Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995-2000

Introduction

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies is a series of book-length, compendium reflections on issues pertinent to the field of early modern literary studies published, begun, or contracted 1995-2000 while the journal Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS)—among the very first electronic journals in the Humanities worldwide, and like those other pioneering efforts also what we now would refer to as open access—was founded and edited by Ray Siemens at the University of British Columbia and later U Alberta. Subsequent editors include Lisa Hopkins at Sheffield Hallam U, Matthew Steggle at Sheffield Hallam U and later U Bristol, and now Daniel Cadman at Sheffield Hallam U.

Early prefatory statements and forewords are found via the link below, and speak in situ to elements of the vibrant intellectual, professional, and technologically-facilitated impulses that came together across a large team of like-minded collaborators to bring EMLS to life and to keep it moving forward across many changes in the academic fields it has served and continues to serve, the underlying internet-related technologies that that have supported it, and the emerging and evolving platforms that have distributed it.

A full XML version of the regular issues' contents for this period is found via the link at the bottom of this contents' page, work led by Kathryn Harvey (then U Alberta, now U Guelph) and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Conversion into Wikibooks has been painstakingly carried out by Tim Sobie (U Victoria), who was among the first to notice that some of the content of these earlier issues were seeing decay, in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) under the direction of Ray Siemens.

Materials represented here in Wikibooks will also be available in print form by PediaPress, via nearby links as well.

• Editor's Forewords From Early Issues (Raymond G. Siemens, University of British Columbia)

Table of Contents

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995

• Skelton and Barclay, Medieval and Modern (David R. Carlson, University of Ottawa)
• King Lear in Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes (Ben Ross Schneider, Jr. Lawrence University)
• "This innocent worke": Adam and Eve, John Smith, William Wood and the North American Plantations (Graham Roebuck, McMaster University)
• Milton and the Jacobean Church of England (Daniel W. Doerksen, University of New Brunswick)
• The Texts of Troilus and Cressida (W.L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati)
• "Not Onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also": George Herbert's Vision of Stuart Magistracy (Jeffrey Powers-Beck, East Tennessee State University)
• From Book to Screen: A Window on Renaissance Electronic Texts (Michael Best, University of Victoria)
• Marking his Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation (Sara van den Berg, University of Washington, Seattle)
• Protocols of Reading: Milton and Biography (J. Michael Vinovich, University of Toronto)
• Shifting Signs: Increase Mather and the Comets of 1680 and 1682 (Andrew P. Williams, North Carolina Central University)

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1996

• Critical Shakespeare (Joanne Woolway, Oriel College, Oxford)
• Personations: The Taming of the Shrew and the Limits of Theoretical Criticism (Paul Yachnin, University of British Columbia)
• The Madness of Syracusan Antipholus (Robert Viking O'Brien, California State University, Chico)
• "The price of one fair word": Negotiating Names in Coriolanus (David Lucking, University of Lecce, Italy)
• Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther (Steve Sohmer)
• "And shall I die, and this unconquered?": Marlowe's Inverted Colonialism (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University)
• New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture (Margaret Downs-Gamble, Virginia Tech)
• England as Israel in Milton's Writings (John K. Hale, University of Otago)
• Popular Hermeneutics: Monstrous Children in English Renaissance Broadside Ballads (Helaine Razovsky, Northwestern State University)
• Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612 (Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta)
• "Ay me": Selfishness and Empathy in "Lycidas" (Jean E. Graham, The College of New Jersey)

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1997

• "That purpose which is plain and easy to be understood": Using the Computer Database of Early Modern English Dictionaries to Resolve Problems in a Critical Edition of The Second Tome of Homilies (1563) (Stephen Buick, University of Toronto)
• Renaissance Dictionaries and Shakespeare's Language: A Study of Word-meaning in Troilus and Cressida (Mark Catt, University of Toronto)
• Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English? (Mary Catherine Davidson, University of Toronto)
• An English Renaissance Understanding of the Word "Tragedy", 1587-1616 (Tanya Hagen, University of Toronto)
• Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andonicus and the EMEDD (Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto)
• Reflections of an Electronic Scribe: Two Renaissance Dictionaries and Their Implicit Philosophies of Language (Jonathan Warren, University of Toronto)
• "A Double Spirit of Teaching": What Shakespeare's Teachers Teach Us (Patricia Winson, University of Toronto)
• 12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe (Steve Sohmer)
• Isabella Whitney's "Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith" (Randall Martin, University of New Brunswick)
• Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle (Emma Roth-Schwartz)
• Marlowe, Edward II, and the Cult of Elizabeth (Dennis Kay, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
• The Poetic Nocturne: From Ancient Motif to Renaissance Genre (Chris Fitter, Rutgers University, Camden)

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1998

• The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium (Michael Best, University of Victoria)
• 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)
• Literature and Geography (Richard Helgerson, UC Santa Barbara)
• "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)

