Louis Montrose
American photographer and literary theorist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Louis Adrian Montrose was an American literary theorist and academic scholar who retired from the academy in 2010 to pursue a career as a photographer. His scholarship addressed a wide variety of literary, historical, and theoretical topics and issues, and significantly shaped contemporary studies of Renaissance poetics, English Renaissance theatre, and Elizabeth I. Montrose was an influential early proponent of New Historicism, especially as it applied to the study of early modern English literature and culture. He was a professor of English Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
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- The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery (1991) (168)
- The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre (1999) (154)
- "Shaping Fantasies": Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture (1983) (134)
- Of Gentlemen and Shepherds: The Politics of Elizabethan Pastoral Form (1983) (120)
- Renaissance Literary Studies and the Subject of History (1986) (76)
- “Eliza, Queene of shepheardes,” and the Pastoral of Power (1980) (67)
- "The Place of a Brother" in "As You Like It": Social Process and Comic Form (1981) (61)
- The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation (2006) (44)
- Idols of the Queen: Policy, Gender, and the Picturing of Elizabeth I (1999) (33)
- Celebration and Insinuation: Sir Philip Sidney and the Motives of Elizabethan Courtship (1977) (29)
- Spenser and the Elizabethan Political Imaginary (2002) (23)
- GIFTS AND REASONS: THE CONTEXTS OF PEELE'S (1980) (17)
- Shakespeare, the Stage, and the State (1996) (13)
- “Folly, in wisdom hatch’d”: The Exemplary Comedy of Love’s Labour’s Lost (2018) (2)
- Interpreting Spenser’s February Eclogue: Some Contexts and Implications (1981) (2)
- Form and Pressure: Shakespearean Drama and the Elizabethan State (1999) (1)
- Books Received (1988) (0)
- Contributors (2018) (0)
- "The Egyptian Dung Beetle in Kafka" by rolling a ball of excrement (2018) (0)
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