Heroic nature; ideal landscape in English poetry from Marvell to Thomson by Spencer, Jeffry B.

The happy man; studies in the metamorphoses of a classical ideal , by Røstvig, Maren-Sofie

Making a heaven of hell : the problem of the companionate ideal in English marriage poetry, 1650-1800 / by Horne, William C.

The Georgic revolution / by Low, Anthony, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Poet of Work: Spenser and the Courtly Ideal --…”
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Renaissance perspectives in literature and the visual arts / by Roston, Murray

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Hollow men : writing, objects, and public image in Renaissance Italy / by Gaylard, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Monuments, Imitation, and the Noble Ideal in Early Renaissance Italy.…”
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Etymology and the invention of English in early modern literature / by Crawforth, Hannah Jane, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Etymology in early modern literature -- Etymology and estrangement in the poems of Edmund Spenser -- Etymology and textual time in the masques of Ben Jonson -- Etymology and place in Donne's sermons -- Etymology and the ends of idealism in Milton's prose -- Conclusion: A world in a word.…”

Fashion and popular print in early modern England : depicting dress in black-letter ballads / by Backhouse, Clare

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Commodities of Print and Dress -- Ballad Comment on Dress -- Ballad Pictures: Conventions of Clothes and the Body -- Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations, Part I: Masculinity, Fashion and the Defence of the Nation -- Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations, Part II: Female Bodies, Feminine Fashion and Economic Benefits.…”

The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture /

Table of Contents: “…Archdeacon -- Points mean prizes : how early-modern mathematics hedged its bets between idealism and the world / Jess Edwards -- Bantering with scripture : Dr. …”

Etymology and the invention of English in early modern literature / by Crawforth, Hannah Jane, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Etymology in early modern literature -- Etymology and estrangement in the poems of Edmund Spenser -- Etymology and textual time in the masques of Ben Jonson -- Etymology and place in Donne's sermons -- Etymology and the ends of idealism in Milton's prose -- Conclusion: A world in a word.…”
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Gender and language in British literary criticism, 1660-1790 / by Runge, Laura L.

Table of Contents: “…Manly words on Mount Parnassus -- Dryden's gendered balance and the Augustan ideal -- Paternity and regulation in the feminine novel -- Aristotle's sisters: Behn, Lennox, Fielding, and Reeve -- Returning to the beautiful -- Polemical postcript.…”
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Conceptions of Shakespeare / by Harbage, Alfred, 1901-1976

Table of Contents: “…The Shakespearean afterimage -- A life of allegory -- The myth of perfection -- These our actors -- Weighing delight and dole -- The fierce dispute -- Related essays -- Shakespeare as culture hero -- Shakespeare's ideal man -- "O blessed letters."…”

Etymology and the invention of English in early modern literature / by Crawforth, Hannah Jane, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Etymology in early modern literature -- Etymology and estrangement in the poems of Edmund Spenser -- Etymology and textual time in the masques of Ben Jonson -- Etymology and place in Donne's sermons -- Etymology and the ends of idealism in Milton's prose -- Conclusion: A world in a word.…”
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Reading class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / by Warley, Christopher, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The fickle fee-simple 3. Just Horatio 4. Ideal Donne 5. Virtuoso Donne 6. Uncouth Milton, part one 7. …”
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The matter of revolution : science, poetry, and politics in the age of Milton / by Rogers, John, 1961-

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The invention of the Renaissance woman : the challenge of female independence in the literature and thought of Italy and England / by Benson, Pamela

Table of Contents: “…Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris : an ambiguous beginning -- From praise to paradox : the first Italian defenses of women -- The literary containment of the independent woman : Capella and Castiglione -- The debate about woman in the Orlando furioso -- Praise and limitation of the independent woman in the Orlando furioso -- The new ideal in England : Thomas More, Juan Luis Vives, and Richard Hyrde -- Virtue and politics in Sir Thomas Elyot's The defence of good women -- The popular controversy in England -- The defense of female regiment : practical politics -- Praise and defense of woman in The faerie queene -- Praise and defense of the queen in The faerie queene.…”

Hollow Men : Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy. by Gaylard, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Monuments, Imitation, and the Noble Ideal in Early Renaissance Italy -- Reinventing Nobility? …”
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Renaissance papers 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Frontcover -- CONTENTS -- John Donne and the Practice of Priesthood -- Charity, Halifax, and Utopia: The Disadvantageous Setting of Thomas Browne's Religio Medici -- Presbyterian Church and State Before The Solemn League and Covenant -- The Flaw in Paradise: The Critique of Idealism in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World -- “Conceited portraiture before his Book ... to catch fools and silly gazers': Some Reflections on Paradise Lost and the Tradition of the Engraved Frontispiece…”
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Fashion and popular print in early modern England : depicting dress in black-letter ballads / by Backhouse, Clare

Table of Contents: “…Engendered by warMarital relations and national politics; Satirising men's fashion; New courtiers and men about town; Wigs: subject or abject; Picturing 'satirical' men; Masculinity, fashion and the defence of the nation; 5 Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations, Part II; 'Classical' femininity: bared breasts; Who bared their breasts?…”
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Spenser and the poetics of pastoral : a study of the world of Colin Clout / by Shore, David R.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: The Shepheardes Calender: The Moral Eclogues -- 1 The Problem of Unity -- 2 Pastoral Poetics -- 3 February -- 4 May -- 5 July -- 6 September -- 7 October -- 8 Conclusion -- II: The Shepheardes Calender: The Pastoral Image -- 1 January -- 2 June -- 3 Rosalind -- 4 November -- 5 December -- 6 Conclusion -- III: Spenser's Return to Pastoral in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe -- 1 The Shepherd and His Song -- 2 Ideal and Reality -- 3 The Poet of Love's Perfection…”
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