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II. HONORED SCHOLARS. At such time as may seem appropriate the Executive Committee shall, on the basis of a poll of the general membership, cite one or more scholars who have ... by mail to the entire membership at least one month before the date of this

central concern is ‘a truly important perspective, and one which is simultaneously refreshingly unique even while it is grounded in extant scholarship’.

Humanistic study taught one how to live both an examined private life and also a civic, public one. ... For humanists, scholarship and statecraft went hand in hand: what one found in the histories or poems or orations one studied could be applied

one seems deliberately unintelligible, so as to make a contextual point (291-92). ... Part One’s three chapters respectively assess the scholarship of the historian Alan Bray (which I discuss later here), “The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies,”

For humanists, scholarship and statecraft went hand in hand: what one found in the histories or poems or orations one studied could be applied directly to the way in which one ... A happy coincidence of scholarship and curiosity resulted in the recent

There is just one aspect of Salzman’s own editorial practice that I find odd. ... This critical introduction refers in passing to a good deal of important Wroth scholarship, although one regrets Salzman’s omission of Jeff Masten’s very influential

a ‘polished’ book and so Donne Jr was disingenuous on at least one count. ... For humanists, scholarship and statecraft went hand in hand: what one found in the histories or poems or orations one studied could be applied directly to the way in which

on genre as one of the factors that frames the un-framing that is the sublime. ... One can learn an awful lot from English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime.

The style is light, the prose eminently readable, provided one has a strong stomach for neologisms, and the content generally authoritative. ... Guy cheerfully draws on much of this scholarship, citing it in the endnotes but seldom referring to it in the

The Senses in Early Modern England is just one of several edited collections on the senses to appear in the last few years—along with Religion and the Senses in Early ... Scholarship on the senses first emerged as one of several responses to the

Rethinking Feminism is true to its name in so far as it is largely a ‘rethinking’ of the major trends in early modern identity scholarship from the past few decades; one ... Or one might think of Donna Haraway’s call in her recent book Staying with

The result is richly contextualized readings, thoroughly situated in both historical context and scholarship, and productively interwoven with one another. ... out, is a particularly complex kind of thing: one that attempts to elide its very thingness

He had great and deep interpretive instincts.” Not only did he shuttle freely among writers of the Renaissance, but reading the scholarship Richard produced throughout his career one gets accustomed to ... Spenserian scholarship that it’s hard to

to start writing, he selects ‘a fat one’, dumps its contents on his desk, and sorts through what’s there.[1] Something like this process of accrual pertained to my writing ... Two minutes before midnight, scholarship and the scholarly life appear

Yet no. one has identified any early modern imitators of the Spenserian literary hymn. ... In the past fifty years Japan has become one of the most prolific producers of scholarship on Spenser outside of English-speaking countries.

titan like Golding gets two pages, a lightweight like Gervase Markham, one sentence. ... While the current scholarship’s focus on paratext and culture productively advances the study of English Renaissance translation, is there an inevitable

Oxford UP, 2016. li 648 pp. ISBN: 978-0199668427. $32.00 cloth. The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation (hereafter DOSP) is undoubtedly one of the most significant works of scholarship ... However, one’s final assessment cannot

The book’s most distinctive contribution to scholarship lies in the connections it makes between the spatialities of banishment on one hand, and its readings of the emotional, mental, and subjective ... The book thus achieves one of its stated aims: to

She argues that it is this expansive breadth that distinguishes her work from extant scholarship on temperance, and readers are quite likely to agree. ... If in Feerick’s reading, temperance is the act of regulating one’s blood, in Evans’s it is

While the one section on Spenser has limitations, as I detail below, this is a book many scholars of English mythological poetry will want to own and frequently consult. ... By the end of this long chapter, one salutes Hartmann’s dogged but quixotic