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Macfarlane, Kirsten. "Gospel Harmonies and the Genres of Biblical Scholarship in Early Modern Europe." Renaissance Quarterly 76, no. 3 (2023): 1027–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2023.408.

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Early modern Gospel harmonies have received little attention and are mostly studied as poor precursors to modern synoptic criticism. This article reassesses the harmony's significance by reconstructing its development ca. 1500–1700, reaching two conclusions. First, it argues that Gospel harmonies acted as a touchstone for critical intellectual developments such as the rise of scientific chronology. Second, it argues that the harmony's transformation over this period, influenced by multiple overlapping disciplines, resulted in it becoming one of the most creative scholarly genres by the late seventeenth century. This interdisciplinarity was simultaneously the prime attraction of the harmony and the reason for its eighteenth-century decline.
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Martín, Javier Calle. "“When That Wounds Are Evil Healed”: Revisiting Pleonastic That in Early English Medical Writing." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 52, no. 1 (March 28, 2017): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0001.

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Abstract The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English, where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + a demonstrative pronoun (i.e., for py pat, for pæm pe) or a subordinator (i.e., op pat). The diffusion of this pleonastic form is an Early Middle English development as a result of the standardization of that as the general subordinator in the period, which motivated its use as a pleonastic word in combination with many kinds of conjunctions (i.e., now that, if that, when that, etc.) and prepositions (i.e., before that, save that, in that) (Fischer 1992: 295). The phenomenon increased considerably in Late Middle English, declining rapidly in the 17th century to such an extent that it became virtually obliterated towards the end of that same century (Rissanen 1999: 303-304). The list of subordinating elements includes relativizers (i.e., this that), adverbial relatives (i.e., there that), and a number of subordinators (i.e., after, as, because, before, beside, for, if, since, sith, though, until, when, while, etc.). The present paper examines the status of pleonastic that in the history of English pursuing the following objectives: (a) to analyse its use and distribution in a corpus of early English medical writing (in the period 1375-1700); (b) to classify the construction in terms of genre, i.e., treatises and recipes; and (c) to assess its decline with the different conjunctive words. The data used as source of evidence come from The Corpus of Early English Medical Writing, i.e., Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT for the period 1375-1500) and Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT for the period 1500-1700). The use of pleonastic that in medical writing allows us to reconsider the history of the construction in English, becoming in itself a Late Middle English phenomenon with its progressive decline throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Kettler, Andrew. "Dispersing the Devil’s Stench: Shifting Perceptions of Sulfuric Miasma in Early Modern English Literatures." Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 22, no. 1 (January 2024): 27–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pan.2024.a916698.

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Abstract: From approximately 1500 to 1650, English references to sulfur’s stench focused on sensory indications of hell, demons, and wickedness in worldly environments. Thereafter, most English references to the pungent rock turned proportionately to technics, medicine, and progress. The increasing presence of sulfuric miasma within secularizing applications for fumigations, gunpowder, and industry led to a limiting of the role of sulfur as a signifier of hell within English environments. Due to economic incentives, supernatural discourses on brimstone atmospheres faced semantic dispersion, as sulfur took on a growing number of connotations instead of remaining a significant environmental signifier of the scent of the devil and his toadies. These shifting literary associations for sulfur exemplify the fluctuating powers of the market, religious voices, biopolitical networks, and the state to define what is matter out of place , or what can be considered too environmentally toxic for economic consumption. Revising the prominence of synchronic work in Early Modern Studies that critiques the dis-enchantment thesis, and redeploying theory from Douglas, Jameson, Greenblatt, Eagleton, and Rancière, this essay highlights connections between the History of Ideas, Environmental Studies, and literary criticism through asserting that the sheer abundance of sulfuric substances in the environment, caused by increased uses for the rock in the coal-fired furnaces of the 18th century, added to a literary dislodgment of mystical definitions of sulfur’s smell as signifying evil. As the Industrial Revolution stuffed chimneys with additional sulfur compounds, material encounters with brimstone became common. Continuously taught that sulfur meant profit and purity, reformed English noses found less sin in the smell of acrid sulfur smoke. This analysis portrays that within literatures that included associations to sulfur, the impending Anthropocene was tested, greenwashed, and approved by the masses of the disenchanting English public sphere.
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Hawkes, David. "Stephen Deng. Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Pp. 284. $90.00 (cloth)." Journal of British Studies 52, no. 2 (April 2013): 497–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2013.6.

