Literature

Renaissance Literature

The Sidney Family Romance: Mary Wroth, William Herbert and the Early Modern Construction of Gender

Gary Waller

A “cultural biography” and symptomatic reading of the sexual and textual relationships of two literary figures of the English Renaissance.

Patronage, Politics, and Literary Traditions in England, 1558–1658

Edited by Cedric C. Brown

A collection of eighteen essays offering a clear and richly detailed look at the complex interactions of patronage systems, political movements and conflicts, and literary forms.

Gloriana’s Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance

Edited by S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies

Essays examining the dichotomy between the public and private worlds of women from the early Renaissance to the 1650s.

Utopia and Counterutopia in the “Quixote”

José Antonio Maravall  •  Translated by Robert W. Felkel

Long recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as a masterpiece in the sociology of literature, Maravall’s classic study of Spain’s greatest novel and the socio-political circumstances out of which it arose is presented here in its first English translation.

Jerusalem Delivered: An English Prose Version

Torquato Tasso  •  Translated by Ralph Nash

A fluent, accurate English version of Tasso’s great narrative of the first crusade, Gerusalemme Liberata.

The Patriarchy of Shakespeare’s Comedies

Marilyn L. Williamson

Williamson undertakes a study of the power relationships in Shakespeare’s comedies within a feminist and post-structuralist framework.