Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern
Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama,
particularly Jonson and Marlowe.
Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each
year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2014 volume opens
and closes with essays on historically based explorations of identity:
the first onthe circle of Jane Scroop in Skelton's Philip Sparrow, and
the last on dogs and horses as symbols of national identity in early
modern England. The heart of this year's journal is English drama,
especially Jonson and Marlowe: there are essays on Puritan logic in
Jonson's Bartholomew Fair; grotesque sex in Jonson's Volpone; the role
of anti-Catholicism in the creation of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus; and the
relationship between puppetry and the Faust legend. Marlowe and Jonson
also surface in two reconsiderations of their non-dramatic works; first
an essay on Ovidian resonances in Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and second
a reflection on Spenserian echoesin Jonson's Epode. The next essay
shifts to the poetics of religious literature, arguing for clothing as
an important metaphor for renewal in Herbert's The Temple, and the
penultimate essay addresses imaginative resources in the Martin
Marprelate pamphlets.
Contributors: William Coulter, Philip Goldfarb, Chris Hill, Joanna
Kucinski, Pamela Macfie, Sara Mayo, Barry Shelton, Emily Stockard, Lisa
Ulevich, Emma Annette Wilson.
The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University
and Ward Risvold of the University of Georgia.
