Browsing by Author "Mansky, Joseph"
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The Case of Eleazar Edgar: Leicester’s Commonwealth and the Book Trade in 1604
Mansky, Joseph (2021-06)Scholars have long observed that the Catholic libel known as Leicester’s Commonwealth circulated extensively in manuscript. After its first printing in 1584, the tract was not printed again until 1641. Yet over ninety full ... -
Elements and Sprites: The Cohesive Philosophy of Love in Donne’s Romantic and Devotional Poetry
Chambers, Sarah (2021-12-17)Critical approaches to John Donne’s poetry share a general perspective that alleges a dichotomy between the representation(s) of love in his romantic and devotional works. Starting from a position that acknowledges the ... -
Feeling, Feeding, and Feigning Humors: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Early Modern Humoral Theory
Krieger, Katy (2022-05-13)In this dissertation, I argue that the humors are a productive way to read early modern drama and that using them as a productive means of analysis allows for much richer cultural knowledge about medicine to come through ... -
"Half Savage and Hardy, and Free": The Failure of Feminine Identity in Wuthering Heights
Crider, Emily (2022)Over the last half-century, much of the scholarly discourse concerning Wuthering Heights has considered Catherine Earnshaw’s struggle for belonging in the social order, using a transgressive mode of gender criticism to ... -
Jane Shore, Edward IV, and the Politics of Publicity
Mansky, Joseph (2018)This essay sketches the publics imagined and instantiated by Thomas Heywood's two-part history play Edward IV. Heywood’s play locates the middle-class woman Jane Shore at the center of public politics, turning the cautionary ... -
“Look No More”: Jonson’s Catiline and the Politics of Enargeia
Mansky, Joseph (2019-03)In his play Catiline His Conspiracy, Ben Jonson allegorizes Cicero’s fight to save the Roman Republic as a battle against the kind of spectacular drama that, Jonson claimed, his audiences so enjoyed. This metatheatrical ... -
Paradise Lost as a Political Warning
Nabhan, Jared (2022)John Milton viewed himself as a prophet and he used his poetry and prose as vehicles for communicating God’s will to the people of England. This thesis analyzes Paradise Lost having a political message for England. Milton ... -
Virgulae and Distinctiones: A History of Western Notational Systems from Grammar Handbook to Liturgical Leaf
Tharp, Rachel (2022-05-13)I present the history of the virgule or slash (/) as a measure of how students read and interpreted texts first by methods taught in grammar handbooks but then according to scribal-driven innovations to the page. The mark ...