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A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture


A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Michael Hattaway

100,10 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9780470998724
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 800

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<p><b>This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.</b></p> <ul> <li>Provides new perspectives on established texts.</li> <li>Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.</li> <li>Pioneered by leading scholars.</li> <li>Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.</li> <li>Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.</li> </ul>
<p>List of Illustrations x</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xii</p> <p><b>PART ONE Introduction</b></p> <p>1 Introduction 3<br /><i>Michael Hattaway</i></p> <p><b>PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives, c.1500–1650</b></p> <p>2 Early Tudor Humanism 13<br /><i>Mary Thomas Crane</i></p> <p>3 English Reformations 27<br /><i>Patrick Collinson</i></p> <p>4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation 44<br /><i>Sarah Hutton</i></p> <p>5 History 58<br /><i>Patrick Collinson</i></p> <p>6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 71<br /><i>N. F. Blake</i></p> <p>7 Publication: Print and Manuscript 81<br /><i>Michelle O’Callaghan</i></p> <p>8 Literacy and Education 95<br /><i>Jean R. Brink</i></p> <p>9 Court and Coterie Culture 106<br /><i>Curtis Perry</i></p> <p>10 The Literature of the Metropolis 119<br /><i>John A. Twyning</i></p> <p>11 Playhouses and the Role of Drama 133<br /><i>Michael Hattaway</i></p> <p>12 The Writing of Travel 148<br /><i>Peter Womack</i></p> <p><b>PART THREE Readings</b></p> <p>13 Translations of the Bible 165<br /><i>Gerald Hammond</i></p> <p>14 A Reading of Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hunt’ 176<br /><i>Rachel Falconer</i></p> <p>15 Courtship and Counsel: John Lyly’s Campaspe 187<br /><i>Greg Walker</i></p> <p>16 Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book V: Poetry, Politics and Justice 195<br /><i>Judith H. Anderson</i></p> <p>17 Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy 206<br /><i>A. J. Piesse</i></p> <p>18 Donne’s ‘Nineteenth Elegy’ 215<br /><i>Germaine Greer</i></p> <p>19 Lanyer’s ‘The Description of Cookham’ and Jonson’s ‘To Penshurst’ 224<br /><i>Nicole Pohl</i></p> <p>20 Bacon’s ‘Of Simulation and Dissimulation’ 233<br /><i>Martin Dzelzainis</i></p> <p>21 Lancelot Andrewes’s Good Friday 1604 Sermon 241<br /><i>Richard Harries</i></p> <p>22 Herbert’s ‘The Elixir’ 249<br /><i>Judith Weil</i></p> <p>23 The Heart of the Labyrinth: Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 257<br /><i>Robyn Bolam</i></p> <p>24 The Critical Elegy 267<br /><i>John Lyon</i></p> <p>25 Ford, Mary Wroth, and the Final Scene of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 276<br /><i>Robyn Bolam</i></p> <p><b>PART FOUR Genres and Modes</b></p> <p>26 Theories of Literary Kinds 287<br /><i>John Roe</i></p> <p>27 Allegory 298<br /><i>Clara Mucci</i></p> <p>28 Pastoral 307<br /><i>Michelle O’Callaghan</i></p> <p>29 Romance 317<br /><i>Helen Moore</i></p> <p>30 Epic 327<br /><i>Rachel Falconer</i></p> <p>31 The Position of Poetry: Making and Defending Renaissance Poetics 340<br /><i>Arthur F. Kinney</i></p> <p>32 The English Print, c.1550–c.1650 352<br /><i>Malcolm Jones</i></p> <p>33 Traditions of Complaint and Satire 367<br /><i>John N. King</i></p> <p>34 Love Poetry 378<br /><i>Diana E. Henderson</i></p> <p>35 Erotic Poems 392<br /><i>Boika Sokolova</i></p> <p>36 Religious Verse 404<br /><i>Elizabeth Clarke</i></p> <p>37 Poets, Friends and Patrons: Donne and his Circle; Ben and his Tribe 419<br /><i>Robin Robbins</i></p> <p>38 ‘Such pretty things would soon be gone’: The Neglected Genres of Popular Verse, 1480–1650 442<br /><i>Malcolm Jones</i></p> <p>39 Local and ‘Customary’ Drama 464<br /><i>Thomas Pettitt</i></p> <p>40 Continuities between ‘Medieval’ and ‘Early Modern’ Drama 477<br /><i>Michael O’Connell</i></p> <p>41 Political Plays 486<br /><i>Stephen Longstaffe</i></p> <p>42 Women and Drama 499<br /><i>Alison Findlay</i></p> <p>43 Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton 513<br /><i>Peter J. Smith</i></p> <p>44 ‘Tied / To Rules of Flattery?’: Court Drama and the