Author: Murray RostonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333271445
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sixteenth-century English Literature
Author: Murray RostonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333271445
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Common
Author: Neil RhodesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198704100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
Author: Gary F. WallerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317895584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period.
Theatre and Humanism
Author: Kent CartwrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139425994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theatre - particularly the theory that Elizabethan plays are best seen in the tradition of morality drama - need to be reconsidered. He proposes instead that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting - rather than literary, elitist and dull as it has often been seen - and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other. Taking as examples the plays of Marlowe, Heywood, Lyly and Greene, as well as many by lesser-known dramatists, the book demonstrates the contribution of humanist drama to the theatrical vitality of the sixteenth century.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780393543339
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An anthology introducing the major authors and works of English literature. Package 1 covers the Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century. Package 2 covers The Romantic Period through the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Major Authors
Author: Stephen GreenblattPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393603088
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
Book Description
Exceptional selections. Abundant teaching resources. Unparalleled value.
Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Author: Rachel TrubowitzPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191636479
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in the early modern cultural imagination at the precise moment when England undergoes a major paradigm shift — from the traditional, dynastic body politic, organized by organic bonds, to the post-dynastic, modern nation, comprised of symbolic and affective relations. The book also demonstrates that shifting early modern perspectives on Judeo-Christian relations deeply inform the period's interlocking reassessments of maternal nurture and the nation, especially in the case of Milton. The book's five chapters analyze a wide range of reformed and traditional texts, including A pitiless Mother, William Gouge's Of Domesticall Duties, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Charles I's Eikon Basilike, and Milton's Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes. Equal attention is paid to such early modern visual images as The power of women (a late sixteenth-century Dutch engraving), William Marshall's engraved frontispiece to Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentleman and Gentlewoman (1641), and Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Pero and Cimon or Roman Charity (1630). The book argues that competing early modern figurations of the nurturing mother mediate in politically implicated ways between customary biblical models of English kingship and innovative Hebraic/Puritan paradigms of Englishness.
The Praise of Folly
Author: Desiderius ErasmusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folly
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Timothy HamptonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801437748
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"The foundational texts of modern French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent ways, the question of what it means to be "French." Hampton shows how conflicts between different concepts of community were mediated symbolically through the genesis of new literary forms. Hampton's analysis of works by Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, and Marguerite de Navarre, as well as writings by lesser-known poets, pamphleteers, and political philosophers, shows that the vulnerability of France and the instability of French identity were pervasive cultural themes during this period.".
Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
Author: Reid BarbourPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139431005
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reid Barbour's 2002 study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625–1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of heroic endeavours, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. Barbour examines sermons and theological treatises to argue that Caroline religious culture comprises a rich and extensive stocktaking of the conditions in which Protestantism was celebrated, undercut, and experienced. Barbour argues that this stocktaking was also carried out in unusual and sometimes quite secular contexts; in the masques, plays and poetry of the era as well as in scientific works and diaries. This broad-ranging study offers an extensive appraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.
