Abstract:Where Renaissance theorists define invention either as discovering and imitating the best models for writing or as creating a better and more virtuous world, George Herbert redefines poetic invention as the usurpation of God’s creative power. In order to avoid such presumption in his own poetry, he insists that the task of the godly poet must be imitation in its most literal, letter-by-letter sense: copying God’s own language, as if by hand. The metaphor of writing as copying reaches its fullest expression in Herbert’s wordplay-heavy poems, in which the poet breaks words into their composite letters to discover God’s truth.
{"title":"George Herbert and the Dangers of Invention","authors":"Anne Boemler","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Where Renaissance theorists define invention either as discovering and imitating the best models for writing or as creating a better and more virtuous world, George Herbert redefines poetic invention as the usurpation of God’s creative power. In order to avoid such presumption in his own poetry, he insists that the task of the godly poet must be imitation in its most literal, letter-by-letter sense: copying God’s own language, as if by hand. The metaphor of writing as copying reaches its fullest expression in Herbert’s wordplay-heavy poems, in which the poet breaks words into their composite letters to discover God’s truth.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75301952","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 examines a series of letters and gifts exchanged between Elizabeth I, Melike Safiye Sultan, and her kira, or serving woman, Esperenza Malchi to investigate the ways in which the formation of cosmetics culture depended on transcultural contact. In the final known letter, Malchi writes to Elizabeth with the intent of acquiring English cosmetics for the Ottoman harem. By examining the letter alongside early modern beauty manuals and the materiality of Elizabeth’s cosmeticized whiteness, manufactured from foreign imports, I reveal the hybridity that was ever a part of the construct of Englishness.
{"title":"Cosmetics, Whiteness, and Fashioning Early Modern Englishness","authors":"Josie Schoel","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines a series of letters and gifts exchanged between Elizabeth I, Melike Safiye Sultan, and her kira, or serving woman, Esperenza Malchi to investigate the ways in which the formation of cosmetics culture depended on transcultural contact. In the final known letter, Malchi writes to Elizabeth with the intent of acquiring English cosmetics for the Ottoman harem. By examining the letter alongside early modern beauty manuals and the materiality of Elizabeth’s cosmeticized whiteness, manufactured from foreign imports, I reveal the hybridity that was ever a part of the construct of Englishness.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79258786","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 Milton’s representations of the tutelary angel. While patristic tradition envisaged separate angels watching over each believer, John Calvin instead conceived them as a ubiquitous army, any of whom might be called upon to execute God’s will. As poet and theologian, Milton introduces Raphael and Michael as guardians with distinct identities at the same time that he declines to assign Adam’s or Eve’s care to any single angel. This pluralized vision of heavenly protection creates an affective theodicy, furnishing a social world about Eden that nevertheless skirts the characteristic Satanic error of interposing hierarchies between God and his creatures.
{"title":"Milton’s Tutelary Angels","authors":"J. Macdonald","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores Milton’s representations of the tutelary angel. While patristic tradition envisaged separate angels watching over each believer, John Calvin instead conceived them as a ubiquitous army, any of whom might be called upon to execute God’s will. As poet and theologian, Milton introduces Raphael and Michael as guardians with distinct identities at the same time that he declines to assign Adam’s or Eve’s care to any single angel. This pluralized vision of heavenly protection creates an affective theodicy, furnishing a social world about Eden that nevertheless skirts the characteristic Satanic error of interposing hierarchies between God and his creatures.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89583913","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, female grief was considered a far more material state of affect than the counterpart brands of sadness claimed by male scholars. This article explores how seventeenth-century writers dilate the material dimensions of women’s grief by engaging a trope I call “sto(ne)icism.” Both John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi and Hester Pulter’s poetic speaker express their grief in the most concrete of ways: by literally turning to stone in a stubborn show of remembrance for their lost objects. In so doing, I argue, they make out of women’s material mourning a form of lasting melancholy.
{"title":"Monumental Female Melancholy in John Webster and Hester Pulter","authors":"Emma Rayner","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In early modern England, female grief was considered a far more material state of affect than the counterpart brands of sadness claimed by male scholars. This article explores how seventeenth-century writers dilate the material dimensions of women’s grief by engaging a trope I call “sto(ne)icism.” Both John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi and Hester Pulter’s poetic speaker express their grief in the most concrete of ways: by literally turning to stone in a stubborn show of remembrance for their lost objects. In so doing, I argue, they make out of women’s material mourning a form of lasting melancholy.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88800293","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 act II, scene ii of Shakespeare’s Richard II, the Queen knows something that no one else knows: “Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, / Is coming towards me.” Criticism has tended to describe the Queen as giving birth to the necessary future of English monarchical history, but this article argues that by placing “Some unborn sorrow” in “Fortune’s womb” rather than her own, Shakespeare’s Queen knows the contingency of a future event that could have gone otherwise than it will. Her word for this form of knowledge is the “conceit”: a figured piece of language that substitutes the elegance of Occam’s Razor for the elaborate infrastructure of a poetic world.
{"title":"The Queen’s Conceit in Shakespeare’s Richard II","authors":"C. Rosenfeld","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In act II, scene ii of Shakespeare’s Richard II, the Queen knows something that no one else knows: “Some unborn sorrow, ripe in Fortune’s womb, / Is coming towards me.” Criticism has tended to describe the Queen as giving birth to the necessary future of English monarchical history, but this article argues that by placing “Some unborn sorrow” in “Fortune’s womb” rather than her own, Shakespeare’s Queen knows the contingency of a future event that could have gone otherwise than it will. Her word for this form of knowledge is the “conceit”: a figured piece of language that substitutes the elegance of Occam’s Razor for the elaborate infrastructure of a poetic world.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81719647","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 the political ramifications of chaos in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Through a close reading of Milton’s creation account, it argues that the narrative constraints of epic force the poet into assigning more persistence and antagonism to the prima materia than his theology or politics would like. It further argues that Milton’s poetic Chaos makes him an uneasy ally of Thomas Hobbes and Hobbes’s de facto political philosophy. The article demonstrates how, in order to resolve this political problem, Milton folds the anarchic material of Chaos into Adam and Eve, transforming its anarchic will into their free will.
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{"title":"Books Received in Nineteenth-Century Studies","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83798797","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}
{"title":"Studies in English Literature 1500–1900: Volume 60, 2020","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sel.2020.0039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72490376","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}
{"title":"Kaoru Yamamoto, Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community: Strange Fraternity","authors":"Misa Miyakawa","doi":"10.20759/ELSJP.97.0_17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20759/ELSJP.97.0_17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67704591","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}
{"title":"Masayoshi Shibatani, Shigeru Miyagawa, and Hisashi Noda (eds.), Handbook of Japanese Syntax","authors":"Masahiko Takahashi","doi":"10.20759/ELSJP.97.0_132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20759/ELSJP.97.0_132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67704498","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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