A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2006
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-4051-1357-1 (ISBN)
Description
This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.
Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; "others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
Entices students to explore the subject further.
Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.
Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; "others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
Entices students to explore the subject further.
Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
601 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-1357-1 (9781405113571)
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Person
Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her previous publications include Virgil and 'The Tempest': The Politics of Imitation (1990), Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992), Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England (co-edited with Richard Strier, 1996), Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (2005), and an edition of Middleton's The Puritan (2005).
Content
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Donna B. Hamilton
1 Economics 11
S. P. Cerasano
2 Religion 32
Donna B. Hamilton
3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54
Paul E. J. Hammer
4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75
Richard Dutton
5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94
Peter Mack
6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114
Heather Wolfe
7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136
Ralph Bauer
8 Private Life and Domesticity 160
Lena Cowen Orlin
9 Treason and Rebellion 180
Andrew Hadfield
10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ''Others'' 200
Carole Levin
11 Cosmology and the Body 217
Cynthia Marshall
12 Life-Writing 238
Alan Stewart
Index 257
Introduction 1
Donna B. Hamilton
1 Economics 11
S. P. Cerasano
2 Religion 32
Donna B. Hamilton
3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54
Paul E. J. Hammer
4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75
Richard Dutton
5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94
Peter Mack
6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114
Heather Wolfe
7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136
Ralph Bauer
8 Private Life and Domesticity 160
Lena Cowen Orlin
9 Treason and Rebellion 180
Andrew Hadfield
10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ''Others'' 200
Carole Levin
11 Cosmology and the Body 217
Cynthia Marshall
12 Life-Writing 238
Alan Stewart
Index 257