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Hart, Jonathan. "Mark Netzloff. England’s Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism. Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500-1700 . Hampshire: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2003. xii + 280 pp. index. illus. map. $69.95. ISBN: 0-521-22155-2." Renaissance Quarterly 59, no. 2 (2006): 620–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ren.2008.0283.

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Smith, D. K. "Barbara Sebek and Stephen S. Deng, eds. Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700. Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500–1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. vii + 288 pp. index. illus. $84.95. ISBN: 978–0–230–60473–5." Renaissance Quarterly 61, no. 4 (2008): 1393–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ren.0.0365.

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Edwards, Karen L., Peter Coss, Michael Hicks, Graham Parry, R. C. Richardson, Myron D. Yeager, V. G. Kiernan, et al. "Reviews: Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship, England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation 1399–1422, Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching, the Making of Jacobean Culture, the Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric and Fiction, 1500–1800, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel, the Scottish Invention of English Literature, Dante and the Victorians, George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento, the Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society, Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry, Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home, Women's Fiction between the Wars: Mothers, Daughters and Writing, British Women Writers of World War II: Battleground of Their Own, the Tyranny of the Discrete: A Discussion of the Problems of Local History in England, Issues of Regional Identity: In Honour of John Marshall, Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity, Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect, Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature and Nations in Europe and its AcademiesJusticeSteven and Kerby-FultonKathryn (eds), Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship , University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 347, £42.75.StrohmPaul, England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation 1399–1422 , Yale University Press, 1998, pp. xiv + 274, £25.McCulloughPeter E., Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching , Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. xv + 237, £35PerryCurtis, The Making of Jacobean Culture , Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. xiv + 281, £35.KelleyDonald R. and SacksDavid Harris (eds), The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric and Fiction, 1500–1800 , Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. xii + 374, £50.JarvisRobin, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel , Macmillan, 1997, pp. x + 246, £45.CrawfordRobert (ed.), The Scottish Invention of English Literature , Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 259, £35.MilbankAlison, Dante and the Victorians , Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. ix + 277, £45.00ThompsonAndrew, George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento , Macmillan, 1998, pp. x + 243, £42.50.SandifordKeith A. and StoddartBrian (eds), The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society , Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. viii + 178, £40.00.GrahamColin, Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry , Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 194, £40.CohenMonica F., Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home , Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 216, £35.InghamHeather, Women's Fiction Between the Wars: Mothers, Daughters and Writing , Edinburgh University Press, 1998, pp. 180, £40, £14.95 pbLassnerPhyllis, British Women Writers of World War II: Battleground of Their Own , Macmillan, 1998, pp. 293, £45.MarshallJ. D., The Tyranny of the Discrete: A Discussion of the Problems of Local History in England , Scolar Press, 1997, pp. vii + 152, £40RoyleEdward (ed.), Issues of Regional Identity: In Honour of John Marshall , Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. xi + 252, £40.DriverFelix and GilbertDavid (eds), Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity , Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 283, £45.WhiteHayden, Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, pp. 205, £31.50.DohertyThomas, Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature and Nations in Europe and its Academies , Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. vi + 248, £40." Literature & History 9, no. 1 (May 2000): 96–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/lh.9.1.8.

