John Donne in Context Contributor(s): Schoenfeldt, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107043506 ISBN-13: 9781107043503 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $111.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.3 |
LCCN: 2018052008 |
Series: Literature in Context |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.9" W x 9.3" (1.70 lbs) 394 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: John Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross misogyny. This book offers a comprehensive account of early modern life and culture as it relates to Donne's richly varied body of work. Short, lively, and accessible chapters written by leading experts in early modern studies shed light on Donne's literary career, language and works as well as exploring the social and intellectual contexts of his writing and its reception from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. These chapters provide the depth of interpretation that Donne demands, and the range of knowledge that his prodigiously learned works elicit. Supported by a chronology of Donne's life and works and a comprehensive bibliography, this volume is a major new contribution to the study and criticism on the age of Donne and his writing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schoenfeldt, Michael: - Michael Schoenfeldt is John R. Knott, Jr Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His previous publications include Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (Cambridge, 2000), and The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry (Cambridge, 2010); and as editor, A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets (2006). |