Handbook of English Renaissance Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature

Edited by: Ingo Berensmeyer

Volume 10 in the series Handbooks of English and American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110444889

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About this book

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

New insights on English Renaissance literature
Combines systematic questions and close readings
Contributions by acclaimed experts in the field

Author / Editor information

Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Ingo Berensmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Systematic Questions
1. Editing English Renaissance Texts Sarah Neville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Forms of Translation Joshua Reid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. New Ways of Worldmaking: English Renaissance Literature as ‘Early Modern’ Andreas Mahler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4. Theatre and Drama Douglas Bruster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. Life-Writing: Encountering Selves Suzanne Trill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
6. England and its Others Ralf Hertel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
7. Literature and Religion in Early Modern England Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
8. Renaissance Englishwomen as Writers, Readers, and Patrons Margaret J. M. Ezell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
9. Rhetoric and Literary Theory Gero Guttzeit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Part II: Close Readings
10. John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte (1499?) Dan Breen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
11. Thomas More, Utopia (1516/1551) Gabriela Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
12. William Baldwin, Beware the Cat (1553/1570) Christina Wald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
13. Richard Tottel, Songes and Sonettes (1557) Susanne Bayerlipp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
14. John Lyly, Euphues (1578/1580) Jürgen Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
15. Philip Sidney, The Two Arcadias (1577–1584) Joachim Frenk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587) Ralf Haekel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
17. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590/1596) Ingo Berensmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
18. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (c. 1588–1592) Tobias Döring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
19. Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) Andrew Hadfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
20. William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595) Felix Sprang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
21. Francis Bacon, Essays (1597–1625) Daniel Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
22. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609) Nicola Glaubitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	444
23. Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610) Rebecca Yearling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	464
24. Aemilia Lanyer, “The Description of Cooke-ham” (1611) Angelika Zirker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
25. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621–1651) Angus Gowland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	496
26. John Ford, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (c. 1632) Christoph Ehland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	516
27. John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (1633) Matthias Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
28. Thomas Carew and Inigo Jones, Coelum Britannicum (1634) Emanuel Stelzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	557
29. Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House (1651) Verena Olejniczak Lobsien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
30. Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653) Lisa Walters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	594
31. William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes (1656) Janet Clare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	615
32. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667/1674) Anne-Julia Zwierlein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	635
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	661
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	683
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	739

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 739
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
Keywords: English Renaissance; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Literary History; English and American Studies

eBook

Published: October 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110444889

Hardcover

Published: October 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110443677