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Parker, Christopher, Barbara Yorke, Elizabeth Truax, John N. King, Roberta Anderson, Geoff Ridden, Keith Lindley, et al. "Reviews: Historical Theory, a Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Malory's Morte D'Arthur: Re-Making Arthurian Tradition, Writing the Reformation: Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play, Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590–1619, Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700, the Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts, the Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England, Dorothy Osborne: Letters to William Temple: Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion, Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage, Jane Austen and the Theatre, Jane Austen and the Theatre, Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination, George Eliot and the British Empire, Fiction Rivals Science: The French Novel from Balzac to Proust, the Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain: Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons, Middle-Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain, James Hanley: Modernism and the Working Class, Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home, Teaching LiteratureFulbrookMary, Historical Theory , Routledge, 2002, pp. xii + 228, £10.99.PulsianoPhillip and TraherneElaine (eds), A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature , Blackwell, 2001, pp. 529, £80.BattCatherine, Malory's Morte D'Arthur: Re-making Arthurian Tradition , Palgrave, 2002, pp. xxiii + 264, £32.50.RobinsonMarsha S., Writing the Reformation : Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play , Ashgate, 2002, pp. xxiii + 192, £40.McManusClare, Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590–1619 , Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 276, £45.BrantlingerPatrick, Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties , Routledge, 2001, pp. 238, £14.99 pb.FoxAdam, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700 , Oxford Studies in Social History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2000, pp. 413, £45.00.CainTom (ed.), The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts , Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. xii + 465, £50.LakePeter (with Michael Questier), The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England , Yale UP, 2002, pp. 731, $45.00.WallWendy, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xiii + 292, £45KordaNatasha, Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, pp. ix + 276, $49.95.ParkerKenneth (ed.), Dorothy Osborne: Letters to William Temple: Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion , Ashgate, 2002, pp. xi + 348£49.50.WeinbrotHoward D., SchakelPeter J. and KarianStephen E. (eds), Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth , University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, pp. xviii + 305, $21.95.TadmorNaomi, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage , Cambridge University Press2001, pp. x + 312, £40.ByrnePaula, Jane Austen and the Theatre , Hambledon, 2002, pp. xvii + 283, £25GayPenny, Jane Austen and the Theatre , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xi + 201, £37.50.ShawPhilip, Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination , Palgrave, 2002, pp. xiv + 260, £45.HenryNancy, George Eliot and the British Empire , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xi + 182, £35.ThiherAlan, Fiction Rivals Science: The French Novel from Balzac to Proust , University of Missouri Press, 2001, pp. ix + 226, £31.50.EvansA. K. B. and GoughJ. V. (eds), The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain: Essays in Honour of Jack Simmons , Ashgate, 2003, pp. 340, 25 illustrations and 6 maps, £20.YoungLinda, Middle-Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain , Palgrave, 2003, pp. xi + 245, £45.FordhamJohn, James Hanley: Modernism and the Working Class , University of Wales Press, 2002, pp. xii + 315, £25.ForsterThomas, Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home , Palgrave, 2002, pp. 224, £42.50.ShowalterElaine, Teaching Literature , Blackwell, 2002, pp. xi + 166, £45, £12.99 pb." Literature & History 13, no. 1 (May 2004): 76–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/lh.13.1.6.