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1999

• Shakespeare and the Politics of Community (Ian Ward, University of Dundee)
• A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" in The Merchant of Venice (Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College)
• The (Self)-Fashioning of Ezekiel Edgworth in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair (Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta)
• The Centre of Attention: Theatricality and the Restoration Fop (Andrew P. Williams, North Carolina Central University)
• Lives of Devotion: The Correspondence of Isaac Basire and Frances Corbett: 1635-1660 (Paul G. Stanwood, University of British Columbia)
• "[B]egot between tirewomen and tailors": Commodified Self-Fashioning in Michaelmas Term (Mathew Martin, University of Alberta)
• National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest (Allen Carey-Webb, Western Michigan University)
• The Laureate Dunce and the Death of the Panegyric (Peter F. Heaney, Staffordshire University)
• Alarums and Defeats: Henry VI on Tour (Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire)
• The Lunar Calendar of Shakespeare's King Lear (Steve Sohmer, Lincoln College, Oxford)
• "In this dark world and wide": Samson Agnoistes and the Meaning of Christian Heroism (Carol Barton, Averett College)
• Narrative and the Forms of Desire in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis (Gary Kuchar, McMaster University)
• Utopia and the 'Pacific Rim': the Cartographical Evidence (Romuald I. Lakowski, University of British Columbia)

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 2000

• Renaissance Literary Studies and Humanities Computing: Introduction (David R. Shore, University of Toronto, and R.G. Siemens, Malaspina University College)
• Iter: Where Does the Path Lead? (William R. Bowen, University of Toronto)
• A Study of Early Music on CD-ROM (Susan Forscher Weiss and Ichiro Fujinaga, The Peabody Conservatory)
• The Janus-Face of Early Modern Literary Studies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Interactivity in an Electronic Journal for the Humanities (Paul Dyck, University of Alberta, and R.G. Siemens, Malaspina Univeristy College; Jennifer Lewin, Yale University, and Joanne Woolway Grenfell, Oriel College, Oxford)
• Reinventing Rare Books: The "Virtual Furness Shakespeare Library" at the University of Pennsylvania (Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania)
• The Web and the Book: The Memorial Electronic Edition of Andrea Alciato's Book of Emblems (Mark Feltham, University of Western Ontario, and William Barker, Memorial University)
• "How shall I measure out thy bloud?", or, "Weening is not measure": TACT, Herbert, and Sacramental Devotion in the Electronic Temple (Robert Whalen, University of Toronto)
• Hell and Hypertext Hath No Limits: Electronic Texts and the Crises in Criticism (Hilary J. Binda, Tufts University)
• Shakespeare on Screen: Threshold Aesthetics in Oliver Parker's Othello (Patricia Dorval, Université Paul Valéry)
• Making Mother Matter: Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of "Reading Psychoanalysis Into" Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (Courtney Lehmann, University of the Pacific, and Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida)
• Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet (Sarah Hatchuel, University of Paris IV Sorbonne)

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 2001

• Wrestling with God: Introduction (Mary Ellen Henley, University of British Columbia)
• Donne, Herbert, and the Worm of Controversy (Louis L. Martz, Yale University)
• "The Virtue and Discipline" of Wrestling with God [Henry Vaughan and Lord Herbert of Cherbury] (John T. Shawcross, University of Kentucky)
• The Core of Elizabethan Religion (John E. Booty, Historiographer of the Episcopal Church, USA)
• W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s A Funeral Elegy and the Donnean Moment (Claude J. Summers, University of Michigan-Dearborn)
• The Devotional Flames of William Austin (Graham Parry, University of York)
• John Donne's "Lamentations" and Christopher Fetherstone's Lamentations . . . in prose and meeter (1587) (Ted-Larry Pebworth, University of Michigan-Dearborn)
• "The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives (William F. Blissett, University College, University of Toronto)
• "I launch at paradise and saile toward home": The Progresse of the Soule as Palinode (Wyman H. Herendeen, University of Houston)
• "I have often such a sickly inclination": Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos (R. G. Siemens, Malaspina University-College)
• "Witness this Booke, (thy Embleme)": Donne's Holy Sonnets and Biography (Diana Treviño Benet, New York University)
• Trumpet Vibrations: Theological Reflections on Donne's Doomsday Sonnet (G. Richmond Bridge, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, New Smyrna Beach, Florida)
• Donne and Britten: Holy Sonnets Set to Music (Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria)
• The Rituals of Presence in Paradise Regained (Ken Simpson, University College of the Cariboo)
• Renaissance Copresences in Romantic Verse (Lee M. Johnson, University of British Columbia)
• Martyrs or Malignants? Some Nineteenth-centry Portrayals of Elizabethan Catholics (Kathleen Grant Jaeger, University of King's College, Halifax)

Additional Material

• EMLS XML material (via GitHub)