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Maureen Quilligan

Maureen Quilligan

R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
English
mquillig@duke.edu
Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
320 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Theodor De Bry's voyages to the new and old worlds

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · December 1, 2011 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Theodor De Bry's voyages to the new and old worlds

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · December 1, 2011 Featured Publication Full text Cite

The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture

Journal Article Modern Language Quarterly · June 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Review of Mary Wroth by Margaret Hannay

Journal Article Renaissance Quarterly · 2011 Reivew of Hannay’s biography of Mary Wroth ... Cite

Review of Bruce R. Smith's The Key of Green

Journal Article Modern Philology · 2011 Featured Publication Review of Bruce Smith, The Key of Green ... Cite

Allegory and Female Authority

Chapter · 2009 A discussion of Mary Wroth’s rewriting of Edmund Spenser’s allegory, showing how Wroth’s suppression of personification enacts her authorial agency. The essay builds on the theoretical discussion of allegory and gender by Gordon Teskey. ... Cite

Incest and agency in Elizabeth's England

Book · December 1, 2005 Maureen Quilligan explores the remarkable presence in the Renaissance of what she calls "incest schemes" in the books of a small number of influential women who claimed an active female authority by writing in high canonical genres and who, even more trans ... Cite

Review of K. Schwarz’s Amazon Love

Journal Article Shakespeare Studies · 2003 Cite

Recent studies in the english renaissance

Journal Article SEL - Studies in English Literature · January 1, 2003 Full text Cite

Renaissance Materialities

Other · September 2002 A special volume of JMEMS dedicated to understanding the material bases for doing cultural studies of Renaissance England. Contributors include Patricia Fumerton, Peter Stallybrass, Susan Frye, Rayna Kalas, and others. ... Cite

Renaissance materialities: Introduction

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · September 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Elizabeth’s Embroidery

Journal Article Shakespeare Studies · 2001 Cite

Spenser and Slavery

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · 2001 Cite

On the Renaissance Epic: Spenser and Slavery

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2001 Full text Cite

Author, Author

Journal Article Yale Review · 1993 Cite

Review of Gamani Salgado’s The Elizabethan Underworld

Journal Article New York Times Book Review · 1993 Cite

Translating Dismemberment: Christine de Pizan and Boccaccio

Journal Article Studi Sul Boccaccio · 1991 Cite

Christine de Pizan: Interventions

Journal Article Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, special issue edited by Ruth Barrie Strauss · 1991 Cite

Review of Antonia Fraser’s The Warrior Queens

Journal Article Washington Post · 1989 Cite

Review of The History of Private Life, vol. III

Journal Article New York Times Book Review · 1989 Cite

Sidney and His Queen

Chapter · 1989 Cite

The Difference of Feminist Biography

Journal Article Yale Review · 1988 Cite

Review of Antonia Fraser’s The Weaker Vessel

Journal Article The Nation · 1985 Cite

Review of Tirant Lo Blanc

Journal Article The Nation · 1985 Cite

Review of Jasper Ridley’s Henry VIII

Journal Article New York Times · 1985 Cite

Review of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies

Journal Article trans. E.J. Richards, New York Times Book Review · 1982 Cite

Review of Gay Clifford’s The Transformations of Allegory

Journal Article Poetics Today Quarterly · 1978 Cite

Langland's Literal Allegory

Journal Article Essays in Criticism · January 1978 Full text Cite