Arthur F. Kinney

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500 1600

Herausgeber: Kinney, Arthur F.

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Reformation, the age of printing and of discovery. The Companion covers poetry, prose, religious writing and drama in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written for students.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521587587
• ISBN-10: 0521587581
• Artikelnr.: 21865738

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Chronology of texts and events, 1500-1600
Contemporary lives Charlotte Spivack
Introduction Arthur F. Kinney
1. The sixteenth century Colin Burrow
2. Tudor aesthetics Clark Hulse
3. Authorship and the material conditions of writing Wendy Wall
4. Poetry, patronage, and the court Catherine Bates
5. Religious writing John N. King
6. Dramatic experiments: Tudor drama, 1490-1567 Leah S. Marcus
7. Dramatic achievements Suzanne Gossett
8. Lyric forms Heather Dubrow
9. Narrative, romance, and epic Donald Cheney
10. The evolution of Tudor satire Anne Lake Prescott
11. Chronicles of private life Lena Cowen Orlin
12. Popular culture in print Garrett Sullivan and Linda Woodbridge
13. Rewriting the world, rewriting the body Raymond Waddington
14. Writing empire and nation Richard Helgerson
Index.