Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995-2000

Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies is a book-length compendium of reflections on issues pertinent to the field of early modern literary studies. This volume, currently in progress, is a contribution intended to broaden and deepen the field internationally, as an aid also to new research in the area. In doing so, it reflects and augments leading research in the area, signals trends and current research, and offers a broad and deep foundation for further work to come. A proper introduction will follow shortly.

• Foreword (Raymond G. Siemens, University of British Columbia)
• Skelton and Barclay, Medieval and Modern (David R. Carlson, University of Ottawa)
• King Lear in Its Own Time: The Difference that Death Makes (Ben Ross Schneider, Jr. Lawrence University)
• "This innocent worke": Adam and Eve, John Smith, William Wood and the North American Plantations (Graham Roebuck, McMaster University)
• Milton and the Jacobean Church of England (Daniel W. Doerksen, University of New Brunswick)
• The Texts of Troilus and Cressida (W.L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati)
• 'Not Onely a Pastour, but a Lawyer also': George Herbert's Vision of Stuart Magistracy (Jeffrey Powers-Beck, East Tennessee State University)
• From Book to Screen: A Window on Renaissance Electronic Texts (Michael Best, University of Victoria)
• Marking his Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation (Sara van den Berg, University of Washington, Seattle)
• Protocols of Reading: Milton and Biography (J. Michael Vinovich, University of Toronto)
• Shifting Signs: Increase Mather and the Comets of 1680 and 1682 (Andrew P. Williams, North Carolina Central University)