Todd Andrew Borlik
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Andrew Borlik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Borlik |
| SIGNATURE | BORLIK T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3650-0966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Did Lady Macbeth Die? A Clue from The Aeneid
When Richard III Met Long John Silver
The article establishes that Stevenson cast his Richard III in the same mold as his iconic pirate Long John Silver, and that both characters acquired some of their menacing vitality from Stevenson's one-legged friend and collaborator William Ernest Henley. More broadly, Stevenson's historical novel presents a corrective to the top-down perspective of the Shakespearean history play or rather its conscription by Victorian ‘Great Man’ historiography…
Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance
Hellish Falls
The first part of this essay (published in a previous issue of English Studies) grounded Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in the grisly history of Renaissance aviation. This continuation instead situates Marlowe's tragedy alongside other “Icarian” plays in the Admiral's repertoire that likely featured vertical ascents followed by horrific falls. While Part I spotlighted the links between Faustus and the failed aviators Icarus, Lucifer and Simon Magus, Pa…
Hellish Falls
With its aerial voyages and ominous allusions to the failed aviators Icarus, Lucifer and Simon Magus, Doctor Faustus presents an uncanny commentary on the Renaissance dream of flight. This article uncovers Marlowe's infatuation with human flight as the ultimate act of physical, intellectual and spiritual trangression. So the grisly addition to the B-text, in which a group of scholars examine—like a forensics team at a crash site—the carnage of Fa…
Reading Green in Early Modern England
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Carnivalesque Ecoterrorism in Pom Poko
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature
In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative conce…
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature
In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative concerns in m…
Mute Timber?
In 1590, two years after its original quarto publication, Thomas Harriot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia received a second lavish printing complete with twenty-eight engravings of the Southeastern Algonquin. Although the text has recently gained notoriety as a prime example of early modern ethnography, critics have sometimes overlooked its main purpose: to drum up investment in the colonial venture. The first half of …
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature
In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative conce…
Carnivalesque Ecoterrorism in Pom Poko
Mute Timber?
In 1590, two years after its original quarto publication, Thomas Harriot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia received a second lavish printing complete with twenty-eight engravings of the Southeastern Algonquin. Although the text has recently gained notoriety as a prime example of early modern ethnography, critics have sometimes overlooked its main purpose: to drum up investment in the colonial venture. The first half of …
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature
In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative concerns in m…
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature
In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative conce…
Reading Green in Early Modern England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Carnivalesque Ecoterrorism in Pom Poko
Hellish Falls
The first part of this essay (published in a previous issue of English Studies) grounded Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in the grisly history of Renaissance aviation. This continuation instead situates Marlowe's tragedy alongside other “Icarian” plays in the Admiral's repertoire that likely featured vertical ascents followed by horrific falls. While Part I spotlighted the links between Faustus and the failed aviators Icarus, Lucifer and Simon Magus, Pa…
Hellish Falls
With its aerial voyages and ominous allusions to the failed aviators Icarus, Lucifer and Simon Magus, Doctor Faustus presents an uncanny commentary on the Renaissance dream of flight. This article uncovers Marlowe's infatuation with human flight as the ultimate act of physical, intellectual and spiritual trangression. So the grisly addition to the B-text, in which a group of scholars examine—like a forensics team at a crash site—the carnage of Fa…
Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance
When Richard III Met Long John Silver
The article establishes that Stevenson cast his Richard III in the same mold as his iconic pirate Long John Silver, and that both characters acquired some of their menacing vitality from Stevenson's one-legged friend and collaborator William Ernest Henley. More broadly, Stevenson's historical novel presents a corrective to the top-down perspective of the Shakespearean history play or rather its conscription by Victorian ‘Great Man’ historiography…
How Did Lady Macbeth Die? A Clue from The Aeneid
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