Grossman The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9010-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Literature Handbooks

The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduatewith a succinct account of the century's events, along withan exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helpedshape the history of the time.
* Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literaryhistory as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literaryworks and figures
* Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected andhelped shape the history of the time
* Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes inthis century of civil war and reformation
* Combines a central narrative account of "texts andcontexts" with a selection of brief essays on key texts andtopics
* Includes an alphabetical selection of capsule descriptions ofimportant writers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossman, Marshall

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Chronology.
Part 1 Texts and Contexts: An Overview.
Reading the Historical Landscape.
Renaissance and/or Reformation: From Elizabeth to James.
New Science Leaves All in Doubt.
Business and Trade.
Breaking the State.
The Restoration.
The Short Reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution of1688.
The Production of Culture in the Seventeenth Century.
Part 2 Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature.
Aemilia Lanyer and the Gendering of Genre.
Changing Conventions: Hamlet and The Alchemist.
Pamphlet Wars: To Kill a King!
Everything Happens Twice.
Part 3 Some Key Texts.
The Winter's Tale.
Areopagitica.
Paradise Lost.
The Pilgrim's Progress.
Part 4 Writers of the Seventeenth Century.
Astell, Mary (1666-1731).
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626).
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691).
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616).
Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689).
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691).
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682).
Bunyan, John (1628-1688).
Burton, Robert (1577-1640).
Carew, Thomas (1594/5-1640).
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667).
Crashaw, Richard (1613-1648).
Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668).
Donne, John (1572-1631).
Dryden, John (1631-1700).
Filmer, Sir Robert (1588-1653).
Fletcher, John (1579-1625).
Fox, George (1624-1691).
Hartlib, Samuel (1600-1662).
Herbert, George (1593-1633).
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674).
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679).
Hutchinson, Lucy (1620-1681).
Hyde, Edward, First Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674).
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637).
Lanyer, Aemilia (1569-1645).
Locke, John (1632-1704).
Lovelace, Richard (1617-1657).
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678).
Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627).
Milton, John (1608-1674).
Otway, Thomas (1652-1685).
Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703).
Philips, Katherine (1632-1664).
Shadwell, Thomas (1640-1692).
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616).
Suckling, Sir John (1609-1641).
Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674).
Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695).
Webster, John (1578?-1638?).
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).
Wroth, Lady Mary (1587-1653?).
Works Cited.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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.