Publications

Jennifer Summit

Selected Publications
Books
Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008; paperback edition, 2011); reviewed in Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Times Literary Supplement, Renaissance Quarterly, American Historical Review, Review of English Studies, and others
Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Current Book Project: Action vs. Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters, co-authored with Blakey Vermeule (Stanford) (under contract for completion in 2014, University of Chicago Press)
Editing
Co-Editor, with Caroline Bicks (Boston College), History of Women's Writing: volume 2: 1500-1610 (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan: 2010)
Co-editor, with David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania),“Medieval/ Renaissance: After Periodization,”Special Issue, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37 (2007): 447-646.
Articles
“’Bequeathed Care’: Rethinking Spenser’s Contemplation,” Spenser Review 41 (2011): 1-10.
“Literary History and the Curriculum: How, What, and Why,”Profession (2010): 141-150, reprinted in the ADE Bulletin 149 (2010)
“Active and Contemplative Lives,” in Cultural Reformations: from Lollardy to the English Civil War, edited by Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2010)
“From Anchorhold to Lady's Closet: Julian of Norwich in 1670,” in The Legacy of Julian of Norwich, ed. Sarah Salih and Denise Baker (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan: 2009)
“Leland’s Itinerary and the Remains of the Medieval Past,” in Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, ed. Gordon McMullan and David Mathews (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 159-176.
"Introduction: Rethinking Periodization," (co-authored with David Wallace), Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37 (2007): 447-451.
“’Stable in Study’: Lydgate’s Fall of Princes and Duke Humphrey’s Library” in John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England, ed. James Simpson and Larry Scanlon (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), 207-231.
“Troilus and Criseyde” in The Yale Chaucer Companion, ed. Seth Lerer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 213-242.
“Writing Home: Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden Letters, and Household Epistolarity” in Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England, ed. Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson and A. R. Buck (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 201-218.
“Monuments and Ruins: Spenser and the Problem of the English Library,”ELH (English Literary History), 70 (2003): 1-34.
––shortened version reprinted in Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe’s Legacies, ed. Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams (New York: Routledge, 2004), 165-178.
“Women and Authorship” in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing, ed. Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 91-108.
“Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (2000): 211-246
“‘The Arte of a Ladies Penne’: Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Queenship,” English Literary Renaissance 26 (1996): 395-422.
–– reprinted in Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I , ed. Peter Herman (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002), 79-108.
“William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort and the Romance of Textual Production,” in Women, the Book, and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda’s Conference, 1993, ed. Lesley Smith and Jane Taylor (Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1995), 151-65.