{"title":"A World Well Lost?","authors":"P. Kewes","doi":"10.1086/706222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706222","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42030615","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}
{"title":"Renaissance Studies for A Different Time","authors":"Jean E. Howard","doi":"10.1086/706221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706221","url":null,"abstract":"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,","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45598092","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}
{"title":"Trencher Poetry: Non-Paper Literature, How it Means, and Why it’s Lost","authors":"Tiffany Stern","doi":"10.1086/706232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48756239","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}
{"title":"The Canon and Elizabeth Carter","authors":"L. C. Orlin","doi":"10.1086/706226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706226","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45497762","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}
{"title":"Bawdry, Cuckoldry, and Usury in Early Modernity and Postmodernity","authors":"D. Hawkes","doi":"10.1086/706220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706220","url":null,"abstract":"A mid themyriad tribulations of their professional lives, scholars of English Renaissance literature can take comfort from the knowledge that their specialist expertise is badly, even desperately, needed by contemporary society. The refusal of society’s regnant powers to acknowledge that fact only confirms it. The postmodern experience is irreducibly textual. Those best able to analyze, manipulate, and expound textuality are best equipped to understand the postmodern condition. It is their responsibility to evaluate in ethical terms the hegemony of performative representation, which is postmodernity’s definitive characteristic. The notion that ideal essences inform the appearances of senseperception seems eccentric today. The binary opposition between essence and appearance has been deconstructed, along with the polarities between substance and accident, matter and idea, subject and object. The dialectic of sign and referent has been displaced into the depthless differance of","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706220","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44660054","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}
{"title":"“What’s religion got to do with it?”","authors":"Achsah Guibbory","doi":"10.1086/706218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706218","url":null,"abstract":"E nglish Renaissance literary studies have flourished, thanks in large part to Arthur F. Kinney’s editorship of English Literary Renaissance, even in times when the literary has been taken over by other critical preoccupations. Arthur has always combined high standards, intellectual rigor, and generosity, especially in supporting young scholars.ELRwas born just as I was beginningmy career. It quickly became the premier journal inmy field, and one that I aspired to publish in, but it took me thirty years and two rejections to land an essay in ELR. There have beenmany changes in English Renaissance / EarlyModern Studies—for example, the concern with political history, women’s writing, gender, queer studies, and history of the book. There was also the field-changing “new historicism,” even though the new critics like Cleanth Brooks or later Arnold Stein assumed it was important to know the historical and intellectual contexts of Renaissance literature. Over the years historical scholarship has taken many shapes (I think of Douglas Bush, Rosalie Colie, Marjorie Hope Nicolson), and it might well be in the process of shape-shifting once again. I will return to this point at the end of this essay. My own work has been on seventeenth-century English prose and poetry rather than the sixteenth century or drama. I received my Ph.D. training at UCLA (home of the California Dryden project) where “seventeenth century” was a distinct field from “Renaissance.” Starting with my first scholarly publications, I was interested in ideas of history and temporality—unsurprising given the disruptions and destabilization caused by the EnglishCivilWar, right in themiddle of the seventeenth century. Perhaps the idea of revolutions drew me in. My first book, The Map of Time (1986), came out several years after Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance SelfFashioning (1980) and Jonathan Goldberg’s James I and the Politics of Literature (1983) had been published, and Louis Montrose’s important series of","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706218","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46871943","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}
{"title":"“Here at least / We shall be free”: The Places of English Renaissance Literature","authors":"Sharon Achinstein","doi":"10.1086/706212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706212","url":null,"abstract":"F lung far from his beloved vales of heaven, Satan takes possession of his infernal world: “Here wemay reign secure” (1.261). So the fallen rebel of Paradise Lost establishes his ownership of that location he now knows as hell, asserts his presence, indeed, his agency, “Here at least / We shall be free” (1.259–60). Deixis (“Here”) marks a frame, invites a spectator to come inside it. By its self-reflexivity, there is a potential for laying claim to agency, even calling attention to the act of asserting, as Heather Dubrow has shown. The space of the “here,” as Satan makes it, is immediately political: a space of freedom. Exile, refugee, migrant, settler, colonist: each a category of person to move across space to reach new, possibly permanent destinations. Domestic vagrancy on the one hand, long-distance international travel on the other: two distorting mirrors in which the Renaissance English saw themselves. Errands into the wilderness, pilgrimages, founders of a “City upon a Hill”: all those early modern motifs for experiencing forms of displacement and adherence to new political relations with those they left behind, with those they travelled with, and with local populations. Conveying fragments of older communities, developing as they detached from them, English Renaissance settlers occupied spaces caught between the originating world and the ones they were in the process of taking as their own. Theirs was a condition of ambivalence, fracture, and elasticity. Satan’s claims for freedom have come hard on the","PeriodicalId":44199,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/706212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44311138","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}