A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies (eBook)

John Lee (Herausgeber)

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2017
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-45877-8 (ISBN)

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Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare

A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising commissioned contributions from leading international scholars, it provides an overview of literary theory, beyond Shakespeare, focusing on most major figures, as well as some lesser-known writers of the period.

This book represents an important first step in bridging the divide between the abundance of titles which explore applications of theory in Shakespeare studies, and the relative lack of such texts concerning English Literary Renaissance studies as a whole, which includes major figures such as Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. The tripartite structure offers a map of the critical landscape so that students can appreciate the breadth of the work being done, along with an exploration of the ways in which the treatments of or approaches to key issues have changed over time.

Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is must-reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of early modern and Renaissance English literature, as well as their instructors and advisors. 

Divided into three main sections, 'Conditions of Subjectivity,' 'Spaces, Places, and Forms,' and 'Practices and Theories,' A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies:

• Provides an overview of theoretical work and the theoretical-informed competencies which are central to the teaching of English Renaissance literary studies beyond Shakespeare
• Provides a map of the critical landscape of the field to provide students with an opportunity to appreciate the breadth of the work done
• Features newly-commissioned essays in representative subject areas to offer a clear picture of the contemporary theoretically-engaged work in the field
• Explores the ways in which the treatments of or approaches to key issues have changed over time
• Offers examples of the ways in which the practice of a theoretically-engaged criticism may enrich the personal and professional lives of critics, and the culture in which such critical practice takes place

John Lee is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK. His work on Renaissance English literature has included a selection of Spenser's shorter poems and a monograph, Shakespeare and the Controversies of Self.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1
John Lee

Part I Conditions of Subjectivity 13

1 Gender 15
Catherine Bates

2 Love and Friendship 29
James M. Bromley

3 Race and Colonization 43
Jean E. Feerick

4 Agency and Choice 56
John Lee

5 Religion and the Religious Turn 70
Julia Reinhard Lupton

6 Desire and Representation 86
Simon Ryle

7 Service 101
David Schalkwyk

8 The Body and Its Lives 115
William W.E. Slights

9 Objects and Things 130
Julian Yates

Part II Places, Spaces, and Forms 145

10 The Market 147
David J. Baker

11 Nature and the Non?]Human 159
Bruce Boehrer

12 Nation and Archipelago 173
Willy Maley

13 London 190
Ian Munro

14 The Church 206
Anne M. Myers

15 The Republic of Letters and the Commonwealth of Learning 220
Joanna Picciotto

16 Romance 235
Benedict S. Robinson

17 The Court 249
Lauren Shohet

18 The Household 265
Mary E. Trull

Part III Practices and Theories 279

19 Rhetorics of Similitude 281
Judith H. Anderson

20 Publication 295
Joshua Eckhardt

21 Authorship 310
Jane Griffiths

22 Reading 324
Mary Ann Lund

23 Science and Early Modern Literature 337
Howard Marchitello

24 Representation 353
Patricia Phillippy

25 Historiography 368
Nicholas Popper

26 Devotion 382
Timothy Rosendale

27 The Book 396
Helen Smith

28 Travel and Chorography 411
Angus Vine

Index 426

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Notes on Contributors

Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor’s Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. She has published five books, most recently Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor‐Stuart England (2005) and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (2008), which received the MacCaffrey Award of the International Spenser Society. She has also co‐edited five books. Her forthcoming book project is titled Issues of Analogy, Light, and Death: Spenser, Kepler, Donne, and Milton.

David J. Baker is Peter G. Phialas Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England (2010) and Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell and the Question of Britain (1997). With Willy Maley, he is the co‐editor or British Identity and English Renaissance Literature (2002).

Catherine Bates is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her books include The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (1992), Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud (1999), Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric (2007), and Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (2013). She is currently writing a book on Sidney’s Defence of Poesy.

Bruce Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor of English at Florida State University. His most recent book, Environmental Degradation in Jacobean Drama, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press.

James M. Bromley is an associate professor of English at Miami University. He is the author of Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2012) and the co‐editor of Sex before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England (Minnesota, 2013).

Joshua Eckhardt is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University; the author of Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti‐Courtly Love Poetry (2009); a co‐editor, with Daniel Starza Smith, of Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (2014); and a founding editor of British Virginia, digital publisher of colonial documents.

Jean E. Feerick teaches in the Department of English at John Carroll University. She is the author of Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance (2010) and co‐editor, with Vin Nardizzi, of The Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature (2012). Her essays have appeared in Shakespeare Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, English Literary Renaissance, Renaissance Drama, and South Central Review. She is currently at work investigating the elemental underpinnings of early modern identity.

