On August 11 last summer the scholarly community lost yet another of our leading lights and gracious presences when Margaret Hannay ended her four years’ battle with brain cancer. In Walking with Margaret, we offer reminiscences from guest editor Susanne Woods and a distinguished cohort of Margaret’s friends and colleagues: Barbara K. Lewalski, Georgianna Ziegler, Elaine Beilin, Anne Lake Prescott, and Susan M. Felch share fond memories of a colleague we are grateful to have known. Read More …
Jeff Dolven surprises us with an intriguing meditation on the relations between Spenser’s great poem and the political economy of labor power as expounded by the German thinker Alexander Kluge. Read More …
Jim Ellis’s paper from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference last summer in Bruges takes a fresh look at how movement in The Faerie Queene signifies forms of communal and political subjectivity. Read More …
Bas relief from the exterior of the Scuola San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. Photo courtesy of Roger Kuin.
- Anthony Copley, A Fig For Fortune, Susannah Brietz Monta, ed. —
- David Crystal, Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation —
- Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Margaret Healy, eds., The Intellectual Culture of the English Country House, 1500-1700 —
- John Guy, Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years —
- William J. Kennedy, Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare —
- Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock, eds., Medieval into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper —
- Matthew McLean and Sara Barker, eds., International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World —
- Daniel Moss, The Ovidian Vogue: Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan England —
- Ayesha Ramachandran and Melissa E. Sanchez, eds., Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Vol. XXX —
- New Editions of Fraunce and Webbe —
- Books Received