Catholic Culture in Early Modern England

Contributors

Contributors Ronald Corthell is Professor and Chair, Department of English, Kent State University. He is the author of Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne (Wayne State University Press, 1997) and editor of the journal Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism. His current projects are a book on poets, patrons, and daughters in early modern English poetry and a study of Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint. Peter Davidson is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the University of Aberdeen. His most recent books are The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005) and The Universal Baroque (Manchester University Press, 2007). With Jane Stevenson , he edited Early Modern Women Poets, ‒ (Oxford University Press, 2001). His edition of the Collected Poems of S. Robert Southwell, prepared in collaboration with Dr. Anne Sweeney, will be published by Carcanet Press in March 2007. Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture (Cornell University Press, 1999; paperback edition with new preface from University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) and Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, ‒ (Cornell University Press, 1994). Marriage and Violence: Our Early Modern Legacy is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her publications include Virgil and The Tempest: The Politics of Imitation  Contributors  (Ohio State University Press, 1990), Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (University of Kentucky Press, 1992), and Anthony Munday and the Catholics (Ashgate, 2005). Christopher Highley is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University and author of Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 1997). He is currently working on a study of Catholics and national identity in early modern Britain. Caroline Hibbard is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Charles I and the Popish Plot (University of North Carolina Press, 1983) and of a number of articles on early Stuart Catholicism and on her current research focus, the court of Henrietta Maria. Sophie Holroyd has a PhD in English literature from the University of Warwick. Gary Kuchar is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria . He is the author of Divine Subjection: The Rhetoric of Sacramental Devotion in Early Modern England (Duquesne University Press, 2005) and several articles on the relations between early modern literature and post-Reformation culture. Arthur F. Marotti is Professor of English at Wayne State University, where he teaches courses in early modern English literature and culture. He is the author of three scholarly monographs: John Donne, Coterie Poet (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986), Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Cornell University Press, 1995), and Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). He has also edited or coedited several books, including Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). His current projects include a collection of essays on early modern English Catholicism and a study of the personal anthologizing of poetry in manuscript in early modern England. Molly Murray is an Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University, where she specializes in the nondramatic literature of the English Renaissance. She is the author of articles on poetry and cultural history in ELH and SEL, and her current book manuscript is a study of religious conversion and its poetic refractions in early modern England. Anne M. Myers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is currently completing a book on the relationships between literature and architecture in seventeenth-century England. Mark Netzloff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of England’s Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). His current book project examines the writings of English travelers, confessional exiles, and state agents in early modern Europe. Catherine Sanok is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on late medieval religious and literary culture. She is currently completing a book manuscript on vernacular saints’ lives and female audiences in late medieval England. Jane Stevenson is Professor of Latin at King’s College, Aberdeen. She has published extensively both on aspects of post...