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Current Issue: 54.1-2 (Published Spring 2022)
Articles
Marta Cerezo, “Charles William Stubbs and Shakespeare: The Incarnation and the English Cult of Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Yun Ni, “The Buddha’s Shadow and God’s Flesh: Image and Anti-Image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich”
Jessica Hines, “Forming Pity: Responses to Suffering in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Rachana Rao Umashankar, “‘Horseshoes on the Fire: The Praxis of Movement and Journey in the Poetry of Sufi Islam”
Tomasz Dekert, “Mikhail Bulgakov’s Azazello, Behemoth and Abadonna, Viewed Against the Background of Their Onomastic Prototypes”
Tommy Pfannkoch, “Prospero’s Coercive Forgiveness”
Darragh Greene, “Substaunce Into Accident”: Transubstantiation and Relics in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale”
Sonia Fanucchi “Re-Membering History: Allegory as Sacrament in Inferno’s Prologue Scene”
Margaret Marion Gower, “Glorifying God: The Theological Notion of Women in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames”
Book Reviews
Ben Dewar on The Laws of Hammurabi: At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Traditions by Pamela Bartash
Brian Muhs on The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt edited by Alan Bowman and Charles Crowther
Robyn A. Bartlett on Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer by Sebastian Langdell
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich on A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London by Scott Oldenburg
Jaime Goodrich on The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture: From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn by Gary Waller
Richard A. Bailey on Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England by Elisabeth Ceppi
Thomas Gaiton Marullo on Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs by Paul Contino
Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley on Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Winter Jade Werner
Paul Robichaud on David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture: Unpublished Prose edited by Thomas Berenato, Anne Price-Owen, and Kathleen Henderson Staudt
Jahdiel Perezon on Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum by Bernard Schweizer
Daniel Shank Cruz on Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson
Michael F. Miller on David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Faith and Fiction edited by Michael McGowan and Martin Brick
Upcoming Special Issue on John Henry Newman: 55.1 (Expected Spring 2023)