Monica Santini
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Monica Santini is a post-doc fellow and junior lecturer of English at the Università degli Studi di Padova. After graduating in Middle English Literature, she has studied the survival and legacy of Middle English romance in modern Britain during her PhD and written a book on the amateur scholars who edited Middle English romances in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. She has been co-editor of two issues of the journal of the Department of English of the University of Padova, Carte d’Occasione, to which she has also contributed two articles on the role of romance in the formation of the language of aesthetics and literary criticism in the eighteenth century. She is currently working on sixteenth-century prose romances and Elizabethan entertainments and has recently won a grant to study the use of rhetoric in sixteenth-century English representations of Ireland. |
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List of Publications
Books
The Impetus of Amateur Scholarship: Discussing and Editing Medieval Romances in Late-Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain, Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.
Articles
"'Young gentlemen that rather desire to do well than know how to perform it': Queen Elizabeth’s Representation of Essex’s Failures in Ireland", paper presented at the ‘Role and Rule’ International Conference (London, Shakespeare’s Globe, 6-8 February 2009), currently being considered for publication by English Literary Renaissance.
"Romance Imagery in Elizabethan Entertainments", in A. Petrina (ed.), Queen and Country, Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2009.
"Passionate Lovers and Broken-hearted Mothers: Patterns of femininity in Philip Pullman’s Witches", in P. Bottalla and M. Santini (eds), What are Little Boys and Girls Made of?, Padova: Unipress, 2009.
"Pride and Prejudice: Editing Medieval Romances in Nineteenth-Century Britain", Textus 3 (2009), forthcoming December 2009.
"Tom a Lincoln, a Knight Errant in the Seventeenth Century", Medieval Translator 13, Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.
"'Pray, What Do You Understand by the Word Romance?': a Survey of the Meanings of the Word ‘Romance’ in Eighteenth-Century England’. In Carte d’Occasione, vol. III, edited by Mario Melchionda and Monica Santini, Padova: Unipress, 2007.
"Romance and the Poetic Imagination in Richard Hurd’s Letters on Chivalry and Romance". In Carte d’Occasione, vol. II, edited by Mario Melchionda and Monica Santini, Padova: Unipress, 2005.
Editorships
Carte d’Occasione, vol. III, edited by Mario Melchionda and Monica Santini, Padova: Unipress, 2007.
Carte d’Occasione, vol. II, edited by Mario Melchionda and Monica Santini, Padova: Unipress, 2005.
What are Little Boys and Girls Made of?, edited by Paola Bottalla and Monica Santini, Padova: Unipress, 2009.