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A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
Contributor(s): Hamilton, Donna B. (Editor)
ISBN: 140511357X     ISBN-13: 9781405113571
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $118.70  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2006
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Renaissance
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 820.900
LCCN: PR401
Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.28 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 15th Century
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
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.