Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson

Roze Hentschell is associate professor of English at Colorado State University.Kathy Lavezzo is associate professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson: Laureations brings together new essays by leading literary scholars of the British and European middle ages and early modern period who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The contributors evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson's work in critical debates including those of nationalism, formal analysis, and literary careerism.

Introduction by Roze Hentschell and Kathy LavezzoPart I: Community, Colonialism, and Nationhood1. Influence, Appropriation, Piracy: The Place of Spain in English Literary History by Barbara Fuchs2. Idleness, Humanist Industry, and English Colonial Activity in Thomas More's "fruitfull, pleasant," "wittie" and "profitable" Utopia by Shannon Miller3. Amorous Scholastics: The Guilty Pleasures of the Middle English Florisand Blauncheflour by Patricia Clare InghamPart II: Dramatic Forms4. Delivery Rooms: Towards a Reconsideration of the Conclusion of The Tempest by Heather Dubrow5. One Head is Better than Two: The Aphoristic Afterlife of Renaissance Tragedy by Frances E. Dolan6. About Suffering, and on Dying: Shakespeare's Re-invention of a Theater of Eschatological Identity in King Lear by James NohrnbergPart III: Travel and Geography7. Dante, Michelangelo, and What We Talk about When We Talk about Poetry by Leonard Barkan8. The Pleasures of the Land in Restoration England: The Social Politics of The Compleat Angler by Andrew McRaePart IV: The Literary Career9. Rival Laureates and Multiple Monuments: Collaborative Self-Crowning in France by Edwin M. Duval10. Du Bellay's "Source de La Meduse" by Margaret Ferguson11. The Jacobean Prodigals by Michael O'Connell12. Religious Affiliation in Elizabethan London: Richard Mulcaster, Edmund Spenser, and The Family of Love by Andrew HadfieldAfterword: Helgersonland by Patricia FumertonRichard Helgerson: A BibliographyAbout the Contributors