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Farnell, Gary, Christopher Parker, John M. Fyler, Christopher Highley, R. C. Richardson, Sophie Tomlinson, Bronwen Price, et al. "Reviews: Cultural History, History Meets Fiction, the Masculine Self in Late Medieval England, the Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition, Writing Lives. Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modem England, Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain, Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modem England, Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage, Shakespeare and the Nobility: The Negotiation of Lineage., Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture, Shakespeare and Garrick, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women, Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism, the Victorians and Old Age, Shakespeare and Victorian Women., Becoming a Woman of Letters. Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market, the Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan, Hitler's War Poets: Literature and Politics in the Third Reich, the Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850, the Oprah Affect: Critical Essay s on Oprah's Book ClubAnnaGreen, Cultural History , Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. viii + 163, £15.99BeverleySouthgate, History Meets Fiction , Pearson, 2009, pp. xi + 215, £14.99 pbDerekG. Neal, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England , University of Chicago Press, 2008. pp. xii + 320. $68.00; $25.00 pb.KristenDeiter, The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition , Routledge, 2008, pp. xiii+259, £60KevinSharpe and ZwickerSteven N. (eds), Writing Lives. Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modem England , Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. xiii + 369, £55.CatharineGray, Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain , Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500–1700, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x + 262, £42.50KimberlyAnne Coles, Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modem England , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. vii + 250, £50.TomRutter, Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. x + 205. £65CatherineGrace Canino, Shakespeare and the Nobility: The Negotiation of Lineage. Cambridge University Press, 2007. pp. x + 266, £50AnneDunan-Page and LynchBeth (eds), Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture , Ashgate, 2008, pp. xx + 236, £55.VanessaCunningham, Shakespeare and Garrick , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. viii + 231, £50.MarionRust, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women , University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. x + 311, $59.95, $24.95 pb.AlexanderDick and EsterhammerAngela (eds), Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture , University of Toronto Press, 2009, pp. viii + 306, £42.RobertS. Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism , University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. x + 322, $59.95, $21.95 (pb).KarenChase, The Victorians and Old Age , Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. xiv + 284, £55; LooserDorothy, Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain 1750–1850, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. xvi + 234, £29.GailMarshall, Shakespeare and Victorian Women. Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. x+ 207. £50.LindaH. Peterson, Becoming a Woman of Letters. Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market , Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. xv + 289, £19.95.EdenD. and SarembaM. (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan , Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. v + 274. £17.99 pb.JayBaird, Hitler's War Poets: Literature and Politics in the Third Reich , Cambridge University Press, 2008. pp. xv + 284. £47, £17.99 pb.LennardTennenhouse, The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850. Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. x + 158, $35.CeciliaKonchar Farr and HarkerJaime (eds) The Oprah Affect: Critical Essay s on Oprah's Book Club , 2008, SUNY Press, pp. 336, $74.50, $24.95 pb." Literature & History 19, no. 1 (May 2010): 80–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/lh.19.1.7.

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Becker-Cantarino, Barbara. ""Feminist Consciousness" and "Wicked Witches": Recent Studies on Women in Early Modern EuropeAn Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England. Susan Dwyer AmussenThe Invention of Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England. Pamela Joseph BensonThe Evolution of Women's Asylums since 1500: From Refuges for Ex-Prostitutes to Shelters for Battered Women. Sherrill CohenThe Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family. Margaret J. M. EzellPerforming Motherhood: The Sévigné Correspondence. Michèle Longino FarrellWomen in Seventeenth-Century France. Wendy GibsonLewd Women and Wicked Witches: A Study of the Dynamics of Male Domination. Marianne HesterVirtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing, 1649-1688. Elaine HobbyThe First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700. Elizabeth HoweWomen in Power in Early Modern Drama. Theodora A. JankowskiThe Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620. Ann Rosalind JonesRenaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models. Constance JordanWomen of the Renaissance. Margaret L. KingThe Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. Gerda LernerWriting Women in Jacobean England. Barbara Kiefer LewalskiVisionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Phyllis MackThe Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg. Lyndal RoperDisorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany. Joy Wiltenburg." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20, no. 1 (October 1994): 152–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494958.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism"

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Bider, Noreen Jane. "Tudor metrical psalmody and the English Reformations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0026/NQ50115.pdf.

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Nielson, James. "Elizabethan realisms : reading prose from the end of the century." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74597.

