Dr Abigail Shinn

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Publications and research outputs

Book

Edmund Spenser and Animal Life Stenner, Rachel and Shinn, Abigail. 2024. Edmund Spenser and Animal Life. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031426407
Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning Shinn, Abigail. 2018. Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319965772

Edited Book

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England Shinn, Abigail; Hadfied, Andrew and Dimmock, Matthew, eds. 2014. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. ISBN 9781409436843

Edited Journal

The Copious Text: Encyclopaedic Books in Early Modern England Shinn, Abigail and Vine, Angus, eds. 2014. The Copious Text: Encyclopaedic Books in Early Modern England, Renaissance Studies, 28(2). 0269-1213
Narrating Conversion in the Early Modern World Shinn, Abigail and Mazur, Peter, eds. 2013. Narrating Conversion in the Early Modern World, Journal of Early Modern History, (17). 1385-3783

Book Section

Literature and Conversion in the English Renaissance Shinn, Abigail. 2025. Literature and Conversion in the English Renaissance. In: Deidre Shauna Lynch, ed. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190201098
Spenser’s ‘apish crue’: Aping in Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale Shinn, Abigail. 2024. Spenser’s ‘apish crue’: Aping in Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale. In: Rachel Stenner and Abigail Shinn, eds. Edmund Spenser and Animal Life. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, pp. 117-138. ISBN 9783031426407
Animal/fable Shinn, Abigail. 2024. Animal/fable. In: Charlotte Scott, ed. Shakespeare/Nature: Contemporary Readings in the Human and Non-human. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 189-204. ISBN 9781350259836

Conversion Shinn, Abigail. 2023. Conversion. In: Margaret King, ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The Senses and the Seventeenth-Century English Conversion Narrative Shinn, Abigail. 2018. The Senses and the Seventeenth-Century English Conversion Narrative. In: Robin Macdonald; Emilie Murphy and Elizabeth Swann, eds. Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture,. Abingdon, OXON: Routledge, pp. 99-116. ISBN 1472454669
Gender and Reproduction in the Spirituall Experiences Shinn, Abigail. 2017. Gender and Reproduction in the Spirituall Experiences. In: Helen Smith and Simon Ditchfield, eds. Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 81-104. ISBN 978-0-7190-9915-1
Father Figures: Paternal Politics in the Conversion Narratives of Thomas Gage and James Wadsworth Shinn, Abigail. 2017. Father Figures: Paternal Politics in the Conversion Narratives of Thomas Gage and James Wadsworth. In: Hannah Crawforth and Sarah Lewis, eds. Family Politics in Early Modern Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 211-228. ISBN 978-1-137-51143-0
Cultures of Mending Shinn, Abigail. 2014. Cultures of Mending. In: Abigail Shinn; Andrew Hadfield and Matthew Dimmock, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 235-252. ISBN 978-1-4094-3684-3
Spenser's Popular Intertexts Shinn, Abigail. 2013. Spenser's Popular Intertexts. In: Emma Smith and Andy Kesson, eds. The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 157-168. ISBN 978-1-4094-4029-1
'Extraordinary discourses of vnnecessarie matter': Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and the Almanac Tradition Shinn, Abigail. 2009. 'Extraordinary discourses of vnnecessarie matter': Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and the Almanac Tradition. In: Andrew Hadfield and Matthew Dimmock, eds. Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 137-150. ISBN 978-0-7546-6580-9

Article

Spenser's Popular Pastoral: Hodgepodges and Genre Trouble in The Shepheardes Calender Shinn, Abigail. 2023. Spenser's Popular Pastoral: Hodgepodges and Genre Trouble in The Shepheardes Calender. Sillages Critique(34), ISSN 1272-3819
“All poetry is born of play”: Spenser with Johan Huizinga Shinn, Abigail. 2023. “All poetry is born of play”: Spenser with Johan Huizinga. Spenser Studies, 37, pp. 265-281. ISSN 0195-9468
'Come to my house': The Architecture of Conversion and Marlowe's The Jew of Malta Shinn, Abigail. 2023. 'Come to my house': The Architecture of Conversion and Marlowe's The Jew of Malta. Modern Philology, 120(4), pp. 419-443. ISSN 0026-8232