Joshua Scodel
Joshua Scodel is Chair of the Comparative Literature Department and the Helen A. Regenstein Professor in Comparative Literature, English, and the College. His areas of interest include Renaissance poetry; English Renaissance translation and imitation of classical texts; and the history of Western criticism. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled The Paradoxes of Liberty in Early Modern English Literature.
Phone: 702-8501 Office: Classics 402
Selected Publications:
- (co-edited with Janel Mueller), Elizabeth I: Translations (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
- Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature, Literature in History Series (Princeton University Press, 2002)
- The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth (Cornell University Press, 1991).
- "Lyric and Private Kinds", in The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, vol. 2, 1500-1660, ed. Gordon Braden, Robert Cummings, and Theo Hermans (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
- "'Nones Slave': Some Versions of Liberty in Donnes Satires 1 and 4", ELH 72 (2005): 363-85.
- "Dryden the Critics Historicist and Cosmopolitan Mean," Au del de la Potique: Aristote et la literature de la Renaissance / Beyond the Poetics; Aristotle and Early Modern Literature, ed. Ullrich Langer (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2002), pp. 79-90.
- "Alternative Sites for Literature: Rural, Convivial, and Intellectual Domains, 1642-1659," chapter 24 of The New Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. 2: Writing in Early Modern Britain from the Reformation to the Restoration, ed. Janel Mueller and David Loewenstein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 763-789.
- "The Cowleyan Pindaric Ode and Sublime Diversions," in A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration, ed. Alan Houston and Steven Pincus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 180-210.
- "Seventeenth-Century English Literary Criticism: Classical Values, English Texts and Contexts," in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 3: The Renaissance c. 1500-1700, ed. Glyn P. Norton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 543-554.
- "Lyric Forms, 1650-1740", in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740, ed. Steven P. Zwicker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 120-142.
- "Paradise Lost and Classical Ideals of Pleasurable Restraint", Comparative Literature 48 (1996): 189-236.
- "The Pleasures of Restraint: The Mean of Coyness in Cavalier Poetry," Criticism 38 (1996): 239-279.
- "John Donne and the Religious Politics of the Mean", in John Donnes Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross, ed. Raymond-Jean Frontain and Frances Malpezzi (Conway, Arkansas: University of Central Arkansas Press, 1995), pp. 45-80.
- "The Medium is the Message: Donnes Satire 3, To Sir Henry Wotton (Sir, more thank kisses), and the Ideologies of the Mean," Modern Philology 90 (1993): 479-511.
- "Mediocrities and Extremities: Francis Bacon and the Aristotelian Mean," in Creative Imitation: New Essays on Renaissance Literature, ed. David Quint et al., Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Binghamton, NY: SUNY Binghamton Press, 1992), pp. 89-126.
- "The Affirmation of Paradox: A Reading of Montaignes De la Phisionomie (III:12)," Yale French Studies 64 (1983): 209-237.