A concise companion to English Renaissance literature
Published:
2006
Publisher:
Blackwell, Malden, MA [u.a.]
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...
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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