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Books Received

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Adams, Simon. Leicester and the Court Essays on Elizabethan Politics. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-5325-2. Pb. £ 22.99.

*Archer, Jayne Elisabeth, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight. The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8236-8. Hb. £ 60.00.

Austern, Linda Phyllis and Kari B. McBride, (eds). Psalms in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 416 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-2282-2. Hb. £ 65.00.

*Baker, Naomi. Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture. Manchester: MUP, 2010. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-6874-4. Hb. £ 50.00.

Bearden, Elizabeth. The Emblematics of the Self: Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Greek Romance. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2011. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4346-8. Hb. $ 65.00.

Blum, Paul Richard. Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism. History of Science and Medicine Library. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 367 pp. ISBN 978-9-0042-3218-1. Hb. $ 179.00.

Boswell, Jackson Campbell and Gordon McMurry Braden. Petrarch’s English Laurels: A Compendium of Printed References and Allusions. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 598 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-0118-6. Hb. £ 75.00.

Blurton, Heather and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Rethinking the ‘South English legendaries’. Manchester Medieval Literature. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8434-8. Hb. £ 70.00.

*Campana, Joseph. The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity. Fordham: Fordham UP, 2012. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-3910-8. Hb. $ 55.00.

Carey, Daniel and Claire Jowitt (eds). Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 350 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-0017-2. Hb. £ 65.00.

Cavanagh, Dermot and Stuart Hampton-Reeves. Shakespeare’s Histories and Counter-Histories. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7075-4. Pb. £14.99.

Cave, Terence. Thomas More’s Utopia in Early Modern Europe: Paratexts and Contexts. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 310 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8848-3. Pb. £ 14.99.

Collinson, Patrick. This England: Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8442-3. Hb. £ 70.00.

*Cooney, Helen and Mark S. Sweetnam (eds). Enigma and Revelation in Renaissance Literature. Dublin: Four Courts, 2012. 246 pp. ISBN 978-1-8468-2281-0. Hb. £ 50.00.

Cooper, Helen. Shakespeare and the Medieval World. Arden Critical Companions. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2012. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-4081-7232-2. £ 18.99.

*Danner, Bruce. Edmund Spenser’s War on Lord Burghley. Early Modern Literature in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011. 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-2302-9903-0. Hb. £ 50.00.

Das, Nandini. Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 252 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-1013-3. Hb. £ 55.00.

Dunworth, Felicity. Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8846-9. Pb. £ 14.99.

Edelman, Charles (ed). The Stukeley Plays: ‘The Battle of Alcazar’ by George Peele and ‘The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley’. Revels Plays Companions. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8564-2. Pb. £ 14.99.

Erlebach, Peter. Natur und Spiritualität in der englischen Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte. Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2011. 197 pp. ISBN 978-3-8253-5915-7. Hb. € 58.00.

Evans, Kasey. Colonial Virtue: The Mobility of Temperance in Renaissance England. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2012. 264 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4359-8. Hb. $ 60.00.

Fetzer, Margret. John Donne’s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions. Manchester: MUP, 2010. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8344-0. Hb. £ 60.00.

Ford, John. The Lady’s Trial. Ed. Lisa Hopkins. Revels Plays. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7895-8. Hb. £ 55.00.

*Frenk, Joachim. Textualised Objects: Material Culture in Early Modern English Literature. Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2012. 248 pp. ISBN 978-3-8253-5998-0. € 36.00.

*Gallagher, Noelle. Historical Literatures: Writing about the Past in England, 1660-1740. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8762-2. Hb. £ 60.00.

*Gillespie, Raymond. Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8782-0. Pb. £ 16.99.

*Goldberg, Jonathan. The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations. Fordham: Fordham UP, 2009. 256 pp. 4 ill. ISBN 978-0-8232-3066-2. Hb. $ 80.00.

