Esther Gilman Richey

Associate Professor

Office:509 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2064
richeye@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1990

Specialization Areas

• Renaissance Literature and Culture

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 716         Milton   

Current Research Project(s)

A book project tentatively titled: Luther’s Passion in the English Renaissance

“Singing in the Dark: Lewis’s Revision of Paradise Lost in The Magician’s Nephew”

The loss of “infinite space”: Hamlet’s Resistance to Luther

Publications

BOOK

The Politics of Revelation in the English Renaissance. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

ARTICLES

“‘Wrapt in Nights Mantle’: George Herbert’s Parabolic Art,” John Donne Journal 9, 2 (1990):157-171.

“‘Words within the Word’: The Melodic Mediation of Herbert’s “To All Angels and Saints,’” George Herbert Journal 15, 2 (1992):33-41.

“‘Small Rent’: Seventeenth Century Parable and the Politics of Redemption,” Studies in Philology 92, 1 (1995):102-117.

“‘To Undoe the Booke’: Cornelius Agrippa, Aemilia Lanyer, and the Subversion of Pauline Authority,” English Literary Renaissance 27, 1 (1997):106-128.

“The Political Design of Herbert’s Temple,” Studies in English Literature 37, 1 (1997):73-96.

“Kahani Means Story and City: Wittgenstein, Chomsky and the Linguistics of Narrative in Haroun and the Sea of Stories, (co-authored with Chris Bongartz), Southern Journal of Linguistics Fall (2001).

“Possibilities in the Words and Worlds of Arnold Lobel,” The Five Owls 16, 1 (2001): 15-16.

“The Trial of the Subject in Ben Jonson’s Letters and Religious Lyrics,” Studies in Philology 99, 1 (2002):81-104.

“Herbert’s Temple and the Liberty of the Subject,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology, (2003): 244-268.