Recent Research in the Field

religion and the arts

Lists of articles prior to these may be found in the Cumulative Bibliography.

The Art Bulletin 89.2 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Frojmovic, Eva.  "Giotto's Circumspection."  195-210.
  • Nair, Stella.  "Localizing Sacredness, Difference, and Yachacuscamcani in a Colonial Andean Painting."  211-38.

Bentley, P.  “The Ancient Mariner, Superstition, and the Lyrical Ballads.”  English 56.214 (2007):  17-28.

Brownlow, F. W.  “A Jesuit Allusion to King Lear.”  Recusant History 28.3 (2007):  416-23.

Christianity and Literature 56.2 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Bush, Harold K.  “Hunting for Reasons to Hope:  A Conversation with Wendell Berry.”  215-34.    
  • -----.  “Wendell Berry, Seeds of Hope, and the Survival of Creation.” 297-316.
  • Donnelly, Phillip J.  “Biblical Convocation in Wendell Berry’s Remembering.” 275-96.
  • Lundin, Roger.  “Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Marriage and Embodiment.” 333-43.
  • Peters, Jason.  “Wendell Berry’s Vindication of the Flesh.”  317-32.
  • Wirzba, Norman.  “The Dark Night of the Soil:  An Agrarian Approach to the Mystical Life.”  253-74.

Christianity and Literature 56.3 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Heyer, Astrid.  “Suicide in the Fiction of George Bernanos and Stefan Zweig: The Death of Two Female Adolescents.”  437-58.
  • Kort, Wesley A.  “Christianity, Literature, and Cultural Conflict in America.” 463-80.
  • Morgan, D. Densil.  “Spirit and Flesh in Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry: A Comparison of the Work of D. Gwenallt Jones and Pennar Davies.”  423-36.
  • Schlueter, Paul.  “A Tribute to Nathan A. Scott, Jr.”  459-62.
  • Wilson, James Matthew.  “Representing the Limits of Judgement: Yvor Winters, Emily Dickinson and Religious Experience.”  397-422.

Cithara 46.2 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Chapin, C.  "Samuel Johnson and the Church's Convocation."  16-24.
  • Dooley, P.K.  "Is Proselytizing Indigenous People an Act of Violence? Willa Cather's Missionaries in Shadows on the Rock and Death Comes for the Archbishop."  25-33.
  • Kolin, Philip C.  "'Exchange me for a goat': Iago's Ewes and Rams, Othello's Goats and Monkeys, and Matthew 25:31-45."  3-15.

Davenport, Anne A.  “Scotus as the Father of Modernity:  The Natural Philosophy of the English Franciscan Christopher Davenport in 1652.”  Early Science and Medicine 12.1 (2007):  55-90.

Dumont Cavallo, M. C.  "Baroque History and Art in the Counter-Reformation." Historiens et Geographes 398 (2007): 33-42.

Damon, Franke.  "Hardy's Ur-Priestess and the Phases of a Novel."  Studies in the Novel 39 (2007): 161-76.

Johnson, Ian.  "The Ascending Soul and the Virtue of Hope:  The Spiritual Temper of Chaucer's Boece and Retracciouns."  English Studies 88.3 (2007): 245-61.

Jones, Mark.  "The Life of St. Eustace: A Saint's Legend from Lambeth Palace MS 306."  ANQ 20.1 (2007): 13-22.

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65.1 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Saito, Yuriko.  “The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics.”  85-97.
  • Walton, Susan Pratt.  “Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music.”  31-41.

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106.2 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Holsinger, Bruce.  “The Parable of Caedmon’s Hymn:  Liturgical Invention and Literary Tradition.”  149-75.
  • Lampert-Weissig, Lisa.  “‘Why Is This Knight Different from All Other Knights?’  Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the Old French Grail Narratives." 224-47.
  • Steiner, Emily.  “Naming and Allegory in Late Medieval England.”  248-75.

Kim, I.  “Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City:  The Dominant Class’s Violence and the Life of the Catholic Working Class.”  Journal of Modern British and American Drama 19.3 (2006):  89-114.

