Dr Syrithe Pugh
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- s.m.pugh@abdn.ac.uk
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Old Brewery F06
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- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Before coming to Aberdeen, I studied at Oxford and Princeton and taught at Leeds. My research focusses on the Renaissance reception of classical literature, and particularly how C16th and C17th English poets used classical imitation and allusion to reflect on contemporary events and political issues.
I have published two monographs exploring these questions in relation to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, the first focussing on his relation to the irreverent love poet and political exile Ovid, and the second (which received the Isabel MacCaffrey Award) on his nuanced and revisionary engagement with the Augustan laureate Virgil—both revealing a radically independent sense of poetry's social role and relation to power. A third monograph explores the use of classical imitation for political ends by royalist poets in the period leading up to the English Civil War. I have also edited interdisciplinary volumes on classical intertextuality and on euhemerism, and published articles on a wide range of Renaissance poets, and several chapters in handbooks from Oxford, Cambridge and Blackwells.
At Aberdeen, I am co-director of the Herbert Grierson Research Centre, which has hosted several international conferences on classical reception in recent years. Beyond the University, I am a member of the Councils of the Society for Renaissance Studies and the UK Classical Association, and Chair of the Classical Association of Scotland’s Aberdeen and North of Scotland Centre. I am a contributing editor for the online journal Spenser Review, and a member of the editorial board of Spenser Studies.
I welcome enquiries from students interested in postgraduate research on Renaissance poetry, especially anyone interested in focussing on poetry and politics, or classical imitation and intertextuality.
Latest Publications
The Road Not Taken: Dante’s First Eclogue and Virgil’s Career
International Journal of the Classical TraditionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-024-00670-4
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Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in Herrick’s ‘The Hock-Cart’
English Literary Renaissance, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 62-99Contributions to Journals: ArticlesL. B. T. Houghton, Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 390, ISBN: 978-1108499927, £90
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 28, pp. 533-536Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-020-00583-y
Euhemerism and its Uses: The Mortal Gods
Taylor and Francis, London. 346 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksIntroduction
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094760-1
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- Research
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Research Overview
Research Areas
English
Research Specialisms
- English Literature 1200 -1700
- Classical Reception
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Publications
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The Road Not Taken: Dante’s First Eclogue and Virgil’s Career
International Journal of the Classical TraditionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-024-00670-4
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in Herrick’s ‘The Hock-Cart’
English Literary Renaissance, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 62-99Contributions to Journals: ArticlesL. B. T. Houghton, Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 390, ISBN: 978-1108499927, £90
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 28, pp. 533-536Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-020-00583-y
Euhemerism and its Uses: The Mortal Gods
Taylor and Francis, London. 346 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksIntroduction
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094760-1
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Tracking Titan from Boccaccio to Milton: Euhemerism and Tyrannomachy in the Renaissance
Euhemerism and Its Uses: The Mortal Gods. Pugh, S. (ed.). 1st edition. Taylor and Francis, pp. 148-179, 32 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094760-7
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Adonis and Literary Immortality in Pastoral Elegy
Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality. Pugh, S. (ed.). Manchester University Press, pp. 179-229, 41 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality
Manchester University Press, Manchester. 261 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksSUSANNA BRAUND and ZARA MARTIROSOVA TORLONE (EDS), VIRGIL AND HIS TRANSLATORS (Classical Presences). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 520. ISBN 9780198810810. £110.
Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 110, pp. 315-317Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles‘Gods that faine to be’: Political Euhemerism in Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos
English Literary Renaissance, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 28-73Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAlex Wong, The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe
Spenser Review, vol. 48, no. 3, 7Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesJonson and the Cavalier Poets
A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. Bates, C. (ed.). Blackwell, pp. 325-338, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118585184.ch24
Orpheus and Eurydice in the Middle Books of The Faerie Queene
Spenser Studies, vol. 31-32, pp. 1-41Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/695570
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12131/1/Orpheus_for_Spenser_Studies.pdf
'Spenser and Ovid'
Edmund Spenser in Context. Escobedo, A. (ed.). Cambridge University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Spenser and Virgil: The Pastoral Poems
Manchester University Press, Manchester. 350 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksLindsay Ann Reid, Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England
Spenser Review, vol. 44, no. 3, 63Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesReinventing the Wheel: Spenser's Virgilian Career
Spenser in the Moment. Hecht, P., Lethbridge, J. B. (eds.). Fairleigh Dickinson University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Rebecca Helfer, Spenser’s Ruins and the Art of Recollection
Review of English Studies, vol. 64, no. 267, pp. 887Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgt012
Alpers, What Is Pastoral?
Spenser Review, vol. 43, no. 2Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesMarlowe and Classical Literature
Christopher Marlowe in Context. Bartels, E. C., Smith, E. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 80-89, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139060882.011
Review of Frances Cruickshank, 'Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne' and Margaret Fetzer, 'John Donne’s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions'
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 403-405Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2012.60.4.toc
Review of 'Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth‐Century France' by Paul White
Renaissance Studies, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 725-727Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2011.00759.x
Supping with Ghosts: Imitation and Immortality in Herrick
‘Lords of Wine and Oile’: Community and Conviviality in the Poetry of Robert Herrick. Connolly, R., Cain, T. (eds.). Oxford University Press, 26 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Spenser and Classical Literature
Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser. McCabe, R. A. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 503-519, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227365.013.0028
Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism
Ashgate, Farnham. 196 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754656142
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586755
Ovidian Reflections in Gascoigne's Steel Glass
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603. Pincombe, M., Shrank, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 571-586, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199205882.013.0035
Fanshawe's Critique of Caroline Pastoral: Allusion and Ambiguity in the 'Ode on the Proclamation'
Review of English Studies, vol. 59, no. 240, pp. 379-391Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/RES/HGM073
Sidney, Spenser and Political Petrarchism
Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators and Translators over 700 Years. McLaughlin, M. L. (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 243-257, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264133.003.0016
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Sean Keilen, Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature
Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles"Cleanly-Wantonnesse" and Puritan Legislation: the Politics of Herrick’s Amatory Ovidianism.
The Seventeenth Century, vol. 21, pp. 249-269Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2006.10555576
Acrasia and Bondage: Guyon’s Perversion of the Ovidian Erotic in Book II of The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions. Lethbridge, J. (ed.). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 153-194, 41 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Ovidian Exile in the Hesperides: Herrick’s Politics of Intertextuality
Review of English Studies, vol. 57, no. 232, pp. 733-765Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgl126
"Rosmarine” in the Masque of Blacknesse: Jonson’s Herbal Medicamina Faciei?
Notes and Queries, pp. 221-223Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gji234
Spenser and Ovid
Ashgate, Aldershot, United Kingdom. 304 pagesBooks and Reports: Books