Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995-2000

Introduction

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies is a book-length compendium of reflections on issues pertinent to the field of early modern literary studies. This volume, currently in progress, is a contribution intended to broaden and deepen the field internationally, as an aid also to new research in the area. In doing so, it reflects and augments leading research in the area, signals trends and current research, and offers a broad and deep foundation for further work to come. A proper introduction will follow shortly.

Table of Contents

Year 1 (1995)

Year 2 (1996)

Year 3 (1997)

Year 4 (1998)

  • Hypertext and Editorial Myth (Paul Werstine, University of Western Ontario)
  • What do the Users Really Want? (Anne Lancashire, University of Toronto)
  • The Common Reader's Shakespeare (Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto)
  • A Romance of Electronic Scholarship; with the True and Lamentable Tragedies of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Part 1: The Words (Donald Foster, Vassar College)
  • Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise: Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, with Reference to Electronic Editions of Shakespeare and the Internet (R.G. Siemens, University of Alberta)
  • Afterword: Dressing Old Words New (Michael Best, University of Victoria)
  • Jonson's Stoic Politics: Lipsius, the Greeks, and the "Speach According to Horace" (Robert C. Evans, Auburn University Montgomery)
  • Petruchio's Horse: Equine and Household Management in The Taming of the Shrew (Peter F. Heaney, Staffordshire University)
  • "Upon the Suddaine View": State, Civil Society and Surveillance in Early Modern England (Swen Voekel, Rochester University)
  • Civilizing Wales: Cymbeline, Roads and the Landscapes of Early Modern Britain (Garrett Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University)
  • A Map of Greater Cambria (Philip Schwyzer, UC Berkeley)
  • Partial Views: Shakespeare and the Map of Ireland (Bernhard Klein, University of Dortmund)
  • Significant Spaces in Edmund Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland (Joanne Woolway Grenfell, Oxford University)
  • Translated Geographies: Spenser's "Ruins of Time" (Huw Griffiths, University of Strathclyde)
  • "On the Famous Voyage": Ben Jonson and Civic Space (Andrew McRae, University of Sydney)
  • John Donne's Use of Space (Lisa Gorton, Oxford University)
  • Britannia Rules the Waves?: Images of Empire in Elizabethan England (Lesley Cormack, University of Alberta)
  • Ruling the World: The Cartographic Gaze in Elizabethan Accounts of the New World (Mark Koch, St Mary's College)
  • Anti-geography (Robert Appelbaum, University of Cincinnati)