Fault lines and controversies in the study of seventeenth-century English literature (University of Missouri Press, 2002)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"What is truth?": defining and defending theoretical pluralism / Robert C. Evans -- The ahistoricism of the new historicism: knowledge as power versus power as knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- Conjecture in the writing of Donne's biography, with a modest proposal / Dennis Flynn -- Marvell's "Mower against gardens": reconsidering Bakhtinian dialogism / Dan Jaeckle -- In defense of Empson: a reassessment of Milton's God / Tobias Gregory -- Milton and Dryden on the restoration stage / Elizabeth Sauer -- Profession or performance? religion in early modern literary study / Kate Narveson -- John Donne and the Socinian heresy / Jeffrey Johnson -- Critical directions in the study of early modern sermons / P.G. Stanwood -- The poets of the Renaissance; or, the illusions of my youth / Sharon Cadmon Seelig -- Donne on love: sometimes the end just doesn't justify the means / Joan Faust -- "The explication of whiteness and blackness": skin color and the physics of color in the works of Robert Boyle and Margaret Cavendish / Cristina Malcolmson -- Milton's lady and Lady Milton: chastity, prophecy, and gender in A maske presented at Ludlow Castle / William Shullenberger