Dr Syrithe Pugh
Lecturer
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272623 |
| E-mail: | s.m.pugh@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | B4, Taylor Building |
Biography
Before coming to Aberdeen, I studied at Oxford and Princeton and taught at Leeds. My main interests are in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, politics, and imitation of classical literature.
My first book, Spenser and Ovid, published in 2005, revises the common view of Spenser as apologist for Elizabeth's imperialist monarchy by tracing his persistent imitation of Ovid, poet of love and political exile, throughout his career. It has been favourably reviewed in The Review of English Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Notes and Queries, Modern Language Review, Times Literary Supplement, Spenser Review, The Sixteenth Century Journal and The Year's Work in English Studies.
In 2010 I published my second book, Herrick, Fanshawe, and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism, exploring the relation between oppositional politics and concepts of intertextuality in two royalist poets during the Civil Wars of the 1640s. This has been favourably reviewed in Notes & Queries, The Classical Review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Studies in English Literature and Seventeenth-Century News.
I have also published articles on Gascoigne, Sidney, Spenser, Jonson, Herrick and Fanshawe, including chapters for two volumes in the Oxford Handbooks series, and a chapter for the forthcoming Cambridge University Press collection, Marlowe in Context, and I am a contributing editor for the Spenser Review.
I welcome enquiries from students interested in postgraduate research on Renaissance poetry, especially anyone interested in poetry and politics, or classical imitation and intertextuality.
Publications
- Pugh, S. Supping with Ghosts, Chapter, 2011, Lords of Wine and Oileђ
- Pugh, S. Herrick, Fanshawe & the Politics of Intertextuality, Book, 2010
- Pugh, S. Spenser and Classical Literature, Chapter, 2010, Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser, pp503 - 519
- Pugh, S. Ovidian Reflections in Gascoigne's Steel Glass, Chapter, 2009, The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, pp571 - 586
- Pugh, S. Fanshawe's Critique of Caroline Pastoral, Article, 2008, Review of English Studies, 59, 240, pp379 - 391, ISSN/ISBN: 0034-6551
- Pugh, S. Sidney, Spenser and Political Petrarchism, Chapter, 2007, Petrarch in Britain, pp243 - 257
- Pugh, S. Ovidian Exile in the Hesperides: Herricks Politics of Intertextuality, Article, 2006, Review of English Studies, 57, 232, pp733 - 765, ISSN/ISBN: 0034-6551
- Pugh, S. ѓCleanly-Wantonnesse and Puritan Legislation: the Politics of HerrickԒs Amatory Ovidianism., Article, 2006, The Seventeenth Century, 21, pp249 - 269, ISSN/ISBN: 0268-117X
- Pugh, S. Spenser and Ovid, Book, 2005
- Pugh, S. Acrasia and Bondage: Guyonђs Perversion of the Ovidian Erotic in Book II of The Faerie Queene., Chapter, 2005, Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions, ed Lethbridge, JB., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp153 - 194
- Pugh, S. ѓRosmarine in the Masque of Blacknesse: JonsonԒs Herbal Medicamina Faciei?, Article, 2005, Notes and Queries, ISSN/ISBN: 0029-3970