A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Title | A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas N. Corns |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 435 |
Release | 2013-12-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118835999 |
A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690. Part of the major Blackwell History of English Literature series. Locates seventeenth-century English literature in its social and cultural contexts. Considers the physical conditions of literary production and consumption. Looks at the complex political, religious, cultural and social pressures on seventeenth-century writers. Features close critical engagement with major authors and texts Thomas Corns is a major international authority on Milton, the Caroline Court, and the political literature of the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700
Title | English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Pooley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317901584 |
This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures as diverse as Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Marvell, cornucopian texts and the writings of the new scientists from Bacon to Newton. At a time when the boundaries of the `canon' are being increasingly revised, this is not only a major survey of a series of great works of literature, but also a fascinating social history and a guide to understanding the literature of the period as a whole.
Politics of Discourse
Title | Politics of Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Sharpe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2024-06-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520378334 |
The outstanding essays in this volume explore the interdependency of literature and history in seventeenth-century England. The relation of text to society is examined both as theory and as practice. The theoretical essays explore writing, reading, and the emergence of the aesthetic as historical phenomena of the seventeenth century. Other contributions examine cultural and political practices that fashioned the century: patronage, representations of authority, the socialization of party politics, and fables of power. What is often separated as a distinct sphere of “literature” is returned to the contexts of other cultural and discursive practices. Using the shaping force of history on the imagination and the status of literature as historical evidence, the authors also claim the power of imaginative texts to mold as well as reflect history. Politics of Discourse not only increases our understanding of seventeenth-century England but also advances the study of subjects of interest to cultural critics of all historical periods: genre and canon, the interplay of institution and imagination, and the symbols of power. Contributors: Barbara K. Lewalski Michael McKeon Earl Miner David Norbrook Annabel Patterson J. G. A. Pocock Pocock Mary Ann Radzinowicz Kevin Sharpe Blair Worden Steven N. Zwicker This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Title | Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Estill |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2015-01-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611495156 |
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Seventeenth-century English Literature
Title | Seventeenth-century English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce King |
Publisher | New York : Schocken Books |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660
Title | English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Bush |
Publisher | |
Pages | 682 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
Seventeenth-Century English Romance
Title | Seventeenth-Century English Romance PDF eBook |
Author | A. Zurcher |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2007-05-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230605133 |
Overturning the common characterization of Seventeenth Century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues that early modern romance was a central forum for exploring the newly pressing moral-philosophical and political problem of self-interest.