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Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature

By Michael Hattaway

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2007
ISBN
9781405100458, 1405100451
LCC
PR421 .H27 2005
Open Library ID
OL3395129M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1657899 bytes)
Series
Blackwell Introductions to Literature
Pages
264\264
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 13:46:34

Description

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, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.

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