EMLS invites reviews of recent scholarly
works--critical editions, commentaries, and theoretical,
historical, literary, or interdisciplinary criticism which
centres on sixteenth- or seventeenth-century English or related
literary culture. We also encourage reports of all resources
which are relevant to literary studies of the period, including
those available exclusively in the electronic medium.
Our aim is to publish reviews of a consistently high standard,
which are both engaging and critically fair, written by a broad
range of people at different stages of their academic careers
with varied disciplinary backgrounds.
Requests to review books listed below, or proposals for
reviews of other new titles, together with a brief description of
reviewers' academic qualifications, publications or research
interests should be sent to the Review Editor at Review_Editor_EMLS@arts.ubc.ca.
Books ordered or received for review as of May 1997:
Albanese, Denise. New Science, New World.
Durham: Duke UP, 1996.
Alexander, Robert J. ed. Somerset. Records
of Early English Drama. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
Bishop, T.G. Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Blank, Paula. Broken English: Dialects and the
Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. New
York: Routledge, 1996.
Breight, Curtis C. Surveillance, Militarism and
Drama in the Elizabethan Era. New York: St.
Martin's, 1995.
Bulman, James, ed. Shakespeare, Theory and
Performance. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Comensoli, Viviana. Household Business: Domestic
Plays of Early Modern England. Toronto: U of
Toronto P, 1996.
Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual,
Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
De Grazia, Margreta, Maureen Quilligan and Peter
Stallybrass, eds. Subject and Object in Renaissance
Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Jardine, Lisa. Reading Shakespeare Historically.
New York: Routledge,1996.
Jehlan, Myra and Michael Warner, eds. The English
Literatures of America. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Joughin, John. Shakespeare and National Culture.
Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997.
Maquerlot, Jean-Pierre. Shakespeare and the
Mannerist Tradition: A Reading of Five Problem Plays.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Maquerlot, Jean-Pierre and Michele Willems, eds. Travel
& Drama in Shakespeare's Time. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1996.
McEachern, Claire. The Poetics of English
Nationhood: 1590-1612. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1996.
Owens, W. R. and Lizbeth Goodman. Shakespeare,
Aphra Behn and the Canon. New York: Routledge,
1996.
Pask, Kevin. The Emergence of the English Author:
Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History. New
York: Routledge, 1996.
Raymond, Joad. The Invention of the Newspaper:
English Newsbooks 1641-1649. Oxford: Clarendon,
1996.
Rogers, John. The Matter of Revolution: Science,
Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, 1996.
Tracy, James D. Erasmus of the Low Countries.
Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
Traub, Valerie, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan, eds.
Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging
Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Thompson, Ann and Sasha Roberts, eds. Women Reading
Shakespeare, 1600-1900: An Anthology of Criticism.
Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997.
Todd, Margo, ed. Reformation to Revolution:
Politics and Religion in Early Modern England. New
York: Routledge, 1994.
Wilcox, Helen, ed. Women and Literature in Britain:
1500-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Forthcoming Reviews:
Burns, Edward, ed. Reading Rochester. New
York: St. Martin's, 1995.
Chernaik, Warren. Sexual Freedom in Restoration
Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Donne, John. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of
John Donne, Vol. 8. The Epigrams, Epithalamions,
Epitaphs, Inscriptions and Miscellaneous Poems.
General Editor, Gary A. Stringer, Volume commentary,
William A.McClung. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
UP, 1995.
Dutton, Richard. Ben Jonson: Criticism, Authority,
Authorship. New York: Macmillan, 1995.
Erickson, Wayne. Mapping the Faerie Queene: Quest
Structures and the World of the Poem. New York:
Garland, 1996.
Farago, Claire, ed. Reframing the Renaissance:
Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America. 1450-1650.
Yale: Yale UP, 1996.
Green, Ian. The Christian's ABC. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 1996.
Gregerson, Linda. The Reformation of the Subject:
Spenser, Milton,and the English Protestant Epic.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Grell, Ole Peter and Andrew Cunningham, eds. Religio
Medici: Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth Century
England. Brookfield, VT: Scolar P, 1996.
Hamilton, Donna B., and Richard Strier, eds. Religion,
Literature,and Politics in Post-Reformation England.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Holmer, Joan Ozark. The Merchant of Venice: Choice,
Hazard and Consequences. New York: St. Martin's,
1995.
Howarth, David. Images of Rule: A Social and
Political Analysis of Eng lish Renaissance Art.
New York: Macmillan, 1995.
Maley, Willy. Edmund Spenser and Cultural Identity
in Early Modern Ireland. New York: Macmillan,
1995.
Marotti, Arthur. Manuscript, Print and the English
Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.
McRae, Andrew. God Speed the Plough: the
Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Montrose, Louis. The Purpose of Playing:
Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan
Theatre. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.
