...David Lindley The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-factor. By Bruce R. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 386 pp; The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance. By Michele Sharon Jaffe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

...Huston Diehl Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England . By Jeffrey Knapp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xvi + 277 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Huston Diehl is professor of English at the University of Iowa. Her most recent...

...Theodora A. Jankowski The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England . By Valerie Traub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 492 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Theodora A. Jankowski is associate vice president of academic affairs at Erie Community...

...James McIntosh James McIntosh is professor emeritus of English and of American culture at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown (2000). © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance...

...Linda Woodbridge Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance . By Robert N. Watson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 436 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Linda Woodbridge is Weiss Chair in the Humanities and professor...

...- lishers will supply this lack. H. T. PRICE University of Michigan Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery : Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics. By Rosemond Tuve. Chicago : Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. xiv + 442. $6.00...

...Vernon Hall, Jr. DECORUM IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERARY CRITICISM By VERNONHALL, JR. In the Renaissance, the writers of literary criticism did not attempt to separate their social ideals from their esthetics. Since the age...

... and Renaissance Contrariety. By ROBERTGRUDIN. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1979. 2 17 pp. $14.00. The central subject of Robert Grudin’s book, conflicting opposites in Shake- speare’s plays, has hardly been neglected, but neither has it been exhausted...

...Richard Watts The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures . By K. Martial Frindéthié. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. v + 209 pp. University of Washington 2009 Richard Watts, associate professor of French at the University of Washington, is author...

... to the New and old Worlds” (Winter 2011), which looks at how the de Bry volumes influenced Europe's view of Asia by seeing the ancient cultures of the latter through the lens of “primitive” civilizations in the New World. The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture . By Smith...

...David Lee Miller Reviews The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations. By Jonathan Goldberg. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xii + 267 pp. De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical poem by the Latin writer...

...Alan Rudrum Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England . By Eggert Katherine . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 . ix + 368 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 What Katherine Eggert means...

...Hassan Melehy The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature . By Hui Andrew . New York : Fordham University Press , 2016 . x + 282 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 This is a deeply comparative study. It tunnels through the European Renaissance...

...Thomas Pfau R. Marks Emerson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 413 pp. $44.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Dicrion Theory since Ihe Renaissance. By Emer- son R. Marks. Detroit: Wayne State University...

...Gordon Braden Grossman Marshall. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1998. xxiii + 347 pp. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Reviews The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry. By Marshall Grossman...

...Alan F. Nagel Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance . By Gordon Braden. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. xvi + 198 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285 Reviews Practicing New...

...Julianne Werlin Abstract This essay describes how commercial publishing in Renaissance England made the age of authors newly salient, especially at the important moment of the literary debut. Drawing on a prosopographic survey of Tudor and early Stuart writers, the essay sketches the age structure...

...Jeffrey Todd Knight Jeffrey Todd Knight is assistant professor of English and codirector of the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington. He is author of Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature (2013). The Swerve: How...

...Tom Conley Reviews The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. By Stephen Greenblatt. New York: Norton, 2011. 356 pp. The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition. By Gerard Passannante. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. About a decade ago...

... and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France . By Bizer Marc . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . ix + 272 pp. © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 References Ford Philip . 2007 . De Troie à Ithaque: Réception des épopées homériques à la Renaissance . Geneva...