Joshua Scodel
Joshua Scodel is 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, 2 vols. (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
- 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.