A new companion to English Renaissance literature and culture . Volume 1 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Hattaway

• Pubblicazione: Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1267 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/003; 820.9003
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Renaissance - England
• Soggetto geografico: England Civilization 16th century Handbooks, manuals, etc; England Civilization 17th century Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Altri autori: HattawayMichael
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A NEW COMPANION TO ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1: Introduction; Part One: Contexts, Readings, and Perspectives c. 1500-c. 1650; 2: The English Language of the Early Modern Period; 3: Literacy and Education; 4: Rhetoric; 5: History; 6: Metaphor and Culture in Renaissance England; 7: Early Tudor Humanism; 8: Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and Classical Imitation; 9: Translation; 10: Mythology; 11: Scientific Writing; 12: Publication: Print and Manuscript; 13: Early Modern Handwriting ; 14: The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry15: Poets, Friends, and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe; 16: Law: Poetry and Jurisdiction; 17: Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book 5: Poetry, Politics, and Justice; 18: 'Law Makes the King': Richard Hooker on Law and Princely Rule; 19: Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty; 20: Court and Coterie Culture; 21: Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly's Campaspe; 22: Bacon's 'Of Simulation and Dissimulation'; 23: The Literature of the Metropolis; 24: Tales of the City: The Plays of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton ; 25: 'An Emblem of Themselves': Early Renaissance Country House Poetry26: Literary Gardens, from More to Marvell; 27: English Reformations; 28: Translations of the Bible; 29: Lancelot Andrewes' Good Friday 1604 Sermon; 30: Theological Writings and Religious Polemic; 31: Catholic Writings; 32: Sectarian Writing; 33: The English Broadside Print c.1550-c.1650; 34: The Writing of Travel; 35: England's Experiences of Islam; 36: Reading the Body; 37: Physiognomy; 38: Dreams and Dreamers; List of Illustrations; Part Two: Genres and Modes; 39: Theories of Literary Kinds ; 40: The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics41: Epic; 42: Playhouses, Performances, and the Role of Drama; 43: Continuities between 'Medieval' and 'Early Modern' Drama; 44: Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy; 45: Boys' Plays; 46: Drama of the Inns of Court; 47: 'Tied to rules of flattery'? Court Drama and the Masque; 48: Women and Drama; 49: Political Plays; 50: Jacobean Tragedy; 51: Caroline Theatre; 52: John Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of'Tis Pity She's a Whore; 53: Local Drama and Custom; 54: The Critical Elegy; 55: Allegory; 56: Pastoral; 57: Romance ; 58: Love Poetry59: Music and Poetry; 60: Wyatt's 'Who so list to hunt'; 61: The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus; 62: Ovidian Erotic Poems; 63: John Donne's Nineteenth Elegy; 64: Traditions of Complaint and Satire; 65: Folk Legends and Wonder Tales; 66: 'Such pretty things would soon be gone': The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse 1480-1650; 67: Religious Verse; 68: Herbert's 'The Elixir'; 69: Conversion and Poetry in Early Modern England; 70: Prose Fiction; 71: The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio's Montaigne, and Bacon ; 72: Diaries and Journals
• Sommario/riassunto: In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrationsContributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg WalkerUnrivalled in sc
• Titolo autorizzato: A new companion to English Renaissance literature and culture
• ISBN: 1-78268-542-1; 1-282-55017-9; 9786612550171; 1-4443-3171-X; 1-4443-1901-9; 1-4443-1902-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910677372103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture.