A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture.
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TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2001Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2007Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (788 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
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Intro -- ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- PART ONE Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives,1500-1650 -- 2 Early Tudor Humanism -- 3 English Reformations -- 4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation -- 5 History -- 6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period -- 7 Publication: Print and Manuscript -- 8 Literacy and Education -- 9 Court and Coterie Culture -- 10 The Literature of the Metropolis -- 11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama -- 12 The Writing of Travel -- PART THREE Readings -- 13 Translations of the Bible -- 14 A Reading of Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt' -- 15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe -- 16 Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice -- 17 Kyd's Spanish Tragedy -- 18 Donne's 'Nineteenth Elegy' -- 19 Lanyer's 'The Description of Cookham' and Jonson's 'To Penshurst' -- 20 Bacon's 'Of Simulation and Dissimulation' -- 21 Lancelot Andrewes's Good Friday 1604 Sermon -- 22 Herbert's 'The Elixir' -- 23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus -- 24 The Critical Elegy -- 25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ' Tis Pity She's a Whore -- PART FOUR Genres and Modes -- 26 Theories of Literary Kinds -- 27 Allegory -- 28 Pastoral -- 29 Romance -- 30 Epic -- 31 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics -- 32 The English Print, c. 1550„c. 1650 -- 33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire -- 34 Love Poetry -- 35 Erotic Poems -- 36 Religious Verse -- 37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle -- Ben and his Tribe -- 38 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480…1650 -- 39 Local and 'Customary' Drama -- 40 Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama -- 41 Political Plays.
42 Women and Drama -- 43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton -- 44 'Tied / To Rules of Flattery?': Court Drama and the Masque -- 45 Jacobean Tragedy -- 46 Caroline Theatre -- 47 Scientific Writing -- 48 Prose Fiction -- 49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic -- 50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne and Bacon -- 51 Diaries -- 52 Letters -- PART FIVE Issues and Debates -- 53 Rhetoric -- 54 Identity -- 55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? -- 56 The Debate on Witchcraft -- 57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories -- 58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? -- 59 Race: A Renaissance Category? -- 60 Writing the Nation -- Index -- Plates.
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