A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
Published on 30. April 2008
288 pages
978-0-470-69539-5 (ISBN)
Description
This Concise Companion launches students into the study ofEnglish Renaissance literature through the central contexts thatinformed it.
* Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion;empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric;censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treasonand rebellion; "others" in England; private lives;cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
* Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as worksoon to be published.
* Entices students to explore the subject further.
* Provides new syntheses that will be of interest toscholars.
* All the contributors are highly regarded scholars andteachers.
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"The book considers the key concepts that are thought to have informed the texts of the period. Relevant historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts are considered by well-known scholars, who include such fields as economics, humanism, royal marriage, censorship, rebellion, and cosmology." (Year's Work in English Studies, 2008)More details
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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
