Renaissance and reformations an introduction to early modern English literature /
Designed for both students and general readers, this introduction to Renaissance and Reformation literature offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance. It considers the ways in which early modern writers constructed the past and designed...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell introductions to literature ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470776131 |
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Designed for both students and general readers, this introduction to Renaissance and Reformation literature offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance. It considers the ways in which early modern writers constructed the past and designed the present, wrote about people and places, recovered and adapted classical genres, and tackled religious and secular controversies. All these topics are illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts, including works by More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Campion, Daniel, Donne, Southwell, Dekker, Taylor 'the water-poet', Aemilia Lanyer, Jonson, Chapman, Middleton, Mary Wroth, Ralegh, Greville, Wotton, Herbert and Milton. Throughout, readers are reminded that the consequences of the English reformations were as important as the better known influences of the Renaissance. |
Carrier Form: | vii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index. |
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9780470776131 0470776137 9780470777008 (electronic bk.) 0470777001 (electronic bk.) 1405150203 (electronic bk.) 9781405150200 (electronic bk.) 1405100443 9781405100441 1405100451 9781405100458 1280237538 9781280237539 |
Index Number: | PR421 |
CLC: | I561.063 |
Contents: | Introduction : new worlds of words -- Speaking and writing -- Reading, publication, performance -- Forms ancient and modern -- Defining the past -- Designing the present -- Fictive persons and places -- Godliness. |