Renaissance and Reformations An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature |
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| Author:
| Hattaway, Michael |
| Series title: | Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4051-5020-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Limited
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| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Book Format: | Digital download |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.
- An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.
- Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.
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This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.
- An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.
- Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.
- Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.
- Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.