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This thesis basically has a twofold aim: on the one hand, to make a somewhat neglected body of Renaissance prose more readable, by adding, in a punctual and miscellaneous manner, to our historical, philological and thematic understanding of it and by examining it in the light of some of our current theoretical preoccupations; and, on the other hand, to problematize the "realistic" rubric assigned to these works and to do so by cultivating a more thoroughgoing textual realism on the part of readers.
These works, traditionally grouped together because of the interaction of their authors at the end of the 16th century, include Robert Greene's "cony-catching" and "confessional" pamphlets, the texts of the controversy between Thomas Nashe and Gabriel Harvey, and Harvey's manuscript drafts, as well as more familiar works such as Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller.
The theoretical issue of "the real" as a textual effect has been divided up according to the three nominal categories of persons, places and things, but the thesis falls methodologically into two halves. The opening chapters aim at reintroducing the figures of Greene, Nashe and Harvey, and exploring the quasi-genres of confession, invective and rough draft as exemplary models of the textual construction of a realistic person. They also attempt an alternative form of reading which is an amalgam of cento, summary, close reading, theoretical aside, and running commentary. In the second half, microreadings of the Marprelate Tracts, the cony-catching pamphlets, and texts by Nashe are used to shed light on theoretical issues of textual "place" such as the rhetorical construction of "presence" and metaphorical "movement." Once the relationship between premodern and postmodern textuality has been sketched, the final chapter offers a critique of the unreflexive academic practice of doing "readings," and argues for a new literalism and the self-subversion of the figurative in an "extrarhetorical" reading of Nashe's Lenten Stuffe.
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Hammerton, Rachel Joan. "English impressions of Venice up to the early seventeenth century : a documentary study." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2792.

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The first Englishmen to write about the city-state of Venice were the pilgrims passing through on their way to the Holy Land. Their impressions are recorded in the travel diaries and collections of advice for prospective fellow pilgrims between the early fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the most substantial being those of William Wey, Sir Richard Guylforde and Sir Richard Torkington, who visited Venice in 1458 and '62, 1506, and 1517 respectively. In the 1540s arrived the men who saw Venice as part of the new Europe--Andrew Borde and William Thomas. Thomas's study of the Venetian state emphasized the efficiency of its administration, seeing it as an example of constructive government, where effective organisation for the common good led directly to national stability and prosperity. The mid-sixteenth century saw the beginnings of Venice as a tourist centre; the visitors who came between 1550 and the end of the century described the sights and the people, the traditions and way of life. Fynes Moryson's extensive account details what could be seen and learned in the city by an observant and enquiring visitor. In addition to information available in first-hand accounts of Venice, much could be learned from the work of the late sixteenth-century English translators. Linguistic, cultural, geographical, historical and literary translations yielded further knowledge and, more importantly, new perspectives, Venice being seen through the eyes of Italians and, through Lewkenor's comprehensive work, The Commonwealth and Government of Venice, of Venetians themselves. Finally, to assess the general impressions of Venice and the Venetians, we consider the literature of the turn of the sixteenth-seventeenth century; what, and how much, of the three-hundred year accumulation of knowledge of the city and people of Venice had most caught the attention and imagination of the English mind, and how close was the relationship between the popular impression and the documentary information from which it had largely developed.
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Farley, Stuart. "Copious voices in early modern English writing." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11904.

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This thesis takes as its object of study a certain strand of Early Modern English writing characterised by its cornucopian invention, immethodical structure, and creatively exuberant, often chaotic, means of expression. It takes as its point of departure the Erasmian theory of ‘copia' (rhetorical abundance), expanding upon it freely in order to formulate new and independent notions of copious vernacular writing as it is practised in 16th- and 17th-century contexts. Throughout I argue for the continuity and pervasiveness of the pursuit of linguistic plenitude, in contrast to a prevailing belief that the outpouring of 'words' and 'things' started to dissipate in the transition from one century (16th) to the next (17th). The writers to be discussed are Thomas Nashe, Robert Burton, John Taylor the ‘Water-Poet', and Sir Thomas Urquhart. Each of the genres in which these writers operate–prose-poetry, the essay, the pamphlet, and the universal language–emerge either toward the end of the 16th century or during the course of the 17th century, and so can be said to take copious writing in new and experimental directions not fully accounted for in the current scholarship. My contribution to the literature lies principally in its focus on the emergence of these literary forms in an Early Modern English context, with an emphasis on the role played by copiousness of expression in their stylistic development and how they in turn develop the practice of copia.
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Hanan, Rachel Ann 1978. "Words in the world: The place of literature in Early Modern England." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11156.

