Selfish Gifts
Dr Alison Scott
Position: ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Contact Details
Office: W6A 637
Phone: 61-2-9850 6792
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: alison.scott@humn.mq.edu.au
Grants
Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2005), ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005).
Current Projects:
In addition to co-editing a volume of essays on Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre with Professor Tony Cousins (forthcoming with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), Alison Scott is currently working on a cultural history of luxury in the early modern period. This ARC funded project - Bowers of Bliss: Literary and Cultural Representations of Luxury in Early Modern England, 1580-1630 - will culminate in a major new interdisciplinary study, examining visual, textual and literary representations of luxury in a society in social, economic and political flux. Several articles associated with this project are either forthcoming or currently under consideration.
Selected publications
Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006.
'Hoarding the Treasure and Squandering the Truth: Giving and Possessing in Shakespeare's Sonnets to the Young Man.' Studies in Philology, 101.3 (2004): 315-31.
'Celebrating the Somerset Wedding: Donne, Patronage and the Problems of the Gift.' Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Winter 2004.
'Marketing the Gift: Jonson, Multiple Patronage and Strategic Exchange.' Parergon 20.2 (2003): 135-59.
'Tainted Exchange: Giving Truth in Shakespeare's Sonnets.' AUMLA 101 (2004): 1-24.
Forthcoming:
'Self-Presentation and Truth in t he Letters of Thomas More' A Companion to Thomas More , ed. A.D. Cousins, D. Grace & C. Murphy, forthcoming Boydell and Brewer (2006).
'Jonson's Masque Markets and Problems of Literary Ownership,' Studies in English Literature (2007).
'Toward a Re-evaluation of the Bower of Bliss: The Taxonomy of Luxury in The Faerie Queene, Book Two ,' Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2007).