Renaissance Configurations

Renaissance Configurations is a ground-breaking collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture - as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics - by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists. The essays focus on the relations of public and private, of verbal and spatial, of textual and material, reading and re-reading texts, both canonical and non-canonical, with a textual and historical rigour often considered lacking in work with theoretical premises. The collection as a whole offers a clear sense of the direction to be taken by Early Modern studies over the next decade.

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ROS BALLASTER Teaches English literature, Mansfield College, Oxford MARK THORNTON BURNETT Teaches in the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast KATE CHEDGZOY Lecturer in English, the University of Warwick HELEN HACKETT Lecturer in English, University College, London AMANDA PIESSE Teaches English literature, Trinity College, Dublin MICHAEL PINCOMBE Teaches English literature, University of Newcastle upon Tyne SASHA ROBERTS Research Fellow, Roehampton Institute, London ANN THOMPSON Professor of English Literature and Head of Department, Roehampton Institute, London SUZANNE TRILL Lecturer in English, Queen's University, Belfast SUSAN J. WISEMAN Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of Warwick

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Preface: Renaissance Configurations; G. McMullan PART I: TURNING THE KEY 'Infinite Riches in a Little Room': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet; J. Knowles Shakespeare 'Creepes into the Women's Closets about Bedtime': Women Reading in a Room of Their Own; S. Roberts 'A Book, and Solitariness': Melancholia Gender and Literary Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania ; H. Hackett PART II: DESIRING DIFFERENCE Lyly and Lesbianism: Mysteries of the Closet in Sappho and Phao ; M. Pincombe 'With Phoebus' Amorous Pinches Black': the Desirability of Difference in Early Modern Culture; K Chedgzoy A Rose for Emilia: Collaborative Relations in The Two Noble Kinsmen ; G. Kinsmen PART III: NAMING/LOCATING Space for the Self: Place, Persona, and Self-Projection in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles ; A. Piesse Calling Things By Their Names': Troping Prostitution, Politics, and The Dutch Courtesan ; M. Thornton Burnett PART IV: VOICING THE PAST Spectres and Sisters: Mary Sidney and the `Perennial Puzzle' of Renaissance Women's Writing; S. Trill What Echo Says in Seventeenth-Century Women's Poetry: Wroth, Behn; S.J. Wiseman Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips; R. Ballaster Afterword; A. Thompson