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Titolo |
A companion to English Renaissance literature and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Hattaway |
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Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-78268-460-3 |
1-4051-6528-6 |
1-281-31254-1 |
9786611312541 |
0-470-99873-3 |
0-470-99872-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (788 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 8 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton44 '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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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints. |
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