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‘A Barren Sceptre’ (3.1.63): Generation, Generations, And Destiny In Maqbool And Global Adaptations Of Macbeth, Andrew Fleck

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“None Ends Where He Begun”: Astronomical And Polemic Revolutions In John Donne, Andrew Fleck

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Some modern commentators welcome the alleged approach of the “post-human” era as a liberation from the constraints of essentialist identity. Others lament it as a harbinger of the death of the soul. But both groups will find it instructive to consider that the nature of humanity has always been a contested topic. The chapters collected here suggest that the emergence of the modern idea of the human was at least as fraught a process as its putative demise.

David Hawkes and Richard G. Newhauser have selected a wide array of contributions for this volume. Renowned scholars from several disciplines have …

Frédérique Aït-Touati, Fictions Of The Cosmos: Science And Literature In The Seventeenth Century, Anthony J. Desantis

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Oxford French Literature Professor Frédérique Aït-Touati’s book Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century is packed full of information—perhaps too packed with information—about all sorts of interesting subjects relating to the interplay of science and literature in the seventeenth century. The book explores literary aspects of science writing, the history of astronomy and optics, and the history of the relationship between fiction and knowledge, especially in the early modern period. Her overall aim in this exploration is to instruct us on the value of fiction in science and the value of science in fiction. To accomplish …

The Father’S Living Monument: Textual Progeny And The Birth Of The Author In Sidney’S Arcadias, Andrew Fleck

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Review Of Women Letter-Writers In Tudor England, Gary Schneider

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In 1684 Jean de La Bruye`re wrote that women letter writers ‘‘find at the tip of their pens expressions and turns of phrase that often, in men, are the result of long searching. . . . they have an inimitable way of putting words together that seems to come naturally.’’1 Are letters by women indeed more natural, more effortless, and more emotionally attuned than men’s? By contrast, others throughout literary history have demonstrated a ‘‘long-term prejudice against women’s letters’’ as ‘‘of no importance’’ (8), author James Daybell writes, and in doing so he illustrates the other extreme to which women’s …

“Conveyance Of History”: Narrative, Chronicle, History, And The Elizabethan Memory Of The Henrician Golden Age, Andrew Fleck

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Libelous Letters In Elizabethan And Early Stuart England, Gary Schneider

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Outside of legal history, studies of early modern libel have focused on libelous verse and are concerned with the literary and politico- historical features of the material. 1 I hope to both add to and diverge from this body of scholarship by exploring libelous letters, tying the legal ramifications of letters deemed libelous to a more extensive perception of their cultural meanings. Drawing my evidence from court cases, printed and unprinted alike, I explore defamation lawsuits with an eye to the form, function, and meaning of libelous letters in early modern English culture: the relationship between material libel and spoken …

The Custom Of Courtesans And John Marston's The Dutch Courtesan, Andrew Fleck

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Anatomizing The Body Politic: The Nation And The Renaissance Body In Thomas Nashe’S The Unfortunate Traveller, Andrew Fleck

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"Ick Verstaw You Niet": Performing Foreign Tongues On The Early Modern English Stage, Andrew Fleck

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Dutch Ants And Dutch Uncles: Sorting Out Englishness Among The Exile Community In The Low Countries, Andrew Fleck

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Marking Difference And National Identity In Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday", Andrew Fleck

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The Ambivalent Blush: Figural And Structural Metonymy, Modesty, And Much Ado About Nothing, Andrew Fleck

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The Limitations Of Narrative: Nashe's Appropriation Of Ovidian Decorum In The Unfortunate Traveller, Andrew Fleck

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Vulgar Fingers Of The Multitude: Shakespeare, Jonson, And The Transformation Of News From The Low Countries‬, Andrew Fleck

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Here, There, And In Between: Representing Difference In The "Travels" Of Sir John Mandeville, Andrew Fleck

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

"Travels" by Sir John Mandeville established a typology for succeeding European representations of non-European peoples, in which non-Europeans were described as proto-Christians. Mandeville's hegemonic impulse prepared the way for the imperial appropriation of cultures and peoples.

Instructional Note “We Think He Means …”: Creating Working Definitions Through Small Group Discussion, Andrew Fleck

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Discusses how defining key terms in context helps students understand and retain concepts. Considers how implementing small-group discussion dramatically changed the classroom dynamics and involved more students in the discovery process. Finds that in small peer groups, students are more inclined to ask questions and help each other clarify their thinking.