Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by David A. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by David A. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by David A. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sixteenth century British Nondramatic Writers written by David A. Richardson and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on British sixteenth-century writers of nondramatic works representative of the Tudor era. Includes articles that demonstrate several aspects of sixteenth century British nondramatic literature: innovation, writing across many genres, complex interaction between patrons and authors, commitment to education, the Protestant Reformation, political writing, new treatments of law and history, humanistic concerns and developments in professional writing as a career.
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by David A. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol 136 written by David A. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth Century Poetry and Prose written by Marie Loughlin and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 1333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose makes available not only extensive selections from the works of canonical writers, but also substantial extracts from writers who have either been neglected in earlier anthologies or only relatively recently come to the attention of twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars and teachers. Popular fiction and prose nonfiction are especially well represented, including selections from popular romances, merchant fiction, sensation pamphlets, sermons, and ballads. The texts are extensively annotated, with notes both explaining unfamiliar words and providing cultural and historical contexts.
Download or read book Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth Century England written by Katherine C. Little and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of books not only in the goodness of their writing-their eloquence—but also in their capacity to shape readers in good and bad behavior, thoughts, and feelings, in other words, in their morality. To approach humanism in this way, by attending to its moral interests, is to provide a new perspective on periodization, the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / early modern. That is, humanists did not so much rupture with medieval ideas about literature or with medieval models as they adapted and altered them, offering a new confidence about an old idea: the moral instructiveness of pagan, classical texts for Christian readers. This revaluation of literature was a double-edged sword. On the one hand, humanist confidence inspired authors to invent their own good books—good in style and morals—in morality plays such as Everyman and the Christian Terence tradition and in educational treatises such as Sir Thomas Elyot's Boke of the Governour. On the other hand, humanism placed a new burden on authors, requiring their work to teach and delight. In the wake of humanism, authors struggled to articulate the value of their work for readers, returning to a pre-humanist path that they associated with Geoffrey Chaucer. This medieval-inflected doubt pervades the late sixteenth-century writings of the most prolific and influential Elizabethans-Robert Greene, George Gascoigne, and Edmund Spenser.
Download or read book Women Poetry and Politics in Seventeenth Century Britain written by Sarah C. E. Ross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is often regarded as the first in a cluster of women writers, including Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, who were political, secular, literary, print-published, and renowned. Sarah C. E. Ross explores a new corpus of political poetry by women, offering detailed readings of Elizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson, and making the compelling case that female political poetics emerge out of social and religious poetic modes and out of manuscript-based authorial practices. Situating each writer in her political and intellectual contexts, from early covenanting Scotland to Restoration England, this volume explores women's political articulation in the devotional lyric, biblical verse paraphrase, occasional verse, elegy, and emblem. For women, excluded from the public-political sphere, these rhetorically-modest genres and the figural language of poetry offered vital modes of political expression; and women of diverse affiliations use religious and social poetics, the tropes of family and household, and the genres of occasionality that proliferated in manuscript culture to imagine the state. Attending also to the transmission and reception of women's poetry in networks of varying reach, Sarah C. E. Ross reveals continuities and evolutions in women's relationship to politics and poetry, and identifies a female tradition of politicised poetry in manuscript spanning the decades before, during, and after the Civil Wars.
Download or read book Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England 1550 1700 written by Margaret P. Hannay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was renowned in her own time for her metrical translation of biblical Psalms, several original poems, translations from French and Italian, and her literary patronage. William Shakespeare used her Antonius as a source, Edmund Spenser celebrated her original poems, John Donne praised her Psalmes, and Lady Mary Wroth and Aemilia Lanyer depicted her as an exemplary poet. Arguably the first Englishwoman to be celebrated as a literary figure, she has also attracted considerable modern attention, including more than two hundred critical studies. This volume offers a brief introduction to her life and an extensive overview of the critical reception of her works, reprints some of the most essential and least accessible essays about her life and writings, and includes a full bibliography.
Download or read book The Renaissance in England written by Hyder Edward Rollins and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reader s Guide to British History written by David Loades and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Download or read book Sixteenth century French Writers written by Megan Conway and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2006 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on sixteenth-century French writers, including philosophers, historians, evangelists, men of science, poets, playwrights and storytellers, that endeavors to provide the reader with the feel for a broad array of intellectual activity alive in France during this time period. Discusses the Renaissance period, humanist reformers, Italian influences, the role of church and state, and the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
Download or read book Kings Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain 1300 1625 written by Steve Boardman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings unusually brings together work on 15th century and the 16th century Scottish history, asking questions such as: How far can medieval themes such as OCylordshipOCO function in the late 16th-century world of Reformation and state formation? How"e;
Download or read book Sixteenth century Spanish Writers written by Gregory B. Kaplan and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Spanish writers of the sixteenth-century, a period of territorial expansion, political hegemony and cultural prosperity in the face of ideological repression. Discusses the Hapsburg dynasty, the impact of the Counter-Reformation and the Inquisition had on censorship and literary production, and the Spanish passion for the theater that increased during the 1600s, during the pinnacle of the Golden Age of drama.
Download or read book Handbook of English Renaissance Literature written by Ingo Berensmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Reading Sixteenth Century Poetry written by Patrick Cheney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler
