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| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Loewenstein; Janel M Mueller |
| ISBN: | 0521631564 9780521631563 0511059817 9780511059810 |
| OCLC Number: | 49355914 |
| Description: | xi, 1038 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / David Loewenstein, Janel Mueller -- 1. Modes and means of literary production, circulation and reception: -- Literacy, society and education / Kenneth Charlton, Margaret Spufford -- Manuscript transmission and circulation / Harold Love, Arthur F. Marotti -- Print, literary culture and the book trade / David Scott Kastan -- Literary patronage / Graham Parry -- Languages of early modern literature in Britain / Paula Blank -- Habits of reading and early modern literary culture / Steven N. Zwicker -- 2. The Tudor era from the reformation to Elizabeth I: -- Literature and national identity / David Loades -- Literature and the court / William A. Sessions -- Literature and the church / Janel Mueller -- 3. The era of Elizabeth and James VI: -- Literature and national identity / Claire McEachern -- Literature and the court / Catherine Bates -- Literature and the church / Patrick Collison -- Literature and London / Lawrence Manley -- Literature and the theatre / David Bevington -- 4. The earlier Stuart era: -- Literature and national identity / Johann P. Sommerville -- Literature and the court / Leah S. Marcus -- Literature and the church / Debora Shuger -- Literature and London / Thomas N. Corns -- Literature and the theatre to 1660 / Martin Butler -- Literature and the household / Barbara K. Lewalski -- 5. The civil war and commonwealth era: -- Literature and national identity / Derek Hirst -- Literature and religion / David Loewenstein, John Morrill -- Literature and London / Nigel Smith -- Literature and the household / Helen Wilcox -- Alternative sites for literature / Joshua Scodel -- From revolution to restoration in English literary culture / James Grantham Turner. |
| Series Title: | New Cambridge history of English literature. |
| Other Titles: | History of early modern English literature Early modern English literature |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller. |
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'This bold and ground-breaking book offers a remarkable range of new ways of understanding early modern literature in its historical contexts.' David Norbrook, University of Oxford '... this book is a prodigious achievement. Meticulously edited and beautifully produced, with a multifaceted chronology as an appendix, its essays are for the most part marvels of compressed and incisive critical judgment. The expert contributors combine breadth of coverage and depth of reflection with tremendous assurance.' Times Literary Supplement 'Astonishingly comprehensive and coherently unified ... This extraordinarily useful reference work [is] at once authoritative, pioneering and inclusive ...'. Renaissance Quarterly 'This book is a major accomplishment, and will alter the very landscape for which it provides such an effective map.' Studies in English Literature ' ...a monument and record of a generation that has made large advances in knowledge and understanding of its period'. The Review of English Studies Read more...
