Arthur Marotti

Arthur Marotti

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

16th and 17th century English lyric poetry; manuscript poetry of early modern England; early modern English Catholicism and religious controversy

Research

(With Steven W. May) an edition of are or unique poems in early modern English manuscripts

Education

Awards and grants

• Distinguished Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, November, 2013.
• National Endowment for the Humanities (9-month) Fellowships, 2000 and 2005-6
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1988-89
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1975-76
• Grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (U.S. Dept.of Education) ($210,000) for Faculty and Student Exchange with two Brazilian Universities (2002-2007)—Co-P.I. with Renata Wasserman
• “Complementary” Grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (U.S. Dept. of Education) ($50,000) for Faculty and Student Exchange with three Brazilian universities (2007-9)—Co-P.I. with Renata Wasserman
• Wayne State University Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, 2000
• Charles Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State U., 1995-97
• Wayne State Board of Governors' Faculty Recognition Awards, 1988, 1996, 2006
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins Humanities Center, 1970-71

Selected publications

Scholarly monographs

• The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England (New York and London: Routledge, 2021)
• (with Steven W. May) Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman’s Household Book (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014)
• Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (Notre Dame:   University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
• Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995)
• John Donne, Coterie Poet (Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986) (reprinted with new Preface, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2008)
• (With Steven W. May) Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman’s Household Book (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014) 

Edited and co-edited books:

• (Editor) New Ways of Looking at Old Texts VI (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies     for the Renaissance English Text Society, 2018)
• (Co-edited with Chanita Goodblatt) Religious Diversity in Early Modern English Texts:Catholic, Judaic, Feminist,   and Secular Dimensions (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2013)
• (Co-edited with Ken Jackson) Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives (Notre           Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011)
• (Co-edited with Ronald Corthell, Frances Dolan and Christopher Highley) Catholic Culture in Early Modern England (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007)
• (Co-edited with Michael Bristol) Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000)                                
• Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Publishers and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).                  
• (Co-edited with Cedric C. Brown) Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England (Macmillan/St. Martins Press, 1997)
• Critical Essays on John Donne (New York: G.K. Hall,1994)
• (Co-edited with Renata R. Mautner Wasserman, Jo Dulan, and Suchitra Mathur) Reading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identit (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press,1993)

Selected articles and book chapters (2002-present):

• “Poetry outside the Literary Canon: The Rare or Unique Verse by Minor or Little known Authors in Early-Modern English Manuscripts,” in Early Modern Manuscripts: Hands, Texts, and Readers, ed. Guillaume Coatalen, Études Anglaises 73.3 (July-September 2020): 347-68
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• “Approaching Unedited Texts,” A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts, ed. Harriet Phillips and Claire Loffman (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), 96-99
• (with Steven W. May) “Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission,” in A Companion to Renaissance Poetry, ed. Catherine Bates (Chichester, UK and Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), 78-102
•  “Approaching Unedited Texts,” A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts, ed.  Harriet Phillips and Claire Loffman (Abington, U.K. and  New York: Routledge, 2017), 96-99
• (with Ken Jackson) “Religion, Secularity and Shakespeare,” in Shakespeare and the World, ed. Robert Ormsby and Jill Levenson  (Abington, U.K. and New York: Routledge,  2017), 542-56
• “The Verse Nobody Knows: Rare or Unique Poems in Early Modern English Manuscripts,” Huntington Library Quarterly 80.2 (Spring 2017): 201-21
• (with Steven W. May), “A New Manuscript Copy of a Poem by Queen Elizabeth: Texts and Contexts,”  English Literary Renaissance 47.1 (Winter 2017): 1-20
•  “Christ Church, Oxford and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and its Manuscript and Print Sources,” Studies in Philology 113.4 (Fall 2016): 850-78
• “Literary Coteries, Communities, and Networks: The Circulation of Verse at the Inns of Court and in London in Early Stuart England,” in Re- evaluating the    Literary Coterie 1580-1830: From Sidney to Blackwood’s, ed. Will Bowers  and Hanna Crummé  (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2016), 53-73
• “Saintly Idiocy and Contemplative Empowerment: The Case of Dame Gertrude More,” in Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith (eds.), Mysticism and Reform 1400-1750 (Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern, ed. David Aers, Sarah Beckwith, and James Simpson) (Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), 151-76
• “’Rolling Archetypes’: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections, and the Proliferation of Manuscript Verse Anthologies in Caroline England, English Literary Renaissance 44.3 (Fall 2014): 486-523
• “In Defense of Idolatry: Residual Catholic Culture and the Protestant Assault on the Sensuous in Early Modern England,” in Redrawing the Map of Early Modern Catholicism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), 27-51
• “Rare or Unique Poems in British Library MS Sloane 1446,” in In the Prayse of Writing, Early Modern Manuscript Studies: Essays in Honor of Peter Beal, ed. S. P. Cerasano and Steven W. May (London: British Library Publications, 2012), 236-65
• (with Laura Estill) “Manuscript Circulation,” in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) 53-70
• (with Steven W. May) “Two Lost Ballads of the Armada Thanksgiving Celebration  [with texts and illustration],” English Literary Renaissance  41.1 (Winter 2011): 36-68
• “Chaloner Chute’s Poetical Anthology (British Library Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection,” English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 16 (2010): 112-40
• “Neighborhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Family’s Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library Additional MS 25707,” in Material Readings of Early Modern Culture, 1580-1700, ed. James Daybell and Peter Hinds (Houndsmill, U.K: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 185-207
• “The Intolerability of Catholics in Early Modern England,” in Religion and Writing in England, 1558-1689, ed. Roger Sell and Anthony Johnson (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), 47-69
• “Humphrey Coningsby and the Personal Anthologizing of Verse in Elizabethan England,” in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts IV, ed. Michael Denbo and W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ: Renaissance English Text Society and  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies in 2008), 71-102
• “What Counts as Early Modern English Catholic Writing?” in Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity, ed. Chanita Goodblatt (Beersheva, Israel: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2007), 1-16
• “Print, Manuscripts, and Miscellanies,” in Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion, ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 15-26
• “Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Manuscript Circulation of Texts in Early Modern England,” Blackwell’s Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ed. Michael Schoenfeldt (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 2006), 185-203
• “The Social Context and Nature of Donne’s Writing: Occasional Verse and  Letters,” in The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, ed. Achsah Guibbory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 35-48
• (with Ken Jackson) “The Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Studies,” Criticism 46.1 (Winter 2004): 167-90
• “Shakespeare and Catholicism,” in Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare, ed. Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, and Richard Wilson (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003), 218-41
• (with Harold Love) "Manuscript Transmission and Circulation," Chapter 2 of the Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002), 55-80

Current project

• (With Steven W. May, Joshua Eckhardt, and Jessica Edmondes) An edition of Rare or Unique Poetry found in 16th and 17th century English manuscripts