Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 2006

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 2006

The erotic politics of grief in Surrey's "so crewell prison".(Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Grief and mourning are central to the poetic career of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Surrey's elegies for dead male friends are his best-known poems and the object of most Surrey scholarship. "Even critics... who are unsympathetic to Surrey's...

Chaucer's mutability in Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos.(Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser)
January 1, 2006... As John Dryden observed in 1700, "Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body; and that he was begotten by him Two hundred years after his Decease." (1) Following Spenser's lead, recent scholarship...

Spenser, Donne, and the theology of joy.(Edmund Spenser, John Donne)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, [m]eekness, temperance: against such there is no law. --Galatians 5:22-3 (1) Joy becomes an anxious concern during the Protestant...

How to look at a hermaphrodite in early modern England.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... In keeping with the widespread fascination with monsters and natural wonders in the early modern period, a number of literary and medical texts produced at the turn of the sixteenth century were eager to look at the body of the hermaphrodite....

Bacon and the politics of the prudential imagination.(Francis Bacon )
January 1, 2006... In book 7 of his De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (1623), Francis Bacon conducts a sustained inquiry into the practice of government, arguing, approximately midway through, that images of friendship and family can be examined not as models...

Rhetoric, religion, and politics in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Politics in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici? Until very recently, an essay with this title could have been dangerously brief: one could simply have stated the absence of politics in Browne, or, if acknowledging a political presence, deplored...

Scriptural exegesis, female prophecy, and radical politics in Mary Cary.
January 1, 2006... Along with Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary, who flourished as a writer between 1647 and 1653, was one of two notable visionary women to emerge from the Fifth Monarchy movement, the ultraradical millenarian movement developing out of the turbulent years...

Marvell and Milton's literary friendship reconsidered.(Andrew Marvell, )(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Harold Bloom's theory of the anxiety of influence need not be swallowed whole in order to suspect that even the most apparently warm of literary friendships are often charged with something more than straightforward mutual admiration. (1) Ben...

The failed jeremiad in Samson Agonistes.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... During his travels through Italy, John Milton identified himself in an autograph book with the following epithet from Horace: "Coelum non animum muto dum trans mare curro": "someone who brings a mind not to be changed by place." (1) The...

Recent studies in the English Renaissance.
January 1, 2006... In writing a review of some eighty books, the first task is to sort. Since it quickly became apparent to me that the naming of the basic categories of critical work is itself a judgment about where the discipline is going, I begin this review...