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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 2002
This quarterly journal of historical and critical studies focuses on one of these four fields: the English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century.
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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 2002
The politics of time in Edmund Spenser's English calendar.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... [H]e compiled these xij. AEglogues, which for that they be proportioned to the state of the xij. monethes, he termeth the SHEPHEARDS CALENDAR, applying an olde name to a new worke.
--E. K.'s Dedicatory Epistle to the Shepheardes Calender...
Edmund Spenser, Mary Sidney, and the Doleful Lay.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Spenser's Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegie upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney opens a collection of seven elegies published with Colin Clouts Come Home Againe in 1595. The second poem, "Ay me, to whom shall I...
Spanish lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... The English apes and very zanies be
Of everything that they do hear or see.
Michael Drayton (1)
I. MODEL EMPIRES
Early modern England's general disavowal--via the widely disseminated Black Legend of Spanish cruelty--of any...
Politics and shifting desire in Sidney's New Arcadia.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Sir Philip Sidney's shepherd Claius articulates a wider ideal than he realizes when he asks his friend and erstwhile rival Strephon: "'Hath in any but in her, love-fellowship maintained friendship between rivals, and beauty taught the beholders...
Shakespeare's eager Adonis.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... In Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, when Venus solicits Adonis, he famously turns away. Venus entreats:
"Vouchsafe, thou wonder, to alight thy steed,
And rein his proud head to the saddle-bow;
If thou wilt deign this favor, for thy...
Pastoral, temperance, and the unitary self in Wroth's Urania.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Mary Wroth's Urania is usually described as a "pastoral romance," but there has been little attention given to that qualifying adjective other than to say that Wroth's work is a reworking of Philip Sidney's (at least partly) pastoral Arcadia....
Mary Wroth's poetics of the self.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... In Urania (1621), when Mary Wroth describes one heroine's method of self-definition, she also provides a metaphor for her own poetics of the self:
Then was I to worke my end, having no meanes, save mine owne industrie, and strength of mind...
Hydriotaphia, "The sensible Rhetorick of the dead".(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... In Philosophy where truth seemes double-faced, there is no man more paradoxicall then my self; but in Divinity I love to keepe the road, and though not in an implicite, yet an humble faith, follow the great wheele of the Church, by which I...
Speaking and silent women in Upon Appleton House.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Ostensibly, Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House is a country-house poem praising Nunappleton House, the Yorkshire estate of the great Parliamentarian general, Thomas, Lord Fairfax. (1) Marvell, however, is never one to do anything simply; Upon...
Recent studies in the English Renaissance.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... No single flavor, fashion, or method dominates this year. I am struck by the extraordinary range of projects, though I can detect a rise in studies of religion, allegory, and romance, a fluctuation in the stock of certain authors--lots of Sir...