A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140511357X ISBN 13: 9781405113571

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.

• Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; “others” in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
  
• Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
  
• Entices students to explore the subject further.
  
• Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
  
• All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.

About this title

About the Author

Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her previous publications include Virgil and 'The Tempest': The Politics of Imitation (1990), Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992), Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England (co-edited with Richard Strier, 1996), Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (2005), and an edition of Middleton's The Puritan (2005).

From the Back Cover

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature by way of the key contexts that informed it.

The contributors, who are all highly regarded scholars and teachers in the field, place the literature of the period within a set of relevant historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, including: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; “others” in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing. Their contributions incorporate recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.

The volume as a whole makes the period accessible and enticing to students, and provides innovative syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.

The contributors, who are all highly regarded scholars and teachers in the field, place the literature of the period within a set of relevant historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, including: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; “others” in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing. Their contributions incorporate recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.

The volume as a whole makes the period accessible and enticing to students, and provides innovative syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140511357X
• ISBN 13: 9781405113571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287
• Editor: Hamilton Donna B.