Outgrowing Adonis, outgrowing Ovid: the disorienting narrative of Venus and Adonis

Crems Research Seminar

Subha Mukherji was educated in Calcutta, Oxford and Cambridge and has taught at Leeds and at Cambridge.

Research Interests: Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; law and literature, especially drama; the poetics of space; literary form and epistemology. Current book-project focuses on the uses of doubt in early modern literature.

Selected Publications

• ‘Outgrowing Adonis, outgrowing Ovid: the disorienting narrative of Venus and Adonis’: forthcoming in Jonathan Post, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare’s Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• ‘Seeing, knowing, believing: the epistemic plot and the poetics of doubt in early modern literature’, in Batsaki, Mukherji and Schramm, eds., Fictions of Knowledge; Fact, Evidence, Doubt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 84-10.
• Ed. (with Yota Batsaki and Jan-Melissa Schramm), Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• ‘Middleton and the Rule of Law’, in Thomas Middleton in Context, ed. Suzanne Gossett (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 106-13.
• “‘Invasion from Outer Space’: the threshold of annunciations”, in Subha Mukherji, ed., Thinking on Thresholds: the Poetics of Transitive Spaces (Anthem, 2011), 43-70.
• Ed., Thinking on Thresholds: the Poetics of Transitive Spaces (Anthem Press, 2011).
• Ed. (with Raphael Lyne), Early Modern Tragicomedy (Boydell & Brewer, 2007).
• ‘False trials and the impulse to try in Shakespeare and his contemporaries’, in Thinking With Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays, Ed. William Poole and Richard Scholar (Legenda, 2007), 53-74.
• ‘False trials in Shakespeare, Massinger and Ford’, Essays in Criticism 56.3, 2006, 219-240.
• “Jonson's The New Inn and a revisiting of the amorous jurisdiction”, Law and Literature 18.2, 2006, 149-69.
• Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2006); paperback reprint 2009.
• ‘Women, law and dramatic realism in early modern England’, English Literary Renaissance 35.2, 2005, 248-72.
• Subha Mukherji, “‘Unmanly indignities’: adultery and judgement in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness’, in Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson, eds., Literature, Politics and the Law in Renaissance England, (Palgrave, 2004), 71-99.
• “‘Lawfull deede’: Consummation, Custom and Law in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well”, Shakespeare Survery 49, 1996, 181-200.

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