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From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: The Transportability of Famine Memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey, and Alice Nolan
This chapter examines Famine fiction by women writers who contributed extensively to the literary landscape of the Irish Famine diaspora: Mary Anne...
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A Lover Boy with Battle Scars: Romance, War Fiction, and the Construction of Peeta Mellark as a Good Man in The Hunger Games Trilogy
This chapter explores the positive characterization of Peeta Mellark from the well-known Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. It proposes that...
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The speaking wound: Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the ethics of listening in the #metoo era
John Gower’s version of the rape of Lucretia in the Confessio Amantis begins with an episode in which the rapist, Arrons, injures himself as a...
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Shakespeare’s Ars Moriendi
In the later Middle Ages, concern over the moment of death was repeatedly articulated in the ars moriendi tracts, texts that emphasized the dying...
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The Given Image and the Taken Image – Response to the Contributions by Christine Riniker and Ronald Röttel
Against the backdrop of recent events, Christine Riniker’s and Ronald Röttel’s submissions seem to me to have taken on a new valence. The insight...
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Introduction. Rewriting the Soul: The Persistence of a Concept
The opening chapter argues that the now oft-neglected concept of the soul has remained relevant to considerations of literature, art, and politics....
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Confessions of the half-caste, or wheeling strangers of here and everywhere
This essay reads two Othello s together – Shakespeare’s seventeenth-century play and Vishal Bhardwaj’s 21st-century film – to attend to the caste- and...
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Trans Studies
This entry surveys the emerging field of early modern trans studies, including its current and potential applications in the study of women’s...
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Askew, Anne
Anne Askew (1521?–1546), a Lincolnshire gentlewoman, wrote a vivid, detailed account of her evangelical beliefs and her interrogations for heresy by...
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Letters Concerning the Enclosure of Christina Carpenter
Christina Carpenter, an anchoress enclosed at the church of Shere, Surrey, in 1329, is known in historical record solely through the documentation of...
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Temptation, Fornication, and the Fall in Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a dark comedy that considers the significance of the Fall, temptation, and fornication in the lives of the Christian faithful,...
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Merlin and the Queen of Elves: Alchemical Dialogues in the Fifteenth Century
This chapter examines two fifteenth-century alchemical dialogues, including one between Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves (Trinity College,...
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Shakespeare’s Therapy, Therapeutic Shakespeare: A Renaissance Reading of Shakespeare and Therapy in Hamlet
This chapter analyses Hamlet, a play which asks the audience to pay attention to, and question matters of the mind being considered during the...
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Subordinations of Academic Freedom: “Speech” as Campus Keyword and Codeword
Taking as its point of departure the “free speech” demonstrations at major public universities in 2017 and 2018, this chapter studies the conflation...
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The Exorcism
This chapter records how Bernard of Clairvaux came to Nantes to inaugurate the Cistercian monastery of Busay, founded by Ermengarde and Conon. While...
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Reflecting on Self as Other
Reflection might, at first, seem to be a retreat into subjectivity, but it is actually a technique for decentering the self, a move that is at the...
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The Poetics of Double-Talk: John Berryman’s Dream Songs as Cold War Testimonials
This chapter examines John Berryman’s Dream Songs as documents that position their speaker as a witness to, and often subject of, Cold War...
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Cristina Peri Rossi’s Postmodernist Short Story
Cristina Peri Rossi is considered part of the “Generation of 1972,” which includes other Latin American writers who were forced to flee out of fear...
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Higher Faculties
In ancient Greece, medicine was called technes, meaning both craft and science. Medieval medicine was based on the Corpus Aristotelicum, compiled by...