Handbook of English Renaissance Literature /

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature / / ed. by Ingo Berensmeyer.

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less wel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Bauer, Matthias,
Bayerlipp, Susanne,
Berensmeyer, Ingo,
Breen, Dan,
Bruster, Douglas,
Clare, Janet,
Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van,
Döring, Tobias,
Ehland, Christoph,
Ezell, Margaret J. M.,
Frenk, Joachim,
Glaubitz, Nicola,
Gowland, Angus,
Guttzeit, Gero,
Hadfield, Andrew,
Haekel, Ralf,
Hertel, Ralf,
Mahler, Andreas,
Meyer, Jürgen,
Neville, Sarah,
Olejniczak Lobsien, Verena,
Reid, Joshua,
Schmidt, Gabriela,
Schneider, Daniel,
Sprang, Felix,
Stelzer, Emanuel,
Trill, Suzanne,
Wald, Christina,
Walters, Lisa,
Yearling, Rebecca,
Zirker, Angelika,
Zwierlein, Anne-Julia,
HerausgeberIn:
Berensmeyer, Ingo,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 739 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors’ Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Systematic Questions
  • 1. Editing English Renaissance Texts
  • 2. Forms of Translation
  • 3. New Ways of Worldmaking: English Renaissance Literature as ‘Early Modern’
  • 4. Theatre and Drama
  • 5. Life-Writing: Encountering Selves
  • 6. England and its Others
  • 7. Literature and Religion in Early Modern England
  • 8. Renaissance Englishwomen as Writers, Readers, and Patrons
  • 9. Rhetoric and Literary Theory
  • Part II: Close Readings
  • 10. John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte (1499?)
  • 11. Thomas More, Utopia (1516/1551)
  • 12. William Baldwin, Beware the Cat (1553/1570)
  • 13. Richard Tottel, Songes and Sonettes (1557)
  • 14. John Lyly, Euphues (1578/1580)
  • 15. Philip Sidney, The Two Arcadias (1577–1584)
  • 16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587)
  • 17. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590/1596)
  • 18. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (c. 1588–1592)
  • 19. Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)
  • 20. William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595)
  • 21. Francis Bacon, Essays (1597–1625)
  • 22. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609)
  • 23. Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610)
  • 24. Aemilia Lanyer, “The Description of Cooke-ham” (1611)
  • 25. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621–1651)
  • 26. John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (c. 1632)
  • 27. John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (1633)
  • 28. Thomas Carew and Inigo Jones, Coelum Britannicum (1634)
  • 29. Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House (1651)
  • 30. Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653)
  • 31. William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes (1656)
  • 32. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667/1674)
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
  • List of Contributors

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