What is included with this book?
Acknowledgements | p. vii |
General Editor's Preface | p. viii |
General Introduction | p. ix |
Contexts: History, Politics, Culture | p. 1 |
Historical Introduction | p. 1 |
The Book Trade | p. 14 |
Catholicism | p. 17 |
Chain of Being | p. 20 |
The City | p. 25 |
Cosmos (1): The Old Cosmology (geocentric) | p. 27 |
Cosmos (2): The New Cosmology (heliocentric) | p. 32 |
The Court | p. 34 |
The Courtier | p. 40 |
Economy and Society | p. 44 |
The Elements | p. 48 |
English Reformation | p. 50 |
Golden Age | p. 55 |
Humanism | p. 58 |
Humours | p. 63 |
Magic (Alchemy, Astrology, Witchcraft) | p. 66 |
Manuscripts | p. 74 |
Medicine (Medical Profession, The Mind, Women) | p. 77 |
Patronage | p. 80 |
Platonism | p. 83 |
Printing | p. 87 |
Protestant Theology | p. 92 |
Race and Strangers | p. 95 |
Science, Knowledge and Philosophy | p. 99 |
The Self | p. 103 |
Sex and Sexuality | p. 106 |
Stoicism | p. 110 |
Travel and Colonialism | p. 112 |
Women | p. 118 |
Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts | p. 124 |
Introduction | p. 124 |
Actors and Acting | p. 131 |
The Bible | p. 133 |
Conceit | p. 136 |
Decorum | p. 139 |
Epic | p. 142 |
Genre | p. 145 |
History and the Nation | p. 149 |
Imitation | p. 152 |
Logic | p. 156 |
Lyric | p. 159 |
Masque | p. 165 |
Metaphysical Poetry | p. 168 |
Metre | p. 172 |
Mimesis | p. 178 |
Non-Fictional Prose | p. 182 |
Pastoral | p. 189 |
Prose Style | p. 194 |
Rhetoric | p. 200 |
The Sonnet | p. 204 |
Theatres | p. 208 |
Theory of Poetry | p. 214 |
Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice | p. 218 |
Introduction | p. 218 |
Cultural Materialism | p. 223 |
Ecocriticism | p. 230 |
Feminism | p. 233 |
Language Criticism: Practical Criticism, Stylistics, Rhetoric | p. 238 |
New Historicism | p. 244 |
Textualism | p. 249 |
Chronology | p. 258 |
Bibliography | p. 270 |
Index | p. 278 |
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