Douglas Northrop

  Douglas Northrop

 

Education

  • Ph.D. – The University of Chicago
  • M.A. – The University of Chicago
  • B.A. – Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

 

Current Courses Taught

  • English 175, Literary Love
  • English 230, Literary Criticism
  • English 430, Senior Seminar: Courtesy Novels

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • Severy Award for excellence in teaching, 1965-66
  • Uhrig Award for excellence in teaching, 1970-71
  • Honorary Degree, DHL, Ripon College, 2000

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • The Spenser Encyclopedia (1990), adviser.
  • “The Ende Therfore of a Perfect Courtier in Baldassare Castiglione’s The Courtier.” Philological Quarterly 77(1999):295-305.
  • “The Uncertainty of Courtesy in Book VI of The Faerie Queene” Spenser Studies 14(2000):215-32.
  • Review:R.A. Horton, The Unity of “The Faerie Queene.” Modern Philology 78(1984):306-8.
  • Review:Patrick J. Cook. Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition. Renaissance Quarterly 51(1998):700-1.
  • Review:Elizibeth Clarke, Theory and Theology in George Herbert’s Poetry: “Divine, and Poesie, Met.” Renaissance Quarterly 52(1999):1192-3.
  • Review: Peter DeSa Wiggins, Donne, Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtliness. Renaissance Quarterly 55(2002): 1114-1115.

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • English Renaissance literature, especially Spenser and Shakespeare
  • Investigating the developing concepts of courtesy
  • 18th century novels by, for, and about women