Literature and Theology 21.1 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Atchley, J. Heath.  “The Silence of the Secular.”  66-81.
  • D’Evelyn, Stephen.  “Gift and the Personal Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus.” 1-10.
  • Pearson, Jacqueline.  “‘One Lot in Sodom’:  Masculinity and the Gendered Body in Early Modern Narratives of Converted Turks.”  29-48.
  • Sweetnam, Mark S.  “Hamlet and the Reformation of the Eucharist.”  11-28.

Mebane, John S.  “‘Impious War’:  Religion and the Ideology of Warfare in Henry V.”  Studies in Philology 104.2 (2007):  250-66.

Miyasaki, Donovan.  “Morality and Art:  The Case of Huck Finn.”  Philosophy and Literature 31.1 (2007):  125-32.

Religion and Literature 38.3 (2006) includes the following articles:

  • Biberman, Matthew.  "Three Folds: Searching for Milton's Paradise Lost between Moses, Lacan and Derrida."  177-202.
  • Dailey, Alice.  "Making Edmund Campion: Treason, Martyrdom, and the Structure of Transcendence."  65-84.
  • Gallagher, Lowell.   "Imagining Baroque Ethics: John Evelyn and the Case of the Stigmatic 'Working Wench.'" 203-24.
  • Hammill, Graham and Julia Reinhard Lupton.  "Sovereign, Citizens, and Saints: Political Theology and Renaissance Literature." 1-12.
  • Jackson, Kenneth.  "'Is it God or the Sovereign Exception?': Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and Shakespeare's King John."  85-100.
  • Kitch, Aaron.  "Golden Muse: Protestantism, Mercantilism, and the Uses of Ovid in Marlowe's Hero and Leander." 157-76.
  • Lezra, Jacques.  "Phares, or Divisible Sovereignty."  13-40.
  • Lorenz, Philip.  "'Christall Mirrors': Analogy and Onto-Theology in Shakespeare and Francisco Suarez." 101-20.
  • Murakami, Ineke.  "The 'bond and privilege of nature' in Coriolanus."  121-36.
  • Rust, Jennifer.  "'Image of Idolatryes': Iconotropy and the Theo-Political Body in The Fairie Queene."  137-56.
  • Winiarski, Catherine.  "Adultery, Idolatry, and the Subject of Monotheism." 41-64.

Renaissance Studies 21.3 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Kambaskovic-Sawers, Danijela.  "Carved in Living Laurel: The Sonnet Sequence and Transformation of Idolatry."  377-94.
  • Vaccaro, Mary.  "Artists as Godfathers: Parmigianino and Corregio in the Baptismal Registers of Parma."  366-76.

The Review of English Studies 57.232 (2006) includes the following articles:

  • Goulding, Christopher.  “Shelley’s Cosmological Sublime:  William Herschel, James Lind, and ‘The Multitudinous Orb.’”  783-92.
  • Lund, Mary Ann.  “Robert Burton and the Spiritual Physician:  Religion and Medicine in The Anatomy of Melancholy.”  665-83.

Robillard, D.  “Revisiting the Catholic Literary Imagination.”  Modern Fiction Studies 53.1 (2007):  174-82.

Stocks, B.  “Text, Image, and a Sequential ‘Sacra Conversazione’ in Early Italian Books of Hours.”  Word and Image 23.1 (2007):  16-24.

Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47.1 (2007) includes the following articles:

  • Harding, Pitt.  “Milton’s Serpent and the Birth of Pagan Error.”  161-78.
  • Machosky, Brenda.  “Trope and Truth in The Pilgrim’s Progress.”  179-98.
  • Sedinger, Tracey.  “Sidney’s New Arcadia and the Decay of Protestant Republicanism.”  57-78.
  • Song, Eric B.  “Anamorphosis and the Religious Subject of George Herbert’s “Coloss. 3.3.”  107-22.
  • Walker, William.  “On Reason, Faith, and Freedom in Paradise Lost.”  143-60.

Taylor, Andrew W.  “Glass Houses:  Surrey, Petrarch, and the Religious Poetics of the London Invective.”  Review of English Studies 57.231 (2006): 433-55.