Key concepts in Renaissance literature /
Hebron, Malcolm.
Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
"This book discusses all the major writers of the period and also considers the important historical developments that influenced this rich epoch of drama, poetry and prose. Throughout the volume the emphasis is on how to interpret the texts within their original context."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-277) and index.
1. Contexts: History, Politics, Culture -- Historical Introduction -- Book Trade -- Catholicism -- Chain of Being -- City -- Cosmos (1): The Old Cosmology (geocentric) -- Cosmos (2): The New Cosmology (heliocentric) -- Court -- Courtier -- Economy and Society -- Elements -- English Reformation -- Golden Age -- Humanism -- Humours -- Magic (Alchemy, Astrology, Witchcraft) -- Manuscripts -- Medicine (Medical Profession, The Mind, Women) -- Patronage -- Platonism -- Printing -- Protestant Theology -- Race and Strangers -- Science, Knowledge and Philosophy -- Self -- Sex and Sexuality -- Stoicism -- Travel and Colonialism -- Women -- 2. Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts -- Introduction -- Actors and Acting -- Bible -- Conceit -- Decorum -- Epic -- Genre -- History and the Nation -- Imitation -- Logic -- Lyric -- Masque -- Metaphysical Poetry -- Metre -- Mimesis -- Non-Fictional Prose -- Pastoral -- Prose Style -- Rhetoric -- Sonnet -- Theatres -- Theory of Poetry -- 3. Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice -- Introduction -- Cultural Materialism -- Ecocriticism -- Feminism -- Language Criticism: Practical Criticism, Stylistics, Rhetoric -- New Historicism -- Textualism.
"This book discusses all the major writers of the period and also considers the important historical developments that influenced this rich epoch of drama, poetry and prose. Throughout the volume the emphasis is on how to interpret the texts within their original context."--BOOK JACKET.
English literature
Renaissance