The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook - Brossura

Grossman, Marshall

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ISBN 10: 0631220917 ISBN 13: 9780631220916

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2011

Riassunto

The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century’s events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time.

• Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literary history as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literary works and figures
• Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time
• Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this century of civil war and reformation
• Combines a central narrative account of “texts and contexts” with a selection of brief essays on key texts and topics
• Includes an alphabetical selection of capsule descriptions of important writers

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Recensione:

"Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman′s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience."
Thomas Corns, Bangor University

L'autore:

Marshall Grossman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry (1998) and 'Authors to Themselves': Milton and the Revelation of History (1987); he is editor of two collections of essays, Reading Renaissance Ethics (2007) and Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (1998). He is currently completing a book on Milton and rational religion.

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0631220917
• ISBN 13: 9780631220916
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 406