Abstract:An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the English Renaissance and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.
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Abstract:This article examines George Herbert's entire oeuvre to emphasize the conscious textual construction of a literary career embedded within his works. Contrary to the prevailing scholarly conception of Herbert, his poetry and prose contain representations of laureate authorship that reveal sustained national ambition throughout his life. Indeed, throughout his career Herbert consistently reworks the relationship between poetry and the nation—a fact that challenges the critical trend to see Herbert's later poems as representing a poetry of retirement.
{"title":"George Herbert's Literary Career as a Holy Laureate","authors":"Brice Peterson","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines George Herbert's entire oeuvre to emphasize the conscious textual construction of a literary career embedded within his works. Contrary to the prevailing scholarly conception of Herbert, his poetry and prose contain representations of laureate authorship that reveal sustained national ambition throughout his life. Indeed, throughout his career Herbert consistently reworks the relationship between poetry and the nation—a fact that challenges the critical trend to see Herbert's later poems as representing a poetry of retirement.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73813495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Andrew Marvell's commendatory poems to Robert Witty and Milton constitute his most explicit statements regarding not only translation but also writing in general, their commonalities revealing a remarkable steadiness in poetics over a period of two decades. The ethics of translation Marvell advocates in "To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty"—ones that are rooted in Puritan tradition and overlap with key ideas from modern-day translation theory—provide a helpful basis for considering the specific issue of handling scripture that is raised in the poem to Milton. In both works, Marvell advocates that an exact essence of meaning is to be translated from source text to target.
{"title":"Andrew Marvell on Renaissance Translation Practice","authors":"Curtis Whitaker","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Andrew Marvell's commendatory poems to Robert Witty and Milton constitute his most explicit statements regarding not only translation but also writing in general, their commonalities revealing a remarkable steadiness in poetics over a period of two decades. The ethics of translation Marvell advocates in \"To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty\"—ones that are rooted in Puritan tradition and overlap with key ideas from modern-day translation theory—provide a helpful basis for considering the specific issue of handling scripture that is raised in the poem to Milton. In both works, Marvell advocates that an exact essence of meaning is to be translated from source text to target.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75749877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:George Herbert's poetic experiments are guided in part by a desire to influence how the early modern English ate. This article demonstrates that Herbert's verse collection The Temple is shaped by his responsibility as a rural parish priest for ensuring that his community was fed not just spiritually but also physically: as a country parson, he was tasked with collecting agricultural tithes and redistributing them to the hungry. Writing in a time of severe food insecurity, Herbert draws on a vast variety of poetic methods, from metrical sentences to verse emblems to hymns, in order to persuade his readers to join him in addressing the crisis of hunger that early modern England was facing through collectively restricting their consumption.
{"title":"The Poetics of Ethical Eating in George Herbert's The Temple","authors":"Andrea Crow","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:George Herbert's poetic experiments are guided in part by a desire to influence how the early modern English ate. This article demonstrates that Herbert's verse collection The Temple is shaped by his responsibility as a rural parish priest for ensuring that his community was fed not just spiritually but also physically: as a country parson, he was tasked with collecting agricultural tithes and redistributing them to the hungry. Writing in a time of severe food insecurity, Herbert draws on a vast variety of poetic methods, from metrical sentences to verse emblems to hymns, in order to persuade his readers to join him in addressing the crisis of hunger that early modern England was facing through collectively restricting their consumption.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83676056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Why does the term "girl" in early modern discourse designate both female children and fallen women, emblems of sexual innocence and emblems of promiscuity? This article investigates girlish sexuality in the love lyrics of Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller. Extending the trope of the young and unattainable woman backward in time to her childhood, these poets play with the slippage between "girl" as a father's term of affection and "girl" as a lover's endearment. If the mistresses of Petrarchan convention were unattainable because they consciously withheld sexual favors, the little mistresses of Marvell and Waller were even more so. I argue that it is precisely because these poets constructed female children as innocent and pure that they became objects of erotic attraction for adult men.
{"title":"Girls and Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century Love Lyrics","authors":"J. Higginbotham","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Why does the term \"girl\" in early modern discourse designate both female children and fallen women, emblems of sexual innocence and emblems of promiscuity? This article investigates girlish sexuality in the love lyrics of Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller. Extending the trope of the young and unattainable woman backward in time to her childhood, these poets play with the slippage between \"girl\" as a father's term of affection and \"girl\" as a lover's endearment. If the mistresses of Petrarchan convention were unattainable because they consciously withheld sexual favors, the little mistresses of Marvell and Waller were even more so. I argue that it is precisely because these poets constructed female children as innocent and pure that they became objects of erotic attraction for adult men.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88962363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article seeks to rehabilitate John Donne's "Obsequyes vpon the Lord Harrington"—a traditionally unpopular and misunderstood poem—and position it in relation to scientific debates concerning atomic theory at the turn of the seventeenth century. It argues that Donne's cosmological language, like that of contemporary scientific discourse, synthesizes aspects of the Aristotelian worldview with atomism. Previous critics have suggested that the poem betrays an epistemological confusion; however, Donne's object is to establish coherence out of the disorder of nature, and the fusion of seemingly irreconcilable cosmological systems regulates both his poem and his thinking about the physical and spiritual world.
