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Renaissance and reformations : an introduction to early modern English literature / Michael Hattaway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hattaway, Michael.
- Series:
- Blackwell introductions to literature ; 12.
- Blackwell introductions to literature ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Reformation--England.
- Reformation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, Ma. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers. Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies. Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts. Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, D
- Contents:
- Introduction : new worlds of words
- Speaking and writing
- Reading, publication, performance
- Forms ancient and modern
- Defining the past
- Designing the present
- Fictive persons and places
- Godliness.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611310912
- 9781281310910
- 1281310913
- 9780470776131
- 0470776137
- 9780470777008
- 0470777001
- OCLC:
- 476172091
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