| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
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Blackwell Introductions to Literature |
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Blackwell introductions to literature.
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| Contents |
Renaissance and Reformations An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: New Worlds of Words; 1 Speaking and Writing; 2 Reading, Publication, Performance; 3 Forms Ancient and Modern; 4 Defining the Past; 5 Designing the Present; 6 Fictive Persons and Places; 7 Godliness; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.; An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.; Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.; Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.; Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature.
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Renaissance.
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Literature.
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Reformation.
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English literature -- England -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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Renaissance -- England
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Literature
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Renaissance.
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Reformation.
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English literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Literature
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Reformation
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Renaissance
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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English Literature.
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780470777008 |
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0470777001 |
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