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A Proof of Pleasure: Renaissance in Rancière, Auerbach, Marlowe 快乐的证明：朗西埃、奥尔巴赫、马洛笔下的文艺复兴

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/728000

Christopher Warley

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Sidney’s Penetrations: Metaphors and Ideas 西德尼的穿透力隐喻与思想

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/727996

Matthew P. Harrison

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Lucy Hutchinson’s Everyday War: The 1640s Manuscript and her Restoration ‘Elegies’ 露西-哈钦森的日常战争：16 世纪 40 年代的手稿和她的复辟 "悼词

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/727999

Catharine Gray

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Margaret Russell, Countess of Cumberland’s Letter to John Layfield: Composing Grief through Consolation and Lamentation 坎伯兰伯爵夫人玛格丽特-拉塞尔写给约翰-雷菲尔德的信：通过安慰和哀悼谱写悲伤

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/727997

Jessica L. Malay

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“Noe dish whose tast, or dressing, is unknown / Unto oʳ natives”: Local and Global Material Cultures in the Food Rituals of Thomas Salusbury’s 1634 “Chirk Castle Entertainment” "没有一道菜的味道或调味不为当地人所知"：托马斯-萨卢斯伯里 1634 年创作的 "奇尔克城堡娱乐 "中食物仪式的地方和全球物质文化

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/727998

Rebecca A. Bailey

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“transeant Things”: Materialism and Mortality in the Lyrics of Lucy Hutchinson and Margaret Cavendish “短暂的事物”:露西·哈钦森和玛格丽特·卡文迪什歌词中的物质主义与死亡

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/726101

J. Hock

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Singular Modes: The Politics of Dress in Cavendish, Evelyn, and Hutchinson 单一模式:卡文迪什、伊夫林和哈钦森的服装政治

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/726099

Katharine Landers

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Margaret Cavendish Reads Josuah Sylvester: Epicurus, Atheism, and Atomic Skepticism in Poems, and Fancies Margaret Cavendish阅读Josuah Sylvester：诗歌和幻想中的伊壁鸠鲁、无神论和原子怀疑主义

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/726100

J. Begley

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Lucy Hutchinson’s and Margaret Cavendish’s Petitionary Lives 露西·哈钦森和玛格丽特·卡文迪什的请愿生活

IF 0.3 2区文学

ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/726098

Laura De Furio

{"title":"Lucy Hutchinson’s and Margaret Cavendish’s Petitionary Lives","authors":"Laura De Furio","doi":"10.1086/726098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726098","url":null,"abstract":"Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson used similar generic strategies, borrowed from the mid-century petition, when composing biographies of their husbands, The Life of William Cavendish and Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. While both authors use their prefaces to frame their biographies as dispassionate recitations of historical fact, rather than defending a purely documentary regime, such pronouncements obliquely prompt readers to search for deviations from the authors’ biographic agendas. This essay will argue that Cavendish and Hutchinson used the biographies of their husbands to disguise and promote political critiques that ultimately reveal the autocratic impulses of Charles II in the early years of the Restoration. Such critiques, I propose, are grounded in the complementary self-presentations of the authors. Informed by their common experience as petitioners of unfriendly bureaucracies, Cavendish and Hutchinson style themselves as advocates for constitutional monarchy and particularly the preservation of rights and privileges due to English citizens. Finally, by examining the intersection of biography and autobiography, petition and legal testimony, this essay challenges the scholarly tendency to assign highly gendered critical frameworks to Memoirs and Life of William, which are more likely to be described as wifely romances than as political treatises. [L.D.F.]","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44144686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Non-Atomic Atomisms and Atomic Epistemologies in the Poetry of Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson 玛格丽特·卡文迪许和露西·哈钦森诗歌中的非原子主义与原子认识论

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/726202

Liza Blake

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