Mary Vera Silcox
Professor Emeritus, English & Cultural Studies

selected scholarly activity

• book reviews

  • Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth.  Ed. 43.  2012
  • Deathly Experiments: A Study of Icons and Emblems of Mortality in Christopher Marlowe's Plays.  Ed. 19.  2012
  • A bibliography of French emblem books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  Ed. 31.  2000
  • English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475–1525 by David, R. Carlson.  Ed. 21.  1995

• books

  • The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England 2008
  • Other Voices, Other Views Expanding the Canon in English Renaissance Studies 1999
  • The English Emblem Tradition 4: William Camden Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine; H.G., The Mirrour of Maiestie; Otto van Veen, Amorum Emblematum 1998
  • The English Emblem Tradition, II: P. S. The Heroicall Devises of M. Claudius Paradin [and] The Purtratures or Emeblemes of Gabriel Simeon, A Florentine, Andrew Willet Sacrorum Emblematum Centuria Una, Thomas Combe, The Theater of Fine Devices 1993
  • The Modern Critical Reception of the English Emblem 1991
  • The English Emblem Bibliography of Secondary Literature 1990
  • The English Emblem Tradition 1: Jan van der Noot, A Theater for Worldlings; Paolo Giovio, The Worthy Tract of Paulus Jovius; Lodovico Domenichi, Certain Notable Devices both Militarie and Amorous; Geffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes. 1988

• chapters

  • "Introduction" 2008
  • Strangely Familiar: Emblems in Early Modern England.  281-298. 2008
  • The Emblem in the United Kingdom and America.  369-391. 2008
  • "'A Manifest Shew of All Coloured Abuses': Stephen Bateman's A Christall Glasses of Christian Reformation as an Emblem Book" 2005
  • Aemilia Lanyer 2003
  • Death and Identity in Geffrey Whitney's A Choice of Emblemes 2002
  • Aemilia Lanyer and Virtue.  295-298. 2000
  • Ornament of the Civill Life: The Device in Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie.  39-49. 1999
  • Introduction 1999
  • 'Gleanings Out of Other Mens Harvestes': Alciato in Whitney's A Choice of Emblemes.  161-200. 1993

• journal articles

  • Addenda to The English Emblem: Bibliography of Secondary Literature. Munich, London, New York, Paris: K. G. Saur, 1990.  Emblematica.  12:329-348. 2002
  • Three (?) Editions of Combe's Theater of Fine Devices.  Emblematica.  9:217-219. 1995
  • William Marshall's Emblems (1650) Rediscovered.  English Literary Renaissance.  19:346-374. 1989
  • A Short Title Listing of English Emblem Books and Emblematic Works Printed to 1900.  Emblematica.  4:333-376. 1989
  • The Translation of La Perrière's Le Théâtre des bons engins into Combe's The Theater of Fine Devices.  Emblematica.  2:61-94. 1987

• other

  • The English Emblem Tradition, IV: William Camden/Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine; H. G./The Mirrour of Maiestie; Otto van Veen/Amorum Emblemata.  376-376. 1998

• theses

  • 'Such Subtle Craft': The Role of the Poet-Speaker in Daniel's Delia, Spenser's Amoretti, and Drayton's Idea