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Ruth McIntyre's Publications 2007-2008

articles “Margery’s ‘Mixed Life’: Place Pilgrimage and the Problem of Genre in The Book of Margery Kempe.” English Studies (forthcoming).

“Flowers Worthy of Paradise: Milton and the Language of Flowers.” Milton Studies 47 (2008): 145-67.

“Learning, Desire, and Engagement: a “Text-less” Model of Writing Instruction.” Modern Language Studies 37.1 (2007): 68-82.

BOOK REVIEWS

Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Eds. Andrew Spicer and Sarah Hamilton. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Sixteenth Century Journal 38. 4 (Winter 2007):1071-72.

Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe. Ed. Douglas L. Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove, and A. Compton Reeves. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD: Peoples, Economics and Cultures Series Volume Eight. Boston: Brill, 2004. Sixteenth Century Journal 37. 3 (Fall 2006): 784-785.

Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell. McColley, Diane Kelsey. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity Series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2007. Sixteenth-Century Journal (forthcoming 2009)

Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006. Sixteenth Century Journal 38.3 (Fall 2007): 918-20.

Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton. Rebecca Totaro. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2005. Sixteenth Century Journal 38.2 (Summer 2007): 530-31.