Harry Berger, Jr. Professor Emeritus, Literature University of California, Santa Cruz hberger@cats.ucsc.edu (831) 459-2609

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief: Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and other Dutch Group Portraits, Fordham University Press, 2006.

Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations, Introduction by Judith Anderson, Fordham University Press, 2005.

The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, Winter 2000.

The Allegorical Temper. New Haven: Yale University Press. (doctoral thesis, Yale 1955), 1957.

Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, Fall 1999

Imaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamics, intro. Louis Adrian Montrose. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Second World and Green World: Studies in Renaissance Fiction-Making, ed. and intro. John P. Lynch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Editor. Spenser: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Why Read and Write? (with Louis Haga). National Humanities Faculty Why Series, a series of taped conversations which are subsequently edited (by the conversationalists) for publication. San Francisco: Chandler and Sharp, 1974.

 

Selected Articles:

"Artificial Couples: The Apprehensive Household in Dutch Pendants and Othello," in Center or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance.  Festschrift for J. Leeds Barroll. Ed. Lena Cowen Orlin. Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 2006, 114-57.

"Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of Spenser's Faerie Queene," in Translating Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, ed. Heather Hayton and Craig A. Berry. MRTS Press, 2005, 207-50.

"Gynephobia and Culture Change: An Irigarayan Just-So Story," in Towards Irigaray: Reading Premodern Writing, ed. Theresa Krier and Elizabeth Harvey, Routledge Series in Renaissance Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2004), 138-45.

"Acts of Silence, Acts of Speech: How to Do Things with Othello and Desdemona," Renaissance Drama 33: 1-33 (2004).

"Three's a Company: Contaminated Intimacy in Othello," Shakespeare International Yearbook, ed. Graham Bradshaw et al. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004), 235-63.

"Wring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951-2001," Spenser Studies, Volume 18 (New York: AMS Press, 2003), 81-121.

"Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser's 'Gardens of Adonis'," in Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Literature, ed. Regina Schwartz and Valeria Finucci. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 91-119.

"Displacing Autophobia in Faerie Queene I: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Reading in the Spenserian Text." English Literary Renaissance 28 (1998): 163-82.

"Fictions of the Pose: Facing the Gaze in Early Modern Portraiture," Representations 46 (1994): 87-119.

"Hydra and Rhizome," in Shakespeare Reread: The Texts in Context, ed. Russ McDonald. Cornell University Press, 1994, 79-104.

"Impertinent Trifling: On Desdemona's Handkerchief." Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996): 235-50

"The Pepys Show: Ghost-Writing and Documentary Desire in The Diary." English Literary History 65 (1998): 557-92.

"Phaedrus and the Politics of Inscription," in Plato and Postmodernism, ed. Steven Shankman. Glenside, PA: Aldine Press, 1994, 76-114.

"The Prince's Dog: Falstaff and the Perils of Speech-Prefixity." Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (1998): 40-73.

"Review essay of H. Perry Chapman's Rembrandt's Self-Portraits" in Clio 23 (1994): 285-94.

"Review essay of Linda Charnes's Notorious Identity " in Shakespeare Studies 22 (1995): 229-36.

"Richard II: A Modern Perspective": critical essay in the New Folger Shakespeare edition of Richard II, ed. Paul Werstine and Barbara Mowat (New York: Washington Square Press, 1996), 237-72.

"Second-World Prosthetics: Supplying Deficiencies of Nature in Renaissance Italy." Accepted for a volume of essays edited by Clark Hulse and Peter Erickson, to be published by The University of Pennsylvania Press.

"The System of Early Modern Painting." Representations 62 (Spring, 1998): 31-57.

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