Louis Adrian Montrose was an American literary theorist and academic scholar who retired from the academy in 2010 to pursue a career as a photographer. His scholarship addressed a wide variety of literary, historical, and theoretical topics and issues, and significantly shaped contemporary studies of
Renaissance poetics,
English Renaissance theatre, and
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
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. Montrose was an influential early proponent of
New Historicism, especially as it applied to the study of
early modern English literature and culture. He was a professor of English Literature at the
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...
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External links
Louis Montrose's HomepageProfessing the RenaissanceMiriam Chen's notes on Professing the Renaissance
Living people
University of California, San Diego faculty
American photographers
American literary theorists
1950 births
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