Jane Griffiths is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Wadham College, and an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on the poetry and drama of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; her two monographs, John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak (2006) and Diverting Authorities: Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print (2014) are both published by Oxford University Press.

John Lee is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol. His publications in the Renaissance and Early‐Modern area include Edmund Spenser: Shorter Poems (1998), Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and the Controversies of Self (2000), and a history of Hamlet criticism in Hamlet: A Critical Reader (2016).

Mary Ann Lund is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the School of English, University of Leicester. She is the author of Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (2010) and is editor of Vol. 12 of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. She has written articles on Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, John Donne, sermons, and Richard III.

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she has taught since 1989. She is the author or co‐author of four books on Shakespeare, including Citizen‐Saints (2005), Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (2011) and Political Theology (2014). She is a Guggenheim Fellow (2013) and a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America (2013–2016).

Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. His recent work includes Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly, co‐edited with Philip Schwyzer (2010), This England, That Shakespeare, co‐edited with Margaret Tudeau‐Clayton (2010), and Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers, co‐edited with Rory Loughnane (2013). In 2011 he co‐edited with Thomas Herron a special double issue of the Sidney Journal, Sir Henry Sidney in Ireland and Wales (29.1–2).

Howard Marchitello is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research and the Graduate School at Rutgers University–Camden. He has co‐edited (with Evelyn Tribble) The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science, and is the General Editor of the Palgrave Literature and Science Handbooks series. He is author of the book The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare & Galileo (2011).

Ian Munro is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double (2005) and many articles on early modern theater.

Anne M. Myers is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she teaches courses in Shakespeare, Milton, and Renaissance drama and poetry. Her first book Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013.

Patricia Phillippy is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University, London. She is the author of three monographs and numerous articles on English and Comparative literature and culture in the early modern period, particularly focused on gender and women’s writing. She has edited the writings of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell (1540–1609) and is currently editing A History of Early Modern Women’s Writing for Cambridge University Press.

Joanna Picciotto is Associate Professor of English at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England (2010) and a number of essays on the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is currently working on a book about natural theology in the period.

Nicholas Popper is associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance (2012). He works on early modern intellectual history, history of science, political practice, and the history of the book. His current project examines how the proliferation of archives and manuscript collecting transformed politics and epistemology in early modern Britain.

Benedict S. Robinson is the author of Islam and Early Modern English Literature, as well as of essays that have appeared in English Literary History, Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and elsewhere. He is currently completing a book‐manuscript tentatively titled Inventing Emotion in Shakespeare’s England.

Timothy Rosendale is an associate professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he teaches and writes about early modern literature, history, and religion. He is the author of Liturgy and Literature in the Making of Protestant England (2007) and various articles, and is currently completing a book about theological problems of agency.

Simon Ryle teaches literature and film at the University of Split, Croatia. His monograph, Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire: Adaptation and Other Futures of Shakespeare’s Language was published in 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan.

David Schalkwyk is currently Academic Director of Global Shakespeare, a joint venture between Queen Mary and the University of Warwick. He was formerly Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly. His books include Speech and Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays (2002), Literature and the Touch of the Real (2004), Shakespeare, Love and Service (2008) and Hamlet’s Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare (2013).

Lauren Shohet is Luckow Family Professor of English at Villanova University (USA). She is the author of Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century, and numerous articles on early‐modern poetry, drama, and adaptation.

William W.E. Slights, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, is the author of Ben Jonson and the Art of...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Theory Handbooks
• Reihe/Serie: CTH - Critical Theory Handbooks
• Reihe/Serie: CTH - Critical Theory Handbooks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 19th Century English Literature • ben jonson literary critical theory • body perception in renaissance english literature • colonialism in english renaissance literature • concept of self in renaissance english literature • critical theory in english renaissance theory • devotion in renaissance english literature • early modern english literary theory • Early Modern English Literature • early modern english literature studies • edmund spenser critical theory • Englische Literatur / 19. Jhd. • english literature beyond Shakespeare • english renaissance literary theory • English Renaissance literature • gender in renaissance english literature • george herbert critical theory • john donne critical theory • john milton literary theory • Literature • Literaturwissenschaft • love in renaissance english literature • nature in renaissance english literature • race in english renaissance literature • Renaissance English Literature • sexual identity in renaissance english literature
• ISBN-10: 1-118-45877-X / 111845877X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-45877-8 / 9781118458778