Andrew Shifflett

Associate Professor

Office: 209 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2050
shifflett@sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993

Specialization Areas

• Renaissance Literature
• Seventeenth-Century Literature

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 700 Introduction to Graduate Studies
• ENGL 710 The Renaissance
• ENGL 716 Milton
• ENGL 717 English Literature of the Restoration and Earlier 18th Century
• ENGL 733 Classics of Western Literary Theory. {=CPLT 701}
  

Current Research Project(s)

Literature and the Power of Forgiveness in Early Modern England.

I am fascinated by the emergence of modern ideas of selfhood, community, and transcendence in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary culture. Favorite themes include ancient and humanist ethics, historiography, and poetics; the politics of literary form and the rise of formal criticism; the arts of war, memory, oblivion, and forgiveness; and the fortunes of epic poetry and theory amid the breakdown of dynastic ideologies. Favorite English writers include Sidney, Spenser, Nashe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Lovelace, Marvell, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, and Dryden.

Publications

"Kings, Poets, and the Power of Forgiveness, 1642-1660." English Literary Renaissance 33 (2003): 88-109.

"'Subdu'd by You': States of Friendship and Friends of the State in Katherine Philips's Poetry." In Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints, ed. Ursula Appelt and Barbara Smith, 177-95. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.

"'A Most Humane Foe': Colonel Robert Overton's War with the Muses." In The English Civil Wars in the Seventeenth-Century Literary Imagination, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, 159-73. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.

Stoicism, Politics, and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Presentations

"Beginnings, Middles, and Endings in Thomas May's Continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia." Politics, Violence, and the Republican Imagination: Lucan and His Legacy. Princeton University. October 2003.

"Form and Polemic in an Early Interpretation of Milton's Sonnet to Vane." Seventh International Milton Symposium. Beaufort, SC. June 2002.

"Three Poems on the Aesthetics of Battle, circa 1650." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Newport, RI. November 1998.