Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 2001

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 2001

Astrophil and the Manic Wit of the Abject Male.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Astrophil is abject. In the best courtly tradition, he pines for a lady who is beautiful and remote-a mistress who has such power over him that she seems, in the opening sonnet, to mushroom from one into three hard-hearted females: Stella, who...

Relational Antifeminism in Sidney's Arcadia.(Philip Sidney)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Sir Philip Sidney is often considered a profeminist participant in the Elizabethan polemics of gender. His biographers stress the influence of loving, intelligent women in his life, and many critics have found a sympathetic literary treatment...

Spenserian Paralysis.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... The worst thing that can happen to Spenser's characters is to get caught in an unnatural stasis, like the people in Dante's hell. Kathleen Williams 1. THE PROBLEM: BATTLES GOING NOWHERE The first episode of The Faerie Queene comes...

Spenser's Dialogic Voice in Book 1 of The Faerie Queene.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Book 1 of The Faerie Queene marks the beginning of Spenser's distinctly Protestant epic in English. Key episodes such as Redcrosse Knight's adventures in the Wandering Wood, his dialogue with Fradubio, the bleeding, speaking tree, and his...

Hellish Work in The Faerie Queene.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Anthony Low, in a chapter of The Georgic Revolution entitled "Poet of Work: Spenser and the Courtly Ideal," has elegantly argued that arduous physical labor constitutes a virtue rather than a vice for the knight practitioner of The Faerie...

The Faulty Verdict in "The Crown v. John Hayward".
January 1, 2001... In 1601, Queen Elizabeth threw Shakespeare's contemporary John Hayward in the Tower for writing a seditious history of Richard II. Four years later, Hayward found employment as a history tutor to King James's son. He later wrote about one of...

Women and the Godly Art of Rhetoric: Robert Cawdrey's Puritan Dictionary.
January 1, 2001... When giving the Romanes Lecture of 1900, James Murray, the founding editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, noted a surprisingly gendered fact about the beginnings of his trade. [1] Murray remarked on the fact that the first English...

Donne's Body.(John Donne)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Donne scholarship has often grappled with his urgent fixation on the body--his habit of expressing even abstract or spiritual ideas in physiological terms. In sermons, for instance, Donne speaks of the soul as having blood and bones, of the...

Astrology and Iconoclasm in Milton's Paradise Regained.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... The work of setting John Milton amid the political events to which his poems respond should enhance our reading of the poems themselves. In juxtaposing "accounts of spectacle with literary texts," Laura Lunger Knoppers shows how the Restoration...

Recent Studies in the English Renaissance.
January 1, 2001... A few years ago, having refused a couple of previous invitations because of other commitments, I agreed to write this essay during the year 2000; that date sounded close enough not to seem like another refusal, yet improbable enough not to seem...

ERRATA.
January 1, 2001... We regret that printer's errors appeared in the SEL 40,1 (Winter 2000) issue in the article by Elizabeth A. Spiller, titled "Poetic Parthenogenesis and Spenser's Idea of Creation in The Faerie Queene". Page 65, line 27 & 28: "eidoV" should...