Early Modern Cultural Studies Research Articles

Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community. Daniel Ellis. Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 234 pp. $65.

Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community. Daniel Ellis. Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 234 pp. $65.

Material Methodologies in Early Modern Iberian Treatises

Abstract Early modern culture was most fully expressed in events where materiality and textuality are inextricably intertwined: theatrical spectacles, royal parades, triumphal arches, processions, poetic tournaments, and jousts. At the other end of the spectrum, mainstream trends of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hispanic philology—a prism through which early modern texts have been used and read for years—are part of a genealogy of thought that privileges form over matter. As a result, the radical importance of materials is frequently overlooked in the study of early modern culture. However, if we pay attention to early modern poetic and philosophical treatises, we can clearly notice the anxiety to justify the medium in which texts themselves were produced and transmitted. This article stresses the importance of materiality in two types of treatises from early modern Iberia: three sensory treatises by Oliva Sabuco (1587), Lorenzo Ortiz (1687), and Diego Calleja (1700); and three manuals of textual production by Juan del Encina (1496), Francisco Lucas (1580), and Alonso Víctor de Paredes (1680). The article sets out an argument for a materialist practice of literary criticism, a way to read early modern texts in terms of their own material theory.

Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World. Erin Peters and Cynthia Richards, eds. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xiv + 398 pp. $75.

Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World. Erin Peters and Cynthia Richards, eds. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xiv + 398 pp. $75. - Volume 76 Issue 1

Deza and Its Moriscos: Religion and Community in Early Modern Spain. By Patrick J. O'Banion. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2020, xv + 361 pp. $70.00 hardcover.

Deza and Its Moriscos: Religion and Community in Early Modern Spain. By Patrick J. O'Banion. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2020, xv + 361 pp. $70.00 hardcover. - Volume 91 Issue 2

Contributors

Ilana M. Blumberg is professor of English literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel and author, most recently, of the memoir Open Your Hand: Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American (2018). She has won teaching awards from University of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University and is currently a recipient of an Israel Science Foundation grant entitled Postsecular George Eliot.Rosalind Buckton-Tucker studied at King's College, London, and the University of Leicester, UK, and holds a PhD in American literature. Her main research interests are twentieth-century British and American literature, travel literature, and the pedagogy of literature and creative writing, and she has published a variety of articles and book chapters in these fields as well as presenting numerous papers at international conferences. She has taught in universities in Kuwait, Oman, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran, and has also worked as a freelance journalist and editor in the UAE and Oman. She enjoys writing fiction, memoirs, and travel articles.Elizabeth Effinger is associate professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, where she teaches British Romanticism with special interests in William Blake, the intersections of Romantic science and literature, the Anthropocene, and human-animal studies. She coedited (with Chris Bundock) William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror (2018). She was principal investigator of Erasing Frankenstein, a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)-funded public humanities outreach activity that transformed Shelley's 1818 novel into a book-length erasure poem in collaboration with incarcerated and nonincarcerated citizens. For more on the project, visit erasingfrankenstein.org.Moira Fitzgibbons is professor of English at Marist College. Her most recent work includes an edition of “The Merchant's Tale” in The Medieval Disability Sourcebook (2020).Michael Keenan Gutierrez is teaching associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Trench Angel (2015) and his work appears in the Guardian, the Delmarva Review, the Collagist, Scarab, the Pisgah Review, Untoward, the Boiler, Crossborder, and Public Books.Angela Laflen teaches digital rhetoric and professional writing at California State University, Sacramento. Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition and Assessing Writing, among other venues.Laci Mattison is assistant professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in the Department of Language and Literature, where she teaches courses on twentieth-century, Victorian, and contemporary literature. She is one of the general editors for Bloomsbury's Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism series. For this series, she has coedited volumes on Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. Alongside Derek Ryan, she has also coedited a special issue of Deleuze Studies titled Deleuze, Virginia Woolf, and Modernism (2013) and has published articles and book chapters on Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, H. D., Mulk Raj Anand, and Vladimir Nabokov.Kelly Neil is professor of English at Spartanburg Methodist College, a small liberal arts institution located in the upstate of South Carolina. She received her PhD in English literature from the University of California, Davis, where she studied early modern literature and gender. She has published in such journals as Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies and This Rough Magic. She is currently coediting a collection of essays on teaching Shakespeare to nonmajors.Sarah Ann Singer is assistant professor in the Department of English at University of Central Florida. Her work appears in College English, Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Peitho.Rachel Tait-Ripperdan is associate librarian at Florida Gulf Coast University. She received her master's degree in library science from Florida State University and her master's degree in history from Florida Gulf Coast University. She serves as library liaison to the Departments of Language and Literature, History, Communication, Philosophy, and Religion. Her research interests include information literacy instruction, collection development, and graphic novels and manga in the academic classroom.Theresa Tinkle (she/her/hers) is a medievalist by training, a teacher committed to supporting students’ development and ambitions, and a disability studies scholar. Her most recent book is Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis (2010). She has published widely on medieval English and Latin literature, gender, religion, and manuscript culture. She is currently director of the Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is engaged in antiracist work, writing to learn, writing in the disciplines, and writing program assessment.

