A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1357-1

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288 pages

September 2006, Wiley-Blackwell

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A concise, cutting-edge survey of English Renaissance literature from 1575-1625.
Launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature by way of 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.