Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 2004

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 2004

Reason, faith, and shipwreck in Sidney's New Arcadia.
January 1, 2004... Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! --Moby-Dick The New Arcadia begins with shipwreck. Sir Philip Sidney's narrator, in one of the Renaissance's most famous literary...

Ecphrasis and reading practices in Elizabethan narrative verse.
January 1, 2004... When Britomart penetrates the house of Busyrane in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, she sees written everywhere the command "Be bold." Spenser tells us that "she oft and oft it ouer-red, / Yet could not find what sence it figured." (1)...

Sexual consent and the art of love in the early modern English lyric.
January 1, 2004... The Lawes Resolvtions of Womens Rights, an early seventeenth-century legal guide for women, offers an analysis of rape unique for the period: "So drunken are men with their owne lusts, and the poyson of Ouids false precept, uim licet appellant,...

Samuel Daniel and edification.
January 1, 2004... If the institutio was, as Thomas Greene has suggested, the quintessentially Renaissance genre, by the 1590s in England the theology set out in John Calvin's Institutio Christianae religionis (1st edn. 1536) had gone a long way toward eroding...

Reading Coryats Crudities (1611).
January 1, 2004... Coryats Crudities, Thomas Coryat's account of his five-month tour of Europe in 1608, was published in 1611. In a letter dated 15 November 1610 to Sir Michael Hicks, secretary to Lord Salisbury, Coryat mentions he has already "laboured very much...

John Donne's strategies for discreet preaching.
January 1, 2004... In a January 1614 letter to Sir Robert Ker, John Donne acknowledges his reluctance to write an epithalamium in honor of the scandalous Somerset-Howard marriage: "If my Muse were onely out of fashion, and but wounded and maimed like Free will in...

The erotology of Donne's "Extasie" and the secret history of voluptuous rationalism.
January 1, 2004... Those heavenly Poets which did see Thy will, and it expresse In rythmique feet, in common pray for mee, That I by them excuse not my excesse In seeking secrets, or Poetiquenesse. --John Donne, "The Litanie" (1) A...

Milton, Hobbes, and the liturgical subject.
January 1, 2004... The authors of the first fully English liturgy in 1549 sought to negotiate and stabilize a set of profound conflicts that lay at the heart of the English Reformation and early modern English culture. They endeavored--on a matrix defined by...

Milton's Neo-Platonic angel?
January 1, 2004... Milton's Raphael and Adam participate in "a dialogue of love whose generic models are Plato's Symposium and several Neoplatonic versions and imitations of it--by [Marsilio] Ficino, Leone Ebreo, and especially [Baldassare] Castiglione." Readers...

Recent studies in the English Renaissance.
January 1, 2004... We seem to inhabit a moment in the field of nondramatic early modern studies in which there is no dominant paradigm, no sense of a narrow series of necessary texts and urgent engagements coalescing around a single theoretical model. This is...

Abstracts.
January 1, 2004... Katharine A. Craik, Reading Coryats Crudities (1611) Coryats Crudities, Thomas Coryat's account of his five-month tour of Europe, was published in 1611. This article argues that Coryat's "crudities" resist ideals of humanist pedagogy,...