Martin Elsky

Martin Elsky

Research Interests

  • Early modern literature and history
  • Elizabethan/Jacobean print culture and the emergence of authorship
  • Renaissance language theory
  • 17th-century religious lyric
  • early modern trans-Atlanticism
  • history of criticism

Education

  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Contact

Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Brooklyn College

Selected Publications:

  • The Place of Literature: Ben Jonson and the Politics of Land in Early Modern England: book on Ben Jonson's country house poems in relation to national, local, and family identity, 1580-1615 (in progress).
  • "Erich Auerbach's Philological Analysis of European Literary History and the Inter-War Cultural Politics of Pauline Theology" (article in progress).
  • Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance, Cornell University Press, 1989.
  • "Re-organizing the Encyclopedia: Vices and Ramus on Medieval Aristotelianism," in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol III: Renaissance to Late Seventeenth Century. Ed. Glyn P. Norton, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
  • "George Herbert's Hieroglyphic Poems and the Materiality of Language: A New Approach to Renaissance Hieroglyphics." ELH, 50 (1983), 245-60.
Martin Elsky

Contact

Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Brooklyn College