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9780470777008

Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470777008

  • ISBN10:

    0470777001

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: New Worlds of Words
Writing
Reading, Publication, Performance
Forms Ancient and Modern
Defining the Past
Designing the Present
Fictive Persons and Places
Godliness
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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