Research
Early-Modern Research Group
Relevant research and research activities by Early-Modern Modern Research Group members for this year includes:
Rachel Adcock will be giving a paper entitled ‘Gender and Genre in Baptist Women’s Writings c.1650-80’ at the forthcoming Early Modern Studies Conference at Reading (12-15 July 2012). She has recently been published in several journals: ‘“Like to an anatomy before us”: Deborah Huish’s spiritual experiences and the attempt to establish the Fifth Monarchy’, The Seventeenth Century, 26:1 (2011); ‘“As shee preachers hold forth Christ”: Writing and Speaking in Sara Jones’s Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642)’, Prose Studies, 33:1 (2011); and a smaller forum contribution to Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She also has entries forthcoming in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Literature: 1660-1789 (Wiley-Blackwell) and A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen 1500-1650 (Ashgate), and has compiled a public display for the Devon Record Office on how their records can aid research on seventeenth-century church history (2011/12).
Nicola Boyle will deliver a paper called ‘The Country House and the Touring Practices of the Lady Elizabeth’s Men’ at the conference ‘The Intellectual Culture of the British Country House 1500-1700’ to be held at the University of Sussex from 13 to 15 July 2011. At the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress to be held in Prague from 17 to 22 July she will deliver a paper called ‘The Touring Practices of the Lady Elizabeth Company’ within the seminar ‘Shakespeare after REED’.
Gabriel Egan will be giving a paper at the World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, 17 - 20 July 2011, entitled 'Shakespeare's Countryside Across the Genres'. His monograph The Struggle for Shakespeare’s Text (Cambridge University Press) has just been published, as have his collection of essays Electronic Publishing: Politics and Pragmatics (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and ITER), his article 'Intention in the Editing of Shakespeare' (Style, 44.3), and his chapter 'Gaia and the Great Chain of Being' in the book Ecocritical Shakespeare edited Lynne Bruckner and Daniel Brayton (Ashgate). In the next couple of months should appear his chapters 'Shakespeare, Idealism, and Universals: The Significance of Recent Work on the Mind' in the book The Return of Theory in Early Modern Literary and Cultural Studies edited by Paul Cefalu and Bryan Reynolds (Macmillan) and 'Homeostasis in Shakespeare' in the book Posthumanist Shakespeares edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus (Macmillan).
Joan Fitzpatrick is working on a critical edition of three early modern dietaries that will appear in the Revels Companion Library Series (Manchester University Press, 2012).In December she has a 200, 000 word dictionary entitled Shakespeare and the Language of Food coming out (Continuum, 2010) and her survey of research published on Sidney and Spenser in 2008 will appear in The Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press). In 2011 she has book chapters appearing: "King Lear: The Critical Backstory" in King Lear: A Critical Guide, eds. Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins and "Body and Soul" in A Cultural History of Food. Volume 3: The Renaissance, 1300-1600, ed. Ken Albala (Berg). She will deliver the paper "'I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died': Plants and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Dietary Literature” at the World Shakespeare Congress, Prague (July 17-22) and running a workshop, 'Interpreting Food and Diet in the Work of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries', at the conference Shakespeare: Sources and Adaptation (University of Cambridge, 9 - 11 Sept 2011).
Catie Gill will be giving a paper at the Aphra Behn Conference (April, 2012, Loughborough) titled ‘“Borrow’d beams”: The Significance of Reason in Restoration Writings (1674-1675)’. At the Reading Conference of Early Modern Studies (July 2012), she will be speaking about Biblical Scholarship in the 1630s, exploring the work of William Chillingworth and several Jesuit writers. She is currently working on an essay about William Chillingworth titled ‘ “Counterfeit Protestants” and Socinian Dispute (1632-1652)’.
Bill Overton is currently on research leave funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in order to produce a critical edition for Cambridge University Press of the collected verse of John, Lord Hervey (1696–1743). His most recent publication is an essay entitled ‘Lord Hervey, Poetic Voice and Gender’ in the Review of English Studies (April 2011); forthcoming publications are ‘Aphra Behn’s Versification’ in Women’s Writing (May 2012), ‘Lord Hervey, Death and Futurity’ in a collection to be published by Peter Lang, and ‘The Language of Oroonoko’ for Approaches to Teaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, to be published by the Modern Language Association of America. Recent conference papers have been ‘”The Novel of the Young, the Lecture of the Old”: Verse Responses to the Adultery and Death of Katherine, Lady Abergavenny’ at the annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at St Hugh's College, Oxford (January 2012), and ‘From French Verse to English: Behn’s version of Tallemant’s Voyage de l’isle d’amour’ at Aphra Behn in her Seventeenth-Century Contexts, a conference held in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University (April 2012).
Sara ReadIn the current academic year (2011/12), I have a chapter called ‘Only Kept up by the Credulous and Ignorant’: Eighteenth-Century Responses to the ‘Poisonous’ Nature of Menstrual Blood, forthcoming in the volume, Great Expectations: Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed by Mascha Hansen and Jürgen Klein (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012) . I also have had a short journal article, ‘When Menopause is not Climacteric’, published by Notes & Queries, on 30.3.12. I have also had a recent review published in Social History of Medicine: Review of Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta (eds), Medical Writing in Early Modern English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 (published online November 11, 2011: DOI 10.1093/shm/hkr157). I also have sixteen entries forthcoming in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Literature: 1660-1789 (Wiley-Blackwell) and a two in A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen 1500-1650 (Ashgate).
I will be giving a paper entitled 'The Fresh Spring of Young Virginity': Rereading the Short Fiction of Aphra Behn in its Seventeenth-Century Medical Contexts, at the conference ‘Aphra Behn in her Seventeenth-Century Contexts’ being hosted by this department on 12-14 April 2012. See http://www.aphrabehneurope.org/conferences.php for more details. I will be presenting another paper at the forthcoming Early Modern Studies Conference, being held at the Early Modern Research Centre conference at Reading University (July 12th-15th 2012).
Phil Tromans will deliver a conference paper called "Trifling Pamphlets and True Reports: The Publication and Promotion of Frobisher’s Northwest Voyages" on 12 June as part of the panel on "Texts, Knowledge and Dissemination" at the conference HistFest at the University of Lancaster on 10-12 June 2011. He will also be making a virtual presentation called "The New World for a New Public: Men, Matter, Materiality and the Market for Books on America in Mid-Sixteenth-Century London" at the International Conference of the Book at the University of St Michael's College / University of Toronto on 14-16 October 2011.
Anna Warzycha is giving two forthcoming papers: ‘Body and Mind: Women’s Spiritual Writings at the Very Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century’, at the annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University (5-7 January 2011) and ‘Inlargednesse of mind and activity of spirit’: Zion in Women’s Voices in mid-Seventeenth-Century England’, at the conference devoted to ‘The Bible in the Seventeenth Century’, University of York (7-9 July 2011).