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Looking for brilliant scholarship to brighten these chilly fall days? Our Fall 2022 issue is officially here and includes ten exceptional articles on a wide variety of subjects . . .
muse.jhu.edu/issue/48500
ELH was saddened to hear of the death of Professor Jonathan Goldberg last week. In addition to being the author of a host of important critical studies, Professor Goldberg was a key editor of ELH who brilliantly trained generations of PhD students at John Hopkins.
We are gathering remembrances of him, which will be posted to the JHU English website soon. He will be deeply missed by countless students and colleagues.
Here is the obituary for Professor Goldberg posted at The New York Times:
legacy.com/us/obituaries/nyt…
☀️Summer ☀️ is here and brings with it a new issue of ELH! Our Summer 2022 number includes ten outstanding articles on a wide range of subjects...
muse.jhu.edu/journal/58
in his study of the Faerie Queene, Danila Sokolov explores how the many lyric inscriptions on surfaces such as metal, wood, stone, & flesh in Spenser's poem suggest "a mutually nourishing rather than agonistic relationship between lyric and epic"
muse.jhu.edu/article/856427
...and next, @FGMohamed reflects on recent work on race in early modern studies in his "On Race and Historicism: A Polemic in Three Turns," reading Samson Agonistes in the context of the early modern English culture of enslavement
muse.jhu.edu/article/856428
May we recommend some Spring reading? 🌸🌸
In "George Herbert's Outlandish Wisdom" Jason Crawford finds that Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs align "not with the main bodies of early modern proverbial wisdom but with other discourses, older and stranger"
muse.jhu.edu/article/848854
"If we ask, how queer was the British Poetry Revival? The only sensible answer seems to be not queer at all. I want to prize open this assessment."
In our latest number, Luke Roberts delves into the often-ignored queerness of the British Poetry Revival
tinyurl.com/5a59u9vh
