The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies

JEN BOYLE Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of English at Coastal Carolina University, USA AMY COOK Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA GABREL EGAN teaches Shakespeare and other English literature as well as the art of hand-printing. GRAHAM HAMMILL Associate Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo, USA F. ELIZABETH HART Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA DAVID HAWKES Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University, USA KEN JACKSON Associate Professor of English and Director of Religious Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA GARY KUCHAR Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria B.C., Canada JERZY LIMON Professor of English at the English Institute, University of Gda?sk, Poland JULIA REINHARD LUPTON Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA IAN MUNRO Associate Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA WILLIAM N. WEST Associate Professor of English, Classics, and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, USA JULIAN YATES Associate Professor of English and Material Culture Studies at University of Delaware, USA

Tarrying with the Subjunctive, an Introduction; P.Cefalu & B.Reynolds PART I: NEW FORMALISMS AND COGNITIVISM A Paltry 'Hoop of Gold': Semantics and Systematicity in Early Modern Studies; F.E.Hart If: Lear's Feather and the Staging of Science; A.Cook Ghosting the Subjunctive: Perceptual Technics in Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Transversal (New) Media; J.Boyle What was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions; J.Yates PART I: POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE RELIGIOUS TURN Introduction to a Totem Meal: Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt and Political Theology; J.Reinhard Lupton The Marlovian Sublime: Imagination and the Problem of Political Theology; G.Hammill Humanism and the Resistance to Theology; W.West 'Grace to Boot': St. Paul, Messianic Time, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale ; K.Jackson 'Love's Best Habit': Eros, Agape and the Psychotheology of Shakespeare's Sonnets; G.Kuchar PART III: REMATERIALISMS Against Materialism in Literary Theory; D.Hawkes Performativity of the Court: Stuart Masque as Postdramatic Theatre; J.Limon 'Shakespeare, Idealism, and Universals: The Significance of Recent work on the Mind'; G.Egan Theater and the Scriptural Economy in Doctor Faustus ; I.Munro Index