Teaching Early Modern English Prose

Susannah Brietz Monta is John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., and Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her book Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England won the Book of the Year award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature. She has published articles on history plays, saints and martyrs, early modern women, and pedagogy and is the editor of Religion and Literature. Her current projects include work on Catholicism and time and research on miracles in early modern writing. Margaret W. Ferguson is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She was chair of English from 2006 to 2009. The author of Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry and Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France, she has coedited eleven volumes, among them Re-membering Milton: The Texts and the Traditions and Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Her current project is a study of Aphra Behn's theory and practice of translation.

"It is hard to imagine a better teaching guide to the varied prose of the early modern period: the volume explores recent topics raised by teaching the culture of the period while invigorating more traditional ones." --Studies in English Literature "This volume is full of wonderful, promising, intriguing suggestions, which I will gladly borrow for my own teaching." --Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles