Winter 2021 Books Received

Badcoe, Tamsin. Edmund Spenser and the Romance of Space. Manchester Spenser. Gen. eds. Joshua Reid, Kathryn Walls, and Tasmin Badcoe. Manchester UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 328. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-5261-3967-2.

Berger, Harry Jr. Resisting Allegory: Interpretive Delirium in Spenser’s “Faerie Queene.” Ed. David Lee Miller. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 294. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-8232-8563-1.

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth In Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1990; 2019 (2d paper printing). Pp. xii +210. $9.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-5017-4047-3.

Brink, Jean R. The Early Spenser, 1554–80: “Minde on honour fixed.” Manchester Spenser. Gen. eds. Joshua Reid, Kathryn Walls, and Tamsin Badcoe. Manchester UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 238. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-5261-4258-0.

Brownlee, Victoria. Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558–1625. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 258. $78.00. ISBN 978-0-19-881248-7.

Butler, Todd. Literature & Political Intellection in Early Stuart England. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 256. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-1988-4406-8.

Calhoun, Joshua. The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England. Material Texts. Series eds. Roger Chartier, Joseph Farrell, Anthony Grafton, Leah Price, Peter Stallybrass, and Michael F. Suarez, S. J. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 288. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-5189-0.

Cavanagh, Michael. Paradise Lost: A Primer. Ed. Scott Newstok. Washington DC: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2020 (paper only). Pp. 256. $29.95 paper. ISBN 978-08132-3246-1.

Cavendish, Margaret. Grounds of Natural Philosophy. Ed. Anne M. Thell. Broadview Editions. Series ed. Martin R. Boyne. Peterborough ON and Tonawanda NY: Broadview, 2020 (paper only). Pp. 264. $18.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-387-2.

Cramsie, John. British Travellers and the Encounter With Britain, 1450–1700. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political, and Social History 23. Series eds. Tim Harris, Stephen Taylor, and Andy Wood. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: Boydell and Brewer/D. S. Brewer, 2015. Pp. x + 558. $80.00. ISBN 978-1-78327-053-8.

Crocker, Holly A. The Matter of Virtue: Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 360. $89.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-5141-8.

Curran, Kevin, ed. Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 248. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-4808-6.

Daybell, James. Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. xvi + 336. $27.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-19-883097-9.

Donne, John. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Vol. 5: The Verse Letters. Gen. ed. Jeffrey S. Johnson. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. cxii + 1376. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-253-04403-7.

Duran, Angelica. Milton Among Spaniards. Early Modern Exchange. Series eds. Gary Ferguson and Meredith K. Ray. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press (distributed by Univ. of Virginia Press), 2020. Pp. 248. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-6445-3171-6.

Grant, Linda. Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry: Lascivious Poets. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 266. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-49386-4.

Gray, Erik. The Art of Love Poetry. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x + 214. $72.00. ISBN 978-0-19-875297-4.

Haan, Estelle, ed. and trans. John Milton Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and Uncollected Letters. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 44. Gen. Ed. Gilbert Tournoy. Leuven Belgium: Leuven Univ. Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. xx + 562. €90.00 paper. ISBN 978-94-6270-187-8.

Hicks, Michael. Richard III: The Self-Made King. Yale English Monarchs Series. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 420. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-21429-1.

Hyman, Wendy Beth. Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 210. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-19-883751-0.

King, Emily L. Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 176. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-3965-1.

Knapp, James A. Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Series ed. Kevin Curran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 440. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-5710-1.

Lecky, Katarzyna. Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance. Early Modern Literary Geographies. Gen. eds. Julie Sanders and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-1988-3469-4.

Mangham, Andrew, and Daniel Lea, eds. The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 72. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 252. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-78694-052-0.

McRae, Andrew, and Philip Schwyzer, eds. “Poly-Olbion”: New Perspectives. Studies in Renaissance Literature. Gen. eds. Raphael Lyne, Sean Keilen, Matthew Woodcock, and Jane Grogan. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: Boydell and Brewer/D. S. Brewer, 2020. Pp. 267. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-8438-4548-5.

Mills, Dan. Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature. Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 55. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 262. $140.00. ISBN 978-0367-42134-2.

Moshenska, Joe. Iconoclasm as Child’s Play. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 248. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9850-1.

Mudge, Bradford K. The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 276. $89.99 cloth. ISBN 978-1-107-18407-7. $29.99 paper. ISBN 978-1-316-63533-9.

Newstok, Scott. How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education. Skills for Scholars. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 200. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-6911-7708-3.

Nicholson, Catherine. Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 312. $95.00. ISBN 978-0691-17678-9.

Orlemanski, Julie. Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England. Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science. Series eds. Mary Thomas Crane and Henry S. Turner. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. x + 334. $69.95. ISBN 978-0812250909.

Poole, Kristen, and Owen Williams, eds. Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodization of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. x + 366. $79.95. ISBN 978-0812251524.

Ross, Ciaran, ed. Reading(s) / Across / Borders: Studies in Anglophone Borders Criticism. Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography, and Literature 33. Gen. ed. Christoph Ehland. Leiden NL and Boston: Brill Rodopi/Brill, 2020. Pp. 256. $126.00. ISBN 978-90-04-41787-8.

Ryzhik, Yulia, ed. Spenser and Donne: Thinking Poets. Manchester Spenser. Gen. eds. Joshua Reid, Kathryn Walls, and Tasmin Badcoe. Manchester UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 234. $90.30. ISBN 978-1-5261-1735-9.

Sanchez, Melissa E. Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition. Sexual Cultures. Gen. eds. Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers-Letson. Founding eds. José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 340. $99.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-4798-7187-2. $35.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-4798-4086-1.

Scott-Warren, Jason. Shakespeare’s First Reader: The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley. Material Texts. Series eds. Roger Chartier, Joseph Farrell, Anthony Grafton, Leah Price, Peter Stallybrass, and Michael F. Suarez, S. J. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. x + 332. $45.00. ISBN 978-0812251456.

Siemens, Raymond G., ed. The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 524; Renaissance English Text Society 39. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018. Pp. xvi + 176. $54.00. ISBN 978-0-86698-580-2.

Simonutti, Luisa, ed. Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics: Conscience and Scripture. International Archives of the History of Ideas 226. Founding eds. Paul Dibon and Richard H. Popkin. Cham CH: Springer, 2019. Pp. vi + 270. $119.99. ISBN 978-3-030-19901-2.

Sivefors, Per. Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603: “A Kingdom for a Man.” Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. Series eds. Harald E. Braun and Emily Michelson. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 162. $155.00. ISBN 978-0367-46351-9.

Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual 34 (2020). Gen. eds. William A. Oram, Susannah Brietz Monta, and Ayesha Ramachandran. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 242. $45.00. ISSN 0195-9468.

Teskey, Gordon. Spenserian Moments. Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 534. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-674-98844-6.

Trudell, Scott A. Unwritten Poetry: Song, Performance, and the Media in Early Modern England. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 258. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-19-883466-3.

Wegemer, Gerard B., and Stephen W. Smith, eds. The Essential Works of Thomas More. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xxviii + 1472. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-300-22337-8.