Peter C Herman
Biographic Data
| ID | 535404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter C Herman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter C |
| FAMILY NAME | Herman |
| SIGNATURE | HERMAN P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7731-8098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Return of the Two Cultures in the Israel–Hamas War Protests
Technology and Literature
Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover the consequences of new technologies. Individual chapters focus on how specific literary technologies – the development of writing, the printing press, typewr…
Shakespeare and the Book of Henry
In this article, I argue that the four plays of the Henriad (Richard II, 1 and 2 Henry IV, and Henry V), as presented in the 1623 Folio, constitute a unified whole intended for reading. The plays are connected not only by the endings of one play leading directly into the beginning of the next, but they are also unified by thematic and verbal echoes. I will focus first on establishing the connections between the plays, and then on the thematic res…
Terrorism and Literature
More, Huxley, Eggers, and the Utopian/Dystopian Tradition
From its inception in Plato’s Republic and revival in Thomas More’s Utopia, the concept of a perfect (or as More originally put it in a qualification often lost, “best”) form of a republic has been dogged by the spectres of hypocrisy, contradiction, and authoritarianism. However, the matter is more complicated than a simple declaration that utopias provide a vehicle for totalitarian fantasy, that totalitarian governments inevitably portray themse…
Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body
Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body. Brendan Prawdzik. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. xii + 250 pp. £75. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Dynamite bombs of New York manufacture”: The terrorist perspective in the Stevensons, Greer and James
This article examines the first three literary reactions to Fenian terrorism: Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson’s co-written novel, The Dynamiter (1885); Tom Greer’s A Modern Daedalus (1885) and Henry James’ The Princess Casamassima (1886). Although these works approach terrorism from different angles, they set the pattern for subsequent treatments that will “give primary voice to the perspective of the terrorist”. “Zero”, t…
The Poetry of John Milton
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The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems
The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems. John Milton. Ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and Estelle Haan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. clxxvi + 632 pp. $250. - Volume 68 Issue 4
We Are the Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman’s Zombies and Buddhist Body Image
Robert Kirkman’s popular horror comic The Walking Dead offers the basis for a constructive Buddhist reading of the identification of the body with the authentic self. By applying both traditional Buddhist readings of charnel ground meditations and theorist Julia Kristeva’s understanding of “abjection,” this article argues that the comic can be read in a socially progressive mode, destabilizing the identification of authentic personhood with speci…
“A deed without a name”: Macbeth, the Gunpowder Plot, and terrorism
Terrorism, paradoxically, both speaks and is unspeakable. To the perpetrators, terrorism has a precise and clear message. To its victims, the terrorist act is so horrible it defies language. In this article, I suggest that we can find the origin of this paradigm in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In his speech to Parliament a few days after the plot was discovered, King James begins by admitting the paradox: “What can I speak of this, I know not; Nay…
Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason is but Choosing.”
Richard J. DuRocher and Margaret Olofson Thickstun, eds. Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason is but Choosing.” Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2012. xxv + 278 pp. $58. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0450–0. - Volume 66 Issue 1
Paradigms lost, paradigms found: The New Milton Criticism
“Conflict, ambivalence, and open-endedness” occupy a contested place in Milton studies. While discontinuities in Milton’s works have long been noted, Miltonists have traditionally regarded them as anomalies, and the critics who opted to explore, without resolving, them were often designated as marginal, or outliers in the field. The predilection for coherence and resolution in Milton studies has led Nigel Smith to observe that “the nature and com…
The New Milton Criticism
The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions – religious, philosophical and literary critical – transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticis…
Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch
Ilona D. Bell. Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch. Queenship and Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xv + 207 pp. index. illus. 26 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–230–62105–3 (cl), 978–0–230–62106–0 (pbk). - Anna Riehl. The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I. Queenship and Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xv + 248 pp. index. illus. bibl. $80. ISBN: 978–0–230–61495–6. - Volume 64 Issue 1
Lady Hester Pulter's The Unfortunate Florinda: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Rape
In the mid-1990s a manuscript was discovered containing the poetry and prose of a previously unknown female author, Lady Hester Pulter. The poems, likely written during the 1640s–'50s, demonstrate Pulter's wide reading and her near-fanatical Royalism. The prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda, however, displays a very different politics. Basing her fiction on the legends surrounding the Muslim conquest of Spain, I argue that Pulter adjusts her …
Early English Protestantism and Renaissance Poetics: The Charge is Committing Fiction in the Matter of Rastell v. Frith
The debate between John Rastell and John Frith constitutes a previously unrecognized ancestor to Stephen Gosson's attack on poetry and Sir Philip Sidney's (problematic) defense of it. Although the nominal aim of Rastell's A Newe Boke of Purgatorye and Frith's A Disputation of Purgatory is theological disputation, in fact these texts constitute an implicit defense of and attack on fictions. Consequently, they form an important background for the E…
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox
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Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition
