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Patricia Fumerton
(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1981)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 893-8482
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: pfumer@english.ucsb.edu
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Areas of Interest
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century culture and literature
- Sidney, Spenser, Jonson
- High and low subjectivity
- Vagrancy and spatial mobility
- Popular Broadsides
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Books
- Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in
Early Modern England (University of Chicago
Press, 2006)
- Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, co-edited with Simon
Hunt (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
- Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice
of Social Ornament (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
~ also published in Japanese, together with a new Author's Preface,
trans. Shogo Ikuta, Osamu Yagawa, and Akira Inoue (Tokyo: Shohakusha
Press, 1996)
Articles
- "Remembering by Dismembering: Databases, Archiving, and the Recollection of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads," article for forthcoming special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), edited by Shawn Martin, EEBO-TCP
- "Mocking Aristocratic Place: The Perspective of the Streets," Early Modern Culture (fall 2008)
- "Making Vagrancy (In)Visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets," English Literary Renaissance 33.2 (Spring 2003): 211-27; reprinted in Rogues and Early Modern Literary Culture: A Critical Anthology, eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, (University of Michigan Press, 2004), pp. 193-210
- Various articles on the literature and culture of the lower orders, gift exchange and Spenser's Garden of Adonis,
miniature painting and sonnets, Spenserian stylistics, minoritarian
languages, the new historicism, vagrancy, mobility, and ballad culture
Current Projects
Currently directing the digitizing of all early English broadside ballads, with an emphasis on the ornamental black-letter broadsides of the seventeenth century, as part of the Early Modern Center's English Broadside Ballads Archive (EBBA). Also working on a book on black-letter and the idea of blackness in early modern England and America.
- The Moving Matter of Broadside Ballads: The Lady and the Blackamoor (book project contracted to University of Chicago Press)
- Early Modern Ballads: From the Pepys Collection (edition contracted with Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University Press)
- Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, collection of essays co-edited with Anita Guerrini (contracted with Ashgate Press)
- "Preface" and "Samuel Pepys and his Ballad Collection" essay for Pepys Collection edition
- "The Pepys Ballad Archive: from Theory to Practice," article co-written with Simone Chess, Tassie Gniady, and Kris McAbee, for MLA edition, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives
- "Introduction" and "Remembering by Dismembering" essay (revised) for Ballads and Broadsides edition
Recent Courses Taught
Early
Shakespeare, English 105A, Fall 2008 (Undergrad)
Ballad Culture 1500-1800, English 197, Winter 2008 (Undergrad)
English Broadside Ballads, 1500-1800 and the Making of a Pepys Ballad Edition, English 231 (Grad, Winter 2007)
English Literature to 1650, English 101 (Undergrad)
English Broadside Ballads, 1500-1800, English 231 (Grad, Fall 2004)
English Broadside Ballads, 1500-1800, English 197 (Undergrad)
Early Modern Popular Culture
Home
& World: A Lowly Perspective,
English 231 (Grad)
Home & World:
A Lowly Perspective, English 197 (Undergrad)
No
Place Like Home: The Foreign and the Domestic in Early Modern England ,
English 165FD (Undergrad)
Early
Modern Women Writers, English 231 (Grad)
Early
Modern Women Writers, English 197 (Undergrad)
Early
Modern Visual Culture, English 231(Grad)
Early
Modern Visual Culture, English 197 (Undergrad)
Literature
and the Visual Arts: The Renaissance Self, English 165VA (Undergrad)
Spenser and Literary Theory
Renaissance Writing (With Richard Helgerson)

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