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Julianne Werlin

Associate Professor of English
English
Office hours Spring '25 Semester

On Leave  (Allen 322)  

Selected Publications


Demographic History and English Culture

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · September 1, 2024 Full text Open Access Cite

The Poetry Book

Book · November 7, 2023 Delve into the works of Dante, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Dickinson, Eliot, and Neruda with in-depth literary analysis and fascinating biographies. Find out what odes, ballads, and allegories are. ... Cite

Early Stuart Clergyman Poets: A Prosopographic Approach

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance

Journal Article Modern Language Quarterly · January 1, 2022 This essay describes how commercial publishing in Renaissance England made the age of authors newly salient, especially at the important moment of the literary debut. Drawing on a prosopographic survey of Tudor and early Stuart writers, the essay sketches ... Full text Cite

An Accidental Genre

Journal Article Novel · November 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Writing at the Origin of Capitalism Literary Circulation and Social Change in Early Modern England

Book · July 22, 2021 Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, this volume demonstrates that England's transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of ... ... Cite

Paper Angels: Paradise lost and the European state system

Journal Article Milton Studies · January 1, 2019 This article contextualizes Paradise Lost within Milton's work for the Council of State during the Commonwealth and Protectorate. Drawing on archival research and scholarship on the history of diplomacy, it argues that modes of angelic association in Milto ... Full text Cite

The Coast of Utopia

Conference Novel · May 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Francis Bacon and the art of misinterpretation

Journal Article Pmla · March 1, 2015 Recent research has shown how Francis Bacon drew on Renaissance practices of reading and writing to propose a new method for understanding nature. Yet Bacon was well aware that such techniques were vulnerable to error, miscommunication, and failure. Instan ... Full text Cite

Machinamentum X: Marvell and Technology

Journal Article Literature Compass · September 1, 2014 Recent scholarship in the history of technology has provided new insights into the early modern investigation of nature, troubling fixed boundaries between invention and discovery, and more broadly, between art and knowledge. Drawing on such research, as w ... Full text Cite

Providence and perspective in Philip Sidney's old arcadia

Journal Article Sel Studies in English Literature · January 1, 2014 The troubling inscrutability of providence, with its apparent lapses and contradictions, was a Renaissance commonplace. But for Philip Sidney, this very inscrutability offered a narrative opportunity. In his Old Arcadia, Sidney uses the gap between the fut ... Full text Cite

DEREK HIRST and STEVEN N. ZWICKER. Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane.

Journal Article The Review of English Studies · April 1, 2013 Full text Cite

The review of english studies prize essay: Marvell and the strategic imagination: Fortification in upon Appleton house

Journal Article Review of English Studies · June 1, 2012 While recent scholarship has done much to illuminate the political and topical thrust of Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House, his use of the language of military theory, reaching its apex in his playful description of Nun Appleton's fortress-shaped garden ... Full text Cite