Publications

 

Books:

• Rhetorical Norms in Renaissance Literature, Yale University Press, 1978.
• Jacopo Sannazaro and the Uses of Pastoral, University Press of New England,1983; Howard R. Marraro MLA Prize 1982-84
• Authorizing Petrarch, Cornell University Press, 1994.
• The Site of Petrarchism: National Sentiment in Early Modern Italy, France, and England, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
• Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare, Cornell University Press, 2016

In Progress:

Revisionary Shakespeare: A book-length study of eight Shakespearean plays and their global impact on eighteenth- to twenty-first-century fiction and drama in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Edited Volumes:

• Co-editor, Writing in the Disciplines, Prentice-Hall, 1986; revised editions: 1990, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2012.
• Cosmopolitan Crossings, guest-edited for Annals of Scholarship: Art Practices and the Human Sciences in a Global Culture, vol. 14, no. 2 (March, 2002)
• Transactions and Exchanges in the European Renaissance, guest-edited for Annals of Scholarship: Art Practices and the Human Sciences in a Global Culture, vol. 16 (March, 2005).

Representative Articles and Book Chapters Published in the Current Century:

• "Petrarchism" and "Humanist Poetics" in The Cambridge History of Literary  Criticism, ed. Glyn Norton (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. P, 2000),  pp. 91-97, 119-26.
• "Les autorités pétrarquistes et l'autorisation de Pétrarque" in Dynamique d'une expansion culturelle, ed. Pierre Blanc (Paris: Champion, 2001), pp. 53-62.
• "Is That a Man in Her Dress? Cuckoldry and Transvestism in Renaissance Texts," in Opening the Borders, ed. Peter Herman (Newark: Univ. of Delaware P, 2000), pp. 27-53.
• "Les totems pour la défense et quelques illustrations du tabou" in Sans Aultre guide: Etudes sur la Renaissance, ed. Raymond La Charité (Paris: Klinksieck, 2000), pp. 27-38.
• "Framing the Authentic Petrarch," in Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, ed. Anne Lake Prescott (New York: MLA, 2000), pp. 85-88.
• "Spenser's Squire's Literary History," in Worldmaking Spenser, ed. Patrick Cheney (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky P, 2000), pp. 45-62.
• "Versions of a Career: Petrarch and His Commentators," in European Literary Careers, ed. Frederick de Armas (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto P, 2002), pp. 146-64.
• “Citing Petrarch in Naples: The Politics of Commentary in Cariteo’s Endimione, “ Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 1-26.
• “Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella,” in Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion, ed. Andrew Hadfield (New York: Oxford Univ. P, 2006), pp. 70-79
• “Les langues des hommes sont pleine de tromperies: Shakespeare, French Poetry, and Alien Tongues,” in Textual Conversations in the Renaissance, ed. Zachary Lesser (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 77-97.
• “Petrarca come ‘Homo Economicus’: Prospettivi del Petrarchismo nel Ronsard e Shakespeare” (in Italian), in Un modello rinascimentale di poesia per l’Europa, a cura di Gian Mario Anselmi (Rome: Bulzoni, 2006), pp. 297-309.
• “Shakespeare and the Development of English Poetry,” in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry, ed. Patrick Cheney (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007), pp. 14-33.
• “The Economy of Invective: De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia” in Petrarch: A Guide to the Complete Works, ed. Victoria Kirkham (U Chicago P, 2009), pp. 263-76.
• “European Beginnings and Transmissions” in The Cambridge History of the Sonnet, ed. A.D. Cousins (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011), pp. 14-31.
• “Petrarchism” and “Neo-Latin Poetry,” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Stephen Cushman and Roland Greene (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012), pp. 791-93 and 1030-32.
• “Ronsard: Passions and Privations of a Poet,” in Poésie italienne de la Renaissance, ed. Stefano Jossa, Italique (Université de Genève), 14 (2011): 59-74.
• “European Petrarchism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, ed. Albert Ascoli (Cambridge UP, 2015), pp. 210-20.
• “Writing as a Pro: Gaspara Stampa and the Men in Her Rime,” Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of European Poetry, ed. Aileen Feng (Ashgate, 2015), pp. 137-54.
• “Shakespeare and the Bible, Literature and Testaments,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature, ed. Calum Carmichael (Cambridge UP), in progress.
• “New Economic Criticism,” in Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Literature, ed. Catherine Bates (Oxford: Blackwell P), in progress.
• "Petrarchism in Early Modern England," in Early Modern English Poetics, ed Rémi Vuillemin (Manchester University Press), in progress.