'This is a very helpful book for students wanting to put their studies in a wide historical context. It has a distinctive approach to the texts it treats in detail.' - Dr Roger Pooley, Keele University 'Clearly written, devoid of jargon, insightful...this study serves as a handbook of revisionist literary history and critical analysis.' - A.C. Labriola, Choice

This invaluable guide offers readers an accessible and imaginative approach to the literature of early modern Britain. Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of the period, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing a helpful introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less well-known authors. Amongst other things, Wynne-Davies discusses sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry in its political and cultural contexts, considers Renaissance drama in terms of performance space, and uses the early modern map to explain the prose works of writers such as Bunyan and Cavendish.
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Amongst other things, Wynne-Davies discusses sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry in its political and cultural contexts, considers Renaissance drama in terms of performance space, and uses the early modern map to explain the prose works of writers such as Bunyan and Cavendish.
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General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Contexts
Poetry
Drama
Prose
Conclusion
Chronology
Annotted Bibliography
III Bibliography
Appendix: Map of The Pilgrim's Progress
Index.

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'This is a very helpful book for students wanting to put their studies in a wide historical context. It has a distinctive approach to the texts it treats in detail.' - Dr Roger Pooley, Keele University 'Clearly written, devoid of jargon, insightful...this study serves as a handbook of revisionist literary history and critical analysis.' - A.C. Labriola, Choice
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Explores the poetry, drama and prose of the period using imaginative critical devices

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780333696187
Publisert
2002-11-25
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Red Globe Press
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Lower undergraduate, G, UU, UP, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
211

Om bidragsyterne

MARION WYNNE-DAVIES is Reader in English at the University of Dundee. She has published a number of books and articles on early modern literature, including Women Poets of the English Renaissance and Women and Arthurian Literature.