A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
1. Auflage September 2006
288 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Introduction 1
Donna B. Hamilton
1 Economics 11
S. P. Cerasano
2 Religion 32
Donna B. Hamilton
3 Royal Marriage and the Royal Succession 54
Paul E. J. Hammer
4 Patronage, Licensing, and Censorship 75
Richard Dutton
5 Humanism, Rhetoric, Education 94
Peter Mack
6 Manuscripts in Early Modern England 114
Heather Wolfe
7 Travel, Exploration, and Empire 136
Ralph Bauer
8 Private Life and Domesticity 160
Lena Cowen Orlin
9 Treason and Rebellion 180
Andrew Hadfield
10 Shakespeare and the Marginalized ''Others'' 200
Carole Levin
11 Cosmology and the Body 217
Cynthia Marshall
12 Life-Writing 238
Alan Stewart
Index 257
