Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews
- Reviewing Information | Books Received for Review | Forthcoming Reviews -

Reviewing Information

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

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 Lisa Hopkins, the Associate Editor (Reviews), at L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, UK, S10 2BP.

Submission of Materials for Review

Materials for review may be sent to Lisa Hopkins, the Associate Editor (Reviews), at the above address. Please note that all unsolicited materials sent to EMLS for the purposes of review must be plainly marked with the word "Donation" on the front of the mailing cover.

Books Received for Review as of May 1998:

• Beer, Anna. Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Biester, James. Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.
• Bulman, James. Shakespeare: Theory and Performance. London: Routledge, 1995.
• Burnett, Mark Thornton. Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Combe, Kirk. A Martyr for Sin: Rochester’s Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Cox, John D., and David Scott Kastan, eds. A New History of Early English Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• Cox, John F. Much Ado About Nothing in Production. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Davis, Philip. Sudden Shakespeare: The Shaping of Shakespeare’s Creative Thought. London: Athlone P, 1996.
• De Grazia, Margreta, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass, eds. Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Demaray, John G. Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness: The Tempest and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998.
• Dillon, Janette. Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Fowler, Elizabeth and Roland Greene, eds. The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) The Worth of Women. Ed. Virginia Cox. Trans. Virginia Cox. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
• Forker, Charles R., ed. Richard II: The Critical Tradition. London: Athlone P, 1998.
• Garin, Eugenio, ed. Renaissance Characters. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
• Hale, John K. The Shakespeare of the Comedies. 2nd ed. Berlin: Peter Lang, 1997.
• Halpern, Richard. Shakespeare Among the Moderns. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.
• Henke, Robert. Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Hillman, Richard. Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Holland, Peter. English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.
• Honigmann, E.A.J. Myriad-Minded Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
• Innes, Paul. Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Jehlan, Myra and Michael Warner, eds. The English Literatures of America. New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Kamps, Ivo. Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Klein, Lisa M. The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Kronenfeld, Judy. King Lear and the Naked Truth. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
• Kuller Shuger, Debora. The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.
• Lewis, Cynthia. Particular Saints: Shakespeare’s Four Antonios, Their Contexts and Their Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Lieb, Michael. The Sinews of Ulysses: Form and Convention in Milton’s Works. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1989.
• Loxley, James. Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Lucking, David. Plays Upon the Word: Shakespeare’s Drama of Language. Lecce: Edizioni Milella, 1997.
• Mallette, Richard. Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
• Maquerlot, Jean-Pierre. Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition: A Reading of Five Problem Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
• Martin, Christopher. Policy in Love: Lyric and Public in Ovid, Petrarch and Shakespeare. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1994.
• McFarlane, Cameron. The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• Meagher, John C. Shakespeare’s Shakespeare: How the Plays were Made. New York: Continuum Books, 1997.
• Murray, Jacqueline, and Konrad Eisenbichler. Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
• Ogden, James, and Arthur H. Scouten, eds. Lear from Study to Stage: Essays in Criticism. Cranbury: Associated UP, 1997.
• Pacheco, Anita. Early Women Writers: 1600-1720. Harlow: Longman, 1998.
• Platt, Peter G. Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
• Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History. New York: Routledge, 1996.
• Reiss, Timothy. Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Rhodes, Neill, ed. English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, Politics. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1997.
• Rubik, Margarete. Early Women Dramatists 1550-1800. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
• Rumrich, John. Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpration. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Shakespeare, William. Edward III and The First Quarto of Hamlet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Shurgot, Michael W. Stages of Play: Shakespeare’s Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Smith, Hilda L. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Speziale-Bagliacca, Roberto. The King & the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytic and Literary Representation of King Lear and Madame Bovary. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
• Stanwood, Paul, ed. Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and his World. Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1995.
• Stanwood, Paul. Izaak Walton. New York: Twayne, 1998.
• Stewart, Alan. Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.
• Stewart, Stanley. "Renaissance" Talk. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1997.
• Traub, Valerie, M. Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan, eds. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Walker, Greg. Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith, and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII. Aldershot: Scolar P, 1996.
• Walker, Julia M. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
• Walton Williams, George. Shakespeare’s Speech Headings. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Warren, Austin. Becoming What One Is. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
• Wilcox, Helen, ed. Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Williams, Gordon. Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution. Atlantic Highlands: Athlone P, 1996.
• Worthen, W.B. Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Wright, C.J., ed. Sir Robert Cotton as Collector. London: The British Library, 1997.

Forthcoming Reviews:

• Albanese, Denise. New Science, New World. Durham: Duke UP, 1996.
• The Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies. Walton-on-Thames: Arden Shakespeare, 1997.
• Barnes, Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• Bath, Michael. Speaking Pictures: Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture. London: Longman, 1993.
• Beal, Peter, and Jeremy Griffiths, ed. English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. (Vol. 6) London: The British Library, 1997.
• Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.
• Bishop, T.G. Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Brown, Cedric C., and Arthur F. Marotti. Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Burns, Edward. Reading Rochester. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1996.
• Cable, Lana. Carnal Rhetoric: Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire. Durham: Duke UP, 1995.
• Cavendish, William. Dramatic Works by William Cavendish. Oxford: The Malone Society, 1996.
• Cereta, Laura. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
• Cheney, Patrick. Marlowe’s Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.
• Comensoli, Viviana. Household Business: Domestic Plays of Early Modern England. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
• Cook, Patrick J. Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition. Aldershot: Scolar P, 1996.
• Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
• Deats, Sara Munson. Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated UP, 1997.
• Diehl, Huston. Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.
• Doerksen, Daniel. Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne and the English Church before Laud. Cranbury, N.J.: Bucknell UP, 1997.
• Erickson, Wayne. Mapping The Faerie Queene: Quest Structures and the World of the Poem. New York: Garland, 1996.
• Fanshawe, Richard. The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe. Vol. 1. Ed. Peter Davidson. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1997.
• Farago, Claire, ed. Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1650 Yale: Yale UP, 1996.
• Grantley, Daryll and Peter Roberts. Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture. Aldershot: Scolar P, 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. Religio Medici: Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Aldershot: Scolar P, 1996.
• Hamilton, Donna B. and Richard Strier, eds. Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Harvey, P.D.A. Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
• Hillman, David and Carla Mazzio. The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
• James, Heather. Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Kelsey McColley, Diane. Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Maquerlot, Jean-Pierre and Michele Willems, eds. Travel and Drama in Shakespeare’s Time. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
• Marotti, Arthur. Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.
• Marrapodi, Michele. The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer. Yale: Yale UP, 1996.
• McRae, Andrew. God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England 1500-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Meagher, John C. Shakespeare’s Shakespeare: How the Plays were Made. New York: Continuum Books, 1997.
• Moore, Lisa M. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
• Parker, Douglas, ed. A Proper Dyaloge betwene a Gentillman and an Husbandman. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
• Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Pask, Kevin. The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Raymond, Joad. The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks 1641-1649. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996.
• Riddell, James A. and Stanley Stewart. Jonson’s Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1995.
• Shuger, Debora Kuller. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.
• Tebeaux, Elizabeth. The Emergence of a Tradition: Techincal Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood, 1997.
• Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. New Haven: Harvard UP, 1996.
• Wiseman, Susan. Drama and Politics in the English Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Woudhuysen, Henry. Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
• Yachnin, Paul. Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.

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