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Concise Companion To English Renaissance

Name: Concise Companion To English Renaissance
Author: Hamilton
ISBN: 9781405113571

by Hamilton, Donna Hamilton (Editor), David Bradshaw

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Overview

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.

Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; “others” in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
Entices students to explore the subject further.
Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.

Synopsis

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.

Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; “others” in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.

Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.

Entices students to explore the subject further.

Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.

All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.

About the Author, Hamilton

Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Her previous publications include Virgil and 'The Tempest': The Politics of Imitation (1990), Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England (1992), Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England (co-edited with Richard Strier, 1996), Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (2005), and an edition of Middleton's The Puritan (2005).