‘A comely gate to so rich and glorious a citie’: The Paratextual Architecture of the Rheims New Testament and the King James Bible
Katrin Ettenhuber
This chapter examines Miles Smith’s King James Bible preface, ‘The Translators to the Reader’, excavating the polemical, hermeneutic, and literary contexts that frame the preface and ...
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“A Curious Sort of Book”: Jack London’s and the Politics of Prison Reform
Susan I. Gatti
A bold, imaginative work, The Star Rover demonstrates Jack London’s inventive approach to the social-protest genre. London mixes in the typical problem-novel ingredients: gritty, realistic ...
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‘A day after doomsday’: Cranmer and the Bible Translations of the 1530s
Susan Wabuda
This chapter explores the inaugural moment for the English Reformation, and for the rendering of the scriptures in English within a national church. In May 1530, Henry VIII began to ...
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‘A king like other nations’: Political Theory and the Hebrew Republic in the Early Modern Age
Kim Ian Parker
This chapter deals with the largely neglected field of political Hebraism. Biblical citations are ubiquitous in virtually all political discussion in the seventeenth century, yet the ...
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‘A Law in This Matter to Himself’: Contextualizing Milton's Divorce Tracts
Sharon Achinstein
The divorce tracts, which consist of four prose pamphlets published between August 1643 and March 1645, represent a significant and underappreciated development in John Milton's theorizing ...
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‘A Mind of Most Exceptional Energy’: Verse Rhythm in Paradise Lost
John Creaser
The sketch of prosodic theory presented in this article helps to clarify how the blank verse of Paradise Lost is virtually a new beginning and transmits a quite un-Shakespearean energy. ...
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“A Music Numerous as Space”: Cognitive Environment and the House that Lyric Builds
Sharon Lattig
This article examines the concept of cognitive environment in relation to ecocriticism. It discusses Gaston Bachelard’s analysis, in his The Poetics of Space, of historian Jules Michelet’s ...
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‘A Potted Peace/Lily’? Northern Irish Poetry Since the Ceasefires
Miriam Gamble
In the 1990s, ceasefires were adopted in Ireland, followed in 2007 by the institution of devolved government at Stormont. With the Troubles now gone, the country has experienced a dramatic ...
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‘A Thousand Fantasies’: The Lady and the Maske
Ann Baynes Coiro
John Milton put A Maske presented at Ludlow Castle in the middle of his authorial identity when he announced that he was an important writer. A Maske has often been linked with Pleasure ...
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The Abbey and the Idea of a Theatre
Ben Levitas
The Irish national theatre movement developed in the ferment of cultural nationalism at the turn of the century, but it was not at all clear what form a national theatre should take: an ...
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