Renaissance and reformations
Subtitle: an introduction to early modern English literature
By: Michael Hattaway.
Series: Blackwell introductions to literature
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781405100441; 9781405100458
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Renaissance -- England.; Reformation -- England.
Description: "Designed for both students and general readers, this introduction to Renaissance and Reformation literature offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance. It considers the ways in which early modern writers constructed the past and designed the present, wrote about people and places, recovered and adapted classical genres, and tackled religious and secular controversies." "All these topics are illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts, including works by More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Campion, Daniel, Donne, Southwell, Dekker, Taylor 'the water-poet', Aemilia Lanyer, Jonson, Chapman, Middleton, Mary Wroth, Ralegh, Greville, Wotton, Herbert and Milton. Throughout, readers are reminded that the consequences of the English reformations were as important as the better known influences of the Renaissance."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : new worlds of words; title: Writing; title: Reading, publication, performance; title: Forms, ancient and modern; title: Defining the past; title: Designing the present; title: Fictive persons and places; title: Godliness.