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The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature

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David Loewenstein, Janel Mueller, Kenneth Charlton, Margaret Spufford, Harold Love, Arthur F. Marotti, David Scott Kastan, Graham Parry, Paula Blank, Steven N. Zwicker, David Loades, William A. Sessions, Claire McEachern, Catherine Bates, Patrick Collinson, Lawrence Manley, David Bevington, Johann P. Sommerville, Leah S. Marcus, Debora Shuger, Thomas N. Corns, Martin Butler, Barbara K. Lewalski, Derek Hirst, John Morrill, Nigel Smith, Helen Wilcox, Joshua Scodel, James Grantham Turner
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  • Date Published: June 2006
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521684996

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  • This 2003 book is a full-scale history of early modern English literature, offering perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While providing the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history, its twenty-six chapters address recent methodological and interpretive developments in English literary studies. The book has five sections: 'Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation, and Reception', 'The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I', 'The Era of Elizabeth and James VI', 'The Earlier Stuart Era', and 'The Civil War and Commonwealth Era'. While England is the principal focus, literary production in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less frequently examined in previous histories, including women's writings and the literature of the English Reformation and Revolution. This history is an essential resource for specialists and students.

    • The fullest account of the English literary renaissance now available in paperback
    • Includes a chronology, full bibliography and extensive index
    • Contributions from distinguished and international experts
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    Reviews & endorsements

    'This bold and ground-breaking book offers a remarkable range of new ways of understanding early modern literature in its historical contexts.' David Norbrook, University of Oxford

    '… this book is a prodigious achievement. Meticulously edited and beautifully produced, with a multifaceted chronology as an appendix, its essays are for the most part marvels of compressed and incisive critical judgment. The expert contributors combine breadth of coverage and depth of reflection with tremendous assurance.' The Times Literary Supplement

    'Astonishingly comprehensive and coherently unified … This extraordinarily useful reference work [is] at once authoritative, pioneering and inclusive …'. Renaissance Quarterly

    'This book is a major accomplishment, and will alter the very landscape for which it provides such an effective map.' Studies in English Literature

    ' …a monument and record of a generation that has made large advances in knowledge and understanding of its period'. The Review of English Studies

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    • Date Published: June 2006
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521684996
    • length: 1052 pages
    • dimensions: 225 x 161 x 52 mm
    • weight: 1.43kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller
    Part I. Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation, and Reception:
    1. Literacy, society, and education Kenneth Charlton and Margaret Spufford
    2. Manuscript transmission and circulation Harold Love and Arthur F. Marotti
    3. Print, literary culture, and the book trade David Scott Kastan
    4. Literary patronage Graham Parry
    5. Languages of early modern literature in Britain Paula Blank
    6. Habits of reading and the creation of early modern literary culture Steven N. Zwicker
    Part II. The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I:
    7. Literature and national identity David Loades
    8. Literature and the court William A. Sessions
    9. Literature and the church Janel Mueller
    Part III. The Era of Elizabeth and James VI:
    10. Eliza's England, whose Scotland, whose Ireland? Claire McEachern
    11. Literature and the court Catherine Bates
    12. Indoctrination, edification, and polemic: literature and the church Patrick Collinson
    13. Literature and the metropolis Lawrence Manley
    14. Literature and the theater David Bevington
    Part IV. The Earlier Stuart Era:
    15. An emergent Britain?: literature and national identity Johann P. Sommerville
    16. Literature and the court Leah S. Marcus
    17. Literature and the church Debora Shuger
    18. Civic continuities and revolutionary beginnings: literature and London Thomas N. Corns
    19. The emergence of a metropolitan drama: literature and the theater to 1660 Martin Butler
    20. Literature and the household Barbara K. Lewalski
    Part V. The Civil War and Commonwealth Era:
    21. Literature and national identity in England Derek Hirst
    22. Literature and religion David Loewenstein and John Morrill
    23. Civil war and the new literary scene: literature and London Nigel Smith
    24. Literature and the household Helen Wilcox
    25. Alternative sites for literature: rural, convivial, and intellectual domains Joshua Scodel
    26. From revolution to restoration in English literary culture James Grantham Turner
    Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain, 1528–1674, with list of selected manuscripts
    Select bibliography (primary and secondary sources)
    Index.

  • Editors

    David Loewenstein, University of Oxford
    David Loewenstein is Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

    Janel Mueller, University of Chicago
    Janel Mueller is William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago.

    Contributors

    David Loewenstein, Janel Mueller, Kenneth Charlton, Margaret Spufford, Harold Love, Arthur F. Marotti, David Scott Kastan, Graham Parry, Paula Blank, Steven N. Zwicker, David Loades, William A. Sessions, Claire McEachern, Catherine Bates, Patrick Collinson, Lawrence Manley, David Bevington, Johann P. Sommerville, Leah S. Marcus, Debora Shuger, Thomas N. Corns, Martin Butler, Barbara K. Lewalski, Derek Hirst, John Morrill, Nigel Smith, Helen Wilcox, Joshua Scodel, James Grantham Turner

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