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The First French and English Translations of Sir Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’
Posted on March 30, 2013 | No CommentsAn investigation of the editions of the 'Utopia' of Sir Thomas More is an exciting subject in itself, but a comparison of the first French and English translations throws remarkable light upon the parallel developments of the two countries in Renaissance literary history. -
The house is hers, the soul is but a tenant’: Material Self-Fashioning and Revenge Tragedy
Posted on January 27, 2013 | No CommentsPlaying dead, however, is not merely a staging issue, though performance of a single character in two simultaneous but separate locations is a legitimate concern, both metaphysical and staging, since playing dead also poses eschatological and ontological challenges to neoplatonism, stoicism, and Christian theology, frameworks within which many Jacobean and revenge plays are conceived. -
Shakespeare’s Richard II: Machiavelli for the Good of England
Posted on December 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe name Machiavelli has negative connotations, and this way of thinking is not new. Throughout Europe, in Shakespeare’s time and earlier, Machiavellianism was associated with unscrupulous abuse of power, and Machiavellian methods were seen as immoral and evil. -
Hot Holiday Reads!
Posted on November 23, 2012 | No CommentsGreat reads & holiday ideas! -
Heinrich Bullinger and the Marian Exiles: The Political Foundations of Puritanism
Posted on October 7, 2012 | No CommentsIn this paper two fundamental issues related to the Reformed views on politics from the sixteenth century will be considered: Firstly, what the theoretical origin of these Reformed views were, and secondly, identifying the political basis for the views of the Huguenot theorists. -
The public life of Francis Bacon
Posted on September 20, 2012 | No CommentsFrancis Bacon was born on January 22, 1561, the youngest son of Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon, England’s highest judicial officer, said to have been the second “prop” of the Kingdom. -
An examination of interpretations of ghosts from the reformation to the close of the Seventeenth Century
Posted on August 19, 2012 | No CommentsAn examination of interpretations of ghosts from the reformation to the close of the Seventeenth Century. -
‘That Fiction of the Ganza’s’: Engraving and Authority in Early Modern Science
Posted on July 20, 2012 | No CommentsWhatisthis“fiction of the Ganza’s?”How did it persuade Wilkins that man might be able to fly “By the help of fowls?” On what authority did he base his claim? What enabled him to shift the status of this knowledge from the fictional to the probable? -
Buttressing a Monarchy: Literary Representations of William III and the Glorious Revolution
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsThe 1690s have been unfairly criticized as one of the dullest periods in English literature.i While the period lacks the euphoria of the years immediately following the Restoration, the literature in the years following William III’s ascension is anything but dull. As writers wrestled with the monumental changes to the English government brought about by the Glorious Revolution, they created a body of literature that significantly engages political issues and vibrantly expresses the varied conceptions of government circulating at the time. -
The importance of Charles Dickens in Victorian social reform
Posted on February 7, 2012 | No Comments...While the likes of Victorian thinkers such as Marx, Mill, Carlyle, and Ruskin to name but a few,formulated the ideas of and laid the groundwork for social reform in the 19th c., it was in reality men like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy who pointed out through their various novels, the abuses of the Industrial Age in Victorian England. -
Voltaire’s English alter-ego unmasked by new letters
Posted on February 2, 2012 | No Comments14 newly-discovered letters by Voltaire have allowed an Oxford University team to shed light on his brief but important time in England. Two of the new letters shed new light... -
Scripture versus Church in the Debate of More and Tyndale
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsWritten law was given to the people of Israel as their morals got generally corrupted and they became blind to understand the will of God, thus God gave them the Ten Commandements of his his mercy... -
Thomas More’s concept of kingship
Posted on January 2, 2012 | No CommentsIn this study, More's concept of kingship is discussed in terms of the Christian humanist views of authority and of the views developed by such Henricians as Thomas Cromwell and Christopher Saint Germain. -
Political Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering the Relationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsPolitical Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering theRelationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England Ridge, Steve (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London) Ex... -
The ”popular philosopher”: Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe ''popular philosopher'': Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics Mitsi, Efterpi Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Sixteenth-century arguments on the role of poetry reveal the ambiguous... -
“Thy temperance invincible”: Humanism in Book II of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Regained
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments"Thy temperance invincible": Humanism in Book II of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Regained Sung-Kyun, Yim Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1 (May 2003) Abstract This essay argues that Spenser and... -
Elizabeth Cary’s Mariam and the Critique of Pure Reason
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsElizabeth Cary's Mariam and the Critique of Pure Reason Hamlin, William M. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.1 (May 2003) Abstract Most discussions of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam have concentrated... -
Reflections on “Imitatio” as an Educational Ideal of English Humanism
Posted on January 1, 2010 | No CommentsReflections on "Imitatio" as an Educational Ideal of English Humanism Sunwoo, Jin Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. vol. 12 (2004 ) No. 1 Abstract This study of "imitatio" in... -
The Early Education of Queen Elizabeth I and her later translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae
Posted on January 1, 2010 | No CommentsThe Early Education of Queen Elizabeth I and her later translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae Medieval English Studies, vol. 10 (2002) No. 2 Abstract Popular biographies of Elizabeth I,...