Dear Donne Forum Readers,

Please forgive the somewhat commercial nature of this post, but I thought it may be of interest to forum readers.

Huntington Library Quarterly Volume 69, no. 1:
A Special Issue: “Railing Rhymes: Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England”

Huntington Library Quarterly, published by University of California Press, announces a special issue exploring the intersection of the literary and political aspects of libel in Early Stuart England. Guest edited by Andrew McRae, this issue features ten contributions on this theme, including:

Verse Libels and the Epideictic Tradition in Early Stuart England
David Colclough

Epigrams and Political Satire in Early Stuart England
James Doelman

“Love-song weeds,and Satyrique thornes”: Anti-Courtly Love Poetry and Somerset Libels
Joshua Eckhardt

“Reade in one age and understood i’th’next”: Recycling Satire in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
Adam Smyth

On Exegetical Duty: Historical Pragmatics and the Grammar of the Libel
James Loxley

The Poor Man’s Petition: Anthony Atkinson and the Politics of Libel
Gabriel Heaton

Performing Politics: The Circulation of the “Parliament Fart”
Michelle O’Callaghan

“The Feminine part of every Rebellion”: Francis Bacon on Sedition and Libel, and the Beginning of Ideology
Martin Dzelzainis

“Songs of baser alloy”: Jonson’s Gypsies Metamorphosed and the Circulation of Manuscript Libels
James Knowles

Singing Libel in Early Stuart England: The Case of the Staines Fiddlers, 1627
Alastair Bellany

For more information about Huntington Library Quarterly, including how to purchase Volume 69, no. 1, please visit www.ucpressjournals.com/hlq

All the best,
Nick Lindsay
Journals Marketing Manager
University of California Press