The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9849-6
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Literature and Culture Handbooks

The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century. It provides a one-stop resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of 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 critical texts
- an annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms.
Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for students beginning their study of seventeenth-century literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Robert C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Introduction
1. Introduction: overview with timeline - Eric J. Sterling, Auburn University Montgomery, USA
Timeline - Deborah Cosier Solomon, Auburn University Montgomery, USA
2. Historical Context - Richard Harp, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
3. Literary and Cultural Contexts - Brian Blackley, North Carolina State University and Lara M. Crowley, Texas Tech University, USA
4. Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts - Matthew Steggle, Sheffield-Hallam University, UK
5. Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts - James Hirsch, Georgia State University, USA
6. Key Critical Concepts and Topics - Nancy Mohrlock Bunker, Macon State University, USA and James S. Baumlin, Missouri State University, USA

7. Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches - Robert C. Evans, Auburn University Montgomery, USA
8. Changes in the Canon - Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University, USA
9. Issues of Sexuality, Gender and Ethnicity - Robert C. Evans and Eric Sterling
10. Mapping the Current Critical Landscape - Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University, USA
Glossary of critical and theoretical terminology - Laura Schechter, University of Alberta, Canada
Annotated Bibliography - Jonathan Wright, Faulkner University, USA

Appendix: Teaching, Curriculum and Learning - Julie Sutherland, University of British Columbia, Canada

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert C. Evans is Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, USA. He is the author or editor of approximately twenty books (more than half on the seventeenth century) and has won a number of teaching awards.

Eric J. Sterling is Distinguished Research Professor at Auburn University Montgomery, USA. He has won several national awards for teaching, scholarship and pedagogy.