Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English LiteratureThis volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.
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... genres. From there we track the ways in which authors participated in the creation of national identity by concerning themselves with history (chapter 4), joined with debates about the present (chapter 5), wrote about people and places ...
... genres. From there we track the ways in which authors participated in the creation of national identity by concerning themselves with history (chapter 4), joined with debates about the present (chapter 5), wrote about people and places ...
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... genres. Nor is it the sort of book that will theorize or build models out of those abstract processes that are listed, perhaps rather shamelessly, in the first sentence of this paragraph. Help of this kind is at hand, however, within ...
... genres. Nor is it the sort of book that will theorize or build models out of those abstract processes that are listed, perhaps rather shamelessly, in the first sentence of this paragraph. Help of this kind is at hand, however, within ...
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... genres such as epic, pastoral or satire, of course, that notion is inappropriate, but even for lyric or love poetry it may be misleading. In 1805, Wordsworth was to describe 'all good poetry' as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful ...
... genres such as epic, pastoral or satire, of course, that notion is inappropriate, but even for lyric or love poetry it may be misleading. In 1805, Wordsworth was to describe 'all good poetry' as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful ...
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Contents
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2 Reading Publication Performance | 38 |
3 Forms Ancient and Modern | 67 |
4 Defining the Past | 103 |
5 Designing the Present | 125 |
6 Fictive Persons and Places | 152 |
7 Godliness | 181 |
Notes | 215 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Index | 239 |
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Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature Michael Hattaway No preview available - 2007 |
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