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Job and the Crocodile in George Wither’s A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne

George F. Butler (Texas A&M University, 2004)

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology

Macdonald, James Ross (Texas A&M University, 2018)

Paul Cefalu shows how the writings ascribed to St. John the Evangelist exerted quiet but powerful influence in early modern England.

John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse: Preaching, Prophecy, and Politics

Euler, Carrie (Texas A&M University, 2018)

Martyn Calvin Cowan asserts that the “most significant conclusion of this analysis is that Owen cannot be treated as an abstracted academic theologian” (183).

Les Mots et les choses du théâtre. France, Italie, Espagne, XVIe–XVIIe siècles

Gethner, Perry (Texas A&M University, 2018)

This volume, consisting of seventeen articles, comprises the proceedings of a conference held in 2015 by the research organization IDT—Les Idées du théâtre, devoted to the study of liminary texts of plays, especially ...

Marvell, Sexual-Orientation, and Seventeenth- Century Poetry.

Prawdzik, Brendan (Texas A&M University, 2018)

Klawitter demonstrated, provocatively, an anatomically precise, autoerotic sexuality in Marvell’s lyric, “The Nymph Complaining on the Death of Her Fawn.” Published in a collection of New Perspectives on Andrew Marvell ...

Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer

Ainsworth, David (Texas A&M University, 2018)

Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer urges scholars to pay closer attention to the ways in which Milton connects bodies to faith, suggesting that the body at prayer both expresses internal ...

Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment: One First Matter All.

Song, Eric B; (Texas A&M University, 2018)

In the introduction to this collection, the editors signal the need for a “rapprochement” between historicist scholarship focusing on early modern monism and “the ecocritical concern for the nonhuman in contemporary ...

Milton’s Leveller God

Danielson, Dennis (Texas A&M University, 2018)

In this essay, McDowell surveys Milton’s references to Euripides throughout his writing career in order to argue that, contrary to expectation, Milton occasionally elevates classical literature above the Bible. ...