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ix, 268 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
"Words in the World" details the ways that the place of rhetoric and literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries changes in response to the transition from natural philosophy to Cartesian mechanism. In so doing, it also offers a constructive challenge to today's environmental literary criticism, challenging environmental literary critics' preoccupation with themes of nature and, by extension, with representational language. Reading authors from Thomas More to Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson through changes in physics, cartography, botany, and zoology, "Words in the World" argues that literature occupies an increasingly separate place from the real world. "Place" in this context refers to spatiotemporal dimensions, taxonomic affiliations, and the relationships between literature and the physical world. George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (1589), for instance, limits the way that rhetoric is part of the world to the ways that it can be numbered (meter, rhyme scheme, and so forth); metaphor and other tropes, however, are duplicitous. In contrast, for an earlier era of natural philosophers, tropes were the grammar of the universe. "Words in the World" culminates with Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621/1651), in which the product of literature's split from the physical world is literary melancholy. Turning to today's environmental literary criticism, the dissertation thus historicizes ecocriticism's nostalgic melancholy for the extratextual physical world. Indeed, Early Modern authors' inquiries into the place of literature and the relationships between that place and the physical world in terms of literary forms and structures, suggests the importance of ecoformalism to Early Modern scholarship. In particular, this dissertation argues that Early Modern authors treat literary structures as types of performative language. This dissertation revises the standard histories of Early Modern developments in rhetoric and of the literary text, and it provides new insight into the materiality of literary form.
Committee in charge: Lisa Freinkel, Chairperson, English; William Rossi, Member, English; George Rowe, Member, English; Ted Toadvine, Outside Member, Philosophy
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Bellis, Joanna Ruth. "Language, literature, and the Hundred Years War, 1337-1600." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609852.

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Johnson, Toria Anne. "'Piteous overthrows' : pity and identity in early modern English literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4197.

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This thesis traces the use of pity in early modern English literature, highlighting in particular the ways in which the emotion prompted personal anxieties and threatened Burckhardtian notions of the self-contained, autonomous individual, even as it acted as a central, crucial component of personal identity. The first chapter considers pity in medieval drama, and ultimately argues that the institutional changes that took place during the Reformation ushered in a new era, in which people felt themselves to be subjected to interpersonal emotions – pity especially – in new, overwhelming, and difficult ways. The remaining three chapters examine how pity complicates questions of personal identity in Renaissance literature. Chapter Two discusses the masculine bid for pity in courtly lyric poetry, including Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Barnabe Barnes's Parthenophil and Parthenophe, and considers the undercurrents of vulnerability and violation that emerge in the wake of unanswered emotional appeals. This chapter also examines these themes in Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Sidney's Arcadia. Chapter Three also picks up the element of violation, extending it to the pitiable presentation of sexual aggression in Lucrece narratives. Chapter Four explores the recognition of suffering and vulnerability across species boundaries, highlighting the use of pity to define humanity against the rest of the animal kingdom, and focusing in particular on how these questions are handled by Shakespeare in The Tempest and Ben Jonson, in Bartholomew Fair. This work represents the first extended study of pity in early modern English literature, and suggests that the emotion had a constitutive role in personal subjectivity, in addition to structuring various forms of social relation. Ultimately, the thesis contends that the early modern English interest in pity indicates a central worry about vulnerability, but also, crucially, a belief in the necessity of recognising shared, human weakness.
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Leskinen, Saara. "Reliable knowledge of exotic marvels of nature in sixteenth-century French and English texts." Thesis, Warburg Institute, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.564418.

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Bulman, Helen Lois. "Concepts of folly in English Renaissance literature : with particular reference to Shakespeare and Jonson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3475.