{"title":"Atomic Theory in John Donne's \"Obsequyes vpon the Lord Harrington\"","authors":"A. Hogarth","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article seeks to rehabilitate John Donne's \"Obsequyes vpon the Lord Harrington\"—a traditionally unpopular and misunderstood poem—and position it in relation to scientific debates concerning atomic theory at the turn of the seventeenth century. It argues that Donne's cosmological language, like that of contemporary scientific discourse, synthesizes aspects of the Aristotelian worldview with atomism. Previous critics have suggested that the poem betrays an epistemological confusion; however, Donne's object is to establish coherence out of the disorder of nature, and the fusion of seemingly irreconcilable cosmological systems regulates both his poem and his thinking about the physical and spiritual world.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86858580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article explores John Donne's sense of intimacy in the verse letters, arguing that the virtual space of the verse epistle becomes a site for spiritual union between writer and addressee. By turning to the archive of verse epistles before Donne, and exploring them alongside Donne's writing on epistolarity, this article highlights how an intense belief in spiritual copulation shapes his unique intervention in the history of the European verse epistle, an often-neglected genre in critical discourse.
{"title":"Epistolary Copulation in John Donne's Verse Letters","authors":"Timothy P. Duffy","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores John Donne's sense of intimacy in the verse letters, arguing that the virtual space of the verse epistle becomes a site for spiritual union between writer and addressee. By turning to the archive of verse epistles before Donne, and exploring them alongside Donne's writing on epistolarity, this article highlights how an intense belief in spiritual copulation shapes his unique intervention in the history of the European verse epistle, an often-neglected genre in critical discourse.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81487561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In early modern England, literary representations of miniatures as tools to express either desire or authority correlate with the use of miniatures at Court, where Queen Elizabeth I and her courtiers invested the small, jeweled portraits with emotional and social value. Examining the use of miniatures in Philip Sidney's The New Arcadia and Shakespeare's comedies Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice, this article argues that the literary examples of portraiture in use, which were inspired by the unique circumstances of Elizabeth's reign, suggest that portraiture was one means for aristocratic individuals to express themselves and exert agency, significantly, regardless of gender.
{"title":"Power and Portraiture in Early Modern Literature","authors":"A. Kellogg","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In early modern England, literary representations of miniatures as tools to express either desire or authority correlate with the use of miniatures at Court, where Queen Elizabeth I and her courtiers invested the small, jeweled portraits with emotional and social value. Examining the use of miniatures in Philip Sidney's The New Arcadia and Shakespeare's comedies Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice, this article argues that the literary examples of portraiture in use, which were inspired by the unique circumstances of Elizabeth's reign, suggest that portraiture was one means for aristocratic individuals to express themselves and exert agency, significantly, regardless of gender.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80260790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:I argue that John Donne uses descriptions of bodily decay to explore the potential for intimacy between lovers and the role lyric plays in its creation. As the physical boundaries that delimit individual bodies dissolve, Donne envisions a moment when lovers might materially blend and fuse to a degree that would otherwise be impossible. The effects of this conceit are twofold: first, focusing on decay allows Donne to emphasize the role of corporeality and reject a Neo-Platonic hierarchy of being. And second, Donne uses this conceit to develop a theory of the lyric that emphasizes its ability to transcend material reality in order to create and maintain a hyperbolic vision of intimacy in the face of separation.
{"title":"Decay, Intimacy, and the Lyric Metaphor in John Donne","authors":"Eileen Sperry","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:I argue that John Donne uses descriptions of bodily decay to explore the potential for intimacy between lovers and the role lyric plays in its creation. As the physical boundaries that delimit individual bodies dissolve, Donne envisions a moment when lovers might materially blend and fuse to a degree that would otherwise be impossible. The effects of this conceit are twofold: first, focusing on decay allows Donne to emphasize the role of corporeality and reject a Neo-Platonic hierarchy of being. And second, Donne uses this conceit to develop a theory of the lyric that emphasizes its ability to transcend material reality in order to create and maintain a hyperbolic vision of intimacy in the face of separation.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78494219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article sets William Wordsworth's 1815 Poems alongside his sister Dorothy Wordsworth's prose and poetry in order to argue for the importance of classification within each of their literary projects. I argue that William's turn toward classifying his poems is an adaptation of a mode of generality that Dorothy had already developed in the Alfoxden and Grasmere journals, written between 1798 and 1803. I show that for each of these writers the technology of classification is an effort to bring more of the world into view by making more views visible—that is, by showing what it means to generalize.
{"title":"Nature and Classification in Dorothy and William Wordsworth's Writings","authors":"Allison Turner","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2018.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2018.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article sets William Wordsworth's 1815 Poems alongside his sister Dorothy Wordsworth's prose and poetry in order to argue for the importance of classification within each of their literary projects. I argue that William's turn toward classifying his poems is an adaptation of a mode of generality that Dorothy had already developed in the Alfoxden and Grasmere journals, written between 1798 and 1803. I show that for each of these writers the technology of classification is an effort to bring more of the world into view by making more views visible—that is, by showing what it means to generalize.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79343488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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