This chapter considers the book in the Renaissance as an object of aesthetic, literary, and
philosophical attention, one which fascinated illuminators and painters, poets and collectors …

The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though
insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been …

The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander
Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively …

ABSTRACT Given Isabella Whitney's reputation as the first English professional woman
writer, her books are fertile ground for the recent material turn in the study of early modern …

This chapter provides an account of early modern poetry of complaint across multiple
genres, from expressions of loss edging upon elegy to demands for reparation close to …

During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with
titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During …

Printers in the early modern Low Countries produced no fewer than 152 editions of Ovid's
Metamorphoses. John Tholen investigates what these editions can tell us about the early …

This article considers the reading strategies embedded in Isabella Whitney's two published
volumes, The Copy of a Letter (1567) and A Sweet Nosegay (1573). As it suggests, Whitney …

This thesis explores the genre of Ovidian female-voiced complaint poetry and its tradition in
early modern English literature. In looking at original poems, translations and receptions of …

This is the first study to explore both medieval and early modern debate poetry in detail. The
findings support those of earlier literary criticism, while shedding light on the linguistic aspect …