The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191655067
• Artikelnr.: 39153156

Autorenporträt

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (Oxford University Press, 1998); Sand Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge, 1994). He has also edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (Palgrave, 2008); with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford, 2006); with Paul Hammond, Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe (Cengage, Arden Critical Companions, 2004); and Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2001). He is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part 1: Translation, Education, and Literary Criticism
* 1: Catherine Nicholson: Englishing Eloquence: Sixteenth-Century Arts
of Rhetoric and Poetics
* 2: Cathy Shrank: All talk and no action? Early modern political
dialogue
* 3: Jennifer Richards: Commonplacing and Prose Writing: William
Baldwin and Robert Burton
* 4: Helen Moore: Romance: Amadis de Gaul and William Barclay's Argenis
* 5: Peter Mack: Montaigne and Florio
* 6: Neil Rhodes: Italianate Tales: William Painter and George Peele
* 7: Gordon Braden: Classical translation
* 8: Alex Samson: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque in Early
Modern England
* Part 2: Prose Fiction
* 9: Tom Betteridge: William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and Other Foolish
Writing
* 10: Gillian Austen: The Adventures Passed by Master George Gascoigne:
Experiments in Prose
* 11: Katharine Wilson: 'Turne Your Library to a Wardrobe': John Lyly
and Euphuism
* 12: Robert Maslen: Robert Greene
* 13: Jason Scott-Warren: Thomas Nashe
* 14: Gavin Alexander: Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
* 15: Mary Ellen Lamb: Topicality in Mary Wroth's Countess of
Montgomery's Urania: Prose, Romance, Masque, and Lyric
* Part 3: Varieties of Early Modern Prose 1: Public Prose
* 16: Robert Appelbaum: Utopia and Utopianism
* 17: Claire Preston: English Scientific Prose: Bacon, Browne, Boyle
* 18: Nandini Das: Richard Hakluyt and travel writing
* 19: Bart Van Es: Raphael Holinshed and historical Writing
* 20: Peter Maxwell-Stuart: Astrology, magic, and witchcraft
* 21: Anne Lake Prescott and Ian Munro: Jest books
* 22: Nicolas McDowell: Political Prose
* 23: Dermot Cavanagh: Polemic/Satire
* 24: Joad Raymond: News Writing
* Part 4: Varieties of Early Modern Prose 2: Private Prose
* 25: Alan Stewart: Letters
* 26: Adam Smyth: Diaries
* 27: Danielle Clark: Life writing
* 28: Paul Salzman: Essays
* 29: Catherine Richardson: Domestic conduct books
* Section 5: Religious Prose
* 30: Kevin Killeen: Immethodical, Incoherent, Unadorned: Style and The
Early Modern Bible
* 31: Tom Freeman and Susannah Monta: The Style of Authorship in John
Foxe's Acts and Monuments
* 32: Joseph Black: The Marpelate Controversy
* 33: Peter McCullough: Sermons
* 34: Daniel Swift: The Book of Common Prayer
* Part 6: Major Prose Writers
* 35: Henry Woudhuysen: Gabriel Harvey
* 36: Rudolph Almasy: Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
* 37: Caroline Erskine: John Knox, George Buchanan, and Scots Prose
* 38: Angus Gowland: Robert Burton and The Anatomy of Melancholy
* 39: Kevin Killeen: 'When all things shall confesse their ashes':
Science and Soul in Thomas Browne