Edited by Gavin Alexander, Reader in Renaissance Literature, University of Cambridge, Emma Gilby, Reader in Early Modern French Literature and Thought, University of Cambridge, and Alexander Marr, Reader in the History of Early Modern Art, University of Cambridge

Gavin Alexander is Reader in Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. His most recent project is an edition of The Model of Poesy by William Scott (CUP, 2013). Other publications include Writing After Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640 (OUP, 2006) and Renaissance Figures of Speech (CUP, 2007), co-edited with Sylvia Adamson and Katrin Ettenhuber, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on literary and musicological topics. He is currently working on a book on English Renaissance poets and music, and a project on lyric poetry and poetics.

Emma Gilby is Reader in Early Modern French Literature and Thought at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include Descartes's Fictions: Reading Philosophy with Poetics (OUP, 2019) and Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (MHRA [Legenda], 2006), as well as various co-edited volumes and articles on the literary and intellectual history of the early modern period. Much of her research has focused on poetic theory and its connections to the rhetoric, philosophy and theology of seventeenth-century France.

Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He recently published, with R. Garrod, J.R. Marcaida, and R. Oosterhoff, Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). His study of Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens's Spirit: from Ingenuity to Genius is forthcoming from Reaktion Books.

Gavin Alexander, University of Cambridge
Stijn Bussels, Leiden University
Rodrigo Cacho Casal, University of Cambridge
Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Emma Gilby, University of Cambridge
Michael Hetherington, University of Oxford
Lorna Hutson, University of Oxford
Micha Lazarus, University of Cambridge
Francesco Lucioli, University College Dublin
Alexander Marr, University of Cambridge
Sophie Read, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, King's College London
Chris Stamatakis, University College London
Rowan Cerys Tomlinson, University of Bristol
Thijs Weststeijn, Utrecht University

"This wideranging collection enriches and extends our understanding of criticism: ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary." - Jonathan Locke Hart, Shandong University, Comptes Rendus