The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
978-1-4443-9009-4 (ISBN)
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The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century s events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time. * Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literary history as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literary works and figures * Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time * Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this century of civil war and reformation * Combines a central narrative account of texts and contexts with a selection of brief essays on key texts and topics * Includes an alphabetical selection of capsule descriptions of important writers
Marshall Grossman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry (1998) and 'Authors to Themselves': Milton and the Revelation of History (1987); he is editor of two collections of essays, Reading Renaissance Ethics (2007) and Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (1998). He is currently completing a book on Milton and rational religion.
Preface. Chronology. Part 1 Texts and Contexts: An Overview. Reading the Historical Landscape. Renaissance and/or Reformation: From Elizabeth to James. New Science Leaves All in Doubt. Business and Trade. Breaking the State. The Restoration. The Short Reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Production of Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Part 2 Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature. Aemilia Lanyer and the Gendering of Genre. Changing Conventions: Hamlet and The Alchemist. Pamphlet Wars: To Kill a King! Everything Happens Twice. Part 3 Some Key Texts. The Winter's Tale. Areopagitica. Paradise Lost. The Pilgrim's Progress. Part 4 Writers of the Seventeenth Century. Astell, Mary (1666 1731). Bacon, Francis (1561 1626). Baxter, Richard (1615 1691). Beaumont, Francis (1584 1616). Behn, Aphra (1640? 1689). Boyle, Robert (1627 1691). Browne, Sir Thomas (1605 1682). Bunyan, John (1628 1688). Burton, Robert (1577 1640). Carew, Thomas (1594/5 1640). Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 1673). Cowley, Abraham (1618 1667). Crashaw, Richard (1613 1648). Davenant, Sir William (1606 1668). Donne, John (1572 1631). Dryden, John (1631 1700). Filmer, Sir Robert (1588 1653). Fletcher, John (1579 1625). Fox, George (1624 1691). Hartlib, Samuel (1600 1662). Herbert, George (1593 1633). Herrick, Robert (1591 1674). Hobbes, Thomas (1588 1679). Hutchinson, Lucy (1620 1681). Hyde, Edward, First Earl of Clarendon (1609 1674). Jonson, Ben (1572 1637). Lanyer, Aemilia (1569 1645). Locke, John (1632 1704). Lovelace, Richard (1617 1657). Marvell, Andrew (1621 1678). Middleton, Thomas (1580 1627). Milton, John (1608 1674). Otway, Thomas (1652 1685). Pepys, Samuel (1633 1703). Philips, Katherine (1632 1664). Shadwell, Thomas (1640 1692). Shakespeare, William (1564 1616). Suckling, Sir John (1609 1641). Traherne, Thomas (1637 1674). Vaughan, Henry (1621 1695). Webster, John (1578? 1638?). Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647 1680). Wroth, Lady Mary (1587 1653?). Works Cited. Index.
| Reihe/Serie | Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Chicester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 250 mm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4443-9009-0 / 1444390090 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4443-9009-4 / 9781444390094 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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