OHB JOHN DONNE OHBK C

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-921860-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 896 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1670 g

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks of Literature

Contributing scholars comprise many of the best established scholars in the field as well as emerging new scholars
Paired insights of literary scholars and historians to establish biographical and historical contexts
Focus on tools for Donne studies (practical, theoretical, conceptual)
Comprehensive treatment of every genre in which Donne wrote

The Oxford Handbook of John Donne presents scholars with the history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship in this field in the twenty-first century and beyond. Though profoundly historical in ist orientation, the Handbook is not a summary of existing knowledge but a resource that reveals patterns of literary and historical attention and the new directions that these patterns enable or obstruct. Part I - Research resources in Donne Studies and why they matter - emphasizes the heuristic and practical orientation of the Handbook, examining prevailing assumptions and reviewing the specialized scholarly tools available. This section provides a brief evaluation and description of the scholarly strengths, shortcomings, and significance of each resource, focusing on a balanced evaluation of the opportunities and the hazards each offers. Part II - Donne's genres - begins with an introduction that explores the significance and differentiation of the numerous genres in which Donne wrote, including discussion of the problems posed by his overlapping and bending of genres. Essays trace the conventions and histories of the genres concered and study the ways in which Donne's works confirm how and why his 'fresh invention' illustrates his responses to the literary and non-literary contexts of their composition. Part III - Biographical and historical contexts - creates perspective on what is known about Donne's life; shows how his life and writings epitomized and affected important controversial issues of his day; and brings to bear on Donne studies some of the most stimulating and creative ideas developed in recent decades by historians of early modern England. Part IV - Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne Studies - introduces students and researchers to major critical debates affecting the reception of Donne from the 17th through to the 21st centuries.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of Donne and early modern literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shami, Jeanne

Flynn, Dennis

Hester, M.Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations and maps
Note to Readers
General introductionJeanne Shami, M. Thomas Hester and Dennis Flynn:
Part 1: Research resources in Donne studies and why they matter
Jeanne Shami: Introduction
Gary A. Stringer: The composition and dissemination of Donne's writings
Ernest W. Sullivan, II: John Donne's seventeenth-century readers
Lara M. Crowley: Archival research
Gary A. Stringer: Editing Donne's poetry: part 1: From John Marriot to the Donne Variorum
Richard K. Todd: Editing Donne's poetry: part 2: The DonneVariorum and beyond
Ernest W. Sullivan, II: Modern scholarly editions of the prose of John Donne
Donald R. Dickson: Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies
Hugh Adlington: Collaboration and the international scholarly community
Part 2: Donne's genres
Heather Dubrow and M. Thomas Hester: Introduction
M. Thomas Hester: The epigram
Gregory Kneidel: The formal verse satire
R. V. Young: The elegy
Michael W. Price: The paradox
Ernest W. Sullivan, II: The paradox: Biathanatos
Anne Lake Prescott: Menippean Donne
Dayton Haskin: The love lyric
Margaret Maurer: The verse letter
R. V. Young: The religious sonnet
Kirsten Stirling: Liturgical poetry
Michael W. Price: The problem
Graham Roebuck: The controversial treatise
Jeffrey Johnson: The essay
Graham Roebuck: The anniversary poem
Claude J. Summers: The epicede and obsequy
Camille Wells Slights: The epithalamion
Kate Narveson: The devotion
Jeanne Shami: The sermon
Margaret Maurer: The prose letter
Part 3: Biographical and historical contexts
Dennis Flynn and Jeanne Shami: Introduction
Patrick Collinson: The English Reformation in the mid-Elizabethan period
Dennis Flynn: Donne's family background, birth, and early years
Alexandra Gajda: Education as a courtier
Dennis Flynn: Donne's education
Albert C. Labriola: Donne's military career
Paul E. J. Hammer: The Earl of Essex and English expeditionary forces
Steven W. May: Donne and Egerton: the Court and courtship
Andrew Gordon: On late-Elizabethan courtship and politics
Dennis Flynn: Donne's wedding and the Pyrford years
Anthony Milton: New horizons in the early Jacobean period
Johann Sommerville: The death of Robert Cecil: end of an era
Dennis Flynn: Donne's travel and earliest publications
Jeanne Shami: Donne's decision to take orders
Alastair Bellany: The rise of the Howards at court
Peter McCullough: The hazards of the Jacobean court
Emma Rhatigan: Donne's readership at Lincoln's Inn and the Doncaster embassy
Malcolm Smuts: International politics and Jacobean statecraft
Clayton D. Lein: Donne: the final period
Simon Healy: Donne, the patriot cause, and war, 1620-29
Arnold Hunt: The English nation in 1631
Alison Shell: The death of Donne
Part 4: Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne studies
Dennis Flynn: Introduction
Achsah Guibbory: Donne and apostasy
Theresa M. DiPasquale: Donne, women, and the spectre of misogyny
Debora Shuger: Donne's absolutism
Albert C. Labriola: Style, wit, prosody in the poetry of John Donne
Hugh Adlington: Do Donne's writings express his desperate ambition?
Judith Scherer Herz: <"By parting have joyn'd here>": the story of the two (or more) Donnes
Lynne Magnusson: Danger and discourse
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Jeanne Shami, Professor of English, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Dennis Flynn, Professor of English, Bentley University, and M.Thomas Hester, Professor of English, North Carolina State University

Contributors:
Hugh Adlington, University of Birmingham
Alastair Bellany, Rutgers University
Patrick Collinson, University of Cambridge
Lara M. Crowley, Texas Tech University
Donald R. Dickson, Texas A&M University
Theresa M. DiPasquale, Whitman College
Heather Dubrow, Fordham University
Kenneth Fincham, University of Kent
Dennis Flynn, Bentley University
Alexandra Gajda, University of Birmingham
Andrew Gordon, University of Aberdeen
Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College, Columbia University
Paul E. J. Hammer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dayton Haskin, Boston College
Simon Healy, History of Parliament Trust
Judith Scherer Herz, Concordia University, Montreal
M. Thomas Hester, North Carolina State University
Arnold Hunt, British Library
Jeffrey Johnson, Northern Illinois University
Gregory Kneidel, University of Connecticut
The late Albert C. Labriola, formerly Duquesne University
Clayton Lein, Purdue University
Lynne Magnusson, University of Toronto
Margaret Maurer, Colgate University
Steven W. May, Emory University
Peter McCullough, Lincoln College, Oxford
Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield
Kate Narveson, Luther College
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College and Columbia University
The late Michael W. Price, formerly Grove City College
Emma Rhatigan, Queen's University Belfast
Graham Roebuck, McMaster University
Jeanne Shami, University of Regina
Alison Shell , Durham University
Debora Shuger, UCLA
Camille Wells Slights, University of Saskatchewan
Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts Boston
Johann Sommerville, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kirsten Stirling, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Gary A. Stringer, University of Southern Mississippi and Texas A&M University
Ernest W. Sullivan, II, Virginia Tech
Claude J. Summers, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Richard Todd, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
R. V. Young, North Carolina State University