New Books across the Disciplines

New Books across the Disciplines

New Books across the Disciplines

New Books across the Disciplines

Notes on Contributors

Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreTommi Alho is a researcher at the Åbo Akademi University. He publishes on neo-Latin, history of Classical education and Latin linguistics, and has recently edited (with Jason Finch and Roger D. Sell) the volume Renaissance Man: Essays on Literature and Culture for Anthony W. Johnson (John Benjamins, 2019). His publications include Classical Education in the Restoration Grammar School: A Case Study of Orationes et Carmina aliaque exercitia (Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Lit. MS E41; PhD diss., Åbo Akademi University, 2020).Jonathan Burton is professor and chair of English at Whittier College. He is the author of Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579–1624 (2005) and coauthor with Ania Loomba of Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (2007). His recent publications treat the entwined histories of race and empire, Shakespearean education, and American appropriations of Shakespeare.Nicholas Fenech is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he is a Mellon Foundation fellow. His research is animated by transnational approaches to Renaissance literature and the study of primary sources, examining how cultural change is registered atomically in the circulation of textual fragments and rhetorical forms. His work on tragedy and political theology has appeared in the German Quarterly, and an essay on Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and the rhetoric of exemplarity in Elizabethan political manuscripts is forthcoming from Studies in Philology.Aleksi Mäkilähde is an affiliated researcher at the University of Turku and currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at University College London. He works in the fields of linguistics and philology, having focused especially on historical multilingualism, particularly in his monograph dissertation The Philological-Pragmatic Approach: A Study of Language Choice and Code-Switching in Early Modern English School Performances (University of Turku, 2019). He has also recently coedited (with Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen) the volume Normativity in Language and Linguistics (John Benjamins, 2019).Elizabeth Sandis is a theater historian specializing in neo-Latin dramatic traditions of the early modern period. Trained as a Classicist, she moved into English studies to complete a doctorate at Merton College, Oxford, on the place of student drama in the culture of English university life, before taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Her monograph Growing up Dramatically at Oxford and Cambridge: University Men and Their Plays in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press) is the first study of university drama to cover the Tudor and Stuart periods.Andrew Sofer is professor of English at Boston College. Since 2012 he has taught at the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard, where he has helped develop over sixty books-in-progress by emerging scholars. His books include The Stage Life of Props; Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance; and Wave, a poetry collection. His Theatre Journal essay “How to Do Things with Demons: Conjuring Performatives in Doctor Faustus” received ASTR’s inaugural Oscar G. Brockett Prize for the best essay in theater research.William Steffen is an assistant professor of English at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. His doctoral thesis, “Globalizing Nature on the Shakespearean Stage,” which was awarded the Shakespeare Association of America’s J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize for 2020, revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the nonhuman world on the early modern stage. His work, which celebrates accident, unpredictability, and nonhuman elements as productive agents in performance, traces strategies from early modern performance practices for confronting modern ecological crises. His previous publication, “Grafting and Ecological Imperialism in John Fletcher’s Bonduca,” appeared in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Renaissance Drama Volume 48, Number 2Fall 2020 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/712375 Views: 115 © 2020 by Northwestern University. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Meaning and understanding in intellectual history

