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Ong on concepts like ‘orality’ and ‘print culture’. While book history is a firmly established element of early modern studies and the study of ‘material culture’ continues to inform scholarship, Richards’ ... Richards’ Introduction

that these Romano-British origins ‘have been insufficiently attested by scholarship on the early modern period’ (14) is to overlook the recent contributions of Lynn Staley and others to these ... While the study underplays the amount of recent

social role of Herrick’s poetry, and also on “the mechanics of scribal publication and the culture of reading, writing and performing poetry and music in early modern England” (II.5). ... The account of the printing and publishing

A starter for ten: which poet and what text(s) in early-modern British literary history were most influential in the development of narrative religious poetry and Protestant epic? ... support for his opening assertions on the centrality of Du Bartas to

type from her personal experience, rather than actually examining Early Modern print or its records. ... The Making of a Broadside Ballad has introduced enough variables in practice to raise substantial questions that should be addressed by solid

Ultimately, Maus’s book functions best as a provocation rather than a definitive statement about the Early Modern relationship between personhood and property. ... There is certainly an opportunity for cross-pollination between Early Modern and

But twenty years after the initial development of scholarship on the global early modern, this consensus is shattering. ... Or, what evidence do we have of global connections/ circulations in the early modern period?

Humanist scholarship has argued at times that “humanity” in its modern sense is a creation of the early modern period (specifically a creation of Shakespeare’s, if one believes Harold ... As a reading of Malory, however, it seems too modern in its

It would be impossible to exaggerate the contribution of Margaret Hannay to founding and grounding the now burgeoning field of scholarship on Early Modern Women Writers. ... Second, her roles as wife and mother made her sensitive to similar expressions

Brownlee’s first chapter focuses on how ordinary Protestants found personal meaning in the scriptures, quoting current scholarship, early modern admonitions from Thomas Cranmer, William Tyndale, and John Downham (among others). ... Brownlee’s fourth

This is, in short, a formidably learned book that has a claim on the attention of anyone interested in early modern European thought. ... Popper’s topic here is not narrative technique or structure, but Ralegh’s approach to early modern scholarship

costumed by Jennifer Davis to imagine the staging conditions of an early 18th century puppet play. ... Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

Chapters 3 and 4 consider major trends in Early Modern monster studies, Spenserian scholarship on monsters, and the gap opening up between them. ... And should we accept that the Early Modern mermaid’s identity is profoundly incoherent (8)?

by William J. Humphries. Gordon, Andrew. Writing Early Modern London: Memory, Text and Community. ... Nevertheless, a comparative reading of these books allows us to evaluate their contributions to early modern urban scholarship with greater clarity.

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England. by Shannon Miller. Vaught, Jennifer C. ... Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate. 2012. xi 195 pp.

John Gallagher (Gonville and Caius College): “The Italian London of John North: cultural contact and conflict in early modern England”. ... Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent

The collection has a dual purpose. Besides re-energising  scholarship on Hakluyt, travel writing and early modern cultural and historical studies more generally, it is also a handsome scout for the ... Peter C. Mancall, Richard Hakluyt and the Visual

In spite of the growing body of scholarship now devoted to early modern racial formation, few scholars have explored Edmund Spenser’s treatment of race outside of his treatment of the ... Scholarship on The View of the Present State of Ireland has

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship. ... This conference will bring together scholars working in departments of English, modern languages, classics, and art

Sophie Read (University of Cambridge) The Immaterial Object: Incense in Early Modern Poetry. ... Title-pages have received relatively little attention in early modern scholarship – usually considered the domain of bibliographers, their functions are