Winter 2020 Books Received

Akhimie, Patricia, and Bernadette Andrea, eds. Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Series eds. Carole Levin and Marguerite A. Tassi. Lincoln and London: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. x + 368. $35.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-4962-0226-0.

Augustine, Matthew C. Aesthetics of Contingency: Writing, Politics, and Culture in England, 1639–89. Manchester UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 269. £80.00. ISBN 978-1-5261-0076-4.

Bearden, Elizabeth B. Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability. Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Series eds. David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 274. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13112-9.

Belle, Marie-Alice, and Brenda M. Hosington, eds. Thresholds of Translation: Paratexts, Print, and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Britain (1473–1660). Early Modern Literature in History. Gen. eds. Cedric C. Brown and Andrew Hadfield. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xviii + 330. $109.00. ISBN 978-3-319-72771-4.

Bertolet, Anna Riehl, and Carole Levin, eds. Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom: Creativity in Early English Literature and History Courses. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 537. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018 (paper only). Pp. xx + 236. $40.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-86698-594-9.

Bertram, Benjamin. Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England. Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture. Series ed. Karen Raber. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xii + 288. $140.00. ISBN 978-1-138-70885-3.

Brown, Jennifer N. Fruit of the Orchard: Reading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 312. $75.00.ISBN 978-1-4875-0407-6.

Brown, Richard Danson. The Art of “The Faerie Queene.”Manchester Spenser. Gen. eds. Joshua Reid, Kathryn Walls, and Tamsin Badcoe. Manchester and New York: Manchester Univ. Press (distributed by Oxford Univ. Press), 2019. Pp. xiv + 316. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-7190-8732-5.

Brumbaugh, Barbara. Apocalyptic History and the Protestant Cause in Sir Philip Sidney’s Revised “Arcadia.”Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 468. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018. Pp. xii + 549. $84.00. ISBN 978-0-86698-521-5.

Carlson, David R., ed.Thomas Elyot, “The Image of Governance,” & Other Dialogues of Counsel (1533–1541). MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 24. Gen. eds. Andrew Hadfield and Neil Rhodes. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2018. Pp. viii + 346. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-78188-620-5.

Cavendish, Margaret. “Poems and Fancies” with “The Animal Parliament.”Ed. Brandie R. Siegfried. Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Toronto Series 64. Series eds. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. English Texts ed. Elizabeth H. Hageman. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 536. Toronto: Iter; Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018 (paper only). Pp. xxii + 462. $59.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-86698-593-2.

Clifford, Anne. Anne Clifford’s Autobiographical Writing, 1590–1676. Ed Jessica L. Malay. Manchester and New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x + 326. £75.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-5261-1787-8. £19.99 paper. ISBN 978-1-5261-1788-5.

Cook, Megan L. The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532–1635. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press (in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library), 2019. Pp. x + 278. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-5082-4.

Coolahan, Marie-Louise, and Gillian Wright, eds. Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. x + 266. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-8153-6202-9.

Crowley, Lara M. Manuscript Matters: Reading John Donne's Poetry and Prose in Early Modern England. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 268. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-882186-1.

Currell, David, and Islam Issa, eds. Digital Milton. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xvi + 272. $109.00. ISBN 978-3-319-72771-4.

D’Addario, Christopher, and Matthew C. Augustine, eds. Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell. Manchester UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 255. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-526-11389-4.

Davies, Michael, and W. R. Owens, eds. The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxviii + 708. $145.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958130-6.

Dobranski, Stephen B., ed. Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660, Vol. 2. Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714. Gen. ed. Stephen B. Dobranski. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 368. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-108-41964-2.

Eckerle, Julie A., and Naomi McAreavey, eds. Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Series eds. Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. xii + 330. $35.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-8032-9997-9.

Eckhardt, Joshua. Religion Around John Donne. Religion Around 4. Founding ed. Peter Iver Kaufman. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 196. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-271-08337-7.

Elyot, Thomas. Thomas Elyot, “The Image of Governance,” and Other Dialogues of Counsel (1533–1541). Ed. David R. Carlson. MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations 24. Gen. eds. Andrew Hadfield and Neil Rhodes. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2018. Pp. viii + 346. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-78188-620-5.

Fudge, Erica. Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. xii + 228. $27.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-5017-3087-0.

Fudge, Erica. Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and theirAnimals in Early Modern England. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 244. $95.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-5017-1507-5. $29.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-5017-1508-2.

Garrison, John S. Shakespeare and the Afterlife. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Gen. eds. Lena Cowen Orlin, Peter Holland, and Stanley Wells. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 160. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-19-880109-2.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2018. Pp. 212. $21.95. ISBN 978-0-393-63575-1.

Guerrero, Eduardo Olid, and Esther Fernández, eds. The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain. Foreword by Susan Doran. New Hispanisms. Series ed. Anne J. Cruz. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. xx +394. $65.00. ISBN 978-1-4962-0844-6.

Gurney, Evan A. Love’s Quarrels: Reading Charity in Early Modern England. Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture. Gen. ed. Arthur Kinney. Amherst and Boston: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 296. $90.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-62534-380-2. $32.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-62534-381-9.

Hackenbracht, Ryan. National Reckonings: The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton’s England. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 214. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-3107-5.

Haydon, Liam D. Corporate Culture: National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. Ed. Harald E. Braun. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xii + 194. $150.00. ISBN 978-1-138-69324-1.

Herz, Judith Scherer, ed. John Donne and Contemporary Poetry: Essays and Poems. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiv +226. $99.99. ISBN 978-3-319-55299-6.

Kalas, Rayna. Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. xx + 256. $28.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-5017-3088-7.

Kewes, Paulina, and Andrew McRae, eds. Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 384. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-877817-2.

