Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews
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EMLS
invites reviews of recent scholarly works -- critical editions, commentaries,
and theoretical, historical, literary, or interdisciplinary criticism which
centres on sixteenth- or seventeenth-century English or related literary culture.
We also encourage reports of all resources which are relevant to literary
studies of the period, including those available exclusively in the electronic
medium.Our aim is to publish reviews of a consistently high standard, which
are both engaging and critically fair, written by a broad range of people
at different stages of their academic careers with varied disciplinary backgrounds.
Requests to
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Requests to
review books listed below, or proposals for reviews of other new titles, together
with a brief description of reviewers' academic qualifications, publications
or research interests should be sent to James Doelman, the Associate Editor
(Reviews) at doelmanj@mcmaster.ca.
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review may be sent to the Editor, Lisa Hopkins, at School of Cultural Studies,
Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP,
U.K. Please note that all unsolicited materials sent to EMLS for the
purposes of review must be plainly marked with the word "Donation" on the
front of the mailing cover.
Books
Received for Review as of May 1999:
- Abraham, Lyndy. A
Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Amelang, James S. The
Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford:
Stanford UP, 1998.
- Bell, Rudolph M. How
to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians. Chicago:
U of Chicago P, 1999.
- Berger, Thomas L., William
C. Bradford, and Sidney L. Sondergard. An Index of Characters in Early
Modern English Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Corthell, Ronald. Ideology
and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne. Detroit: Wayne
State UP, 1997.
- Daileader, Celia R.
Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits
of the Visible. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
- De Grazia, Margreta,
Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass, eds. Subject and Object in
Renaissance Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
- Dillon, Janette. Language
and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1998.
- Dobranski, Stephen B.,
and John P. Rumrich. Milton and Heresy. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1998.
- Egan, Jim. Authorizing
Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England
Writing. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.
- Fowler, Elizabeth and
Roland Greene, eds. The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and
the New World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
- Fonte, Moderata (Modesta
Pozzo) The Worth of Women. Ed. Virginia Cox. Trans. Virginia
Cox. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
- Forker, Charles R.,
ed. Richard II: The Critical Tradition. London: Athlone P, 1998.
- Garber, Marjorie. Coming
of Age in Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 1997.
- Garin, Eugenio, ed.
Renaissance Characters. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
- Guthke, Karl S.
The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1999.
- Hale, John K. The
Shakespeare of the Comedies., 2nd ed. Berlin: Peter Lang, 1997.
- Halpern, Richard. Shakespeare
Among the Moderns. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.
- Herman, Peter C. Squitter-wits
and Muse-haters. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.
- Hillman, Richard. Self-Speaking
in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1997.
- Hodgdon, Barbara. The
Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations. Philadelphia: U
of Pennsylvania P, 1998.
- Hoeveler, Diane Long.
Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith
to the Brontes. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1998.
- Honigmann, E.A.J. Myriad-Minded
Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
- Innes, Paul. Shakespeare
and the English Renaissance Sonnet. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
- Kelly, Kathleen Coyne
and Marina Leslie, Eds. Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in
the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
- Kennedy, Judith M. and
Richard F. A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Critical Tradition.
London: Athlone P, 1999.
- Kiernan, Pauline. Shakespeare's
Theory of Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
- Kolbrener, William.
Milton's Warring Angels. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
- Krier, Theresa M. Refiguring
Chaucer in the Renaissance. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.
- Leinwand, Theodore B.
Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1999.
- Locke, Anne. Meditations
of a Penitent Sinner. Ed. Kel Morin. Waterloo, Ont.: North Waterloo
Academic Press, 1998.
- Loomba, Ania, and Martin
Orkin, eds. Post-Colonial Shakespeares. London: Routledge, 1998.
- Lucking, David. Plays
Upon the Word: Shakespeare's Drama of Language. Lecce: Edizioni Milella,
1997.
- MacLean, Gerald, Donna
Landry, Joseph P. Ward, eds The Country and the City Revisited: England
and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
- Madelaine, Richard,
ed. Shakespeare in Production: Antony and Cleopatra. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Maguire, Laurie E. and
Thomas L. Berger. Textual Formations and Reformations. Newark:
U of Delaware P, 1998.
- Mallette, Richard. Spenser
and the Discourses of Reformation England. Lincoln and London: U of
Nebraska P, 1997.
- Martin, Catherine Gimelli.
The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention.
Duke: Duke UP, 1998.
- McFarlane, Cameron.
The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
- McJannet, Linda. The
Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
- McMillin, Scott, and
Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen's Men and their Plays. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Minois, George. History
of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture. Trans
Lydia G. Cochrane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
- Murphy, Andrew.
But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism and Renaissance
Literature. Kentucky: U of Kentucky P, 1999.
- Nuttall, A.D.
The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake.
Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998.
- Ogden, James, and Arthur
H. Scouten, eds. Lear from Study to Stage: Essays in Criticism.
Cranbury: Associated UP, 1997.
- Parker, Kenneth, ed.
Early Modern Tales of Orient. London: Routledge, 1999.
- Peele, George.
King Edward the First and David and Bethsabe. Ed.
George K. Dreher. Iron Horse Free P, 1999.
- Platt, Peter G. Reason
Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous. Lincoln: U of Nebraska
P, 1997.
- Potter, Lois, ed.
Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries.
Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
- Rambuss, Richard.
Closet Devotions. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
- Reiss, Timothy.
Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
- Rhodes, Neill, ed.
English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, Politics. Tempe,
AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1997.
- Rumrich, John.
Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpration. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1997.
- Sanders, Eve Rachele.
Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Shakespeare, William.
