Stephanie Elsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5920153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Elsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Elsky |
| SIGNATURE | ELSKY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature
Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England’s constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purport…
Ernst Kantorowicz, Shakespeare, and the Humanities’ Two Bodies
This commentary reflects on two very different revivals of Ernst Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology in the field of early modern studies, the first during the heyday of New Historicism and the second in the current post-New Historicist moment that is still defining itself. The first revival focused on the literal meaning of king’s two bodies, the second on its figurative and fictional nature. The first tra…
Pleasure and Gender in the Writings of Thomas More
A. D. Cousins. Pleasure and Gender in the Writings of Thomas More: Pursuing the Common Weal. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2010. 178 pp. index. $58. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0438–8. - Volume 64 Issue 4
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Pleasure and Gender in the Writings of Thomas More
A. D. Cousins. Pleasure and Gender in the Writings of Thomas More: Pursuing the Common Weal. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2010. 178 pp. index. $58. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0438–8. - Volume 64 Issue 4
Ernst Kantorowicz, Shakespeare, and the Humanities’ Two Bodies
This commentary reflects on two very different revivals of Ernst Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology in the field of early modern studies, the first during the heyday of New Historicism and the second in the current post-New Historicist moment that is still defining itself. The first revival focused on the literal meaning of king’s two bodies, the second on its figurative and fictional nature. The first tra…
Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature
Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England’s constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purport…
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Renaissance literature (2 works) · The Renaissance (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Allegory (1 work)