Harvard Classics - Pilgrims Progress , Lives of John Donne and George Herbert - ( Bunyon - Izaak Walton )
by Ingo Berensmeyer
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.