Edward III and The First Quarto of Hamlet. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Sharpe, Kevin, and Steven
N. Zwicker, eds. Refiguing Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics
from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution. Berkeley:
U of California P, 1998.
- Shifflett, Andrew.
Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Shulman, James Lawrence.
"The Pale Cast of Thought:" Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance
Epic. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
- Shurgot, Michael W.
Stages of Play: Shakespeare's Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance.
Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
- Smith, Hilda L. Women
Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Smith, Molly.
Breaking Boundaries: politics and play in the drama of Shakespeare and
his contemporaries. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
- Snyder, Susan.
Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Speziale-Bagliacca,
Roberto. The King & the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytic and Literary
Representation of King Lear and Madame Bovary. Durham:
Duke UP, 1998.
- Stanwood, Paul.
Izaak Walton. New York: Twayne, 1998.
- Stephens, Dorothy.
The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure
from Spenser to Marvell. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Stewart, Alan.
Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England. Princeton:
Princeton UP, 1997.
- Stewart, Stanley.
"Renaissance" Talk. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1997.
- Traub, Valerie, M. Lindsay
Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan, eds. Feminist Readings of Early
Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1996.
- Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret.
Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Walton Williams, George.
Shakespeare's Speech Headings. Newark: U of Delaware P,
1997.
- Warner, William B.
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain,
1684-1750. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.
- Warren, Austin. Becoming
What One Is. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
- White, Martin.
Renaissance Drama in Action. London: Routledge, 1998.
Forthcoming
Reviews:
Aughterson, Kate. The English Renaissance: An Anthology
of Sources and Documents. London: Routledge, 1998.
Barnes, Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy
in the American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
Bath, Michael. Speaking Pictures: Emblem Books and Renaissance
Culture. London: Longman, 1993.
Bell, Ilona. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship.
Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural
Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. Princeton: Princeton UP,
1997.
Bishop, T.G. Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Burnett, Mark Thornton. Masters and Servants in English
Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience. Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1997.
Burns, Edward. Reading Rochester. Liverpool: Liverpool
UP, 1996.
Cavendish, William. Dramatic Works by William Cavendish.
Oxford: The Malone Society, 1996.
Cox, John F. Much Ado About Nothing in Production.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion,
and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
Demaray, John G. Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness:
The Tempest and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms. Pittsburgh:
Duquesne UP, 1998.
Doerksen, Daniel. Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne
and the Naked Truth. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Farago, Claire, ed. Reframing the Renaissance: Visual
Culture in Europe and Latin America. 1450-1650 Yale: Yale UP, 1996.
Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance
Examples. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
Gregerson, Linda. The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser,
Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Grell, Ole Peter and Andrew Cunningham. Religio Medici:
Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Aldershot: Scolar
P, 1996.
Hamilton, Donna B. and Richard Strier, eds. Religion,
Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1996.
Henke, Robert. Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy
and Shakespeare's Late Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
Hillman, David and Carla Mazzio. The Body in Parts: Fantasies
of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe. London and New York: Routledge,
1997.
Holland, Peter. English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the
English Stage in the 1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Honan, Park. Shakespeare: A Life. Oxford: Oxford UP,
1998.
Kamps, Ivo. Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Klein, Lisa M. The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan
Sonneteer. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998. Kronenfeld, Judy. King Lear
and the Naked Truth. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Leslie, Marina. Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of
History. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP 1999.
Lewis, Cynthia. Particular Saints: Shakespeare’s Four
Antonios, Their Contexts and Their Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
Lim, Walter. The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism
from Ralegh to Milton. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Linton, Joan Pong. The Romance of the New World: Gender
and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
Loveridge, Mark. A History of Augustan Fable. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1998.
Loxley, James. Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil
Wars. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Marotti, Arthur. Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance
Lyric. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.
Marrapodi, Michele. The Italian World of English Renaissance
Drama. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
Meagher, John C. Shakespeare’s Shakespeare: How the Plays
were Made. New York: Continuum Books, 1997.
Mikalachki, Jodi. The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation
in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 1998.
Moore, Lisa M. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic
History of the British Novel. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
Murray, Jacqueline, and Konrad Eisenbichler. Desire and
Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Toronto: U of Toronto
P, 1996.
Pacheco, Anita. Early Women Writers: 1600-1720. Harlow:
Longman, 1998.
Parfenov, Alexandr, and Joseph G. Price, eds. Russian
Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: U of Delaware P,
1998.
Parker, Douglas, ed. A Proper Dyaloge betwene a Gentillman
and an Husbandman. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
Pask, Kevin. The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting
the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1996.
Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1997.
Platt, Peter G. Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the
Marvelous. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
Raymond, Joad. The Invention of the Newspaper: English
Newsbooks 1641-1649. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996.
Riddell, James A. and Stanley Stewart. Jonson's Spenser:
Evidence and Historical Criticism. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1995.
Rubik, Margarete. Early Women Dramatists 1550-1800.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
Shuger, Debora Kuller. Habits of Thought in the English
Renaissance. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.
Stewart, Alan. Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early
Modern England. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.
Summers, Claude J. and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Representing
Women in Renaissance England. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1997.
Tebeaux, Elizabeth. The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical
Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood,
1997.
Tromly, Fred B. Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe
and the Art of Tantalization. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1998.
Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
New Haven: Harvard UP, 1996.
Walker, Greg. Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith, and
Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII. Aldershot: Scolar P, 1996.
Walker, Greg. The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance
Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Walker, Julia M. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations
of Gloriana. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
Walker, Julia M. Medusa’s Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare,
Milton, and the Metamorphosis of the Female Self. Newark: U of Delaware
P, 1998.
Williams, Gordon. Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution.
Atlantic Highlands: Athlone P, 1996.
Wiseman, Susan. Drama and Politics in the English Civil
War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
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