*Gordon, Bruce and Matthew McLean (eds). Shaping the Bible in the Reformation: Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 306 pp. ISBN 978-9-0042-2947-1. Hb. $146.00.

Goulimari, Pelagia. Postmodernism: What Moment? Angelaki Humanities. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7309-0. Pb. £ 14.99.

*Grogan, Jane (ed). Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: MUP, 2010. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8224-5. Hb. £ 65.00.

*Guenther, Genevieve. Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2011. 184 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4241-6. Hb. $ 65.00.

*Hadfield, Andrew. Edmund Spenser: A Life. Oxford: OUP, 2012. 656 pp. 46 ill. ISBN 978-0-19-959102-2. Hb. £ 25.00.

Hill, Tracey. Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor’s Show. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8010-4. Hb. £ 60.00.

Hillman, Richard. French Origins of English Tragedy. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 121 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8847-6. Pb. £ 11.99.

Hillman, Richard. French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic: Three Case Studies. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8717-2. Hb. £ 65.00.

*Hiscock, Andrew. Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature. Cambridge: CUP, 2011. 332 pp. ISBN 978-0-5217-6121-5. Hb. £ 58.00.

Ioppolo, Grace (ed.) The Honest Man’s Fortune. The Malone Society. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 110 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8611-3. Hb. £ 45.00.

*Jones, Mike Rodman. Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594: Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 214 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6694-3. £ 55.00.

Kempshall, Matthew. Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400-1500. Historical Approaches. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 640 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7030-3. Pb. £ 19.99.

*Klingelhofer, Eric. Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: MUP, 2010. 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8246-7. £ 60.00.

*Kuin, Roger (ed). The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney. Oxford: OUP, 2012. 1464 pp. 20 ill. ISBN 978-0-19-955822-3. Hb. £ 250.00.

Landreth, David. The Face of Mammon: The Matter of Money in English Renaissance Literature. Oxford: OUP, 2012. 368 pp. 7 ill. ISBN 978-0-19-977329-9. Hb. £ 32.50.

*Lawrence, Jason. ‘Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-6915-4. Hb. £ 14.99.

*Lethbridge, J.B. (ed). Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive Opposites. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: MUP, 2008. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7. Hb. £ 55.00.

*Lobsien, Verena O. Jenseitsästhetik: Literarische Räume letzter Dinge. Berlin: Berlin UP, 2012. 437 pp. ISBN 978-3-8628-0044-5. Hb. € 34.90.

*Lockey, Brian C. Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-52-112-14-2. Pb. £ 22.99.

Lunney, Ruth R. Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama before 1595. Revels Plays Companion Library. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8322-8. Pb. £ 15.99.

Lyly, John. Galatea. Ed. Leah Scragg. Revels Student Editions. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 160 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8805-6. Pb. £ 5.99.

Lyly, John. Mother Bombie. Ed. Leah Scragg. Revels Plays. Manchester: MUP, 2010. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8036-4. Hb. £ 55.00.

Lyly, John. The Woman in the Moon. Ed. Leah Scragg. Revels Plays. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 160 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7245-1. Pb. £ 14.99.

*Lysaght, Sean. Spenser. Dublin: Stonechat editions, 2011. 120 pp. ISBN 978-0-9568-9181-5. Pb. £ 12.99.

*Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. London: HarperCollins 2012. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-8050-9003-1. Hb. $ 28.00.

Massinger, Philip. The Roman Actor A Tragedy. Ed. Martin White. Revels Plays. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 268 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8781-3. Pb. £ 14.99.

*Meek, Richard, Jane Rickard, and Richard Wilson (eds). Shakespeare’s Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 277 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8561-1. Pb. £ 14.99.

Melehy, Hassan. The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6445-1. Hb. £ 60.00.

Middleton, Thomas. A Trick to Catch the Old One. Ed. Paul Mulholland. Revels Plays. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-1555-7. Hb. £ 65.00.

*Mittman, Asa Simon and Peter J. Dendle. The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 578 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-0754-6. Hb. £ 90.00.

