John R. Knott, Jr. Collegiate Professor of English
mcschoen@umich.eduOffice Information:
5217 Angell Hall
phone: 734764-6378
hours: Thursdays 1-2 and by appointment
Graduate Faculty; British; Early Modern
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley 1985
Current Courses
ENGLISH 317-002
Literature and Culture
Highlighted Work and Publications
A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets
Michael Schoenfeldt
This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets.» An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets.
» Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars.
» Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets.
» Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases.
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Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton
Michael Schoenfeldt
Michael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in early modern English literature. After Galen, the predominant medical paradigm of the period envisaged a self governed by humors, literally embodying inner emotion by locating and explaining human passion within a taxonomy of internal organs and fluids. It thus gave a profoundly material emphasis to behavioural phenomena, giving the poets of the period a vital and compelling vocabulary for describing the ways in ...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry
Michael Schoenfeldt
Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet, providing students with ways of understanding and enjoying his remarkable poems. It honours the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of the poems without making them seem unapproachably complicated, outlining their exquisite pleasures and absorbing enigmas. Schoenfeldt suggests that today's readers are better able to analyze aspects of the poems that ...
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