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Introduction: Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) 简介:露西·哈钦森(1620-1681)和玛格丽特·卡文迪什(1623-1673)

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/726097

Julie A. Crawford

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Volume 53 (2023) 第53卷(2023)

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/727482

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/727636

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Resurrection Reading: Margaret Cavendish Drafts the Afterlife 复活阅读：玛格丽特·卡文迪什起草《余生》

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724360

S. Richardson

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“To Please the Best, and th’Evill to Embase”: Slavery Logic in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book VI “取悦最好的人，让他们难堪”：斯宾塞《精灵奎恩》中的奴隶制逻辑，第六册

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724436

Kat Addis

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/725541

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“Hick scorners jestes”: Thomas Nashe, Martin’s Month’s Mind, and the Tudor Dramatic Tradition “希克蔑视者的玩笑”：托马斯·纳舍、马丁的月心与都铎戏剧传统

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724358

J. Ingram

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Ground-plots of Invention: Poetics of the Material and Difficult Thinking in The Faerie Queene 发明的背景:《仙后》中的材料诗学与难思

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724359

Namratha Rao

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“The Scope of Mine Intent”: Reading for the Author in George Gascoigne’s Hundreth Sundrie Flowres and Posies “我意图的范围”:乔治·加斯科因《百日花束》作者解读

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724357

Douglas S. Pfeiffer

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Recent Studies in Early Modern Conscience 近代早期良知研究近况

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ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/722733

Joshua R. Held

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