English Department Faculty

Mary Crane

Thomas F. Rattigan Professor

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Mary Crane

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall S423

Telephone: 617-552-3735

Email: mary.crane@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • A.B., Harvard College
  • Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests

Specializes in English Renaissance literature and culture, 1500-1660, especially intellectual history, history of science and technology, and cognitive literary theory.

Department

English

Publications

Books

  • Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).
  • , (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
  • Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth Century England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).

Edited Collection

  • Ed., with Amy Boesky, (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000).

Articles

  • 鈥淔orm and Pressure in Shakespeare,鈥� forthcoming in 鈥淚magining Early Modern Scientific Forms,鈥� a special issue of Philological Quarterly ed. Debapriya Sarkar and Jenny C. Mann.
  • 鈥溾�機abin鈥檇, Cribb鈥檇, Confin鈥檇: Thwarted Motion in Macbeth, forthcoming in Renaissance Movement, ed. Kathryn Banks and Tim Chesters, Palgrave, 2018.
  • 鈥淢eteorology, Embodiment, and Environment in Shakespeare鈥檚 A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream,鈥� forthcoming in Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett Sullivan, eds., The Geography of Embodiment in Early Modern England.
  • 鈥淟e cognitivism historique est-il possible?,鈥� trans. Francoise Lavocat, in Interpretation Literaire et Sciences Cognitives, ed. Francoise Lavocat (Paris: Hermann, 2016): 57-78.听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听
  • 鈥淛ohn Donne and the New Science,鈥� Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble, eds, Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature, Science, and Culture (London: Palgrave, 2017), 95-114.
  • 鈥淐ognitive Historicism: Intuition in Early Modern Thought,鈥� in Lisa Zunshine, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • 鈥淢arlowe and the New Science,鈥� Christopher Marlowe in Context, ed. Emily Bartels and Emma Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 252-261.
  • 听鈥淥ptics,鈥� Henry Turner, ed., 21st Century Approache