Literary Criticism, Animals, and Covid-19
The graduate course that I've been taking this semester on "Revisioning the Middle Ages" has given me a newfound appreciation for the ways in which...
Betwixt Two Ferns: Cavendish and Hobbes
As the editors of Women Poets of the English Civil War writing in their essay in Editing Early Modern would put it, the poetry of...
On Anthologizing Early Modern Women’s Poetry
On initial reading, it is easy to read Sarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann’s distillation of poetry by Hester Pulter, Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish,...
On The Backward Gaze
Susan Felch’s “The Backward Gaze,” puts forth a vision of editorial scholarship in which a text is “always a prism that refracts light” (21). Because...
Bjork’s Autofiction and the Mutating Self
How can a “visual manifesto of the self”—a separation of the self (Bjork) from the other (us, her readers) connect the self and the other...