The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

Grossman, Marshall

Blackwell Literature Handbooks

1. Auflage Januar 2011
432 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

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Seventeenth-century Britain witnessed two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This easy-to-use Handbook offers readers a succinct overview of this complex period, guiding them through the principal literary works, figures and innovations of the time, and exploring the ways in which major works both reflected and helped to shape the history of the time. The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is essential reading for anyone interested in British Literature across the civil war and restoration periods.

ISBN: 978-0-631-22091-6

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The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time.
* Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literary history as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literary works and figures
* Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time
* Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this century of civil war and reformation
* Combines a central narrative account of "texts and contexts" with a selection of brief essays on key texts and topics
* Includes an alphabetical selection of capsule descriptions of important writers

Preface

Chronology

Part I: Texts and Contexts: An Overview

Part II: Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Part III: Some Key Texts

Part IV: Writers of the Seventeenth Century

Works Cited

Index

"This project captures the generosity and elegance of Marshall Grossman's teaching and scholarship and reminds us of why he will continue to be so much missed." (Milton Quarterly, 16 October 2014)
"Written with a beginner audience in mind. Grossman provides an overview of seventeenth-century historical, literary, and cultural shifts, along with short essays on notable early seventeenth-century texts. The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook will be of particular interest to teachers of seventeenth-century literature courses, as the text would be appropriate to assign at the undergraduate level." (The Year's Work in English Studies, 2013)

Marshall Grossman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry (1998) and 'Authors to Themselves': Milton and the Revelation of History (1987); he is editor of two collections of essays, Reading Renaissance Ethics (2007) and Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (1998). He is currently completing a book on Milton and rational religion.

M. Grossman, University of Maryland, USA