The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

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 of 1688.

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.