James Parente

Publications

• "Educating for Empire: Romance and Nation in Johan van Heemskerck's Batavische Arcadia." In Literature without Frontiers: Transnational Perspectives on Premodern Literature in the Low Countries, 1200-1800. Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 145-73.

• "Introduction: Literature without Frontiers." In Literature without Frontiers: Transnational Perspectives on Premodern Literature in the Low Countries, 1200-1800 [with Cornelis van der Haven, Jan Bloemendal and Youri Desplenter]. Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 1-27.

• Literature without Frontiers: Transnational Perspectives on Premodern Literature in the Low Countries, 1200-1800 [coedited with Cornelis van der Haven, Jan Bloemendal, and Youri Desplenter]. Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 2023.

• “What Makes a Neo-Latin Tragedy Baroque?” [with Jan Bloemendal]. In Baroque Latinity. Ed. Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald, and Andrew Taylor. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 153-69.

• “The Historization of Desire: Sophonisba in Early Modern Dutch Drama” [with Jan Bloemendal]. Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies [Sophonisba in Early Modern Literature], 20 (2023): 73-103.

• “The Anthology as Site of Transnational Literary Exchange in the German Empire and the Low Countries.” Medievalia et Humanistica, 48 (2023): 41-62.

• Transnational Exchange in the Early Modern Low Countries. Coedited with Jan Bloemendal and  Nigel Smith. Special Issue Renaissance Studies 36/1 (2022). 

• “Introduction: The Netherlands and Transnational Cultural Exchange.” [With Jan Bloemendal and Nigel Smith]. Renaissance Studies 36/1 (2022): 8-26.

• “Latin and the Transmission of the Vernacular: Multilingualism and Interculturality in the Dramas of Jacob Zevecotius.” In Transnational Exchange in the Early Modern Low Countries. Renaissance Studies 36/1 (2022): 104-121.

• "Foreword to the New Edition: Thirty Years Since.” In: Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (infra). [2020]. Pp. xv-xix.

• "Translating Love in the Dutch Golden Age: The Cosmopolitan Ovid of Johan van Heemskerck.” In: Voltreffer! Populariteit en popularisiering van de historische Nederlandse letterkunde. Bijdragen ter gelegenheid van het emeritaat van Lia van Gemert. Ed. Frans Blom, Lucas van der Deijl, Marjolein Hogenbirk et al.  [2020]. Pp. 51-54. Online Publication: Link

• Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720. Coedited with Richard E. Schade and George C. Schoolfield. University of North Carolina Studies in the German Languages and Literatures, 113. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Reprinted with a new foreward by James A. Parente, Jr., 2020.

• “Romancing the Nation: History and the Origins of the Novel in Germany and the Netherlands.” Journal of Dutch Literature 9/1 (2018): 3-21.

• “A Celebration of Words: Herman Pleij, Het gevleugelde woord.” Journal of Dutch Literature, 7/2 (2016): 1-10.

• “Historical Tragedy and the End of Christian Humanism: Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583-1649)."  In Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque Tragedy. Ed. Jan Bloemendal and Nigel Smith. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2016. Pp. 152-181.

• “The Humanist Tradition – Maria Stuart (1646)” (with Jan Bloemendal). In Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age. Ed. Frans-Willem Korsten and Jan Bloemendal. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2012.  Pp. 341-358.

• “Imagining the Dutch Golden Age in Anglo-American Fiction.” In From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange. Ed. Charles T. Gehring, Margriet Lacy, Jenneke Oosterhoff.  Studies in Dutch Language and Culture, 2.  Münster: Nodus Verlag, 2008. Pp. 413-24.

• "German-Speaking Centres and Institutions." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol. III: The Renaissance. Ed. Glyn P. Norton.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 364-70.

• "Tragoedia Politica: Strasbourg School Drama and the Early Modern State, 1583-1621." Colloquia Germanica  29/1 (1996): 1-11.

• "Carnal Knowledge: Writing about Sex in Early Modern Germany." In Knowledge, Science and Literature in Early Modern Germany. Ed. Stephan K. Schindler and Gerhild Scholz Williams. University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures,116. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. 243-261.

• "The Theatricality of History in the Dutch Golden Age: Joost van den Vondel's Gysbreght van Aemstel." In From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries 1500-1700. Ed. Theo Hermans and Reinier Salverda. London: Centre for Low Countries Studies/ University College London, 1993.  Pp. 248-67.  Reprinted London: UCL Press, 2017.

• Religious Drama and the Humanist Tradition: Christian Theater in Germany and the Netherlands, 1500-1680. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 39. Leiden: Brill, 1987.

Activities

Awards

• Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 1989 - 1990
• University Scholar, University of Illinois, 1989 - 1992
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1984 - 1985