McAdam, Ian
Chair/Professor
- Phone
- (403) 329-2371
- mcadam@uleth.ca
Biography
Publications
The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
Articles:
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"Edward II and the Illusion of Integrity," Studies in Philology 92 (1995): 203-29.
"Carnal Identity in The Jew of Malta," English Literary Renaissance 26 (1996): 46-74.
"Renaissance Inwardness and Current Critical Practice" (review article). Dalhousie Review 76 (1996): 273-84.
"Masculinity and Magic in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay," Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 37 (1998): 33-61. Reprinted in Robert Greene: The University Wits, ed. Kirk Melnikoff (Ashgate, 2011).
"Masculine Disaffection and Misogynistic Displacement in Carew's Love Lyrics," The Image of Manhood in the Seventeenth Century: Viewing the Male, ed. Andrew Williams. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. 1-15.
"The Spanish Tragedy and the Politico-Religious Unconscious," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 42 (Spring 2000): 33-60.
"Fiction and Projection: The Construction of Early Modern Sexuality in Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love," Pacific Coast Philology 35.1 (2000): 49-60.
"The Repudiation of the Marvelous: Jonson's The Alchemist and the Limits of Satire," Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 21 (2000): 59-77. [appearing 2002]
"Protestant Manliness in Arden of Faversham," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 45 (Spring 2003): 42-72.
"The Puritan Dialectic of Law and Grace in Bartholomew Fair," Studies in English Literature 46.2 (Spring 2006): 415-33.
"Masculine Agency and Moral Stance in Shakespeare's King John," Philological Quarterly 86.1 & 2 (2007): 67-95. Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism (SC-142) (Gale, 2011).
"Milton, Satan, Galileo, and Gunpowder," Notes and Queries 253.3 (2008): 289-91.
"Remembering Ibsen in Tennessee Williams," Notes on Contemporary Literature 42.4 (September 2012): 6-8.
"Magic and Gender in Late Shakespeare," in Late Shakespeare: Plays, Themes and Contexts 1608-1613, ed. Andrew Power and Rory Loughnane (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). 243-61.
"The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice: A Reconsideration of Influence," in The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader, ed. Robert A. Logan (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). 107-27.
"Masculinity in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist," in The Alchemist: A Critical Reader, ed. Erin Julian and Helen Ostovich (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). 127-39.
"Eucharistic Love in The Merchant of Venice," Renaissance and Reformation 38.1 (2015): 83-116.
"Dido Queen of Carthage, Hamlet, and the Transformation of Narcissism," Marlowe Studies: An Annual 5 (2015): 99-129.
"Calvinism and the Problematic of Character in The Revenger's Tragedy," in the Arden State of Play collection, ed. Gretchen Minton (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 85-109.
"Herbert's 'The Collar; and St. Paul's Laurels," co-authored with Jordan Born, Notes and Queries 64.3 (2017): 401-403.
"Individuation and Religious Mythology in the Novels of W.O. Mitchell," University of Toronto Quarterly 87.2 (Spring 2018): 16-38.
"Shakespeare's Inversion of 1 Corinthians 9 in 1 Henry IV," Notes and Queries 65.1 (2018): 69-70.
"Spectatorship and Repression in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," in Early Modern Spectatorship, ed. Ronald Huebert and David McNeil (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019), 77-103.
"Dickens, Longfellow, and the Mills of God," Notes and Queries 67.1 (March 2020): 108-109.
"Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors," Notes and Queries 67.1 (September 2022): 211-14.
"Ruskin's Alpine Image in Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'," Notes and Queries 73.1 (March 2026): 143-45.
"The Devil's Charter as Masculinist Revision of Doctor Faustus," Renaissance Drama 54.1 (Spring 2026): 21-49.
"The Massacre at Paris and the Babington Execution," forthcoming in Notes and Queries.
Degrees
Research Areas
Masculine self-fashioning in Shakespeare
The effects of Reformation theology on early modern masculine self-construction
Previous Research Areas
Renaissance magic and witchcraft