With over fifty newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of John Donne links past scholarship with current and future re-definitions to provide a distinctive response to Donne and the significance of his work, and forms an essential contribution to early modern studies.
With over fifty newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of John Donne links past scholarship with current and future re-definitions to provide a distinctive response to Donne and the significance of his work, and forms an essential contribution to early modern studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jeanne Shami is Professor of English at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, where she has taught since 1977. In 1992, she discovered a manuscript of a John Donne sermon corrected in his hand. She published a parallel-text edition of this sermon in 1996 (John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition). Shami is the author of John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit (D.S. Brewer, 2003) and Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England (Duquesne University Press, 2008). She is past president of the John Donne Society (2002-03) and has won its award for distinguished publication three times (1996, 2000, 2003). Dennis Flynn is Professor of English at Bentley University and a past president of the John Donne Society. He has published numerous review and articles in Donne studies; authored John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility; and co-edited three volumes in the ongoing Donne Variorum project as well as John Donne's Marriage Letters at The Folger Shakespeare Library. M. Thomas Hester is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author/editor of numerous books and articles on Renaissance literature---most recently, Donne's Marriage Letters in the Folger Shakespeare Library (with Dennis Flynn and Robert P. Sorlien) and Talking Renaissance Texts: Essays on the Humanist Tradition (with Jeffrey Kahan). At present he is an editor of The Oxford Edition of the Prose Letters of Donne, with Dennis Flynn and Ernest W. Sullivan, II. He is also Editor of The John Donne Journal.
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* List of illustrations and maps * Note to Readers * General introduction * Part 1: Research resources in Donne studies and why they matter * Introduction * The composition and dissemination of Donne's writings * John Donne's seventeenth-century readers * Archival research * Editing Donne's poetry: part 1: From John Marriot to the Donne Variorum * Editing Donne's poetry: part 2: The DonneVariorum and beyond * Modern scholarly editions of the prose of John Donne * Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies * Collaboration and the international scholarly community * Part 2: Donne's genres * Introduction * The epigram * The formal verse satire * The elegy * The paradox * The paradox: Biathanatos * Menippean Donne * The love lyric * The verse letter * The religious sonnet * Liturgical poetry * The problem * The controversial treatise * The essay * The anniversary poem * The epicede and obsequy * The epithalamion * The devotion * The sermon * The prose letter * Part 3: Biographical and historical contexts * Introduction * The English Reformation in the mid-Elizabethan period * Donne's family background, birth, and early years * Education as a courtier * Donne's education * Donne's military career * The Earl of Essex and English expeditionary forces * Donne and Egerton: the Court and courtship * On late-Elizabethan courtship and politics * Donne's wedding and the Pyrford years * New horizons in the early Jacobean period * The death of Robert Cecil: end of an era * Donne's travel and earliest publications * Donne's decision to take orders * The rise of the Howards at court * The hazards of the Jacobean court * Donne's readership at Lincoln's Inn and the Doncaster embassy * International politics and Jacobean statecraft * Donne: the final period * Donne, the patriot cause, and war, 1620-29 * The English nation in 1631 * The death of Donne * Part 4: Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne studies * Introduction * Donne and apostasy * Donne, women, and the spectre of misogyny * Donne's absolutism * Style, wit, prosody in the poetry of John Donne * Do Donne's writings express his desperate ambition? * "By parting have joyn'd here ": the story of the two (or more) Donnes * Danger and discourse * Bibliography * Index
* List of illustrations and maps * Note to Readers * General introduction * Part 1: Research resources in Donne studies and why they matter * Introduction * The composition and dissemination of Donne's writings * John Donne's seventeenth-century readers * Archival research * Editing Donne's poetry: part 1: From John Marriot to the Donne Variorum * Editing Donne's poetry: part 2: The DonneVariorum and beyond * Modern scholarly editions of the prose of John Donne * Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies * Collaboration and the international scholarly community * Part 2: Donne's genres * Introduction * The epigram * The formal verse satire * The elegy * The paradox * The paradox: Biathanatos * Menippean Donne * The love lyric * The verse letter * The religious sonnet * Liturgical poetry * The problem * The controversial treatise * The essay * The anniversary poem * The epicede and obsequy * The epithalamion * The devotion * The sermon * The prose letter * Part 3: Biographical and historical contexts * Introduction * The English Reformation in the mid-Elizabethan period * Donne's family background, birth, and early years * Education as a courtier * Donne's education * Donne's military career * The Earl of Essex and English expeditionary forces * Donne and Egerton: the Court and courtship * On late-Elizabethan courtship and politics * Donne's wedding and the Pyrford years * New horizons in the early Jacobean period * The death of Robert Cecil: end of an era * Donne's travel and earliest publications * Donne's decision to take orders * The rise of the Howards at court * The hazards of the Jacobean court * Donne's readership at Lincoln's Inn and the Doncaster embassy * International politics and Jacobean statecraft * Donne: the final period * Donne, the patriot cause, and war, 1620-29 * The English nation in 1631 * The death of Donne * Part 4: Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne studies * Introduction * Donne and apostasy * Donne, women, and the spectre of misogyny * Donne's absolutism * Style, wit, prosody in the poetry of John Donne * Do Donne's writings express his desperate ambition? * "By parting have joyn'd here ": the story of the two (or more) Donnes * Danger and discourse * Bibliography * Index
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