A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature / Edition 1

by Donna B. Hamilton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405113571
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/18/2006
Series:	Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her previous publications include Virgil and 'The Tempest': The Politics of Imitation (1990), Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992), Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England (co-edited with Richard Strier, 1996), Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (2005), and an edition of Middleton's The Puritan (2005).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

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

Editorial Reviews

The book considers the key concepts that are thought to have informed the texts of the period. Relevant historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts are considered by well-known scholars, who include such fields as economics, humanism, royal marriage, censorship, rebellion, and cosmology.” (Year's Work in English Studies, 2008)

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