Renaissance and Reformations [[electronic resource] ] : An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature

• Autore: Hattaway Michael
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9003
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; English literature; Reformation; Reformation - England; Renaissance; Renaissance - England; English literature - History and criticism - Early modern, 1500-1700 - England; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, D
• Titolo autorizzato: Renaissance and reformations
• ISBN: 1-281-31091-3; 9786611310912; 0-470-77613-7; 0-470-77700-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820243803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature