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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877719503321

Titolo

A concise companion to English Renaissance literature / / edited by Donna B. Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-4051-6872-2

1-78268-681-9

1-282-34178-2

9786612341786

0-470-69614-1

0-470-69539-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

HamiltonDonna B

Disciplina

820.9/003

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Renaissance - England

England Civilization 16th century Handbooks, manuals, etc

England Civilization 17th century Handbooks, manuals, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Economics / S. P. Cerasano -- Religion / Donna B. Hamilton -- Royal marriage and the royal succession / Paul E. J. Hammer -- Patronage, licensing, and censorship / Richard Dutton -- Humanism, rhetoric, education / Peter Mack -- Manuscripts in early modern England / Heather Wolfe -- Travel, exploration, and empire / Ralph Bauer -- Private life and domesticity / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Treason and rebellion / Andrew Hadfield -- Shakespeare and the marginalized "others" / Carole Levin -- Cosmology and the body / Cynthia Marshall -- Life writing / Alan Stewart.

Sommario/riassunto

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion;



"others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing. Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published. Entices students to explore the subject further. Provides ne