Professor Tony Cousins
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems
Professor Tony Cousins
Position: Professor in English, Head of Department
Contact Details
Office: W6A 624
Phone: 61-2-9850 8772
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: tony.cousins@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
MA (Syd) PhD (Monash)
Profile
Tony Cousins is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia . He has published eight books in America and England, including monographs on Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and on religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has published many articles, all in refereed and, for the most part, international journals. He is on the Editorial Board of Moreana, the international journal of More and Erasmus studies. He is currently working on several books, including studies of Thomas More and of Ben Jonson. His research interests include the literature and culture of early modern England, the historiography of the history of ideas, and utopian narrative. He has been a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Renaissance Studies Center at the University of Massachussetts, a Visiting Scholar at Princeton and at Penn State, and a Library Fellow at the Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was also an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
Selected publications
Books
Donne and the Resources of Kind . With Damian Grace. Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 2002.
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative
Poems. Longman, 1999 and
2000.
More's Utopia and The Utopian Inheritance. With Damian Grace.
University Press of America, 1995.
Francis Quarles: Emblemes. Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints,
1991.
The Catholic Religious Poets from Southwell to Crashaw. Sheed
and Ward/Continuum, 1991.
The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell. With Conal Condren.
Scholar Press, 1990.
Fulke Greville: Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes. Scholars'
Facsimiles and Reprints, 1990.
Articles
"John Donne's 'The Annunciation,'" "The Explicator," 65 (2007), 136-137 (with R. J. Webb).
"Sonnet 60," (by invitation) in Michael Hanke and Michael R.G. Spiller, eds, Ten Shakespeare Sonnets: Critical Essays (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Treir, 2006), pages 46-54.
"John Cleveland," New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2005)
"Appropriating and Attributing the Supernatural in the Early Modern Country
House Poem," Early Modern Literary Studies , 11 (2005), 1-26.
With R. J. Webb.
"Humanism, Female Education and Myth: Erasmus, Vives and More's 'To Candidus,'" "Journal of the History of Ideas," 65 (2004), 213-230.
"Hamlet and the Politics of Nostalgia," The Explicator , 62 (2003), 5-7.
"Role-Play and Self-Portrayal in Thomas More's A Dialogue of Comfort", Christianity and Literature, 52 (2003), 457-470.
"Augustine, Boethius, and the Fortune Verses of Thomas More," Moreana , 39 (2002), 17-40.
"Barron Field and the Translation of Romanticism to Colonial Australia," Southerly , 58 (1999), 157-174. Reprinted in AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway.
"Playing with Reason: Aspects of Rhetoric in Hooker's Lawes 1-5," Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 97 (1998), 177-189.
"Subjectivity, Exemplarity, and the Establishing of Characterization in Lucrece ," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 , 38 (1998), 45-60. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook , vol. 48.
Further publications in Studies in Philology, Journal of English and Germanic Philology , Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Moreana, Neophilologus, Studia Neophilologica, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, Southern Review, English Literary Renaissance , and other journals .
Teaching
ENGL261 Paradigm Shift
ENGL288 Metamorphosis of Myth
ENGL367 Shakespeare and the Renaissance
LIT402 Reading the Renaissance
LIT802 Shakespeare