The Cambridge History Of English Literature Renascence And Reformation
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Author | : David Loewenstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521631563 |
Now available in paperback, this is the first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century. It offers new 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 innovatively-designed history is an essential resource for specialists and students.
Author | : David Wallace |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 2002-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521890465 |
This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Alexandra Walsham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108829996 |
Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.
Author | : Jill Kraye |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1996-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521436243 |
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.
Author | : Norman Francis Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780511468469 |
Volume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.
Author | : Clare A. Lees |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6400 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107035034 |
A set of reference works on the history of English literature throughout the major periods of its development.
Author | : George Alexander Kennedy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521300087 |
This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.
Author | : Arthur F. Kinney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 1999-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825704 |
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is seen in the writing of More, Foxe and Hooker and in the evolution of satire and popular culture. Drama moves from the churches to the commercial playhouses with the plays of Kyd, Marlowe and the early careers of Shakespeare and Jonson. The Companion tackles all these subjects in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.
Author | : Lotte Hellinga |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 1999-12-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521573467 |
This volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.