Knight, Leah, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation.Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 304. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13109-9.

Lander Johnson, Bonnie, and Eleanor Decamp, eds. Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400–1700. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. x + 362. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-5021-3.

Lee, James Jaehoon. The Two-Soul’d Animal: Early Modern Literatures of the Classical and Christian Souls. Evanston IL: Northwestern Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. x + 186. $99.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0-8101-3926-8. $34.95 paper.ISBN 978-0-8101-3926-8.

Lerner, Ross. Unknowing Fanaticism: Reformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 234. $105.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-8232-8387-3. $30.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-8232-8386-6.

Loughnane, Rory, and Edel Semple, eds. Staged Normality in Shakespeare’s England. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Gen. eds. Michael Dobson and Dympna Callaghan. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xiv + 304. $119.99. ISBN 978-3-030-00891-8.

MacDonald, Alasdair A. George Lauder (1603–1670): Life and Writings. Studies in Renaissance Literature 35. Gen. eds. David Colclough, Raphael Lyne, and Sean Keilen. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: D. S. Brewer/Boydell and Brewer, 2018.Pp. x + 438. $165.00. ISBN 978-1-84384-506-5.

Martin, Catherine Gimelli. Milton and the New Scientific Age: Poetry, Science, Fiction. Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 51. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xvi + 246. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-367-18273-1.

Mattison, Andrew.Solitude and Speechlessness: Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 264. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4875-0404-5.

McCann, Daniel, and Claire McKechnie-Mason, eds. Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine. Series eds. Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins, and Catherine Belling. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xii + 264. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-137-55947-0.

Murphy, Peter. The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 252. $90.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-5036-0700-2. $28.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-5036-0928-0.

Nardizzi, Vin, and Tiffany Jo Werth, eds. Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 344. $56.25. ISBN 978-1-4875-0414-4.

Nayar, Sheila J.Renaissance Responses to Technological Change. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xiv + 370. $99.99. ISBN 978-3-319-96898-8.

Neelakanta, Vanita. Retelling the Siege of Jerusalem in Early Modern England. Early Modern Exchange. Series eds. Gary Ferguson and Meredith K. Ray. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press (distributed by Univ. of Virginia Press), 2019. Pp. xii + 228. $70.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-6445-3012-2. $35.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-64453-013-9.

O’Dair, Sharon, and Timothy Francisco, eds. Shakespeare and the 99%: Literary Studies, the Profession, and the Production of Inequity. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xiv + 286. $109.99. ISBN 978-3-030-03882-3.

Orgelfinger, Gail. Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 234. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-271-08218-9.

Orvis, David L., ed. Queer Milton. Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500–1700.Series eds. Jean Howard and Ivo Kamps. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xxxiv + 314.ISBN 978-3-319-97048-6.

Pertile, Guilio J. Feeling Faint: Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance. Rethinking the Early Modern. Series eds. Marcus Keller, Ellen McClure, and Feisal Mohamed. Evanston IL: Northwestern Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 180. $99.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0-8101-3919-0. $34.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-8101-3918-3.

Poole, Kristen, and Lauren Shohet, eds. Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623. Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714. Gen. ed. Stephen B. Dobranski. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xxii + 410. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-108-41963-5.

Ramachandran, Ayesha. The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. x + 288. $30.00 paper.ISBN 978-0-226-59887-1.

Reid, Pauline. Reading by Design: The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 288. $56.25. ISBN 978-1-4875-0069-6.

Remien, Peter. The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 228. $99.99.ISBN 978-1-108-49681-0.

Roychoudhury, Suparna. Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 232. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-5017-2655-2.

Schneider, Gary. Print Letters in Seventeenth‐Century England: Politics, Religion, and News Culture. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Series eds. James Daybell and Adam Smyth. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xii + 290. $145.00. ISBN 978-1-138-30957-9.

Scott-Warren, Jason, and Andrew Zurcher, eds. Text, Food, and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Series eds. James Daybell and Adam Smyth. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. viii + 190. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-4724-4141-6.

Shinn, Abigail. Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning. Early Modern Literature in History. Gen. eds. Cedric C. Brown and Andrew Hadfield. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xii + 258. $84.99. ISBN 978-3-319-96576-5.

Shore, Daniel. Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxii + 298. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2550-4.

Singh, Jyotsna G. Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory. Arden Shakespeare and Theory. Series. ed. Evelyn Gajowski. London and New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. xvi + 248. $102.00. ISBN 978-1-4081-8574-2.

Smith, Cassander L., Nicholas R. Jones, and Miles P. Grier, eds. Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xviii + 246. $89.00. ISBN 978-3-319-76785-7.

Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual31–32(2018). Ed. Anne Lake Prescott, William A. Oram, Andrew Escobedo, Susannah Brietz Monta, and Thomas Herron.Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 660. $19.00. ISSN 0195-9468.

Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual33(2019). Ed. William A. Oram, Andrew Escobedo, and Susannah Brietz Monta.Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2019.Pp. 328. $19.00. ISSN 0195-9468.

Sterrett, Joseph William, ed. Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature: Gesture, Word, and Devotion. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 276. $105.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42972-6.

Tang, Chenxi. Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv +346. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-1691-1.

Test, Edward McLean. Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Series eds. Carole Levin and Marguerite A. Tassi. Lincoln and London: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 234. $55.00. ISBN 978-1-4962-0788-3.

Traub, Valerie, Patricia Badir, and Peggy McCracken, ed. Ovidian Transversions: “Iphis and Ianthe”, 1300–1650. Conversions. Series eds. Paul Yachnin and Bronwen Wilson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press (distributed by Oxford Univ. Press), 2019. Pp. xvi + 330. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-4890-1.

Urban, David V. Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Gen. ed. Rebecca Totaro. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 316. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-271-08099-4.