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The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks 1. Aufl.

von: Marshall Grossman
31,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	18.11.2010
ISBN/EAN:	9781444390100
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	432

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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK “Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.” Thomas Corns, Bangor University The seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This easy-to-use Handbook offers readers a succinct overview of this complex period, guiding them through the principal literary works, figures and innovations of the time. Focusing on studying texts in context, Marshall Grossman explores the ways in which major works, including Hamlet, Paradise Lost and The Pilgrim’s Progress, both reflected and helped to shape the history of the time, while concise sections on topics such as the Gunpowder Plot and the Pamphlet Wars allow the reader to engage more fully with the central themes and preoccupations of the period. Concluding with a series of brief biographical profiles describing the life and works of the century’s most significant and influential writers, The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is essential reading for anyone interested in British Literature across the civil war and restoration periods.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi Chronology xv Part 1 Texts and Contexts: An Overview 1 Reading the Historical Landscape 3 Renaissance and/or Reformation: From Elizabeth to James 5 New Science Leaves All in Doubt 14 Business and Trade 34 Breaking the State 59 The Restoration 86 The Short Reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 97 The Production of Culture in the Seventeenth Century 104 Part 2 Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature 125 Aemilia Lanyer and the Gendering of Genre 127 Changing Conventions: Hamlet and The Alchemist 141 Pamphlet Wars: To Kill a King! 149 Everything Happens Twice 166 Part 3 Some Key Texts 189 The Winter’s Tale 191 Areopagitica 203 Paradise Lost 212 The Pilgrim’s Progress 220 Part 4 Writers of the Seventeenth Century 225 Astell, Mary (1666–1731) 227 Bacon, Francis (1561–1626) 229 Baxter, Richard (1615–1691) 236 Beaumont, Francis (1584–1616) 240 Behn, Aphra (1640?–1689) 243 Boyle, Robert (1627–1691) 247 Browne, Sir Thomas (1605–1682) 250 Bunyan, John (1628–1688) 253 Burton, Robert (1577–1640) 257 Carew, Thomas (1594/5–1640) 259 Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673) 261 Cowley, Abraham (1618–1667) 263 Crashaw, Richard (1613–1648) 265 Davenant, Sir William (1606–1668) 267 Donne, John (1572–1631) 270 Dryden, John (1631–1700) 278 Filmer, Sir Robert (1588–1653) 283 Fletcher, John (1579–1625) 285 Fox, George (1624–1691) 287 Hartlib, Samuel (1600–1662) 290 Herbert, George (1593–1633) 293 Herrick, Robert (1591–1674) 297 Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679) 299 Hutchinson, Lucy (1620–1681) 303 Hyde, Edward, First Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) 306 Jonson, Ben (1572–1637) 309 Lanyer, Aemilia (1569–1645) 314 Locke, John (1632–1704) 316 Lovelace, Richard (1617–1657) 322 Marvell, Andrew (1621–1678) 325 Middleton, Thomas (1580–1627) 330 Milton, John (1608–1674) 333 Otway, Thomas (1652–1685) 342 Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) 345 Philips, Katherine (1632–1664) 347 Shadwell, Thomas (1640–1692) 350 Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) 353 Suckling, Sir John (1609–1641) 358 Traherne, Thomas (1637–1674) 360 Vaughan, Henry (1621–1695) 364 Webster, John (1578?–1638?) 367 Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) 370 Wroth, Lady Mary (1587–1653?) 373 Works Cited 375 Index 387

Rezension

“This project captures the generosity and elegance of Marshall Grossman’s teaching and scholarship and reminds us of why he will continue to be so much missed.” (Milton Quarterly, 16 October 2014) "Written with a beginner audience in mind. Grossman provides an overview of seventeenth-century historical, literary, and cultural shifts, along with short essays on notable early seventeenth-century texts. The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook will be of particular interest to teachers of seventeenth-century literature courses, as the text would be appropriate to assign at the undergraduate level." (The Year's Work in English Studies, 2013)

Autorenportrait

Marshall Grossman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry (1998) and ‘Authors to Themselves’: Milton and the Revelation of History (1987); he is editor of two collections of essays, Reading Renaissance Ethics (2007) and Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (1998). He is currently completing a book on Milton and rational religion.

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“Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.” Thomas Corns, Bangor University The seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This easy-to-use Handbook offers readers a succinct overview of this complex period, guiding them through the principal literary works, figures and innovations of the time. Focusing on studying texts in context, Marshall Grossman explores the ways in which major works, including Hamlet, Paradise Lost and The Pilgrim’s Progress, both reflected and helped to shape the history of the time, while concise sections on topics such as the Gunpowder Plot and the Pamphlet Wars allow the reader to engage more fully with the central themes and preoccupations of the period. Concluding with a series of brief biographical profiles describing the life and works of the century’s most significant and influential writers, The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is essential reading for anyone interested in British Literature across the civil war and restoration periods.

Unpublished endorsement

"Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman's elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience." —Thomas Corns, Bangor University