NEH Workshop Grants

Spring 1985

The Uses of Reading in France From the Mid-17th c. to the Revolution

Directed by Roger Chartier

Keywords: History, French, Seventeenth Century, Reading Practices, France, French Revolution

Popular Reading and Publishing Strategies in Early Modern France, 1530-1660

Directed by Roger Chartier

Keywords: History, French, Sixteenth Century, Reading Practices, France

The Formation and Dissolution of Marriage in England, 1600-1800

Directed by Lawrence Stone

Keywords: History, English, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Social History, Marriage, England

Fall 1985

From Alms to Bribes: The Gift in 16th c. France

Directed by Natalie Lemon Davis

Keywords: History, France, 16th Century, Gifts, Alms, Bribes

The Sources for Gifts: Archives and Fiction

Directed by Natalie Lemon Davis

Keywords: History, France, 16th Century, Gifts

Spring 1986

The Lure of the Bright Lights: The English Upper Classes and the City, 1600-1800

Directed by Mark Girouard

Keywords: History, English, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Urban, Cities

Rembrandt: A Master in the Studio

Directed by Svetlana Alpers

Keywords: Art History, Dutch, Seventeenth Century, Rembrandt, Studio

Spring 1987

Compositor Identification and Printing History

Directed by Paul Werstine

Keywords: History, English, Printing, Compositor Identification, History of the Book

Textual Criticism and Printing History

Directed by Robert K. Turner

Keywords: Printing History, Textual Criticism, History of the Book

Spring 1988

Growing up and Growing Older in Shakespeare

Directed by Carol Thomas Kelly, Richard P. Wheeler, Meredith Ann Skura

Keywords: English, History, Sixteenth Century, Seventeenth Century, Drama, Maturation

Reading Shakespeare Historically

Directed by Lisa Jardin

Keywords: Literature, English, Sixteenth Century, Seventeenth Century, Shakespeare, Historicism

Fall 1988

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Social Structure: The Mirror Image Fractured

Directed by Peter Laslett

Keywords: Literature, History, English, Shakespeare, Sixteenth Century, Social History

Fall 1989

Words Made Flesh: Language, the Body, and the Passions in Shakespeare

Directed by Keir Elam

Keywords: Literature, English, Sixteenth Century, Seventeenth Century, Shakespeare, Materiality, Passions, Language

Shakespeare Texts for Students and Teachers

Directed by Richard Knowles

Keywords: Literature, English, Shakespeare, Teaching

Spring/Fall 1990

Problems of Historicist Research in the Renaissance

Directed by Stanley Fish

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Theory, Historicism

Fictions of the Pose: Problems in the Politics of Self-Representation in Early Modern Culture

Directed by Harry Berger, Jr.

Keywords: Art History, Literature, Continental, Political Thought, Self-Representation