Browsing by Subject "Shakespeare"
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"Am not I your Rosalind?": Ovidian Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
(2008-12-01)"'Am not I your Rosalind?': Negotiating Ovidian Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare's As You Like It" argues that the theatrical self-masquerade, that rare and uniquely Shakespearean moment in which a character ... -
Fictions of Authority: The Normativity of Representation after Shakespeare
(2020)The core claims of this study are that dramatic and political practice mutually depend on rich concepts of mimesis––of exemplary images and formative imitation––for their coherence; that the seventeenth century bears witness ... -
No "Idle Fancy:" The Imagination's Work in Poetry and Natural Philosophy from Sidney to Sprat
(2015)When debating the structure of the cosmos, Raphael delivers to Adam perhaps Milton's most famous line: "be lowly wise." With the promise to "justify the ways of God to men," Milton does not limit man's knowledge to base ... -
Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621
(2009)<bold>Seasons and Sovereigns:<br>Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621<br></bold><p> Current scholarship on months, seasons, and climates in Renaissance aesthetics has developed along the two-dimensional axis of pastoral ... -
The End of the Age of Miracles: Substance and Accident in the English Renaissance
(2009)This dissertation argues that the 'realist' ontology implicit in Renaissance allegory is both Aristotelian and neoplatonic, stemming from the need to talk about transcendence in material terms in order to make it comprehensible ... -
The Problem of Nothingness: Early Modern Literature, Science, and the Vacuum
(2017)My dissertation explores literature’s participation in these cross-disciplinary debates over nothingness; I argue that literary forms create the possibilities of scientific discourse later in the century. To fully understand ... -
Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England
(2018)“Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England,” argues for the crucial role of literature in shaping, expanding, and contesting the limits of compassion in early seventeenth century England. ...
