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Author | : Thomas N. Corns |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118835999 |
Download A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Graham Parry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131787109X |
Download The Seventeenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The seventeenth century was a period of immense turmoil. This book explores the methods by which a distinctive iconography was created for each Stuart king, describes the cultural life of the Civil War period and the Cromwellian Protectorate, and analyses the impact of the antiquarian movement which constructed a new sense of national identity. Through this detailed and fascinating discussion of seventeenth-century society, Graham Parry provides a clear insight into the many forces operating on the literature of the period.
Author | : Rachel Trubowitz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191636479 |
Download Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in the early modern cultural imagination at the precise moment when England undergoes a major paradigm shift — from the traditional, dynastic body politic, organized by organic bonds, to the post-dynastic, modern nation, comprised of symbolic and affective relations. The book also demonstrates that shifting early modern perspectives on Judeo-Christian relations deeply inform the period's interlocking reassessments of maternal nurture and the nation, especially in the case of Milton. The book's five chapters analyze a wide range of reformed and traditional texts, including A pitiless Mother, William Gouge's Of Domesticall Duties, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Charles I's Eikon Basilike, and Milton's Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes. Equal attention is paid to such early modern visual images as The power of women (a late sixteenth-century Dutch engraving), William Marshall's engraved frontispiece to Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentleman and Gentlewoman (1641), and Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Pero and Cimon or Roman Charity (1630). The book argues that competing early modern figurations of the nurturing mother mediate in politically implicated ways between customary biblical models of English kingship and innovative Hebraic/Puritan paradigms of Englishness.
Author | : Roger Pooley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317901584 |
Download English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures as diverse as Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Marvell, cornucopian texts and the writings of the new scientists from Bacon to Newton. At a time when the boundaries of the `canon' are being increasingly revised, this is not only a major survey of a series of great works of literature, but also a fascinating social history and a guide to understanding the literature of the period as a whole.
Author | : Greenblatt, Stephen |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2012-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0393913007 |
Download The Norton Anthology of English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value.
Author | : A. Zurcher |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2007-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230605133 |
Download Seventeenth-Century English Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Overturning the common characterization of Seventeenth Century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues that early modern romance was a central forum for exploring the newly pressing moral-philosophical and political problem of self-interest.
Author | : Dr Nancy Rosenfeld |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409475042 |
Download The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form in the seventeenth century. This development is centered on characters and poetry of four seventeenth-century writers: the Satan character in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the Tempter in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Diabolus in Bunyan's The Holy War, the poetry of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Dorimant in George Etherege's Man of Mode. The initial understanding of this development is through a sequential reading of Milton and Bunyan which examines the Satan character as an archetype-in-the-making, building upon each to work so that the character metamorphoses from a groveling serpent and fallen archangel to a humanized form embodying the human impulses necessary to commit evil. Rosenfeld then argues that this development continues in Restoration literature, showing that both Rochester and Etherege build upon their literary predecessors to develop the satanic figure towards greater humanity. Ultimately she demonstrates that these writers, taken collectively, have imbued Satan with the characteristics that define the human. This book includes as an epilogue a discussion of Samson in Milton's Samson Agonistes as a later seventeenth-century avatar of the humanized satanic form, providing an example for understanding a stock literary character in the light of early modern texts.
Author | : Douglas Bush |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Download English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Laura Estill |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2015-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611495156 |
Download Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
Author | : Catherine Armstrong |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351870793 |
Download Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and accounts of the new world started to arrive back on the English shores, English men and women have had a fascination with their transatlantic neighbours and the landscape they inhabit. In this excellent study, Catherine Armstrong looks at the wealth of literature written by settlers of the new colonies, adventurers and commentators back in England, that presented this new world to early modern Englanders. A vast amount of original literature is examined including travel narratives, promotional literature, sermons, broadsides, ballads, plays and journals, to investigate the intellectual links between mother-country and colony. Representations of the climate, landscape, flora and fauna of North America in the printed and manuscript sources are considered in detail, as is the changing understanding of contemporaries in England of the colonial settlements being established in both Virginia and New England, and how these interpretations affected colonial policy and life on the ground in America. The book also recreates the context of the London book trade of the seventeenth century and the networks through which this literature would have been produced and transmitted to readers. This book will be valuable to those with interests in colonial history, the Atlantic world, travel literature, and historians of early modern England and North America in general.