*Narveson, Kate. Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 246 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-8363-2. Hb. £ 55.00.

*Niayesh, Ladan (ed). A Knight’s Legacy: Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England. Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Manchester: MUP, 2010. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8175-0. £ 55.00.

*Orgel, Stephen. Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8168-2. Hb. £ 60.00.

*Passannante, Gerard. The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2011. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-22664849-1. Hb. $ 45.00.

Peele, George. The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England. Ed. Charles R. Forker. Revels Plays. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7898-9. £ 55.00.

*Prendergast, Maria Teresa Micaela. Railing, Reviling, and Invective: The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 230 pp. ISBN 978-1-40943809-0. Hb. £ 55.00.

*Prescott, Anne Lake, William A. Oram and Andrew Escobedo (eds). Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Vol. XXVII. New York: AMS Press, 2012. 350 pp. ISBN 978-0-404-19227-3. Hb. $ 178.50.

Reynolds, Matthew. The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue. Oxford: OUP, 2011. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-960571-2. Hb. £ 50.00.

*Rickard, Jane. Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and I. Manchester: MUP, 2007. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7486-8. Hb. £ 60.00.

Rijser, David, Raphael’s Poetics: Art and Poetry in High Renaissance Rome. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2012. 520 pp. ISBN 978-9-08964342-1. Pb. £ 29.95.

Robson, Mark. The Sense of Early Modern Writing: Rhetoric, Poetics, Aesthetics. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-6947-5. Pb. £ 14.99.

Salter, Elisabeth. Popular Reading in English c. 1400-1600. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7799-9. Hb. £ 70.00.

Schneider, Steffen. Kosmos, Seele, Text: Formen der Partizipation und ihre literarische Vermittlung: Marsilio Ficino, Pierre de Ronsard, Giordano Bruno. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2012. 438 pp. ISBN ISBN 978-3-8253-6030-6. € 48.00.

Scragg, D.G. A History of English Spelling. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 125 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-0639-5. Pb. £ 11.99.

Shore, Daniel. Milton and the Art of Rhetoric. Cambridge: CUP, 2012. 211 pp. ISBN 978-1-10702150-1. Hb. £ 55.00.

*Sidwell, Keith and David Edwards (eds). The Tipperary Hero: Dermot O’meara’s Ormonius. Officina Neolatina. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 366 pp. ISBN 978-2-50353230-1. Hb. $ 170.00.

*Skretkowicz, Victor. European Erotic Romance: Philhellene Protestantism, Renaissance Translation and English Literary Politics. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: MUP, 2010. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7970-2. Hb. £ 65.00.

*Smith, Peter J. Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift. Manchester: MUP, 2012. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8794-3. Hb. £ 65.00.

Sullivan, Garrett A. Jr. Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton. Cambridge CUP, 2012. 216 pp. ISBN 978-1-10702441-0. Hb. £ 55.00.

Sweeney, Anne R. Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia. Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape, 1586-95. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 321 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8567-3. Pb. £ 15.99.

*Tilmouth, Christopher. Passion’s Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester. Oxford: OUP, 2010. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-959304-0. Pb. £ 30.00.

Montoya, Alicia C., Sophie Van Romburgh and Wim Van Anrooij (eds). Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production. Intersections. Leiden: Brill, 2010 472 pp. 978-9-00418766-5. $ 168.00.

Vaughan, Virginia Mason. The Tempest. Shakespeare in Performance. Manchester: MUP, 2011. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7312-0. Hb £ 60.00.

*Vaught, Jennifer. Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-40943208-1. Hb. £ 55.00.

*Vaught, Jennifer C. Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. 260 pp. ISBN 978-0-75466948-7. Hb. £ 55.00.

Wheatley, Chloe. Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 160 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6976-0. Hb. £ 55.00.

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"Books Received," Spenser Review 42.2.23 (Winter 2013). Accessed March 29th, 2024.
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