Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature

by Michael Hattaway (University of Sheffield)

• ISBN13: 9780470777008
• ISBN10: 0470777001
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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