet, and Musician," the poem's "Chamelion" figure--Fleckno--undergoes a continuing metamorphosis.(1) This early...

Recent studies in English renaissance.
January 1, 1996... To judge by this year's books, the methods of feminism and New Historicism have been well assimilated to the scholarly mainstream. If there comes with this assimilation a decline in the earlier sense of excitement and controversy (and, at...