Katherine C. Little received her BA from UC-Berkeley and her PhD from Duke University. She has taught at Vassar College, Fordham University, and the University of Colorado Boulder. Winner of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and co-founder of the online journal, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession, she has published essays on topics both medieval and early modern. Her first book explores the late medieval heresy, Lollardy, Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England; and the second charts the re-emergence of pastoral, Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry.

In my opinion, the richness of Little's approach and, more specifically, her interest in the "accretive" nature of literature-enables her to address fundamental ideas about what it means to write and read books in the early modern period. The monograph enshrines the Renaissance book as an object that contains the power to fashion readers, to ask questions about morality, and to explore the past. Consequently, Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England may be of interest not only to scholars of Renaissance literature in England but also to all those interested in medieval source study and early modern intellectual history.

• Introduction: Reading Is Good for You 1: The New, the Medieval, and the Renaissance 2: Humanism and the Morality Play 3: Humanist Moral Fusion: Terence and the Prodigal Son 4: The Uses of Good Literature 5: Good Literature [bonae litterae] and the Good 6: Horatian Dulce et Utile as Poisonous Reading 7: Worldly Vanity and George Gascoigne 8: Edmund Spenser's Contemptus Mundi Afterword: Confidence and Doubt

Katherine C. Little received her BA from UC-Berkeley and her PhD from Duke University. She has taught at Vassar College, Fordham University, and the University of Colorado Boulder. Winner of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and co-founder of the online journal, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession, she has published essays on topics both medieval and early modern. Her first book explores the late medieval heresy, Lollardy, Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England; and the second charts the re-emergence of pastoral, Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry.

In my opinion, the richness of Little's approach and, more specifically, her interest in the "accretive" nature of literature-enables her to address fundamental ideas about what it means to write and read books in the early modern period. The monograph enshrines the Renaissance book as an object that contains the power to fashion readers, to ask questions about morality, and to explore the past. Consequently, Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England may be of interest not only to scholars of Renaissance literature in England but also to all those interested in medieval source study and early modern intellectual history.

• Introduction: Reading Is Good for You 1: The New, the Medieval, and the Renaissance 2: Humanism and the Morality Play 3: Humanist Moral Fusion: Terence and the Prodigal Son 4: The Uses of Good Literature 5: Good Literature [bonae litterae] and the Good 6: Horatian Dulce et Utile as Poisonous Reading 7: Worldly Vanity and George Gascoigne 8: Edmund Spenser's Contemptus Mundi Afterword: Confidence and Doubt

Katherine C. Little received her BA from UC-Berkeley and her PhD from Duke University. She has taught at Vassar College, Fordham University, and the University of Colorado Boulder. Winner of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and co-founder of the online journal, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession, she has published essays on topics both medieval and early modern. Her first book explores the late medieval heresy, Lollardy, Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England; and the second charts the re-emergence of pastoral, Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry.

In my opinion, the richness of Little's approach and, more specifically, her interest in the "accretive" nature of literature-enables her to address fundamental ideas about what it means to write and read books in the early modern period. The monograph enshrines the Renaissance book as an object that contains the power to fashion readers, to ask questions about morality, and to explore the past. Consequently, Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth-Century England may be of interest not only to scholars of Renaissance literature in England but also to all those interested in medieval source study and early modern intellectual history.

• Introduction: Reading Is Good for You 1: The New, the Medieval, and the Renaissance 2: Humanism and the Morality Play 3: Humanist Moral Fusion: Terence and the Prodigal Son 4: The Uses of Good Literature 5: Good Literature [bonae litterae] and the Good 6: Horatian Dulce et Utile as Poisonous Reading 7: Worldly Vanity and George Gascoigne 8: Edmund Spenser's Contemptus Mundi Afterword: Confidence and Doubt