In this issue, Heather James makes a return appearance with her 2015 Hugh Maclean lecture, “The Problem of Poetry in The Faerie Queene, Book V.”
As Francis Bacon might have said, some books disappoint expectations, some fulfil them, and others far exceed them. This enterprise comes in the third category, or perhaps a fourth, so much does it surpass what we might have expected. Read more …
Carl Stahmer reviews “one of the most ambitious digital projects yet to be attempted.” Read more …
First published in 2011, Melissa Sanchez’s Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature has been reissued in paperback. Paul Hecht takes a moment to reflect on the impact the book has had, especially, though not only, on his own work. Read more …
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- Ruth Ahnert, The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century —
- Dennis Austin Britton, Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern Romance —
- Achsah Guibbory, Returning to John Donne —
- W. Scott Howard, ed. An Collins and the Historical Imagination —
- Samantha Frénée-Hutchins, Boudica’s Odyssey in Early Modern England —
- Catherine Nicholson, Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance —
- Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew D. Hadfield, eds. Edmund Spenser’s Poetry —
- Anne Lake Prescott, William A. Oram and Andrew Escobedo, eds. Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual XXIX —
- Rémi Vuillemin, Le Recueil pétrarchiste à l’ère du maniérisme: Poétique des sonnets de Michael Drayton 1594-1619 —
- Review Essay: New Work on Tottel's Miscellany —
- Review Essay: Maps, Memory, and Early Modern London —