Contents |
Of circles, friendship, and the imperatives of literary history / Judith Scherer Herz -- "Like a spyed Spie": Donne's baiting of Marlowe / M. Thomas Hester -- "To all vertuous Ladies in generall": Aemilia Lanyer's community of strong women / Sharon Cadman Seelig -- The invention of the literary circle of Sir Thomas Overbury / John Considine -- "This art will live": social and literary responses to Ben Jonson's New Inn / Robert C. Evans -- Newcastle's ghosts: Robert Payne, Ben Jonson, and the "Cavendish Circle" / Timothy Raylor -- Reading poets reading poets: Herbert and Crashaw's literary ellipse / Paul A. Parrish -- A space for academic recreation: Milton's proposal in The reason of church-government / Anna K. Nardo -- Thomas Stanley and "A register of friends" / Stella P. Revard -- Community and social order in the Great Tew Circle / Paul G. Stanwood -- "The great difference of time": the Great Tew Circle and the emergence of the neoclassical mode / M.L. Donnelly -- Conversation, conversion, messianic redemption: Margaret Fell, Menasseh ben Israel, and the Jews / Achsah Guibbory. |