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Archive for December, 2009
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Britomartis’ Heroic Love in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book 3
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsBritomartis’ Heroic Love in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book 3 Kim, Hoyoung Medieval English Studies, vol. 9 (2001) No. 1 Abstract Each book of The Faerie Queene is not a... -
Googe Is Scrooge: Barnaby Googe and Poetic Asceticism
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsGooge Is Scrooge: Barnaby Googe and Poetic Asceticism Hong, Kyongjoo Medieval English Studies, vol. 8 (2000) Abstract When we examine the tradition of Renaissance poetry in England, our attention diverges... -
The Rhetoric of Mortality: Elizabeth I’s Use of Death
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe Rhetoric of Mortality: Elizabeth I’s Use of Death Tesdal, Luke Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract This paper examines Elizabeth I’s use of death in her rhetoric. Built... -
Elizabeth’s Symbolic Marriage to England: A History of Lasting Union
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsElizabeth’s Symbolic Marriage to England: A History of Lasting Union Hall, Jill M. Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract This paper examines the rhetoric of Elizabeth’s speech about entering... -
Marlowe’s Tribute to His Queen in Dido, Queen of Carthage
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsMarlowe’s Tribute to His Queen in Dido, Queen of Carthage Caro-Barnes, Jennifer M. Early English Studies, vol.1 (2007) Abstract Christopher Marlowe’s title character in The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of... -
Authorized Discourse at the Kenilworth Entertainments
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsAuthorized Discourse at the Kenilworth Entertainments Sterrantino, Joy Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract Much has been written on Queen Elizabeth I as the Virgin Queen, the scorner of... -
The End Is Not Yet: Monarchy, Choice, and the Problematic Binaries of Representation
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe End Is Not Yet: Monarchy, Choice, and the Problematic Binaries of Representation Rogers, William Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract Ten years before the publication of Edmund Spenser’s... -
Reflections: Spenser, Elizabeth I, and Mirror Literature
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsReflections: Spenser, Elizabeth I, and Mirror Literature Dark, Rebecca Early English Studies, vol. 1 (2007) Abstract In Book Three of Spenser’s Faerie Queen frequently, the magical mirror in which Britomart... -
Victorian poets brought Manchester to the brink
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsA little known period when Manchester and North West England edged to the brink of revolution has been brought to life through the poetry of the rebels. In a book... -
Neurotic Ulsterman gives rich slice of eighteenth century life
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsAn investigation into the life of an obscure but energetic eighteenth century Ulsterman has provided a vivid insight into early Hanoverian Britain. Among Sir James Caldwell’s papers are letters from... -
Scientists ‘virtually restore’ 16th century tapestry at Hampton Court Palace
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsScientists from the University of Manchester have turned back the clock 500 years – to reveal the original splendour of a faded 16th century tapestry. Professor Chris Carr, Dr. Huw Owens and... -
Private papers reveal ‘Who’s Who of British Science’
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsOne of the most important archives of nineteenth-century science – stored in obscurity for over 100 years – has been reunited and acquired by the John Rylands University Library at... -
Dickensian Christmas dreamt up by marketers, says historian
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsThe idealised picture of a Dickensian Christmas, where contented families innocently played parlour games by a twinkling Christmas tree is a misleading invention of marketers, according to new research. Historian... -
Still in a Victorian world?
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsA major international conference which asks whether the Victorian legacy was so powerful that we are still living in a Victorian world was held at Cambridge University earlier this summer.... -
The Chameleon’s Dish: Shakespeare and the Omnivore’s Dilemma
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsThe Chameleon’s Dish: Shakespeare and the Omnivore’s Dilemma Borlik, Todd A. Early English Studies, vol. 2 (2008) Abstract This essay situates Shakespeare’s Hamlet within the emergent discourse of ethical vegetarianism... -
Appetite and Ambition: The Influence of Hunger in Macbeth
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsAppetite and Ambition: The Influence of Hunger in Macbeth Knowles, Katherine Early English Studies, vol. 2 (2008) Abstract This article examines the prevalence of food and food-related imagery in Macbeth,... -
Digesting Falstaff: Food and Nation in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsDigesting Falstaff: Food and Nation in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays Fisher, Joshua B. Early English Studies, vol. 2 (2008) Abstract This article examines Falstaff’s culinary excesses in Shakespeare’s Henry IV... -
For Knowledge Is As Food: Digesting Gluttony and Temperance in Paradise Lost
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsFor Knowledge Is As Food: Digesting Gluttony and Temperance in Paradise Lost Speller, Emily E. Early English Studies, vol. 2 (2008) Abstract In his Commonplace Book, the young John Milton... -
Caesar’s Same-Sex-Food-Sex Dilemma
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsCaesar’s Same-Sex-Food-Sex Dilemma Lipscomb, Robert Early English Studies, vol. 2 (2008) Abstract Often disjointed, temporally inconsistent, and metaphorically mixed, Shakespeare’s sprawling Antony and Cleopatra frequently challenges as much as it... -
Restoring the Royal Household: Royalist Politics and the Commonwealth Recipe Book
Posted on December 29, 2009 | No CommentsRestoring the Royal Household:Royalist Politics and the Commonwealth Recipe Book Bassnett, Madeline Early English Studies, vol. 2 (2008) Abstract Food discourse was a polemical tool used by both royalists and... -
Digital versions of two musical manuscripts released online
Posted on December 20, 2009 | No CommentsDigital versions of Handel’s Messiah and My Ladye Nevells Booke – a unique 16th-century volume of keyboard music by William Byrd, was launched online by the British Library at: www.bl.uk/turningthepages.... -
Shakespeare’s Henry V & the Geneva Bible
Posted on December 19, 2009 | No CommentsShakespeare’s Henry V & the Geneva Bible Knoepfle, John Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 6 (1989) Abstract Shakespeare in Henry V sculpts the character of the king, the French nobles,... -
The Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London
Posted on December 17, 2009 | No CommentsThe Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London By R.B. Shoemaker Journal of British Studies, Vol.47:3 (2008) Introduction: The Proceedings of the Old... -
The politics of London air : John Evelyn’s ‘Fumifugium’ and the Restoration
Posted on December 17, 2009 | No CommentsThe politics of London air : John Evelyn’s ‘Fumifugium’ and the Restoration By Mark Jenner The Historical Journal, Vol.38:3 (1995) Abstract: Historians have commonly described John Evelyn’s pamphlet about London... -
United Kingdom prevents its historical treasures from being exported abroad
Posted on December 16, 2009 | No CommentsVintage dresses, a naval explorer’s journal, a rare musical manuscript and a regulator clock are some of the outstanding cultural objects which have recently been saved by the British Government... -
Belonging to Britain
Posted on December 9, 2009 | No CommentsIn her lecture, “Belonging to Britain”, Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave trade in Bristol and the complex question...