The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350-1547
Subtitle: Reform and Cultural Revolution (Oxford English Literary History, 2)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 19, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780199265534
First sentence: Despite its size, this book has a very simple, central, and consistent theme: that the institutional simplifications and centralizations of the sixteenth century provoked correlative simplifications and narrowings in literature.