New Readings in Thomas More Studies

Edited by Travis Curtwright

Yearbook of English Studies 54

Modern Humanities Research Association

  10 December 2024

ISBN: 978-1-839542-80-0 (paperback)

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English


The 2024 volume of the Yearbook of English Studies, edited by Travis Curtright, presents a new collection of essays on the work of Thomas More (1478–1535). Often referred to as a ‘man for all seasons’, the More of this collection presents an author of many interests — linguistic, moral, historical, and, above all, political and religious. Indeed, More was a prodigious author, whose collected works run to fifteen volumes in the Yale critical editions. Given the sheer volume of his literary output, it seems less than judicious to limit his influence to Utopia (1516), or to read that text in exclusion from the rest of his canon, which remains neglected by comparison. In contrast to the conventional and imbalanced focus on More as author of Utopia, the title of this volume indicates new readings of or renewed attention to writings apart from his masterpiece.

Contents:

v-vi

Foreword
Richard Adelman

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xii-xiii

Notes on Contributors
Travis Curtright

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1-4

Introduction: New Readings in Thomas More Studies
Travis Curtright
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00001

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7-22

Early Modern Declamatory Practices and the Aesthetics of Dramatic Retelling: A Case Study of Lucian's Tyrannicida and Thomas More's Declamatio Lucianicae Respondens
Katharina-Maria Schön
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00002

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23-36

More's Letters on Education and the Mores' Education in Letters
Benjamin V. Beier
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00003

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37-63

More's Narrative Puzzle of King Edward IV in Historia Richardi Tertii
RoseMary C. Johnson
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00004

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67-83

In Search of Utopian Clergy in England
Seymour Baker House
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00005

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84-110

A Double-Edged Tool: More's Humanist Views on Language from his Pro-Erasmian Defences to his Anti-Lutheran Polemics
Gabriela Schmidt
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00006

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111-135

Thomas More and the Eucharistic Controversies
Matthew T. Gaetano
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00007

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139-160

General Councils and the Unity of Christendom in Thomas More's Prison Letters
Louis W. Karlin
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00008

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161-176

'Every Sort of Virtue': Tropology in De Tristitia Christi
Jennifer Fast
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00009

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179-206

Early Modern Mores: Images of Thomas More in the Sixteenth Century
Stephen Smith
doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00010

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Bibliography entry:

Curtwright, Travis (ed.), New Readings in Thomas More Studies (= Yearbook of English Studies, 54.1 (2024))

First footnote reference: 35 New Readings in Thomas More Studies, ed. by Travis Curtwright (= Yearbook of English Studies, 54.1 (2024)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Curtwright, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Curtwright, Travis (ed.). 2024. New Readings in Thomas More Studies (= Yearbook of English Studies, 54.1)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Curtwright 2024: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Curtwright 2024: 21.

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