In “Allegory and Our Discontents,” Ayesha Ramachandran responds to Judith Anderson’s recent work with a provocative question: what might our collective fascination with allegory reveal about possible futures for theory and critical practice? Read more …
In “A Response to Gordon Teskey,” Joe Moshenska wonders, “Why Can’t Spenserians Stop Talking About Hegel?” (Not that that’s a bad thing.) Read more …
In an review essay on three recent studies of Romance, Jeff Dolven queries our peculiar, seemingly inevitable affinity for the genre. Read more …
Our Book Review Editor, J. B. Lethbridge, offers an extended reflection on issues raised by recent German scholarship on Neo-Platonism and philosophical skepticism in the Renaissance. Read more …
In an wide-ranging essay that is part omnibus review and part manifesto, Joshua Reid looks at the state of the art in English Renaissance translation studies. Read more …
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- Naomi Baker, Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture —
- John Barry and Hiram Morgan, eds. Great Deeds in Ireland: Richard Stanihurst’s De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis —
- Jackson Boswell and Gordon Braden, Petrarch’s English Laurels, 1475-1700: A Compendium of Printed References and Allusions —
- Joachim Frenk, Textualised Objects: Material Culture in Early Modern English Literature —
- Noelle Gallagher, Historical Literatures. Writing about the Past in England, 1660-1740 —
- Paulina Kewes, Ian W. Archer, Felicity Heal, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles —
- Katharine Eisaman Maus, Being and Having in Shakespeare —
- Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington, and Emma Rhatigan, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon —
- Hassan Melehy, The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England —
- Rebecca Olson, Arras Hanging: The Textile that Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama —
- Anne Lake Prescott, William A. Oram, and Andrew Escobedo, eds. Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual XXVIII —
- William Scott, The Model of Poesy, ed. Gavin Alexander —