A Concise Companion to English Renaissance LiteratureISBN: 978-1-4051-1357-1
Hardcover
288 pages
September 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.