Renaissance Studies for A Different Time

IF 0.6 2区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1086/706221

Jean E. Howard

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M y contribution to this fiftieth anniversary celebration of the publication of English Literary Renaissance must begin with a shout out to Arthur F. Kinney whose energetic leadership of ELR and of the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies has contributed somuch to our field. I owe a special debt to Arthur for generously publishing my essay, “The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies,” in ELR in 1984. That decision gave my career a tremendous boost in the days when I was a fledgling in Renaissance studies, and Arthur repeated it many times over for other newcomers to the field. Those who take time from their own scholarship to edit top-tier journals deserve abundant thanks from all of us.Without them the scholarly conversations and the publishing opportunities we all rely onwould dwindle. So, thank you, Arthur, most sincerely. I am going to use my time in this short essay to write a little about the current state of Renaissance studies, but also about our discipline and American academia more broadly. I will write in a personal vein because in a few years I will be retiring frommy formal academic position and from many of the daily activities of mentoring, teaching, writing, and even administering that I have loved so dearly. Consequently, I have recently been thinking about the field as I have known it and as I see it taking new shapes around me. Let me start by saying that I was historically lucky to come into the academy as an Assistant Professor in 1975. As part of the wave of women carried into academia on the rising tide of feminist activism, I have all my career felt gratitude to the many people whose struggles made it possible for young women like me to teach, write, and do research at the university level, in my case first at Syracuse University and then at Columbia. As a young scholar, the critical excitement that overtook our field in the 1980s and 1990s was, moreover, positively intoxicating. Deconstruction, new historicism, Marxism, feminism, queer studies,

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不同时代的文艺复兴研究

我对《英国文艺复兴》出版五十周年庆典的贡献必须首先向Arthur F.Kinney致敬，他对ELR和Arthur F.Kinney跨学科文艺复兴研究中心的积极领导为我们的领域做出了巨大贡献。我特别感谢亚瑟于1984年在ELR上慷慨发表了我的文章《文艺复兴研究中的新历史主义》。当我还是文艺复兴时期研究的新手时，这个决定给我的职业生涯带来了巨大的推动，亚瑟为该领域的其他新人重复了很多次。那些从自己的奖学金中抽出时间编辑顶级期刊的人应该得到我们所有人的充分感谢。如果没有他们，我们所依赖的学术对话和出版机会就会减少。所以，非常真诚地感谢你，亚瑟。我将利用我在这篇短文中的时间，写一点关于文艺复兴研究的现状，也写一点我们的学科和更广泛的美国学术界。我将以个人风格写作，因为几年后我将从正式的学术职位上退休，也将从我深爱的许多日常辅导、教学、写作甚至管理活动中退休。因此，我最近一直在思考我所知道的这个领域，以及我所看到的它在我周围形成的新形状。让我首先说，我在1975年作为助理教授进入学院是历史上的幸运。作为女权主义激进主义浪潮中进入学术界的女性浪潮的一部分，我在整个职业生涯中都对许多人心存感激，他们的奋斗使像我这样的年轻女性能够在大学层面上教书、写作和做研究，我先是在雪城大学，然后在哥伦比亚大学。作为一名年轻的学者，在20世纪80年代和90年代，我们这个领域充满了批判性的兴奋，而且令人陶醉。解构主义，新历史主义，马克思主义，女权主义，酷儿研究，

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期刊介绍： English Literary Renaissance is a journal devoted to current criticism and scholarship of Tudor and early Stuart English literature, 1485-1665, including Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, and Milton. It is unique in featuring the publication of rare texts and newly discovered manuscripts of the period and current annotated bibliographies of work in the field. It is illustrated with contemporary woodcuts and engravings of Renaissance England and Europe.