Literature and Science :  

Select Renaissance Articles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the list of articles below find something of interest and then you can go to the JSTOR database to get a fully (free) downloadable copy.  So, find an article that sounds appealing, make a note of the name and brief title and then go to the red link above and click on the link that says "JSTOR"  (its the fourth one down) to locate your own copy of the article to print, read, download etc. You can also cut and paste the stable URL at the end of the citation as well to get there. All of these items listed below are fully available and free on JSTOR through the SMC library  website. If you have any problems accessing the articles any SMC librarian can help you.

 

• 'Alchemical Augmentation and Primordial Fire in Donne's "The Dissolution"' by  Roberta Albrecht  Studies   in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 45, No. 1, The English Renaissance (Winter , 2005), pp. 95-115.  Stable URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/3844591  

 

• "All Was This Land Full Fill'd of Faerie," or Magic and the Past in Early Modern England   by Lauren Kassell  Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Jan., 2006), pp. 107-122    

          Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3840402

 

• 'Art, Science, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe' by Pamela H. Smith  Isis, Vol. 97, No. 1 (March 2006), pp. 83-100  Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/501102

 

• 'Shakespeare and the Making of Early Modern Science: Resituating Prospero's Art by Elizabeth Spiller South Central Review, Vol. 26, No. 1/2, Shakespeare & Science (Spring - Summer, 2009), pp. 24-41

          Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40211290

 

•  'The Science of Salvation: Spiritual Alchemy in Donne's Final Sermon by James R. Keller The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 486-493 

         Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2542490

 

• 'Notes on John Donne's Alchemical Imagery by Joseph A. Mazzeo Isis, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 1957), pp. 103-123   Stable URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/227025

 

• 'The Nature of Norms in Early Modern England: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear by Valerie Traub  South Central Review, Vol. 26, No. 1/2, Shakespeare & Science (Spring - Summer, 2009), pp. 42-81 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40211291

 

• Review of John Mebane's Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age  Review by: Julie Robin Solomon Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 504-506  Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2870475

 

• Review of Howard Marchitello's  The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo by Claire Preston  Source: Modern Philology, Vol. 112, No. 1 (August 2014), pp. E57-E61 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/67594

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• Siraisi, Nancy G. “Medicine, 1450–1620, and the History of Science.” Isis, vol. 103, no. 3, 2012, pp. 491–514., www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667970.