The Renaissance Literature Handbook

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9500-6
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: Literature and Culture Handbooks

The Renaissance Literature Handbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the 'English Renaissance' or 'Early modern' period. It provides a one-stop resource for students with the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes:
- introductions to authors, texts and contexts
- guides to key critics, concepts and topics
- an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research
- case studies in reading literary and theoretical and critical texts.

Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for anyone beginning their study of English Renaissance literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruce, Susan

Steinberger, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editors' Introduction
1. Introduction and Timeline - Susan Bruce and Rebecca Steinberger
PART 1: THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
2. The Historical Context of English Renaissance Literature - William J. Kerwin (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
3. Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events, Movements -Karen Britland and Lucy Munro (Keele University, UK)
PART II: HOW TO READ RENAISSANCE TEXTS
4. Case Studies in Reading: Key Primary Literary Texts - Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham, UK)
5. Case Studies in Reading: Key Critical Texts - Christopher R. Orchard (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)
6. Key Critical Concepts and Topics - Nate Eastman (Earlham College, USA)
7. Critical Responses and Approaches to British Renaissance Literature - Tita French Baumlin (Missouri State University, USA)
8. Recent Developments in the Early Modern Literary Canon - Joshua B. Fisher (Wingate University, USA)
9. Returning to the Renaissance - Tom Healy (Birkbeck, University of London)
Annotated Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Bruce is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University, UK.

Rebecca Steinberger is Associate Professor of English Literature at Misericordia University, USA.