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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Corns, Thomas N. History of seventeenth-century English literature. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007 (DLC) 2006004745 (OCoLC)64098438 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas N Corns |
ISBN: | 9780470775790 0470775793 9781405172554 140517255X 0631221697 9780631221692 |
OCLC Number: | 264621020 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 463 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | The last years of Elizabeth I: Before March 1603 -- From the accession of James I to the defenestration of Prague: March 1603 to May 1618 -- From the defenestration of Prague to the personal rule: May 1618 to March 1629 -- The literature of the personal rule: March 1629 to April 1640 -- From the Short Parliament to the Restoration: April 1640 to May 1660 -- 6: The literature of the rule of Charles II: May 1660 to February 1685. |
Series Title: | Blackwell histories of literature. |
Responsibility: | Thomas N. Corns. |
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Tom Corns's book is the first of its kind to attempt to relate literature to the history of its time not merely in broad abstract terms but in specific detail. He discusses individual works in such a way that they reoccupy their rightful place among the social and political events of their time. And so they come freshly alive. This is not the only story that could be told about literature, but it is one not to be ignored. Alastair Fowler, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh <!--end--> Thomas Corns has written an exceptionally fine and remarkably ambitious history of seventeenth-century English literary culture. One of its great virtues is that this history begins with the late Elizabethan period and extends its account to the very end of the seventeenth century, thereby crossing and reexamining traditional boundaries of literary historical periodisation. Corns deftly illuminates the distinctive aesthetic achievements of seventeenth-century English writers, while precisely situating their works in their social, political, and religious contexts, as well as in relation to the other arts. Students and scholars alike will find this new, wide-ranging literary history of the period invaluable. It is an outstanding achievement. David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison Read more...


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- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
- Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 17e siècle.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
- English literature -- Early modern.
- Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.