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- Editor's Note: Louis Round Wilson Prize for 2022
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Abstract: The Editorial Board of Studies in Philology voted at its annual meeting in May 2008 to establish an annual prize of $1000 for the best article published in the journal during the previous year. The prize was named in honor of Louis Round Wilson, whose monograph Chaucer's Relative Constructions appeared as the first issue of Studies in Philology in 1906. Wilson was instrumental in founding and establishing SP, and in helping to ensure that it would have a long and vital future.The award-winning article for 2022 is Nicholas Fenech's "Reading for Echoes: The English Guicciardini and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity in the Age of the Armada." Published in SP vol. 119, no. 2, Fenech's study explores an Elizabethan manuscript ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
- Investigating English Sanctity in the Middle English St. Erkenwald
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Abstract: The late fourteenth-century Middle English St. Erkenwald, composed in the Northwest Midlands dialect yet set in London, relates the discovery of a mysterious tomb during renovations at St. Paul's Cathedral, the investigations into which open to the citizens of London a brief window into their nation's beginnings.1 As an artifact of the past unearthed during a process of renewal, the tomb in the poem has sparked meaningful discussions of the text's handling of history—its portrayal and preservation, its reception and perception, its uses and abuses, and its persistence.2 Indeed, the prefatory synopsis of early British history (1–32) preinstalls a historical lens on the events that follow. In its juxtaposition of two ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
- James Reshoulde and Elizabethan Scribal Culture
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Abstract: Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. poet. 85 (Ra), and Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z 3.5.21 (Ma), have been used by editors of Elizabethan poetry for more than a century, providing an abundance of copy texts especially for works by elite poets connected with the court.1 More recently, these manuscripts have been studied for what they can tell us about the nature of Elizabethan scribal culture. And while it has long been known that Ra was compiled at St. John's College, Cambridge, it is now possible to establish that both manuscripts were compiled in that undergraduate environment beginning in the mid to late 1580s.2 From this perspective, these anthologies cast new light on the overall nature of textual transmission of both ... Read More
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- Milton's Legal Duel: Nature and Norm in Paradise Regained and Samson
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Abstract: Paradise Regained is a poem punctuated by enigmas. How, for example, does the pinnacle episode overthrow Satan when earlier temptations have had so little effect' Why does the poem supplement the scriptural temptation of bread with an apocryphal and seemingly redundant banquet temptation' And why does the final angelic chorus defer to "hereafter" the messianic victory that is supposed to have just occurred'1 Scholars have responded to these puzzles piecemeal by examining, for instance, John Milton's Christology or his Restoration contexts, but this article will address these problems holistically by treating them as symptoms of Milton's engagement with modern forms of rationality. Although Milton often appeals to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
- John Locke, Ecological Imperialism, and the Narration of the Land in
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Abstract: The main battle in imperialism is over land … but when it came to who owned the land, who had the right to settle and work on it … and who now plans its future—these issues were reflected, contested, and even for a time decided in narrative.In studies of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), John Locke's name often comes up. Usually the remarks are brief, but extended discussions of Locke generally concern the novel's political meaning. That Crusoe's shipwreck occurs on the eve of the Restoration (1660) and that his return to England happens just before the Glorious Revolution (1688) invite readers to reflect on how his trials on the island speak to these pivotal political events. Some of those trials—e.g. ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-11-04T00:00:00-05:00
- An Essay concerning the Origine of Sciences and the Mode of Scriblerian
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Abstract: A short satire, An Essay of the Learned Martinus Scriblerus concerning the Origine of Sciences, concerns the alleged role of an anthropoid race of pygmies in the evolution of human knowledge. Sometimes referred to simply as The Origine of Sciences, this essay was first published in 1732, although the likelihood exists that it may have been drafted as early as 1714. It is modest in its dimensions, running to fewer than 3,300 words, which happens to be very close to the length of A Modest Proposal. However, the work is packed with ingenious humor and possesses several features that make it a characteristic item among the shorter satires of the Scriblerus group, composed of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and their ... Read More
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- Contents of Volume 120
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