Cristina Malcolmson is Professor of English at Bates College, USA.

• General Editors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Lyric and History Recent Historicist Approaches and Traditional Scholarship New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Feminism Psychoanalysis Race Studies Lesbian/Gay Studies Organization of the Volume Part One: The Bower of Bliss: Formalism, New Historicism, Feminism 1. Paul J. Alphers, 'Mode in Narrative Poetry' 2. Stephen J. Greenblatt, 'To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the Bower of Bliss' 3. Patricia A. Parker, 'Suspended Instruments: Lyric and Power in the Bower of Bliss' Part Two: The Lyric and the Early Modern Subject 4. Nancy J. Vickers, 'Diana Described: Scattered Women and Scattered Rhyme' 5. Richard C. McCoy, 'Astrophil and Stella: "All Selfnesse He Forbeares"' 6. Margaret W. Ferguson, 'A Room Not Their Own: Renaissance Women as Readers and Writers' 7. Don E. Wayne, 'Mediation and Contestation: English Classicism from Sidney to Jonson' Part Three: Seventeenth-Century Poetry and History 8. Cristina Malcolmson, 'George Herbert and Coteries Verse' 9. Richard L. Halpern, 'Puritanism and Maenadism in A Mask' 10.David Norbrook, 'Marvell's "Horatian Ode" and the Politics of Genre' Notes on Authors Further Reading Index

Cristina Malcolmson is Professor of English at Bates College, USA.

• General Editors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Lyric and History Recent Historicist Approaches and Traditional Scholarship New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Feminism Psychoanalysis Race Studies Lesbian/Gay Studies Organization of the Volume Part One: The Bower of Bliss: Formalism, New Historicism, Feminism 1. Paul J. Alphers, 'Mode in Narrative Poetry' 2. Stephen J. Greenblatt, 'To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the Bower of Bliss' 3. Patricia A. Parker, 'Suspended Instruments: Lyric and Power in the Bower of Bliss' Part Two: The Lyric and the Early Modern Subject 4. Nancy J. Vickers, 'Diana Described: Scattered Women and Scattered Rhyme' 5. Richard C. McCoy, 'Astrophil and Stella: "All Selfnesse He Forbeares"' 6. Margaret W. Ferguson, 'A Room Not Their Own: Renaissance Women as Readers and Writers' 7. Don E. Wayne, 'Mediation and Contestation: English Classicism from Sidney to Jonson' Part Three: Seventeenth-Century Poetry and History 8. Cristina Malcolmson, 'George Herbert and Coteries Verse' 9. Richard L. Halpern, 'Puritanism and Maenadism in A Mask' 10.David Norbrook, 'Marvell's "Horatian Ode" and the Politics of Genre' Notes on Authors Further Reading Index