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Steve Mentz

My Books

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

My new book about Shakespeare and "blue cultural studies."


Romance for Sale in Early Modern England

My study of prose fiction and the book market in the age of Shakespeare.


Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

A book of essays on urban culture and criminality that I edited with Craig Dionne of Eastern Michigan University.

My New Projects

Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750

An exhibtion of rare books and maritime artifacts that I will be designing and curating for the Folger Shakespeare Library's public gallery space in the summer of 2010. The show will be open to the public on June 10, 2010, with an opening gala planned for Monday June 14.

Shipwreck and the Meanings of Ocean, 1552-1719

A larger-scale book that explores maritime disaster from Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations of the English Nation, a collection of historical records first published in 1589, through Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719).

My Courses

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