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Chapter 1 considers Barclay's 'Ship of Fools' in relation to other folly literature in English, particularly Lydgate's 'Order of Fools', Skelton's 'Bowge of Courte', and 'Cocke Lorrel's Bote'. Motifs, allegories and the woodcuts of the text are discussed and some are included in an Illustrations section. Chapter 2 discusses Erasmian folly looking back to the Neoplatonic writings of Nicholas of Cusa, and to the debt Erasmian exegeses owe to Origen. Erasmus' own philosophical and theological views are examined, particularly as they are found in his 'Enchiridion', and in the influence of Thomas à Kempis' 'Imitation of Christ'. A close textual analysis of the 'Moriae Encomium' is undertaken in this light. Chapter 3 defines the lateral boundaries of folly, where it blends into madness. In the context of Renaissance psychology sixteenth century medical works are analysed, including Boorde's 'Breviary of Healthe', Barrough's 'Method of Physicke' and Elyot's 'Castel of Helth'. Blurring between madness and sin, the negative judgments on the mad as demon-possessed, and the biblical models from which such judgments largely arose give alternative perspectives on madness and its relation to folly. Chapters 4-6 look at three Shakespearean comedies showing the development of a primarily Erasmian view of folly. This moves from overt references in 'Love's Labour's Lost' to natural folly, the folly of love and theological folly, through carnivalesque aspects of folly and madness in 'Twelfth Night', to an embedded notion of folly which influences and affects the darker comedy of 'Measure for Measure'. Chapter 7 considers satires of Hall, Marston and Guilpin, and looks at Jonson's Humour plays in this context. 'Volpone' and 'Epicoene', and 'The Alchemist' and 'Bartholomew Fair' are discussed in pairs, showing the softening of Jonson's attitude to folly, and his increasing representation of Erasmian folly reaching its full expression in 'Bartholomew Fair'.
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May, Simon. "Marlowe and monarchy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:84716f56-e527-4a6b-820c-d2204c87cfe2.

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Focusing on the works of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), this thesis explores the complex engagement of popular drama with the political and religious writing of the Elizabethan fin de siècle. It focuses on the five plays by Marlowe that feature royal protagonists: 1-2 Tamburlaine (1587), Dido, Queen of Carthage (1588), Edward II (1592), and The Massacre at Paris (1593). By interpreting each play in its immediate political context, it shows that Marlowe did not deal with monarchy in the abstract but responded to current affairs - from the incursions of the Ottoman Empire to the threat of the Spanish Armada, from the conspiracy claims of Catholic polemic to the debate surrounding England's involvement in continental warfare. The introduction situates the thesis in the critical and historiographical context relating to Marlowe and to the relationship between literature and politics in the early modern period; it provides the justification for reading Marlowe's plays as topical statements. Chapter One looks at 1-2 Tamburlaine in the light of contemporary attitudes to the Ottoman-Safavid War. Chapter Two shows that Dido, Queen of Carthage adapted the stories and tropes of polemic to reflect fears of Catholic conspiracy and Spanish invasion. Chapter Three reads Edward II as a creative response to the print war of 1591-2, which centred on the moral character of the queen's closest counsellors. Chapter Four proposes that Marlowe's final play, The Massacre at Paris, employed arguments drawn from Reason of State to influence decisions at the 1593 Parliament. The thesis concludes by suggesting that despite Marlowe's reputation as a radical overreacher, his drama displays considerable sympathy for the monarchs who must rule precariously and without the option of private happiness.
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Helen, Wilcox, ed. Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Mueller, Janel M., and David Loewenstein. Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Mueller, Janel, and David Loewenstein. Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Mueller, Janel, and David Loewenstein. Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Mueller, Janel, and David Loewenstein. Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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(Editor), David Loewenstein, and Janel Mueller (Editor), eds. The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (The New Cambridge History of English Literature). Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Malcolmson, Cristina, and Mihoko Suzuki. Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Correll, Barbara, and Natalie K. Eschenbaum. Disgust in Early Modern English Literature. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Ord, M. Travel and Experience in Early Modern English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Corns, Thomas N. History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2008.

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