A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature - Brossura

Corns, Thomas N.

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ISBN 10: 0631221700 ISBN 13: 9780631221708

Casa editrice: Blackwell Publishers, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

Tom Corns s book is the first of its kind to attempt to relate literature to the history of its time not merely in broad abstract terms but in specific detail. He discusses individual works in such a way that they reoccupy their rightful place among the social and political events of their time. And so they come freshly alive. This is not the only story that could be told about literature, but it is one not to be ignored.

Alastair Fowler, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Thomas Corns has written an exceptionally fine and remarkably ambitious history of seventeenth–century English literary culture. One of its great virtues is that this history begins with the late Elizabethan period and extends its account to the very end of the seventeenth century, thereby crossing and reexamining traditional boundaries of literary historical periodisation. Corns deftly illuminates the distinctive aesthetic achievements of seventeenth–century English writers, while precisely situating their works in their social, political, and religious contexts, as well as in relation to the other arts. Students and scholars alike will find this new, wide–ranging literary history of the period invaluable. It is an outstanding achievement. David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin–Madison

L'autore:

Thomas N. Corns is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. His recent publications include A Companion to Milton (ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2001) and The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (ed., 1999). He is an Honoured Scholar of the Milton Society of America.

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• Editore: Blackwell Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0631221700
• ISBN 13: 9780631221708
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 500