Cristina Malcolmson is Professor of English at Bates College. Her previous books include "Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic" and "Longman Critical Readers: Renaissance Poetry," Mihoko Suzuki Professor of English at the University of Miami and the author of "Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic" and "Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688,"