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Lara A. Dodds started the topic CFP for MLA 2023 17thC English in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Please consider submitting a proposal to one of the three panels sponsored by LLC 17th-Century English:
1. Open Topic Seventeenth-Century Literature
We seek new work on any topic in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century. All approaches/methodologies are welcomed. 250-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years ago
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica’s Clandestine Printers in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Milton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Renaissance Landscapes in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
Hugh M. Richmond, “Renaissance Landscapes,” Mouton, 1973; De Gruyter 2019.
This study explores some of the significant points in the evolution of a literary pattern, a recognizable topic or motif which captures attention through the poet’s mastery of language, which records the nuances of human awareness of each period. The author coins this…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
“Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more] -
Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Adam’s Presumptuous, Adventurous, Bold, and Righteous (Re)Quest in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
How in at least one instance Adam, in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” relentlessly pursues his desires — ostensibly against God’s will; and certainly in face of Raphael’s increasing disquiet — without experiencing a fall.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Having Your Beefcake, and Leaving Him Too in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
Exploration of how Aphra Behn uses her textual creation “Oronnoko” to engage in a guiltless sexual affair that bypasses all societal and inner-psychic censors.
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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years ago
Review for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Patricia Akhimie deposited “Bruised with Adversity”: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
“‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Jen Boyle started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
2019 MLA Convention
Special Session CFP
Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions
The promise of becoming in mediated transactions is fragile and unpredictable. Such transactions
might act as an instrument of interpellation that produces sovereign subjects, on the one hand,
and precarious objects, on the other hand. Or, as is often the…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Irish deposited The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638 in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
The friends, followers, and fans of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, made no small contribution to the world of early modern English letters. This essay contributes to our growing understanding of the Essex circle’s literary afterlife by contextualizing BL Additional MS 18638, an early seventeenth-century manuscript containing a partial English…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
This article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
Historians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Working with EEBO and ECCO in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
A how-to lesson on working with Early English Books Online and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, focusing both on the basics of searching and navigating interfaces and on thinking about remediation on how EEBO and ECCO represent material texts. Presented originally at Edinburgh’s “Beyond the Black Box” series in May 2017.
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
One of the most familiar literary topics is the seduction scene. Both Shakespeare and Milton enhance this tradition by shifting the motives offered by the seducer to ones fitting increasingly autonomous and ambitious women, foreshadowing many of the concerns of modern feminism.
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH SEMINAR ON KING LEAR in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
In this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited When Self-Preservation Bids: Approaching Milton, Hobbes, and Dissent in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Critics have long used the heuristic device of opposing John Milton and Thomas Hobbes, but this essay explores surprising affinities between the two. After observing that Milton and other Restoration dissenters often agreed with Hobbes on questions of ecclesiastic jurisdiction and toleration nearly as much as they disagreed with what seemed at…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Giving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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