| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 68 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 68
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| Contents |
The English language of the early modern period / Arja Nurmi -- Literacy and education / Jean R. Brink -- Rhetoric / Gavin Alexander -- History / Patrick Collinson -- Metaphor and culture in Renaissance England / Judith H. Anderson -- Early Tudor humanism / Mary Thomas Crane -- Platonism, stoicism, scepticism, and classical imitation / Sarah Hutton -- Translation / Liz Oakley-Brown -- Mythology / Jane Kingsley-Smith -- Scientific writing / David Colclough -- Publication : print and manuscript / Michelle O'Callaghan -- Early modern handwriting / Grace Ioppolo -- The manuscript transmission of poetry / Arthur F. Marotti -- Poets, friends, and patrons : Donne and his circle, Ben and his tribe / Robin Robbins -- Law : poetry and jurisdiction / Bradin Cormack -- Spenser's Faerie queene, book 5 : poetry, politics, and justice / Judith H. Anderson -- Law makes the king : Richard Hooker on law and princely rule / Torrance Kirby -- Donne, Milton, and the two traditions of religious liberty / Feisal G. Mohamed -- Court and coterie culture / Curtis Perry -- Courtship and counsel : John Lyly's Campaspe / Greg Walker -- Bacon's Of simulation and dissimulation / Martin Dzelzainis -- The literature of the metropolis / John A. Twyning -- Tales of the city : the plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton / Peter J. Smith -- An emblem of themselves : early Renaissance country house poetry / Nicole Pohl -- Literary gardens, from More to Marvell / Hester Lees-Jeffries -- English reformations / Patrick Collinson -- Translations of the Bible / Gerald Hammond -- Lancelot Andrewes' Good Friday 1604 sermon / Richard Harries -- Theological writings and religious polemic / Donna B. Hamilton -- Catholic writings / Robert S. Miola -- Sectarian writing / Hilary Hinds -- The English broadside print, c.1550-c.1650 / Malcolm Jones -- The writing of travel / Peter Womack -- England's experiences of Islam / Stephan Schmuck -- Reading the body / Jennifer Waldron -- Physiognomy / Sibylle Baumbach -- Dreams and dreamers / Carole Levin -- Theories of literary kinds / John Roe -- The position of poetry : making and defending Renaissance poetics / Arthur F. Kinney -- Epic / Rachel Falconer -- Playhouses, performances, and the role of drama / Michael Hattaway -- Continuities between Medieval and Early Modern drama / Michael O'Connell -- Kyd's The Spanish tragedy / A.J. Piesse -- Boys' plays / Edel Lamb -- Drama of the Inns of Court / Alan H. Nelson and Jessica Winston -- Tied to rules of flattery? Court drama and the masque / James Knowles -- Women and drama / Alison Findlay -- Political plays / Stephen Longstaffe -- Jacobean tragedy / Rowland Wymer -- Caroline theatre / Roy Booth -- John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the final scene of 'Tis pity she's a whore / Robyn Bolam -- Local drama and custom / Thomas Pettitt -- The critical elegy / John Lyon -- Allegory / Clara Mucci -- Pastoral / Michelle O'Callaghan -- Romance / Helen Moore -- Love poetry / Diana E. Henderson -- Music and poetry / David Lindley -- Wyatt's Who so list to hunt / Rachel Falconer -- The heart of the labyrinth : Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Robyn Bolam -- Ovidian erotic poems / Boika Sokolova -- John Donne's nineteenth elegy / Germaine Greer -- Traditions of complaint and satire / John N. King -- Folk legends and wonder tales / Thomas Pettitt -- Such pretty things would soon be gone : the neglected genres of popular verse, 1480-1650 / Malcolm Jones -- Religious verse / Elizabeth Clarke -- Herbert's The elixir / Judith Weil -- Conversion and poetry in Early Modern England / Molly Murray -- Prose fiction / Andrew Hadfield -- The English Renaissance essay : Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon / John Lee -- Diaries and journals / Elizabeth Clarke -- Letters / Jonathan Gibson -- Identity / A.J. Piesse -- Sexuality : a Renaissance category? / James Knowles -- Was there a Renaissance feminism? / Jean E. Howard -- Drama as text and performance / Andrea Stevens -- The debate on witchcraft / James Sharpe -- Reconstructing the past : history, historicism, histories / James R. Siemon -- Race : a Renaissance category? / Margo Hendricks -- Writing the nations / Nicola Royan -- Early modern ecology / Ken Hiltner |
| Summary |
"In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture.: A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations; Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker; Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar lite."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Renaissance -- England -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Civilization.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Renaissance.
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England -- Civilization -- 16th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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England -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hattaway, Michael.
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| ISBN |
1444319019 |
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1444319027 |
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144433171X |
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9781444319019 |
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9781444319026 |
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9781444331714 |
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