Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 2000

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 2000

Thomas Drant's Rewriting of Horace.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... This essay will look at a little-known figure in the English Renaissance and attempt to situate his most important literary production in the religious politics of the early years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, focusing on ideological strategies...

"Milksop Muses" or Why Not Mary?(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... There is, in contemporary scholarship, still a tenacious belief that, at the end of the sixteenth century, women who aspired to be writers were "confined to patronage, translation, dedications of translations, epitaphs, letters, and the...

The Poetics of Accommodation in Spenser's "Epithalamion".(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Spenser's "Epithalamion" has been long praised for elegant harmonies, for the celebratory gathering of created and immaterial worlds, and for universalizing tendencies--in short, for astonishing syncretic power. More recently, critics have...

Poetic Parthenogenesis and Spenser's Idea of Creation in The Faerie Queene.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Recent scholarship has been interested in the early modern period as an age of self-actualization for the writer. Even in a moment in which criticism has distanced itself from old humanism, Renaissance man reappears in the works of such critics...

John Donne and Scholarly Melancholy.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Donne is in a sense a psychologist. -T. S. Eliot Throughout his life, John Donne's prose and poetry are filled with references to, as well as accounts of, his self-understanding as a melancholic. [1] If we take his self-professed...

Liberty and History in Jonson's Invitation to Supper.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I Doe equally desire your companie. In Epigram 101, Ben Jonson invites a friend to supper. [1] The location of the supper is not given, the date is unknown, and the friend is unnamed....

Katherine Austen's Country-House Innovations.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Katherine Austen, in her little-known country-house poem, "On the Situation of Highbury" (1665), appropriates select topoi from the tradition of the genre to ascribe value to the estate and to negotiate her position in relation to it. [1] In...

Architecture and Idolatry in Paradise Lost.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... It will come as no surprise that John Milton's conception of architecture is fundamentally iconoclastic. The precise way in which iconoclasm affects the presentation of architecture in Paradise Lost, however, has never been thoroughly examined....

Recent Studies in the English Renaissance.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... RENAISSANCE VS. EARLY MODERN The "Renaissance" remains a viable title not only for this review but also for many of this year's books. Despite being "regarded with suspicion in many quarters," as Alvin Snider noted in last year's exemplary...