Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 2009

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 2009

The two Arcadias of Sidney's two Arcadias.(Philip Sidney, The Old and New Arcadia)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Sir Philip Sidney's land of Arcadia has never been found very satisfactory as a setting for the events of his Arcadia. In particular, a chorus of voices has protested that Sidney's Arcadia is not pastoral enough, which seems strange when in...

Friendship in Sidney's Arcadias.(Philip Sidney)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Sir Philip Sidney's two versions of the Arcadia are the fullest and most successful narrative deployments of the humanist tradition of ideal friendship to appear before an increasing skepticism about this ideal emerged in the 1590s. (1) In both...

How temperance becomes "Blood Guiltie" in The Faerie Queene.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... In 1972, Ricardo J. Quinones published The Renaissance Discovery of Time, whose playful immodesty indicates the centrality of temporality to literary periodization. In this analysis, the emergent sense of time as an "antagonist" provokes an...

Donne's Hawkings.(John Donne)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... During the first decade of the seventeenth century, John Donne used letters and journeys to stitch the disparate pieces of his life together. His secret marriage to Ann More in December 1601 had led to his dismissal from the service of Sir...

Samuel Sheppard's Faerie King and the Fragmentation of Royalist Epic.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... In 1648, imprisoned for publishing Royalist propaganda, the journalist Samuel Sheppard began The Faerie King, a poem "Fashioning Love & Honour In an Heroicall Heliconian Dresse." (1) Unfinished, virtually unknown, and in several places almost...

The Orphic singer of Milton's Nativity Ode.(John Milton)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Milton wrote "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" early in his literary career, composing about the time of his twenty-first birthday a supposedly Christian hymn that would be strangely out of tune with his Latin elegies about spring, the old...

Spatial allegory and creation old and new in Milton's Hexaemeral Narrative.(John Milton)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... [Paradise Lost] contains the history of a miracle, of Creation and Redemption; it displays the power and the mercy of the Supreme Being. --Samuel Johnson (1) Michael Edwards's exploration of Christian poetics helps us to...

Using the Thomason Tracts and their significance for Milton studies.(George Thomason, John Milton)(Essay)
January 1, 2009... Because of the dates and annotations accompanying the copies of the works in George Thomason's collection, the mid-seventeenth-century publications collected by the bookseller have frequently been cited in studies related to Milton. Known as...

The accommodating Serpent and God's grace in paradise lost.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... In foregrounding the literal-historical reading of the account of the Fall in Genesis, both making the Serpent a real serpent and identifying the Serpent with Satan, and in reading the judgment upon the Serpent typologically as foretelling...

Recent studies in the English Renaissance.(Recommended readings)
January 1, 2009... A sense of manifest destiny seems to inform recent scholarship on English Renaissance literature. Witness only the increased use of the more expansive concept "early modern" as a substitute for "Renaissance" and the widely accepted practice of...

Books received.
January 1, 2009... Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria" 241 (2007): "Ways of Paradox from Lando to Donne." Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Firenze: Leo S, Olschki Editore, 2007. Pp. 220. [euro]23.00. ISSN 0065-0781. Achinstein, Sharon, and...

Abstracts.
January 1, 2009... Piers Brown, Donne's Hawkings In this article, I use Donne's offhand description of composition as hawking as the basis for a consideration of his depictions of the motions and trajectories of the writing mind. I examine Donne's...