Knowledge Commons | Martine van Elk | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/activity/ Activity feed for Martine van Elk. Mon, 04 May 2026 14:36:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 cb7a499b053ee148758bee3994d3014c Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900768/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:26:50 -0400 0 7266982b0f6e1f5a4bf7418f1c2d6cc6 Martine van Elk changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900767/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:25:54 -0400 0 56e76300a332b3d74201077dfd29378d Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898140/ Sat, 07 Sep 2024 21:42:28 -0400 0 3abaeca2fc582bc08f071c6c30468ff6 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888991/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:40:16 -0400 0 09f0aa43797cac3c3812165225919248 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887314/ Mon, 27 May 2024 16:44:14 -0400 0 0c9a16de8c5dcbc1aa0a7de81e0da6a8 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886480/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:22 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e40c27a22af71c564db56b23af54e77 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886478/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:13 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a971d4c0630f6924ae754e8e828d8a7 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886456/ Fri, 17 May 2024 20:00:33 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 563407bef463cd1fe780a824cb6f5071 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886454/ Fri, 17 May 2024 17:53:51 -0400 0 af45e02d88997da2ca38907c62fa49f4 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834536/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:27:04 -0500 0 e70c6447bace8efbc8a870c0bee231f1 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794835/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:25:09 -0400 0 81d5eec5ab1e910638e5fd648e027aaa Martine van Elk deposited Digital Editions of Early Modern Women's Writing https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783675/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:54:37 -0400 Review of three digital editions of early modern women's writing

]]> 0 02ee76db1c377f0e72062a4b0f5256b3 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779816/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:51:25 -0400 0 ca79daf8b0f6040c5e4ab95e26529bd5 Martine van Elk created the site The Geography of Paradise Lost https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740098/ Sun, 30 May 2021 16:56:39 -0400 0 7d62ac085790e25cdf44d629281d4b36 Martine van Elk wrote a new post, Welcome, on the site The Geography of Paradise Lost https://thegeographyofparadiselost.hcommons.org/?p=1 Sun, 30 May 2021 16:56:38 -0400 ab348c825875226e4f9094c2b5452140 Martine van Elk created the site Early Modern Women in the Book Trades https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740096/ Sun, 30 May 2021 16:54:46 -0400 0 a16d8ef8003beea06825bfdd95f768e7 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684202/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:35:22 -0400 0 c495ccd72aa5fd541cbc25d6914584c0 Martine van Elk deposited Female Glass Engravers in the Early Modern Dutch Republic in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681754/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:25:26 -0400 This essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade
Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these engravings in their rich contemporary
contexts, comparing them to other art forms that were the product of female pastime. Like
embroidery, emblems, and alba amicorum, engraved glasses…[Read more]

]]> 0 62de6b1fbd01e5636ba8a80eb8aad575 Martine van Elk deposited Female Glass Engravers in the Early Modern Dutch Republic https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681729/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:48:31 -0400 This essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade
Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these engravings in their rich contemporary
contexts, comparing them to other art forms that were the product of female pastime. Like
embroidery, emblems, and alba amicorum, engraved glasses…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8fbb71cd25b956306d8880b1a98492a Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681728/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:43:47 -0400 0 bacd654460be3813ac797b2d822cdc0d Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678319/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 06:12:38 -0500 0 00d9a3cfe52c86fd4ba19fb1dd73cba8 Martine van Elk deposited Women Writers and the Dutch Stage: Public Femininity in the Plays of Verwers and Questiers https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641566/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 22:57:12 -0400 Book chapter on the plays of two of the earliest Dutch female playwrights.

]]> 0 496bc3ff087779febb26aeffdc4d848f Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641561/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 22:50:39 -0400 0 2f83cf254b21abb2d6b9ea6e8b0fd77b Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622737/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 21:53:49 -0400 0 ff9efd2f572ed9ff70d35a6bbb2388ab Martine van Elk changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1576216/ Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:50:30 -0400 0 4b6ff8eccb514a747a228c46d195a771 Martine van Elk deposited 'Before she ends up in a brothel': Public Femininity and the First Actresses in England and the Low Countries in the group Performance Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575526/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:00:08 -0400 This essay explores the first appearance of actresses on the public stage in England and the Dutch Republic. It considers the cultural climate, the theaters, and the plays selected for these early performances, particularly from the perspective of public femininity. In both countries antitheatricalists denounced female acting as a form of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9c8c2b5916fbf479fa50d834770b3d8 Martine van Elk deposited 'Before she ends up in a brothel': Public Femininity and the First Actresses in England and the Low Countries in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575525/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:00:05 -0400 This essay explores the first appearance of actresses on the public stage in England and the Dutch Republic. It considers the cultural climate, the theaters, and the plays selected for these early performances, particularly from the perspective of public femininity. In both countries antitheatricalists denounced female acting as a form of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef7ee715df6d3bc57542a36e6d6ca14a Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575474/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:10:17 -0400 0 93a848e547ab79cecacd22e4d9064eae Martine van Elk deposited 'Before she ends up in a brothel': Public Femininity and the First Actresses in England and the Low Countries https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575473/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:45:41 -0400 This essay explores the first appearance of actresses on the public stage in England
and the Dutch Republic. It considers the cultural climate, the theaters, and the plays
selected for these early performances, particularly from the perspective of public
femininity. In both countries antitheatricalists denounced female acting as a form…[Read more]

]]> 0 fab36975f1a753d12ca52d06de58219f Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1574663/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:54:43 -0400 0 a3a3708a740e36708a42f704c020bdb0 Martine van Elk deposited True Fire, Noble Flame: Friendship Poetry by Katharina Lescailje, Cornelia van der Veer, and Katherine Philips https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571065/ Fri, 19 May 2017 23:10:44 -0400 This essay examines early modern friendship poetry by women writers from England and the Dutch Republic, including Katherine Philips, Cornelia van der Veer, Catharina Questiers, and Katharina Lescailje. It argues that women used this genre to comment on the shifting definitions of public and private and especially to how these shifts affected them…[Read more]

]]> 0 59bdd373845284fecc0e284b4f09b99b Martine van Elk deposited “This sympathizèd one day’s error”: Genre, Representation, and Subjectivity in The Comedy of Errors in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570091/ Thu, 11 May 2017 01:01:12 -0400 This essay reexamines the mixtures of genres in The Comedy of Errors to argue that Shakespeare's play encourages reflection on genre as a mode of representation. In particular, the genres of romance and farce each offer specific approaches to subjectivity, which would have been especially meaningful to early modern urban playgoers grappling with…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f9e542fb4b77773be45d95c36b09db6 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569754/ Mon, 08 May 2017 04:05:00 -0400 0 8f1ebcb9e8ecbe0833653a5477c9e372 Martine van Elk deposited “This sympathizèd one day’s error”: Genre, Representation, and Subjectivity in The Comedy of Errors https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569753/ Mon, 08 May 2017 04:00:22 -0400 This essay reexamines the mixtures of genres in The Comedy of Errors to argue that Shakespeare's play encourages reflection on genre as a mode of representation. In particular, the genres of romance and farce each offer specific approaches to subjectivity, which would have been especially meaningful to early modern urban playgoers grappling with…[Read more]

]]> 0 5833da35688f53bf8b1472557148b9df Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569740/ Mon, 08 May 2017 01:50:02 -0400 0 57034a0963c5120c2d56ce1ad2500d23 Martine van Elk's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569082/ Wed, 03 May 2017 19:10:25 -0400 0 540b8b997a3afde08b6e41032d285c8e Martine van Elk changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569081/ Wed, 03 May 2017 19:07:40 -0400 0