ABSTRACT This article responds to Quentin Skinner’s chapter ‘Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece’ in his book From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics by raising methodological questions concerning meaning and understanding in the study of intellectual history. It focuses on three methodological issues pertaining to the examination of visual contexts in intellectual history, and specifically pertaining to the study of early modern European print culture. First, it raises the question of how one should parse instances of co-authorship – especially those in which one of the purported authors of a print is also responsible for producing a related text. When multiple hands are involved in the making of an image that accompanies a written text authored by one of these hands, how does this impact the ways in which we should describe, explain, and interpret the image under consideration? Second, the article raises questions concerning the practice of editing early modern prints for interpretive purposes. It asks whether and when historians working today should and should not try to look beyond the lines printed on the page. Third, it re-examines the slippery problem of influence and what the conditions of influence are when dealing with political iconography.

Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature. Edward McLean Test. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xii + 232 pp. $55.

Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature. Edward McLean Test. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xii + 232 pp. $55.

Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World ed. by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea

Reviewed by: Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World ed. by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea Ursula A. Potter Akhimie, Patricia, and Bernadette Andrea, eds, Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (Early Modern Cultural Studies), Lincoln/London, University of Nebraska Press, 2019; paperback; pp. 384; 3 b/w illustrations, 2 b/w maps; R.R.P. US$35.00; ISBN 9781496202260. I learned much from this collection of sixteen essays, in particular those in Part 1, which documents the travels of a handful of exceptional women within and between Europe and the Islamic world (Ann Broomfield Keeling, Mariam Khan, Teresa Sampsonia Sherley, Catherine Whetenall) and between America and Europe (Pocohontas). Their exploits are impressive, and their lives make for good reading. Part 2, which looks at women and travel in drama, has some outstanding contributions but was more uneven in terms of speculative arguments. Of the eight chapters, three deal with Desdemona in Othello, and the others with less obvious but nonetheless interesting targets such as Cleopatra, Marina in Pericles and The Empress in The Blazing World, Rosalind in As You Like It, and Bess in The Fair Maid of the West. The aim of the collection is to demonstrate that, despite the ubiquitous bans on women’s mobility in prescriptive literature, women did indeed travel overseas, and they participated in the era’s expansionist projects (Introduction, 4). Richmond Barbour paves the way for this counter-argument to the conduct books in the opening chapter with a fascinating description of Mrs Keeling’s travels with her husband, General William Keeling, in the East India Company. This very readable chapter provides ample evidence of support for wives on board for a range of reasons all ultimately in the interests of the company. Barbour uses Desdemona as an apt comparison. Michael Slater similarly presents documentary evidence to show that women such as Desdemona from elite circles were indeed expected to travel with their husbands. Given all the women in this collection are from these higher echelons of society is it necessary to justify their travels? Apparently yes. For contemporary biographers it remained obligatory to prove that feminine virtue, chastity and respectability were not incompatible with their female voyager. The two most common justifications for travel were love of husband and religious motivation. In the case of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley, a Circassian polyglot who travelled widely with her husband, the adventurer Robert Sherley, Carmen Nocentelli proposes her representation as a travelling consort, a gender-neutral term, overcame the usual sexual suspicions for female travellers. By drawing on European biographies Nocentelli uncovers a very different Sherley myth. Bernadette Andrea’s essay focuses on Teresa’s religious motivations by reference to a Carmelite relic she wore around her neck, a piece of flesh from [End Page 171] the body of St Teresa of Avila. The account of the relic’s origins and subsequent ‘career’ makes for compelling reading. Most of the historical essays draw on archival records or biographies. One of the few to use personal travel writings is Laura Ambrose, whose careful analysis of Lady Anne Clifford’s diaries and memoirs reveals how Clifford constructed her own image of herself not so much as a traveller but as moving between her estates. This also explains Clifford’s use of the term ‘remove’ rather than ‘journey’ (p. 169). Mobility in fact becomes the primary means through which Clifford organizes and remembers her life (p. 171) and by which she continually claims her legal entitlement to her estates. It is not possible to cover all sixteen contributions here, but the following stand out in Part 2. One is Laura Aydelotte’s ‘Mapping Women’, which covers several plays, including Othello. Aydelotte traces the way male and female characters employ geographic names and what that says about the boundaries of their power within the world of the plays they inhabit (p. 182). This is part of a digital project, ‘Shakespeare on the Map’, to identify and map the place names in Shakespeare’s plays and their gendered contexts. The Taming of the Shrew (not discussed by Aydelotte) is a good example of the value of this type...

Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War. By Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Edited by Carole Levin and Marguerite A. Tassi.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. viii+224. $55.00.

Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War. By Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Edited by Carole Levin and Marguerite A. Tassi.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. viii+224. $55.00.

Jeff Dolven Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 240 pp.

Previous article No AccessThe CI ReviewJeff Dolven Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 240 pp.Robert Hudson VincentRobert Hudson Vincent Search for more articles by this author Robert Hudson Vincent is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at Harvard University, where he is completing a dissertation titled The English Baroque: The Logic of Style in 17th-Century Poetry and Performance. His recent article “Baroque Optics and Luis de Góngora’s Polifemo” appears in Modern Language Notes 133 (Mar. 2018), and he has previously published work in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies and Cultural Studies.PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 45, Number 4Summer 2019 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/703971 Views: 195Total views on this site © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England. Edited by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+304.

Previous articleNext article FreeBook ReviewThe Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England. Edited by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+304.Kurt SchreyerKurt SchreyerUniversity of Missouri–St. Louis Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJudging from the essays in The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage, the “turn to religion” remains a stimulating and productive approach to the study of early modern literature and culture. In fact, this volume offers some of the most important contributions to the topic of Shakespeare’s relationship to the biblical text since Hannibal Hamlin’s The Bible in Shakespeare (2013). No mere catalog of biblical allusions, the collection focuses on post-Reformation reading (broadly understood), interpretation, and debate in England and on the Continent. As the editors observe, “Though largely focused on ‘reading’ as an interpretive mode, scholars in this volume are also attentive to the ways that scriptural representations on the stage derive from both the written page and the pulpit; indeed, the pulpit and the stage are both places where the biblical text is, in a sense, performed as well as interpreted” (4). The Shakespearean stage is not dutifully acquiescent to the received doctrine of any denominational or theological camp but rather highly engaged with the vexatious manifestations of contemporary theological polemic. To paraphrase Jesse Lander’s reading of Hamlet in chapter 11, if the Bible may be said to be a groundwork for the play, its presence provokes rather than pacifies the maimed rites and the whirling words that disorient both characters and audience.In the first of the volume’s four parts, both Bruce Gordon and Aaron Pratt demonstrate that bibliographically fixing “the Bibles of the Reformation and post-Reformation periods” is considerably more difficult than we might expect, for they “were by no means static entities” (32), and our modern taxonomies “have obscured from view the actual Bibles and New Testaments that shaped the scriptural encounters of Shakespeare and his contemporaries” (35). Subsequent essays pursue other forms of complexity in fascinating ways, including the intricacies of literal meaning (Jay Zysk), hermeneutical interpretation and debate (Kristen Poole), exegetical harmonization (Tom Bishop), Roman oratory and biblical lament (Adrian Streete), biblical allusions (Beatrice Groves, Hannibal Hamlin, Richard Strier), and political theology (Thomas Fulton). Julia Reinhard Lupton’s afterword not only offers a thoughtful reflection on the contributions to the volume but also gleans the practical wisdom and virtues it promotes for our contemporary community of scholars. Along with Lander’s and Pratt’s essays cited above, Shaina Trapedo’s account of The Merchant of Venice must be singled out for its fresh and inspired approach. The play, she argues, explores the intellectual and doctrinal debt, simultaneously legitimized and denounced, of Reformed Christianity to Jewish scripture and hermeneutics. “Gratiano’s sarcastic ‘I thank thee, Jew’ and appropriation of the term ‘Daniel’ reveal the paradox of gratitude Shakespeare uses to power his play: ever-present in the admission of thanks is a confession of inadequacy and dependence” (184).The ideological thread that intertwines this diverse web of scholarly interests may be found in the book’s subtitle, Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England. Whatever its disavowals of confessional sympathies, the volume’s focus and, one gathers, its real interest lie in Reformed discourses, with the result that the reading practices—biblical and theatrical—of recusant communities are not explored. English Catholicism is, it would seem, a past phenomenon by the late sixteenth century. Even Shakespeare’s medieval Danish prince is “quite clearly” Protestant (80). Some readers may find its contributions uneven or may quibble with particulars, but Fulton and Poole have gathered a formidable body of scholarship to help us think about and with Shakespeare’s religious culture. This collection of essays may be read, excerpted, and deployed in a number of productive ways in the undergraduate and graduate classroom: by Shakespeare play, by biblical book or genre, by early modern material text, or by exegetical debate, to name only a few. It is a must-read for scholars wishing to expand and deepen their knowledge of early modern biblical exegetes and their influence on Shakespeare’s culture and works. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 117, Number 2November 2019 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/705615HistoryPublished online August 07, 2019 For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Kuczyńska, Marzanna Między wschodem a zachodem. Prawosławie i unia (review)

