The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century’s events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time. Provides a coherentnarrative of the entire century of literary history as well as an easy-to-useguide to the principal literary works and figuresOffers an exploration of theways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the timeDescribes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this century of civil war and reformationCombines a central narrative account of texts and contexts with a selection of brief essays on key texts and topicsIncludes an alphabeticalselection of capsule descriptions of important writers INDICE: Preface.Chronology.Part 1 Texts and Contexts: An Overview.Reading the Historical Landscape.Renaissance and/or Reformation: From Elizabeth to James.New Science Leaves All in Doubt.Business and Trade.Breaking the State.The Restoration.The Short Reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.TheProduction of Culture in the Seventeenth Century.Part 2 Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature.Aemilia Lanyer and the Gendering of Genre.Changing Conventions: Hamlet and The Alchemist.Pamphlet Wars: To Kill a King!Everything Happens Twice.Part 3 Some Key Texts.The Winter's Tale.Areopagitica.Paradise Lost.ThePilgrim's Progress.Part 4 Writers of the Seventeenth Century.Astell, Mary (1666-1731).Bacon, Francis (1561-1626).Baxter, Richard (1615-1691).Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616).Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689).Boyle, Robert (1627-1691).Browne, SirThomas (1605-1682).Bunyan, John (1628-1688).Burton, Robert (1577-1640).Carew,Thomas (1594/5-1640).Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667).Crashaw, Richard (1613-1648).Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668).Donne, John (1572-1631).Dryden, John (1631-1700).Filmer, Sir Robert(1588-1653).Fletcher, John (1579-1625).Fox, George (1624-1691).Hartlib, Samuel (1600-1662).Herbert, George (1593-1633).Herrick, Robert (1591-1674).Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679).Hutchinson, Lucy (1620-1681).Hyde, Edward, First Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674).Jonson, Ben (1572-1637).Lanyer, Aemilia (1569-1645).Locke,John (1632-1704).Lovelace, Richard (1617-1657).Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678).Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627).Milton, John (1608-1674).Otway, Thomas (1652-1685).Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703).Philips, Katherine (1632-1664).Shadwell, Thomas (1640-1692).Shakespeare, William (1564-1616).Suckling, Sir John (1609-1641).Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674).Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695).Webster, John (1578?-1638?).Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).Wroth, Lady Mary (1587-1653?).Works Cited.Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-9009-4
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 29/02/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés