EAR friends of Renascence:

Welcome to the updated Renascence web site. As the journal rounds out its sixty-second year of publication, we shall be endeavoring to provide more useful information in this more technologically advanced and current manner.

Renascence continues its ongoing commitment to publishing the best essays on values in literature, and to fostering excellent scholarship by providing timely responses to all serious scholars — aspiring or veteran — who submit their work

As we move into this new publishing year, we invite our colleagues and friends to assist us with some house cleaning. We are currently offering a number of our previous issues for sale. We ask merely a small donation of your own choosing and the cost of shipping. If interested, please contact us at renascence@marquette.edu or (414) 288-6725 and we will be happy to check the availability of any previous issue.

Please feel free to explore the web site and to recommend to colleagues and friends that they do likewise.

For the Renascence staff,

Ed Block
Editor & Professor of English

Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature Announces

The Dr. Joseph M. Schwartz Memorial Prize Essay

To honor the late Dr. Schwartz, former editor of the journal, Renascence will award a prize of $1,000 for the essay judged to be the best published in Renascence during the previous two years. In alternate years Renascence commissions an essay on a topic in American literature, Dr. Schwartz's field of expertise. That essay is then presented as a lecture in April, with the printed form appearing in the Spring's issue.

Essays appearing in Renascence will be judged by a group of three judges chosen from the Renascence Associates. The prize-winning essay will be announced in the winter issue of the year following selection.

For further information about the award, or to contribute to the award endowment, or subscribe to the journal, contact:

Dr. Ed Block, Editor
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
Raynor Memorial Libraries, M164
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881.

Click here to download a PDF Version of the current Dr. Schwartz Memorial Essay