Masque 525<br /><i>James Knowles</i></p> <p>45 Jacobean Tragedy 545<br /><i>Rowland Wymer</i></p> <p>46 Caroline Theatre 556<br /><i>Roy Booth</i></p> <p>47 Scientific Writing 565<br /><i>David Colclough</i></p> <p>48 Prose Fiction 576<br /><i>Andrew Hadfield</i></p> <p>49 Theological Writings and Religious Polemic 589<br /><i>Donna B. Hamilton</i></p> <p>50 The English Renaissance Essay: Churchyard, Cornwallis, Florio’s Montaigne and Bacon 600<br /><i>John Lee</i></p> <p>51 Diaries 609<br /><i>Elizabeth Clarke</i></p> <p>52 Letters 615<br /><i>Jonathan Gibson</i></p> <p><b>PART FIVE Issues and Debates</b></p> <p>53 Rhetoric 623<br /><i>Marion Trousdale</i></p> <p>54 Identity 634<br /><i>A. J. Piesse</i></p> <p>55 Was There a Renaissance Feminism? 644<br /><i>Jean E. Howard</i></p> <p>56 The Debate on Witchcraft 653<br /><i>James Sharpe</i></p> <p>57 Reconstructing the Past: History, Historicism, Histories 662<br /><i>James R. Siemon</i></p> <p>58 Sexuality: A Renaissance Category? 674<br /><i>James Knowles</i></p> <p>59 Race: A Renaissance Category? 690<br /><i>Margo Hendricks</i></p> <p>60 Writing the Nation 699<br /><i>Nicola Royan</i></p> <p>Index 709</p>
"The inclusivity and scholarship of this Companion builds on the excellence of the earlier edition. Any university library supporting undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Renaissance literature should consider adding this to their collection." (Reference Reviews, 2011)<br /> <br /> <p>"The volume's awesome range makes it a valuable preserve for scholars and an ambitious reference for students." <i>Times Higher Education Supplement</i> <!--end--></p> <p>"This impressive tome must certainly be the last word on English Renaissance literature and culture, at least for some considerable time to come." <i>Reference Reviews</i></p>
<b>Michael Hattaway</b> is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His many publications include <i>Elizabethan Popular Theatre</i> (1982) and he has edited plays by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Jonson. He is also the editor of <i>The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays</i> (2002), and co-editor of <i>The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama </i>(1990) and <i>Shakespeare in the New Europe</i> (1994).
'The volume's awesome range makes it a valuable preserve for scholars and an ambitious reference for students.' - <b>Times Higher Education Supplement</b><br /> <p>'This impressive tome must certainly be the last word on English Renaissance literature culture, at least for some considerable time to come.' - <b>Reference reviews</b><br /> </p> <p>In this comprehensive <i>Companion</i> over fifty of the most eminent modern scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching survey of English Renaissance literature and culture.<br /> </p> <p>The first part of the volume considers pertinent issues such as humanism, English reformations, the development of the language, court culture and playhouses, in terms of the way in which these aspects of Renaissance culture influenced literary production. There are provocative essays on canonical genres such as love poetry and Jacobean tragedy, but also accounts of popular and occasional drama and verse, and the visual arts.<br /> </p> <p>The <i>Companion</i> also approaches key texts of the period through a number of new readings, providing original perspective and positions on both canonical and non-canonical texts. The essays include a range of approaches to a variety of texts from <i>The Spanish Tragedy and The Faerie Queen</i> to <i>'Tis Pity She's a Whore,</i> the poems of Lady Mary Wroth, and a selection of critical elegies.<br /> </p> <p>In the final section, the book moves on the explore contemporary debates in Renaissance studies such as feminism, sexuality, historicism, and nation.<br /> </p> <p>This <i>Companion</i> is the only book of its kind to travel beyond the stage and is an invaluable guide for both student and teacher.</p>
"The volume's awesome range makes it a valuable preserve for scholars and an ambitious reference for students." <i>Times Higher Education Supplement</i> <!--end--> <br /> <p>"This impressive tome must certainly be the last word on English Renaissance literature and culture, at least for some considerable time to come." <i>Reference Reviews</i></p>

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