John T. Shawcross and Michael Lieb, eds. “Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2007. xvi + 456 pp. bibl. $68. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0392–3. - Michael Lieb and John T. Shawcross, eds. “Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: Essays on the 1667 First Edition. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2007. xii + 288 pp. index. append. $60. ISBN: 978…
Destabilizing Milton: “Paradise Lost” and the Poetics of Incertitude
Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty. In Paradise Lost , Milton confronts the failure of the Revolution by creating a poem
Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Conclusion of Milton’s Career
While one might think that writing Paradise Lost would have fulfilled Milton’s poetic ambitions, all passion spent by the time he reached the wondrous concluding lines, “They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, / Through Eden took thir solitarie way” (12.648–9), evidently, he had still more to say,1 and, in 1671, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes appeared in one volume.2 Yet, these poems are not discrete efforts.3 Together, they form …
Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism
This article describes the current state of Milton studies. In the first part, I outline the dominant paradigm – i.e., that Milton is a poet of certainty and orthodoxy – showing how this paradigm arose and how it continues to shape a great deal of Milton scholarship. In the second part, I outline how a New Milton Criticism is starting to take shape, one which embraces indeterminacy and incertitude
Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World
Book Review| January 01 2005 Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New WorldHart, Jonathan; Hart, Jonathon Peter C. Herman Peter C. Herman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (2): 330–333. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247486 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer…
Bastard Children of Tyranny: "The Ancient Constitution and Fulke Greville's "A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney
This essay proposes that Fulke Greville structured A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney according to the principles of the Ancient Constitution. Greville departs from the standard view of Sidney in the early seventeenth century as a primarily literary figures by constructing his late friend as an avatar of the Ancient Constitution, and views Elizabeth and Essex in the same light. Greville’s redefinition of all three as exemplars of English constitut…
He said What?!?”: Misdeeming Gorboduc, or Problematizing Form, Service and Certainty
Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism
This article describes the current state of Milton studies. In the first part, I outline the dominant paradigm – i.e., that Milton is a poet of certainty and orthodoxy – showing how this paradigm arose and how it continues to shape a great deal of Milton scholarship. In the second part, I outline how a New Milton Criticism is starting to take shape, one which embraces indeterminacy and incertitude
"Authorship and the Royal "I: King James VI/I and the Politics of Monarchic Verse
In this essay, I will show how James's position as monarch governed both the writing and the reception of his verse. Using James's previously ignored sonnet to Elizabeth, enclosed in a letter to her and so far as one can tell, intended for her eyes alone, his elegy for Sir Philip Sidney, printed in a commemorative volume, and the mini-epic, the Lepanto, I will show that James always writes as a monarch and never as a mere poet. The first two poem…
Lady Hester Pulter's The Unfortunate Florinda: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Rape
In the mid-1990s a manuscript was discovered containing the poetry and prose of a previously unknown female author, Lady Hester Pulter. The poems, likely written during the 1640s–'50s, demonstrate Pulter's wide reading and her near-fanatical Royalism. The prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda, however, displays a very different politics. Basing her fiction on the legends surrounding the Muslim conquest of Spain, I argue that Pulter adjusts her …
The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems
The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems. John Milton. Ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and Estelle Haan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. clxxvi + 632 pp. $250. - Volume 68 Issue 4
"Is This Winning?": Prince Henry's Death and the Problem of Chivalry in "The Two Noble Kinsmen"
Rastell's Pastyme of People: Monarchy and the Law in Early Modern Historiography
Research Article| May 01 2000 Rastell's Pastyme of People: Monarchy and the Law in Early Modern Historiography Peter C. Herman Peter C. Herman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 275–308. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-2-275 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Peter C. Herman; Rastell's Pastyme of Pe…
He said What?!?”: Misdeeming Gorboduc, or Problematizing Form, Service and Certainty
"Authorship and the Royal "I: King James VI/I and the Politics of Monarchic Verse
In this essay, I will show how James's position as monarch governed both the writing and the reception of his verse. Using James's previously ignored sonnet to Elizabeth, enclosed in a letter to her and so far as one can tell, intended for her eyes alone, his elegy for Sir Philip Sidney, printed in a commemorative volume, and the mini-epic, the Lepanto, I will show that James always writes as a monarch and never as a mere poet. The first two poem…
Bastard Children of Tyranny: "The Ancient Constitution and Fulke Greville's "A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney
This essay proposes that Fulke Greville structured A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney according to the principles of the Ancient Constitution. Greville departs from the standard view of Sidney in the early seventeenth century as a primarily literary figures by constructing his late friend as an avatar of the Ancient Constitution, and views Elizabeth and Essex in the same light. Greville’s redefinition of all three as exemplars of English constitut…
Destabilizing Milton: “Paradise Lost” and the Poetics of Incertitude
Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty. In Paradise Lost , Milton confronts the failure of the Revolution by creating a poem
Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Conclusion of Milton’s Career
While one might think that writing Paradise Lost would have fulfilled Milton’s poetic ambitions, all passion spent by the time he reached the wondrous concluding lines, “They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, / Through Eden took thir solitarie way” (12.648–9), evidently, he had still more to say,1 and, in 1671, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes appeared in one volume.2 Yet, these poems are not discrete efforts.3 Together, they form …
Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism
This article describes the current state of Milton studies. In the first part, I outline the dominant paradigm – i.e., that Milton is a poet of certainty and orthodoxy – showing how this paradigm arose and how it continues to shape a great deal of Milton scholarship. In the second part, I outline how a New Milton Criticism is starting to take shape, one which embraces indeterminacy and incertitude
Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World
Book Review| January 01 2005 Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New WorldHart, Jonathan; Hart, Jonathon Peter C. Herman Peter C. Herman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (2): 330–333. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247486 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer…
Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition
John T. Shawcross and Michael Lieb, eds. “Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2007. xvi + 456 pp. bibl. $68. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0392–3. - Michael Lieb and John T. Shawcross, eds. “Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”: Essays on the 1667 First Edition. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2007. xii + 288 pp. index. append. $60. ISBN: 978…
Early English Protestantism and Renaissance Poetics: The Charge is Committing Fiction in the Matter of Rastell v. Frith
The debate between John Rastell and John Frith constitutes a previously unrecognized ancestor to Stephen Gosson's attack on poetry and Sir Philip Sidney's (problematic) defense of it. Although the nominal aim of Rastell's A Newe Boke of Purgatorye and Frith's A Disputation of Purgatory is theological disputation, in fact these texts constitute an implicit defense of and attack on fictions. Consequently, they form an important background for the E…
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox
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
Lady Hester Pulter's The Unfortunate Florinda: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Rape
In the mid-1990s a manuscript was discovered containing the poetry and prose of a previously unknown female author, Lady Hester Pulter. The poems, likely written during the 1640s–'50s, demonstrate Pulter's wide reading and her near-fanatical Royalism. The prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda, however, displays a very different politics. Basing her fiction on the legends surrounding the Muslim conquest of Spain, I argue that Pulter adjusts her …
Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch
Ilona D. Bell. Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch. Queenship and Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xv + 207 pp. index. illus. 26 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–230–62105–3 (cl), 978–0–230–62106–0 (pbk). - Anna Riehl. The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I. Queenship and Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xv + 248 pp. index. illus. bibl. $80. ISBN: 978–0–230–61495–6. - Volume 64 Issue 1
Paradigms lost, paradigms found: The New Milton Criticism
“Conflict, ambivalence, and open-endedness” occupy a contested place in Milton studies. While discontinuities in Milton’s works have long been noted, Miltonists have traditionally regarded them as anomalies, and the critics who opted to explore, without resolving, them were often designated as marginal, or outliers in the field. The predilection for coherence and resolution in Milton studies has led Nigel Smith to observe that “the nature and com…
The New Milton Criticism
The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions – religious, philosophical and literary critical – transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticis…
Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason is but Choosing.”
Richard J. DuRocher and Margaret Olofson Thickstun, eds. Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason is but Choosing.” Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2012. xxv + 278 pp. $58. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0450–0. - Volume 66 Issue 1
We Are the Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman’s Zombies and Buddhist Body Image
Robert Kirkman’s popular horror comic The Walking Dead offers the basis for a constructive Buddhist reading of the identification of the body with the authentic self. By applying both traditional Buddhist readings of charnel ground meditations and theorist Julia Kristeva’s understanding of “abjection,” this article argues that the comic can be read in a socially progressive mode, destabilizing the identification of authentic personhood with speci…
“A deed without a name”: Macbeth, the Gunpowder Plot, and terrorism
Terrorism, paradoxically, both speaks and is unspeakable. To the perpetrators, terrorism has a precise and clear message. To its victims, the terrorist act is so horrible it defies language. In this article, I suggest that we can find the origin of this paradigm in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In his speech to Parliament a few days after the plot was discovered, King James begins by admitting the paradox: “What can I speak of this, I know not; Nay…
The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems
The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems. John Milton. Ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and Estelle Haan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. clxxvi + 632 pp. $250. - Volume 68 Issue 4
Dynamite bombs of New York manufacture”: The terrorist perspective in the Stevensons, Greer and James
This article examines the first three literary reactions to Fenian terrorism: Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson’s co-written novel, The Dynamiter (1885); Tom Greer’s A Modern Daedalus (1885) and Henry James’ The Princess Casamassima (1886). Although these works approach terrorism from different angles, they set the pattern for subsequent treatments that will “give primary voice to the perspective of the terrorist”. “Zero”, t…
The Poetry of John Milton
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
Terrorism and Literature
More, Huxley, Eggers, and the Utopian/Dystopian Tradition
From its inception in Plato’s Republic and revival in Thomas More’s Utopia, the concept of a perfect (or as More originally put it in a qualification often lost, “best”) form of a republic has been dogged by the spectres of hypocrisy, contradiction, and authoritarianism. However, the matter is more complicated than a simple declaration that utopias provide a vehicle for totalitarian fantasy, that totalitarian governments inevitably portray themse…
Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body
Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body. Brendan Prawdzik. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. xii + 250 pp. £75. - Volume 71 Issue 2
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