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Handbook of English Renaissance Literature

  • Edited by: Ingo Berensmeyer
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

  • New insights on English Renaissance literature
  • Combines systematic questions and close readings
  • Contributions by acclaimed experts in the field

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Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Editors’ Preface

    V
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    Contents

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    Introduction

    1
    Ingo Berensmeyer
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  • Part I: Systematic Questions
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    1. Editing English Renaissance Texts

    27
    Sarah Neville
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    2. Forms of Translation

    46
    Joshua Reid
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    3. New Ways of Worldmaking: English Renaissance Literature as ‘Early Modern’

    66
    Andreas Mahler
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    4. Theatre and Drama

    89
    Douglas Bruster
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    5. Life-Writing: Encountering Selves

    108
    Suzanne Trill
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    6. England and its Others

    136
    Ralf Hertel
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    7. Literature and Religion in Early Modern England

    155
    Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
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    8. Renaissance Englishwomen as Writers, Readers, and Patrons

    182
    Margaret J. M. Ezell
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    9. Rhetoric and Literary Theory

    203
    Gero Guttzeit
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  • Part II: Close Readings
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    10. John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte (1499?)

    225
    Dan Breen
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    11. Thomas More, Utopia (1516/1551)

    244
    Gabriela Schmidt
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    12. William Baldwin, Beware the Cat (1553/1570)

    265
    Christina Wald
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    13. Richard Tottel, Songes and Sonettes (1557)

    280
    Susanne Bayerlipp
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    14. John Lyly, Euphues (1578/1580)

    295
    Jürgen Meyer
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    15. Philip Sidney, The Two Arcadias (1577–1584)

    311
    Joachim Frenk
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    16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587)

    331
    Ralf Haekel
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    17. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590/1596)

    352
    Ingo Berensmeyer
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    18. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (c. 1588–1592)

    376
    Tobias Döring
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    19. Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)

    395
    Andrew Hadfield
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    20. William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595)

    411
    Felix Sprang
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    21. Francis Bacon, Essays (1597–1625)

    425
    Daniel Schneider
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    22. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609)

    444
    Nicola Glaubitz
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    23. Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610)

    464
    Rebecca Yearling
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    24. Aemilia Lanyer, “The Description of Cooke-ham” (1611)

    478
    Angelika Zirker
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    25. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621–1651)

    496
    Angus Gowland
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    26. John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (c. 1632)

    516
    Christoph Ehland
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    27. John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (1633)

    537
    Matthias Bauer
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    28. Thomas Carew and Inigo Jones, Coelum Britannicum (1634)

    557
    Emanuel Stelzer
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    29. Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House (1651)

    573
    Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
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    30. Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653)

    594
    Lisa Walters
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    31. William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes (1656)

    615
    Janet Clare
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    32. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667/1674)

    635
    Anne-Julia Zwierlein
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    Index of Names

    661
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    Index of Subjects

    683
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    List of Contributors

    739
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eBook published on:
October 8, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110444889
Hardcover published on:
October 8, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110443677
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
9
Main content:
739
Illustrations:
25
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110444889
eBook ISBN: 9783110444889
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110443677
Keywords for this book
English Renaissance; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Literary History; English and American Studies
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes
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