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The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New York Academy of Sciences SeriesPublisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (430 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781444390100
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Seventeenth - Century Literature HandbookDDC classification:
  • 820.90039999999999
LOC classification:
  • PR71 .G76 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology -- Part 1: Texts and Contexts: An Overview -- Reading the Historical Landscape -- Renaissance and/or Reformation: From Elizabeth to James -- New Science Leaves All in Doubt -- Business and Trade -- Breaking the State -- The Restoration -- The Short Reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 -- The Production of Culture in the Seventeenth Century -- Part 2: Topics in Seventeenth- Century Literature -- Aemilia Lanyer and the Gendering of Genre -- Changing Conventions: Hamlet and The Alchemist -- Pamphlet Wars: To Kill a King! -- Everything Happens Twice -- Part 3: Some Key Texts -- The Winter's Tale -- Areopagitica -- Paradise Lost -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- Part 4: Writers of the Seventeenth Century -- Astell, Mary (1666-1731) -- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) -- Baxter, Richard (1615-1691) -- Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) -- Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689) -- Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) -- Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682) -- Bunyan, John (1628-1688) -- Burton, Robert (1577-1640) -- Carew, Thomas (1594/5-1640) -- Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) -- Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) -- Crashaw, Richard (1613-1648) -- Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668) -- Donne, John (1572-1631) -- Dryden, John (1631-1700) -- Filmer, Sir Robert (1588-1653) -- Fletcher, John (1579-1625) -- Fox, George (1624-1691) -- Hartlib, Samuel (1600-1662) -- Herbert, George (1593-1633) -- Herrick, Robert (1591-1674) -- Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) -- Hutchinson, Lucy (1620-1681) -- Hyde, Edward, First Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) -- Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) -- Lanyer, Aemilia (1569-1645) -- Locke, John (1632-1704) -- Lovelace, Richard (1617-1657) -- Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) -- Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627) -- Milton, John (1608-1674) -- Otway, Thomas (1652-1685).
Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) -- Philips, Katherine (1632-1664) -- Shadwell, Thomas (1640-1692) -- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) -- Suckling, Sir John (1609-1641) -- Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674) -- Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695) -- Webster, John (1578?-1638?) -- Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- Wroth, Lady Mary (1587-1653?) -- Works Cited -- Index.
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The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook -- Contents -- Preface -- Chronology -- Part 1: Texts and Contexts: An Overview -- Reading the Historical Landscape -- Renaissance and/or Reformation: From Elizabeth to James -- New Science Leaves All in Doubt -- Business and Trade -- Breaking the State -- The Restoration -- The Short Reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 -- The Production of Culture in the Seventeenth Century -- Part 2: Topics in Seventeenth- Century Literature -- Aemilia Lanyer and the Gendering of Genre -- Changing Conventions: Hamlet and The Alchemist -- Pamphlet Wars: To Kill a King! -- Everything Happens Twice -- Part 3: Some Key Texts -- The Winter's Tale -- Areopagitica -- Paradise Lost -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- Part 4: Writers of the Seventeenth Century -- Astell, Mary (1666-1731) -- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) -- Baxter, Richard (1615-1691) -- Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) -- Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689) -- Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) -- Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682) -- Bunyan, John (1628-1688) -- Burton, Robert (1577-1640) -- Carew, Thomas (1594/5-1640) -- Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) -- Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) -- Crashaw, Richard (1613-1648) -- Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668) -- Donne, John (1572-1631) -- Dryden, John (1631-1700) -- Filmer, Sir Robert (1588-1653) -- Fletcher, John (1579-1625) -- Fox, George (1624-1691) -- Hartlib, Samuel (1600-1662) -- Herbert, George (1593-1633) -- Herrick, Robert (1591-1674) -- Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) -- Hutchinson, Lucy (1620-1681) -- Hyde, Edward, First Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) -- Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) -- Lanyer, Aemilia (1569-1645) -- Locke, John (1632-1704) -- Lovelace, Richard (1617-1657) -- Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) -- Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627) -- Milton, John (1608-1674) -- Otway, Thomas (1652-1685).

Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) -- Philips, Katherine (1632-1664) -- Shadwell, Thomas (1640-1692) -- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) -- Suckling, Sir John (1609-1641) -- Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674) -- Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695) -- Webster, John (1578?-1638?) -- Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- Wroth, Lady Mary (1587-1653?) -- Works Cited -- Index.

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