Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 2003

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 2003

Archimago: between text and countertext.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Spenser's representation of Archimago in book 1 of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene is divided. On the one hand the old enchanter is comically treated as a figure whose personal interventions are seldom fully successful despite his magic and...

Jane Shore and the politics of cursing.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Thomas Churchyard's contribution to the 1563 edition of The Mirror for Magistrates, "Shore's wife," one of the first literary treatments of Jane Shore's role in pre-Tudor English affairs, is notable for its political exploitation of one of...

Charles Chester and Richard Hakluyt.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Charles Chester was satirized frequently for his indiscreet speech by 1590s writers including Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, and Sir John Harington. But this article retraces his career from his merchant origins in Bristol, through his...

Gender stereotyping in early modern travel writing on Holland.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... This article challenges the use of British seventeenth-century travel writing on Holland as historical evidence, especially with regard to passages concerning Dutch women's independence. Two British travelers' accounts illustrate the...

Prophecy and gendered mourning in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.(Aemelia Lanyer)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus reclaims the fraught ideology of gendered grief in English culture. She specifically allies her strategically prophetic voice with the womanly weeping that was both feared and admired in English post-Reformation...

Constructing a critical subject in Religio Medici.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Read together, Kenelm Digby's Observations upon "Religio Medici" and Sir Thomas Browne's responses to Digby in private correspondence and in his address "To the Reader" in the 1643 edition of Religio show how Browne's masterpiece becomes a...

Marvell's dialogized Nymph.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... In "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun," Andrew Marvell inserts multiple social languages into the traditional literary language of a complaining nymph and thereby tests that language in the face of outside linguistic pressures....

Hope, land ownership, and Milton's "Paradise within".(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... This study examines Milton's ontology of hope in Paradise Lost and argues that Milton's hopefulness about the future after the Restoration hinges crucially on contemporary domestic land issues and changes in land law that Milton contextualizes...

Paradise Lost, the Miltonic "Or" and the poetics of incertitude.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Miltonists tread gingerly around the issue of Paradise Lost and uncertainty as unresolved contradiction subverts the masterplot of Milton criticism, which is that Paradise Lost coheres, and the critic's task is to make the poem cohere. In this...

Milton and idolatry.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Noting Milton's frequent identification of himself as Ikonoklastes, idol-breaker, this essay traces his very broad concept of idolatry throughout his poetry and prose. While his Puritan contemporaries thought of idolatry chiefly as pagan or...

Recent studies in the English Renaissance.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the English Renaissance and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received by SEL for consideration follows....

Books received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... Agari, Masahiko. Inversion in Milton's Poetry. Bern: Peter Lang, 2001. Pp. 231. $39.95 paper. ISBN 3-906765-54-7. Andersen, Jennifer, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies. With an Afterword...