The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature
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The study of early modern literature has expanded exponentially in recent years, opening exciting new directions and ever-evolving areas of interest, including religion, economics, animals, the environment, gender, sexuality, post-colonialism, race, and material history, to name only a few. The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature harnesses the energy of this burgeoning field by focusing on the literary text to connect these expanding sub-fields and explore how they ultimately relate. Establishing the literary text as its organising principle, this volume reconnects these various specialisms, enabling what might sometimes seem like sectional interests to speak productively to one another, however divergent their vocabularies and methodologies. Distinctive among other texts, this volume sees the expanded concept of the literary-a general awareness that human experience is largely constructed by language and language itself a human construct-as a product of the Renaissance itself. By showcasing literary critical skills-including philology, close reading, linguistic and formal analysis, intertextuality, the study of form and genre-the volume reads the Renaissance in its own terms, mutually illuminating present and past, and keeping the possibilities for further change and growth ever open.
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Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the University of Warwick. She has a DPhil in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, and edited numerous essay-collections on the subject. She was awarded the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015 and the Elizabeth Dietz Prize in 2019, and has held a Solmsen Research Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Mellon Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library.
Content
Introduction
Catherine Bates
Part I: The Literary Renaissance
Chapter 1 Francis Petrarch
William J. Kennedy
Chapter 2 The Reformation
Beth Quitslund
Chapter 3 Education
Andrew Wallace
Chapter 4 History
Andrew Hadfield and Kirsty Rolfe
Chapter 5 Geography
Chris Barrett
Chapter 6 Mimesis and Invention
Andrew Mattison
Chapter 7 Otherness
Ambereen Dadabhoy
Chapter 8 Society and Sexuality
James M. Bromley
Chapter 9 Money
Julianne Werlin
Chapter 10 Wit
Catherine Bates
Chapter 11 Art and Artist, Poetry and Poetics
Patrick Cheney
Chapter 12 Translation and Imitation
Syrithe Pugh
Chapter 13 A National Language
Chris Stamatakis
Chapter 14 A National Literature
Catherine Nicholson
Chapter 15 Literacy and Orality
Rachel Willie
Chapter 16 Literacy and Visual Culture
Rachel Eisendrath
Chapter 17 Law
Stephanie Elsky
Chapter 18 Nature
Charlotte Scott
Part II: Renaissance Literature
Chapter 19 Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
William T. Rossiter
Chapter 20 The 1550s and 1560s
Jessica Winston
Chapter 21 Isabella Whitney
Michelle O'Callaghan
Chapter 22 George Gascoigne
Matthew Zarnowiecki
Chapter 23 Philip Sidney: Poems
Catherine Bates
Chapter 24 Philip Sidney: Prose
Alex Davis
Chapter 25 Samuel Daniel
Gillian Wright
Chapter 26 Michael Drayton
Angus Vine
Chapter 27 Mary Sidney Herbert
Suzanne Trill
Chapter 28 Fulke Greville
Joel B. Davis
Chapter 29 Edmund Spenser: Shorter Poems
Tamsin Badcoe
Chapter 30 Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene
Richard Danson Brown
Chapter 31 Thomas Nashe
Corey McEleney
Chapter 32 Christopher Marlowe
Andrew Duxfield
Chapter 33 George Chapman
Katharine Cleland
Chapter 34 William Shakespeare: Poems
Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Chapter 35 William Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Chapter 36 William Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
Christopher Pye
Chapter 37 Aemilia Lanyer
Danielle Clarke
Chapter 38 John Donne
David Marno
Chapter 39 George Herbert
Kimberly Johnson
Chapter 40 Mary Wroth
Clare R. Kinney
Chapter 41 Ben Jonson: Poems and Prose
Jane Rickard
Chapter 42 Ben Jonson: Plays and Masques
James Loxley
Chapter 43 Caroline Drama
Lauren Shohet
Chapter 44 Hester Pulter
Wendy Wall
Chapter 45 Katherine Philips
James Kuzner
Chapter 46 Andrew Marvell
Gary Kuchar
Chapter 47 Margaret Cavendish
Lara Dodds
Chapter 48 Lucy Hutchinson
Anna Wall
Chapter 49 John Milton: Shorter Poems
Ryan Netzley
Chapter 50 John Milton: Paradise Lost
David Loewenstein