SEER, 96, 4, OCTOBER 2018 778 leaves the proponents of the official consensus blinded to the prospects of growth and unity — the foremost aim of any functional society. UCL SSEES Ruta Skriptaite Kuczyńska, Marzanna (ed.). Między wschodem a zachodem. Prawosławie i unia. Kultura Pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej w diaogu z Europą, 11. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw, 2017. 389 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Zł45.00. The book under review is volume eleven of an ambitious twelve-volume project launched in 2015 by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw. Focusing on esthetics, literary culture, languages, political history and religions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (PLC), the project is aimed at exploring different civilizational patterns of this polity in both its internal and external relationships with other religions, cultures and peoples. Exploring Ruthenian culture in early modern Poland-Lithuania, this collectionconsistsoftwelvechaptersbyspecialistsinreligious,cultural,literary and ethnic studies. In her introductory chapter, editor Marzanna Kuczyńska substantiates the significance of Ruthenian culture in the history of the PLC (pp. 7–15) and outlines the four main areas it will cover: 1) different identity aspects, including religion and church, language, social status, origins; 2) the continuity and changes in Ruthenian culture (e.g. liturgy, patristics, theology, printing, translations, icons); 3) changes in the preparation of priests; and 4) the Uniate Congregation of St Basil and the integration of culture, schooling and printing (p. 8). In the first essay, Tomasz Kempa investigates the interrelations between the Orthodox and Uniate churches in the PLC, including the politics of both secular and religious hierarchies (pp. 17–55). He follows the process of gradual Polish acculturation of the Ruthenian gentry and commoners and the introduction of the Uniate rite by the leaders of the pro-Union coterie of Orthodox bishops in 1595–96. The controversy surrounding the Union of Brest provoked an unprecedented outburst of polemical writing and the ensuing support of the Cossacks of the consecration of a new Orthodoxy hierarchy in the early 1620s. Kempa concludes that, because of the internal politics of Polish kings, the Orthodoxy in the PLC ‘lost its native character’, while all other cultures in this polity also ‘suffered’ (p. 55). Teresa Chynczewska-Hennel’s essay is concerned with issues of the religious and ethnic identity of Ruthenians (pp. 56–80). While stressing the mosaic REVIEWS 779 of religions, identities and peoples living in early modern Poland-Lithuania, Chynczewska-Hennel offers a detailed picture of linguistic, religious and cultural transformations in the development of Ruthenian identity, first and foremost the Union of Brest of 1595–96. In particular, she discusses the vicissitudes of the Ruthenian language in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the polemics around the dignities of the Ruthenian vernacular and Church Slavonic. Despite her exhaustive bibliography, she neglects Harvey Goldblatt’s study of the literary output of the Ruthenian monk Ivan Vyšens’kyj. More importantly, however, she outlines the transgression of Ruthenian self-identification from an ethnic-religious-cultural basis to the understanding of its social rights and privileges (pp. 78–79). Sergejus Temčinas concentrates on the languages of Ruthenian culture (pp. 81–120), elaborating on a typology of the respective languages on both a chronological and spatial foundation. He posits a period from 1385 (Union of Krevo) to 1569 (Union of Lublin) followed by a period from 1569 to 1795 when the PLC ceased to exist (pp. 81–82); during the aforementioned periods, different lands played the role of cultural centres, from Galicia-Volhynja to Wilno/Vil’no (Vilnius) to Kyiv. This is why, he argues, the linguistic aspect of Ruthenian identity is very complex, being comprised of Church Slavonic, Ruthenian, Polish and Latin (p. 89). Despite his detailed and exhaustive classification of languages, Temčinas proposes some dubious concepts. For instance, he claims that ‘the Ruthenian language [ruska mowa] is a largely Polonized western variety of Old Rusian [język staroruski]’ (p. 96). Not supported by a discussion of linguistic mechanisms proper, this thesis is poorly grounded; additionally, the geographical orientation in this definition does not reflect the dialectal grouping of Old Rusian (Old East Slavic) and presupposes the obsolete treatment of Old Rusian as...

