English Baroque in Early Modern Literature

Robert Hudson Vincent is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Davidson College. His writing has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including Modern Language Notes, Modern Language Quarterly, Early American Literature and Critical Inquiry. His research has been supported by a Mellon Fellowship in English Paleography at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Villa I Tatti Graduate Fellowship for Renaissance Studies, the Bowdoin Prize for Best Graduate Essay in the English Language at Harvard University and the Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Deriving the baroque from scholastic logic, this book establishes the creativity, scope and distinctiveness of the English Baroque for both Protestant and Catholic writers working in multilingual and global contexts.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction: The Baroque in English1. Logic: The Concept of the Baroque2. Nature: The Baroque Image of the World3. Translation: Baroque Style and the Limits of Imitation4. Passion: Baroque Devotion and the Poetics of Ecstasy5. Sublime: The Baroque Masque and the Politics of SeductionCoda: ExcessBibliographyIndex