Department of English
  
Arthur F. Marotti
Title Distinguished Professor 
Office# 9203.1, 5057 Woodward
Research Area 16th- and 17th-century English literature; Lyric poetry from Wyatt to Milton; Shakespeare; Historical approaches to early modern literature; Bibliography and textual criticism; Literary transmission in manuscript and print; Literature and religion.
Phone (313) 577-3409
E-Mail a.marotti@wayne.edu

Education

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1965

Representative Publications

* "Humphrey Coningsby and the Personal Anthologizing of Verse in Elizabethan England," in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts IV, ed. Micheal Denbo and W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ: Renaissance English Text Society and Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies in 2008), 71-102

* "Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Manuscript Circulation of Texts in Early Modern England," Blackwell's Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, ed. Michael Schoenfeldt (Oxford: Blackwell's, 2006), 185-203

* "Shakespeare and Chtholicism," in Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare, ed. Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, and Richard Wilson (Manchester and New York Manchester University press, 2003), 218-41

*Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy:  Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England.  University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.

* (with Harold Love) "Manuscript Transmission and Circulation," Chapter 2 of the Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller. 2002.

* "Elizabethan Lyric Poetry and Early Modern Print Culture," in Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, ed. Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott (to be published by the Modern Language Association in 2000).

* (Co-edited with Michael Bristol) Print, Manuscript and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England . 2000. This includes my essay "Manuscript Transmission and the Embattled Catholic Minority in Early Modern England," pp. 192-99.

* (Edited) Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts (Basingstoke, Hampshire and London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999). This includes my essay "Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England: Recusant Women, Jesuits and Ideological Fantasies," pp. 1-34.

* "John Donne," 3000-word article for The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 6 vols. (to be published for The Renaissance Society of America by Scribner's, Fall, 1999)

* (Co-edited with Cedric C. Brown) Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). This includes my essay, "Southwell's Remains: Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern England," pp. 37-65.

* Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995).

* (Edited) Critical Essays on John Donne (New York: G.K. Hall; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York, Oxford, Singapore, Sydney: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994). Includes 16-page Introduction and revised version of a section of my book on Donne.

* John Donne, Coterie Poet (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986) (Reprinted with new Preface, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2008)

Publications Available Through Amazon.com

Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)

Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts (Early Modern Literature in History)

Critical Essays on John Donne

Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric

Reading With a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity

Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England (Early Modern Literature in History)