Features the best scholarly essays from the 2013 Southeastern
Renaissance Conference held at Duke University in Durham, North
Carolina, including essays on Renaissance poetics, friendship, and
representations of women.
Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each
year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2013 volume
features essays from the conference held at Duke University in Durham,
North Carolina. The volume opens with three reappraisals of Renaissance
poetics. The first essay addresses the incarnational poetics in George
Herbert's poetry; the second investigates the poetics of probability in
Middleton's A Yorkshire Tragedy; and the third considers an image from
Colluthus's Rape of Helen, proposing new ways to understand allusion in
Marlowe's Hero and Leander. The volume then turns to Renaissance
representations of women with a discussion of "swooning" in George
Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F.J.; a discussion of prostitution,
performance, and the art of Anti-Sprezzatura; and a discussion of
identity, loss, and narration in The Rapeof Lucrece. The center of the
volume turns to an examination of friendship and the paratextual
apparatus of Michel de Montaigne's Essais, and then shifts to
Shakespearean drama with essays on The Comedy of Errors, Measure for
Measure, and Cymbeline. The volume closes with an essay on John Milton's
historical iconoclasm in his History of Britain.
Contributors: John Wall, Kevin Chovanec, Pamela Macfie, Margaret Simon,
Mara Amster, Ruth Stevenson, Andrew Keener, Christopher Crosbie, Ward
Risvold, Patricia Wareh, and Paul Stapleton.
Jim Pearce is an Associate Professor and Joanna Kucinski is an Assistant
Professor at North Carolina Central University.
