Synopses & Reviews
This is a comprehensive history of English literature written in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While it focuses on England, literary effort in Scotland and Ireland is also covered, with occasional references to Wales and Ireland. This literary history by an international team of scholars is essential reading for students and scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, culture, and history.
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"For advanced researchers in the field...this book certainly provides an overview of the current state of literary scholarship in early modern English literature." Seiwoong Oh, Rider University, Sixteenth Century Journal"This book is a major accomplishment, and will alter the very landscape for which it provides such an effective map." Studies in English Literature"Astonishingly comprehensive and coherently unified [...]This extraordinarily useful reference work [is] at once authoritative, pioneering and inclusive..." Renaissance Quarterly"[This book] offers riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, too many to be counted or told here. Others will find different glimmers of gold." Seventeenth Century News"The book provides a valuable synopsis of recent scholarship by a selection of leading scholars. Students will find short, readable, reliable accounts in this landmark volume. The whole set will be necessary for all academic and large public libraries. Essential." Choice"The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature offers riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice..." Seventeenth Century News"Addresses religious, political, and ethnic discourses and their relation to elite, confessional, and national identities in fairly straightforward terms. Ultimately, one garners a good sense of the state of play on these issues and many of the relevant principal texts from the chosen period." H-ALBION
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 879-964) and index.
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Now available in paperback, this is the first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century. While providing the coverage and detail expected of a major history, its chapters address recent methodological and interpretive developments in English literary studies. While England is the principal focus, literary production in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less frequently examined in previous histories, including womenâs writings and the literature of the English Reformation and Revolution. This innovatively-designed history is an essential resource for specialists and students.
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The first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century, now available in paperback. Highly acclaimed at its first publication, this corrected edition provides broad coverage as well as detailed information on the texts, contexts and reception of Renaissance literature. An essential resource for specialists and students.
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This essential resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance is now available in paperback for the first time.
Synopsis
The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature narrates the history of English literature written in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. Although England is a principal focus, literary production in Scotland and Ireland also figures in the narrative, with occasional notice of Wales and Ireland in literary representations written in English. This new twenty-six chapter history by an international team of distinguished scholars will prove essential reading for students and scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, culture, and history.
About the Author
David Loewenstein is Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Janel Mueller is William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of English, at the University of Chicago, where she is currently Dean of the Division of the Humanities.
Table of Contents
Introduction David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller; Part I. Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation, and Reception: 1. Literacy, society, and education Kenneth Charlton and Margaret Spufford; 2. Manuscript transmission and circulation Harold Love and Arthur F. Marotti; 3. Print, literary culture, and the book trade David Scott Kastan; 4. Literary patronage Graham Parry; 5. Languages of early modern literature in Britain Paula Blank; 6. Habits of reading and the creation of early modern literary culture Steven N. Zwicker; Part II. The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I: 7. Literature and national identity David Loades; 8. Literature and the court William A. Sessions; 9. Literature and the church Janel Mueller; Part III. The Era of Elizabeth and James VI: 10. Elizaâs England, whose Scotland, whose Ireland? Claire McEachern; 11. Literature and the court Catherine Bates; 12. Indoctrination, edification, and polemic: literature and the church Patrick Collinson; 13. Literature and the metropolis Lawrence Manley; 14. Literature and the theater David Bevington; Part IV. The Earlier Stuart Era: 15. An emergent Britain?: literature and national identity Johann P. Sommerville; 16. Literature and the court Leah S. Marcus; 17. Literature and the church Debora Shuger; 18. Civic continuities and revolutionary beginnings: literature and London Thomas N. Corns; 19. The emergence of a metropolitan drama: literature and the theater to 1660 Martin Butler; 20. Literature and the household Barbara K. Lewalski; Part V. The Civil War and Commonwealth Era: 21. Literature and national identity in England Derek Hirst; 22. Literature and religion David Loewenstein and John Morrill; 23. Civil war and the new literary scene: literature and London Nigel Smith; 24. Literature and the household Helen Wilcox; 25. Alternative sites for literature: rural, convivial, and intellectual domains Joshua Scodel; 26. From revolution to restoration in English literary culture James Grantham Turner; Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain, 1528 1674, with list of selected manuscripts; Select bibliography (primary and secondary sources); Index.