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 January 2000:

• Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Amelang, James S. The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.
• Amussen, Susan D., and Adele Seeff. Attending to Early Modern Women. Newark, U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Baker, David. Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
• Barbour, Reid. English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.
• Bawcutt, Patricia, Ed. The Poems of William Dunbar (2 vols). Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999.
• Bell, Rudolph M. How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
• Bowers, Rick, ed. Thomas Phaer and the Boke of Chyldren (1544). Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1999.
• Brown, Richard Danson. "The New Poet": Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1999.
• Dillon, Janette. Theatre, Court and City 1595-1610. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• Dobranski, Stephen B., and John P. Rumrich. Milton and Heresy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Ezell, Margaret J.M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• Findlay, Alison. A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
• Finucci, Valeria, ed. Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1999.
• Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo). The Worth of Women. Ed. and trans. Virginia Cox. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
• Forker, Charles R., ed. Richard II: The Critical Tradition. London: Athlone P, 1998.
• Garber, Marjorie. Coming of Age in Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 1997.
• Garin, Eugenio, ed. Renaissance Characters. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.
• Guthke, Karl S. The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Hale, John K. The Shakespeare of the Comedies. 2nd ed. Berlin: Peter Lang, 1997.
• Halpern, Richard. Shakespeare Among the Moderns. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.
• Herman, Peter C. Squitter-wits and Muse-haters. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.
• Herman, Peter C., ed. Opening the Borders: Inclusivity in Early Modern Studies. Essays in Honor of James V. Mirollo. Newark and London: U of Delaware P, Associated UP, 1999.
• Hillman, Richard. Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Hodgdon, Barbara. The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998.
• Honigmann, E.A.J. Myriad-Minded Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
• Innes, Paul. Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
• Kennedy, Judith M. and Richard F. A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Critical Tradition. London: Athlone P, 1999.
• Kerrigan, William. Shakespeare's Promises. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1888.
• Kiernan, Pauline. Shakespeare's Theory of Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Kolbrener, William. Milton's Warring Angels. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Krier, Theresa M. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.
• Leinwand, Theodore B. Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Loomba, Ania, and Martin Orkin, eds. Post-Colonial Shakespeares. London: Routledge, 1998.
• Madelaine, Richard, ed. Shakespeare in Production: Antony and Cleopatra. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Mallette, Richard. Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
• Martin, Catherine Gimelli. The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention. Duke: Duke UP, 1998.
• McFarlane, Cameron. The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• McJannet, Linda. The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1999.
• Minois, George. History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture. Trans Lydia G. Cochrane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• Murphy, Andrew. But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism and Renaissance Literature. Kentucky: U of Kentucky P, 1999.
• Norton, Glyn P., Ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol III: The Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Nuttall, A.D. The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998.
• Ogden, James, and Arthur H. Scouten, eds. Lear from Study to Stage: Essays in Criticism. Cranbury: Associated UP, 1997.
• Peele, George. King Edward the First and David and Bethsabe. Ed. George K. Dreher. Iron Horse Free P, 1999.
• Potter, Lois, ed. Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Rhodes, Neill, ed. English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, Politics. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1997.
• Rumrich, John. Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpration. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Sanders, Eve Rachele. Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Sessions, W.A. Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
• Sharp, Jane. The Midwives Book or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered. Ed. Elaine Hobby. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
• Shifflett, Andrew. Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Shulman, James Lawrence. "The Pale Cast of Thought:" Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Shurgot, Michael W. Stages of Play: Shakespeare's Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Smith, Molly. Breaking Boundaries: politics and play in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
• Snyder, Susan. Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton. 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. Izaak Walton. New York: Twayne, 1998.
• Stephens, Dorothy. The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• 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.
• Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret. Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Williams, George Walton. Shakespeare's Speech Headings. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Warren, Austin. Becoming What One Is. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
• White, Martin. Renaissance Drama in Action. London: Routledge, 1998.
• Williams, Andrew P., ed. The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature: Viewing the Male. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1999.

Forthcoming Reviews:

• Adams, Alison, Stephen Rawles and Alison Saunders. A Bibliography of French Emblem Books. Geneva: Droz, 1999.
• Aggeler, Geoffrey. Nobler in the Mind: The Stoic-Skeptic Dialogue in English Renaissance Tragedy. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Albanese, Denise. New Science, New World. Durham: Duke UP, 1996.
• Barnes, Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• Battigelli, Anna. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. Lexington: Kentucky UP, 1998.
• Bell, Ilona. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation. New York: Routledge, 1997.
• Burt, Richard. Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares. New York: St Martin's P, 1998.
• Cavendish, Margaret. The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• Corthell, Ronald. Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
• Cox, John F. Much Ado About Nothing in Production. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Cox, John D., and David Scott Kastan, eds. A New History of Early English Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
• Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
• 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.
• Doerksen, Daniel. Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne and the English Church before Laud. Cranbury, N.J.: Bucknell UP, 1997.
• Findlay, Alison. A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
• Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
• Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Henke, Robert. Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
• Honan, Park. Shakespeare: A Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.
• 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.
• Leslie, Marina. Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP 1999.
• Lim, Walter H. The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Lock, Anne Vaughan. The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock. Ed. Susan M. Felch. Tempe, AZ: Renaissance English Text Society / Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1999.
• Locke, Anne. Meditations of a Penitent Sinner. Ed. Kel Morin. Waterloo, Ont.: North Waterloo Academic P, 1998.
• Loveridge, Mark. A History of Augustan Fable. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Luborsky, Ruth Samson, and Elizabeth Morely Ingram. A Guide to English Illustrated Books 1536-1603. Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1998.
• Lucking, David. Plays Upon the Word: Shakespeare's Drama of Language. Lecce: Edizioni Milella, 1997.
• MacLean, Gerald, Donna Landry, and Joseph P. Ward, Eds. The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Maguire, Laurie E. and Thomas L. Berger. Textual Formations and Reformations. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Marrapodi, Michele. The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Matar, Nabil. Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. New York: Columbia UP, 1999.
• McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen's Men and Their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Meagher, John C. Shakespeare's Shakespeare: How the Plays were Made. New York: Continuum Books, 1997.
• Mikalachki, Jodi. The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 1998.
• Moore, Lisa M. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
• Murray, Jacqueline, and Konrad Eisenbichler. Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.
• Pacheco, Anita. Early Women Writers: 1600-1720. Harlow: Longman, 1998.
• Parfenov, Alexandr, and Joseph G. Price, eds. Russian Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Parker, Kenneth, ed. Early Modern Tales of Orient. London: Routledge, 1999.
• Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Platt, Peter G. Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
• Reiss, Timothy. Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997
• Rubik, Margarete. Early Women Dramatists 1550-1800. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
• Schoenfeldt, Michael C. Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert and Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
• Shakespeare, William. Edward III and The First Quarto of Hamlet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Stewart, Alan. Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.
• Summers, Claude J. and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Representing Women in Renaissance England. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1997.
• Talvacchia, Bette. Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.
• Tebeaux, Elizabeth. The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood, 1997.
• Walker, Julia M. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
• Walker, Julia M. Medusa's Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Metamorphosis of the Female Self. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998.
• Wiseman, Susan. Drama and Politics in the English Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
• Yachnin, Paul. Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.

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