Jonathan Goldberg Explained

Birth Date:	11 June 1943
Discipline:	English Renaissance literature
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship (1984)

Jonathan Goldberg (June 11, 1943 – December 9, 2022) was an American literary theorist who was the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University, and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University where he directed Studies in Sexualities from 2008 to 2012.^[1] His work frequently deals with the connections between early modern literature and modern thought, particularly in issues of gender, sexuality, and materiality.He received his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University.^[2]

Goldberg received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984.^[3]

Personal life and death

Goldberg was born in Kew Gardens, Queens on June 11, 1943.

Goldberg died in Decatur, Georgia, on December 9, 2022, at the age of 79.^[4]

Bibliography

• Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse (1981)^[5]
• James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and Their Contemporaries (1983)^[6]
• Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts (1986)^[7]
• Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance (1990)
• Major Works, John Milton (1991, co-editor)
• Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (1992)
• Queering the Renaissance (1994, editor)
• Reclaiming Sodom (1994, editor)
• Desiring Women Writing (1997)
• The Generation of Caliban (2001)
• Willa Cather and Others (2001)
• Shakespeare's Hand (2003)
• Tempest in the Caribbean (2004)
• The Seeds of Things (2009)
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Weather in Proust (2012, editor)
• Strangers on a Train (2012)
• This Distracted Globe (2016, co-editor)
• Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility (2016)
• Sappho: ]fragments (2018)
• Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists (2019)
• Come As You Are After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2021)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jonathan Goldberg (faculty profile). Emory University. May 29, 2021.
2. Web site: Columbia College Today . 2022-06-07 . www.college.columbia.edu.
3. Web site: Jonathan Goldberg . 2022-06-07 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . en-US.
4. Web site: Jonathan Goldberg obituary. Legacy.com. The New York Times. December 18, 2022. December 19, 2022.
5. Reviews of Endlesse Worke: Terry Comito, Renaissance Quarterly,, ; John D. Guillory, Modern Philology,, ; Michael McCanles, Criticism, ; Eric Sacks, MLN,, ; G. L. Teskey, Renaissance and Reformation,
6. Reviews of James I and the Politics of Literature: Raymond A. Anselment, The Modern Language Review,, ; Jonathan Dollimore, Criticism, ; Richard L. Greaves, Clio, https://www.proquest.com/docview/1300307537; Richard Helgerson, Renaissance Quarterly,, ; Jean E. Howard, "Old Wine, New Bottles", Shakespeare Quarterly,, ; L. W. Irwin, College Literature, ; Alexander Leggatt, Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, ; Dolores Palomo, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,, ; David Harris Sacks, "History in Literature: The Renaissance", Journal of British Studies, ; Jenny Wormald, History,
7. Reviews of Voice Terminal Echo: Sheila T. Cavanagh, George Herbert Journal, ; Margreta De Grazia, Shakespeare Quarterly,, ; Christopher Kendrick, "Anachronisms of Renaissance Postmodernism: On the Textuality Hypothesis in Jonathan Goldberg's Voice Terminal Echo, boundary 2,, ; Leah S. Marcus, Criticism, ; Herman Rapaport, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, ; George E. Rowe, Comparative Literature,, ; Margarita Stocker, The Modern Language Review,, ; Richard Strier, Renaissance Quarterly,,