- Editor’s Note:Louis Round Wilson Prize for 2013
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.
We are pleased to announce that the Wilson Prize for 2013 is awarded to Jane Hwang Degenhardt of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Appearing in the first issue of volume 110, Professor Degenhardt’s article, “Cracking the Mysteries of ‘China’: China(ware) in the Early Modern Imagination,” is a splendidly wide-ranging history of the representations of Chinese porcelain in the visual and literary arts alike. Combining rich close readings with incisive arguments about the cultural implications of “china” for European painters and writers, Degenhardt’s work tells a story of “magic and mystery” quite different from the well-known trivialization of porcelain in eighteenth-century satires by Alexander Pope among others.
We are pleased and honored to have published Jane Hwang Degenhardt’s memorable (and highly useful) study, and we offer her our congratulations on being chosen for this award.
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2013 Jane Hwang Degenhardt
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2012 Jackson C. Boswell
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2011 Curtis Perry
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2010 Debora Kuller Shuger
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2009 David Weil Baker
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2008 Mary Ann Lund [End Page i]