SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

In SEL's latest issue (64.2), Martin's thematic review examines recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama through the lens of nature, environment, science, and ecology. Martin finds that the "critical Anthropocene reorientation is one major imperative of early modern ecocriticism, the historical-political study of literary representations of nature and environments, informed in hindsight by modern science and made urgent by twenty-first-century crises. Find the full thematic review on Project MUSE https://buff.ly/AoJtJvh

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Lupton's thematic review examines recent studies in space, place, and commonplace in Tudor and Stuart Drama. Lupton finds that "What emerges across these efforts is a sense of the expansive vistas of Shakespeare studies." Check out the full thematic review on Project MUSE https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990196

Call for Papers! Consider submitting proposals to a themed issue on Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. This call welcomes essays that imagine new possibilities for the study of historical English literature beyond colonial frameworks. Find the full CFP and submission guidelines shared on SEL's website https://buff.ly/xEUC2KK

🏖️ Marginalia's staff are taking a well-deserved summer break! While they rest, travel, and enjoy their time, Marginalia will be on hiatus. Once our staff return in late August, we'll be back with new essays, interviews, and book reviews! Until then, please enjoy our back catalogue from our first year of publication.

SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our inaugural SEL: The Roundtable on Early Modern Women's Rage. SEL: The Roundtable brings together scholars to participate in a roundtable discussion surrounding a central theme. Our 64.2 Roundtable features papers on expressions of anger by women such as Charlotte Corday, Lucrece, Hecuba, Anne Greene, and Chinese woman poets and examines how anger, resentment, and other emotions have challenged notions of gender and womanhood. Check out the full roundtable including position papers and responses from each participant now on Project MUSE https://buff.ly/ELTVShG

In SEL's latest issue, Lee examines The Comedy of Errors as a conflict between the male-dominated commercial sphere and the female-dominated domestic one over an important resource: time. Lee argues that “Due to their central role in domestic routines and rituals, the women in the play are tasked with establishing a temporal order that balances the demands of both home and work.” Read now on Project MUSE https://buff.ly/18I9vyM

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Miller-Tomlinson uses Henry V to reconceptualize the playhouse as an alternative model of affective economy. Miller-Tomlinson argues that "the play offers as an aspirational ideal the possibility that in the playhouse the affective renegotiation of authority will serve the commonweal through the production of cultural memory that stamps commoners, as well as dynastic actors, into history.” Read now on Project MUSE https://buff.ly/2A8PeBt

Image Citation: Branston, Allen Robert, and Thurston, John. Henry V, Act V, Scene 2 . [1778-1827]. Folger Shakespeare Library. Artstor. https://buff.ly/3eRB34C.