
Rhodri Lewis
Fall 2023: On Leave
Selected Publications
Books
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
William Petty on the Order of Nature: An Unpublished Manuscript Treatise (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2012)
Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke, “Ideas in Context” series, no. 80 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback reissue, 2012)
Articles
1. Shakespeare
“Polychronic Macbeth”, Modern Philology 117 (2020), 323-46.
"Shakespeare, Olaus Magnus, and Monsters of the Deep", Notes and Queries 65 (2018), 76-81
“Romans, Egyptians, and Crocodiles”, Shakespeare Quarterly 68 (2017), 320-50
“Young Hamlet”, Times Literary Supplement 5917 (2 September 2016), 15-17
“Hamlet, Metaphor, and Memory”, Studies in Philology 109 (2012), 609-41
“Two Meanings in One Word: A Note on Shakespeare’s Richard III, III.i.81-83”, Notes and Queries 59 (2012), 61-63
“Shakespeare’s Clouds and the Image Made by Chance”, Essays in Criticism 62 (2012), 1-24
2. Bacon
“Francis Bacon and Ingenuity”, Renaissance Quarterly 67 (2014), 113-63
“Francis Bacon, Allegory and the Uses of Myth”, Review of English Studies 61 (2010), 360-89
“A Kind of Sagacity: Francis Bacon, the ars memoriae and the Pursuit of Natural Knowledge”, Intellectual History Review 19 (2009), 155-77
3. Philosophy, Science and Religion
Whose Manner of Discourse? Sir William Petty, Civility, and the Early Royal Society,” in Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar: Essays in Honor of Mordechai Feingold, ed. Gideon Manning and Anna Marie Roos (Berlin, 2023), 301-21.
“Impartiality and Disingenuousness in English Rational Religion”, in The Emergence of Impartiality, eds. Anita Traninger and Kathryn Murphy (Leiden, 2013), 224-45
“Thinking with Animals in the Early Royal Society”, in Ethical Perspectives on Animals in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, eds. Burkhard Dohm and Cecilia Muratori (Florence, 2013), 231-56
“William Petty’s Anthropology: Religion, Colonialism, and the Problem of Human Diversity”, Huntington Library Quarterly 74 (2011), 261-88
“Hooke’s Two Buckets: Memory, Mnemotechnique and Knowledge in the Early Royal Society”, in Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture, eds. Donald Beecher and Grant Williams (Toronto, 2009), 339-63
“The Enlightenment”, in The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, eds. Andrew Hass, David Jasper and Elisabeth Jay (Oxford, 2007), 97-114
“Robert Hooke at 371”, Perspectives on Science 14 (2007), 672-87
“Of ‘Origenian Platonisme’: Joseph Glanvill on the Pre-Existence of Souls”, Huntington Library Quarterly 69 (2006), 267-300
4. Language
“The Same Principle of Reason: John Wilkins and Language”, in John Wilkins (1614-1672): New Essays, ed. William Poole (Leiden, 2017), 182-98.
“On Looking Again into Champagnolla’s Homer”, Language and History 56 (2013), 56-66
“‘The Best Mnemonicall Expedient’: John Beale’s Art of Memory and its Uses”, The Seventeenth Century 20 (2005), 113-44
“A Babel off Broad Street: Artificial Language Planning in 1650s Oxford”, History of Universities 19 (2005), 108-45
“John Evelyn, the Early Royal Society and Artificial Language Projection: a New Source”, Notes and Queries 51 (2004), 31-35
“The Publication of John Wilkins’s Essay (1668): Some Contextual Considerations”, Notes and Records of the Royal Society 56 (2002), 133-46
“The Efforts of the Aubrey Correspondence Group to Revise John Wilkins’s Essay (1668) and their context”, Historiographia Linguistica 28 (2001), 333-66
5. Miscellaneous
“La morte del padre: Translating Machiavelli”, Notes and Queries 64 (2017), 249-52
“Samuel Hartlib”, “William Petty” and “John Wilkins”, in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, eds. Alan Stewart, Garrett Sullivan, et al. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012), 446-51, 780-82, 1057-59
“Historians, Critics and Historicists”, English Historical Review 125 (2010), 370-82
“An Early Reader of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel”, Notes and Queries 57 (2010), 67-69
“An Unpublished Letter from Andrew Marvell to William Petty”, Notes and Queries 53 (2006), 47-50