At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain. Jodi Campbell. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. x + 238 pp. $30.

At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain. Jodi Campbell. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. x + 238 pp. $30.

The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature. Denys van Renen. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. xii + 268 pp. $55.

The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature. Denys van Renen. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. xii + 268 pp. $55. - Volume 71 Issue 2

Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature. Mary Beth Rose. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xiv + 192 pp. $99.99.

Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature. Mary Beth Rose. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xiv + 192 pp. $99.99. - Volume 71 Issue 3

Review: México y Filipinas: culturas y memorias sobre el Pacífico by Thomas Calvo y Paulina Machuca, eds.

Book Review| November 01 2017 Review: México y Filipinas: culturas y memorias sobre el Pacífico by Thomas Calvo y Paulina Machuca, eds. Thomas Calvo y Paulina Machuca, eds. México y Filipinas: culturas y memorias sobre el Pacífico, Zamora, Michoacán (México): El Colegio de Michoacán & Quezon City, Manila (Philippines): Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2016. 411 pp. John D. Blanco John D. Blanco University of California, San Diego John D. Blanco teaches the literatures and cultures of early modern globalization under the Spanish Empire (Philippine, Latin American, and Asian) and modern Philippine and Asian-American literatures at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth Century Philippines (UC Press 2009; University of the Philippines Press 2010). His current book manuscript engages in a comparative study of missionary and indigenous collaboration and conflict in the reinterpretation of the Conquest in the Philippines between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. His articles have appeared in the Radical History Review, Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto), and Amerasia journal, as well as various book anthologies. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies. At UCSD he is the Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Division of Arts and Humanities (DAH). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2017) 33 (3): 449–451. https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2017.33.3.449 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John D. Blanco; Review: México y Filipinas: culturas y memorias sobre el Pacífico by Thomas Calvo y Paulina Machuca, eds.. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 1 November 2017; 33 (3): 449–451. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2017.33.3.449 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentMexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Rethinking Comparison: The Case of China in Early Modern Cultural Studies

Rethinking Comparison: The Case of China in Early Modern Cultural Studies