A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hamilton, Donna B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it. * Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; "others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing. * Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published. * Entices students to explore the subject further. * Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars. * All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470695395
• Artikelnr.: 38198416

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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