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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Studies in Philology.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 100, no. 1 (2003) through current issueLatest Articles: Studies in PhilologyTWOProject MUSE®Studies in Philology1543-03830039-3738Latest articles in Studies in Philology. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Navigating Fame and Publication: Female Complaint in Isabella Whitney and Mary Wroth
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987809
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Publications in sixteenth-century England increased dramatically within a century after the first English book was printed in 1473. In 1557, the first year the Stationers' Company was incorporated, the Stationers' Register records thirty-five book entries. That number jumped to 860 in the following decade.1 Women writers, however, were still in an uncomfortable position when it came to publishing their works. Except for the public records of Queen Elizabeth I, only two female writers, Anne Locke and Isabella Whitney, published their works during that time: Locke's Meditation of a Penitent Sinner in 1560 and Whitney's The Copy of a Letter in 1567. As this paltry number shows, a woman publishing written works, let
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/233/image/coversmallNavigating Fame and Publication: Female Complaint in Isabella Whitney and Mary Wroth2026-04-18text/htmlen-USNavigating Fame and Publication: Female Complaint in Isabella Whitney and Mary Wroth2026-04-182026TWOProject MUSE®1094032026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-18Problems of Place in Early Jacobean Nonsense: Localism, Senses, and the Inns of Court
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987810
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Noel Malcolm's claim that John Hoskyns pioneered an early nonsense style with his "Cabalistical Verses" has centered this punchy satirical sonnet in a cluster of overlapping research areas, including those of Jacobean humanism, civic life, sociability, and literary play.1 The weight attached to this poem is in some ways surprising: "Cabalistical Verses" had its first print excursion buried in the middle of a long, though immensely popular, collection of mock-panegyric verses published with the even longer (and arguably less popular) travelogue Coryate's Crudities (1611).2 The poem is distinctive and highly successful as an exercise in what Paul Zumthor calls "absolute" nonsense, wherein even basic phrases resist
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/233/image/coversmallProblems of Place in Early Jacobean Nonsense: Localism, Senses, and the Inns of Court2026-04-18text/htmlen-USProblems of Place in Early Jacobean Nonsense: Localism, Senses, and the Inns of Court2026-04-182026TWOProject MUSE®1296122026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-18The Authorship of A Brief Character of the Low-Countries Reconsidered
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987811
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The early seventeenth-century prose work best known as A Brief Character of the Low-Countries was immensely popular: it comes down to us in over thirty manuscript copies1 and numerous seventeenth-century printed editions.2 It was first published in London in 1648 as Three Months observation of the low Countries especially Holland (Wing F658A), with no indication of author.3 In 1652, Henry Seile printed a much longer version under the title A Brief Character of the Low-Countries (Wing F648), which was followed by at least seven further editions in the century.4 The work was first connected with Owen Felltham in a 1661 edition of his Resolves, where it appears as an appendix, and he is explicitly named as author on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/233/image/coversmallThe Authorship of A Brief Character of the Low-Countries Reconsidered2026-04-18text/htmlen-USThe Authorship of A Brief Character of the Low-Countries Reconsidered2026-04-182026TWOProject MUSE®768622026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-18Juvenal and the Dislocation of Nature in Alexander Pope's Epistle to Burlington
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987812
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In his first satire, Juvenal speaks of "In caelum quos evehit optima summi/nunc via processus, vetulae vesica beatae" ("Men who are raised to the skies by what is now the royal road to highest advancement—a rich old woman's snatch").1 In Juvenal's decadent Rome of the late first and early second centuries, where "Crimes bring people their pleasure gardens, mansions, dining tables, antique silver plate and goblets with embossed goats," an old vagina becomes a handy vehicle of promotion.2 The incongruity of reaching caelum, the skies, by way of vesica, aptly translated by Susanna Morton Braund as the colloquial "snatch," epitomizes the world of Juvenal's satires, where morality is turned upside down and where objects
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/233/image/coversmallJuvenal and the Dislocation of Nature in Alexander Pope's Epistle to Burlington2026-04-18text/htmlen-USJuvenal and the Dislocation of Nature in Alexander Pope's Epistle to Burlington2026-04-182026TWOProject MUSE®903892026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-18