Thomas N. Corns

A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. * An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690. * Part of the major Blackwell History of English Literature series. * Locates seventeenth-century English literature in its social and cultural contexts. * Considers the physical conditions of literary production and consumption. * Looks at the complex political, religious, cultural and social pressures on seventeenth-century writers. * Features close critical engagement with major authors and texts Thomas Corns is a major international authority on Milton, the Caroline Court, and the political literature of the English Civil War and the Interregnum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118835999
• Artikelnr.: 40286808

Autorenporträt

Thomas N. Corns is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. His publications include A Companion to Milton (ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2001) and, with Gordon Campbell, John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (2008). With Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein, he edited The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley (2009), and he recently edited The Milton Encyclopedia (2012). He is an Honoured Scholar of the Milton Society of America.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations ix Preface x 1 The Last Years of Elizabeth I: Before March 1603 1 Literary Consumption and Production 2 Latin, Neo-Latin and English 14 Manuscript, Performance, Print 16 The Press and its Controls 22 The Final Years of Elizabethan Theatre 26 Patronage and Court Culture 30 2 From the Accession of James I to the Defenestration of Prague: March 1603 to May 1618 33 Changes and Continuities 33 The Making of the Royal Courts 35 Masques and Other Court Entertainments 38 Early Jacobean Theatre 42 Jacobean Shakespeare 45 Other Drama 70 Non-Dramatic Poetry 87 Non-Fictional Prose 113 3 From the Defenestration of Prague to the Personal Rule: May 1618 to March 1629 119 Continental Wars 119 Three Funerals and a Wedding 123 Masques and Pageants 129 Plays and Players 133 Poetry and Prose Romance 151 Non-Fictional Prose 156 News 164 4 The Literature of the Personal Rule: March 1629 to April 1640 167 The Making of the Caroline Court 167 Masques of the Personal Rule 176 Other Entertainments 182 Music and Literature at the Caroline Court 184 Themes, Occasions and Conversations 186 From Manuscript to Print 190 Plays and Players 192 Literature and Laudianism 203 George Herbert 206 The Emblem Books of Quarles and Wither 215 Early Milton 221 5 From the Short Parliament to the Restoration: April 1640 to May 1660 229 Events and Consequences 229 Royalist Poetry 239 Crashaw and Vaughan 264 Mid-Century Drama 273 Sir Thomas Browne 277 Poetry for Parliament and Protectorate 283 Pamphlet Wars 295 Newspapers 311 6 The Literature of the Rule of Charles II: May 1660 to February 1685 317 Dissent, Popery and Arbitrary Government 317 Theatre of the Rule of Charles II 327 Rochesterism 352 The Poetry of Dryden and Butler 360 Marvell After 1660 370 Bunyan, Pepys and Sprat 381 Milton, St Nicholas and Hutchinson 391 Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish 405 7 From the Accession of James II: After February 1685 409 James II and the Williamite Revolution 409 Aphra Behn: The Late Works 413 Dryden and James II 416 After 1690 421 Bibliography 429 Index 453

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List of illustrations ix Preface x 1 The Last Years of Elizabeth I: Before
March 1603 1 Literary Consumption and Production 2 Latin, Neo-Latin and
English 14 Manuscript, Performance, Print 16 The Press and its Controls 22
The Final Years of Elizabethan Theatre 26 Patronage and Court Culture 30
2 From the Accession of James I to the Defenestration of Prague: March 1603
to May 1618 33 Changes and Continuities 33 The Making of the Royal Courts
35 Masques and Other Court Entertainments 38 Early Jacobean Theatre 42
Jacobean Shakespeare 45 Other Drama 70 Non-Dramatic Poetry 87 Non-Fictional
Prose 113 3 From the Defenestration of Prague to the Personal Rule: May
1618 to March 1629 119 Continental Wars 119 Three Funerals and a Wedding
123 Masques and Pageants 129 Plays and Players 133 Poetry and Prose Romance
151 Non-Fictional Prose 156 News 164 4 The Literature of the Personal Rule:
March 1629 to April 1640 167 The Making of the Caroline Court 167 Masques
of the Personal Rule 176 Other Entertainments 182 Music and Literature at
the Caroline Court 184 Themes, Occasions and Conversations 186 From
Manuscript to Print 190 Plays and Players 192 Literature and Laudianism 203
George Herbert 206 The Emblem Books of Quarles and Wither 215 Early Milton
221 5 From the Short Parliament to the Restoration: April 1640 to May 1660
229 Events and Consequences 229 Royalist Poetry 239 Crashaw and Vaughan 264
Mid-Century Drama 273 Sir Thomas Browne 277 Poetry for Parliament and
Protectorate 283 Pamphlet Wars 295 Newspapers 311 6 The Literature of the
Rule of Charles II: May 1660 to February 1685 317 Dissent, Popery and
Arbitrary Government 317 Theatre of the Rule of Charles II 327 Rochesterism
352 The Poetry of Dryden and Butler 360 Marvell After 1660 370 Bunyan,
Pepys and Sprat 381 Milton, St Nicholas and Hutchinson 391 Katherine
Philips and Margaret Cavendish 405 7 From the Accession of James II: After
February 1685 409 James II and the Williamite Revolution 409 Aphra Behn:
The Late Works 413 Dryden and James II 416 After 1690 421 Bibliography 429
Index 453

Rezensionen

Tom Corns's book is the first of its kind to attempt to relate literature to the history of its time not merely in broad abstract terms but in specific detail. He discusses individual works in such a way that they reoccupy their rightful place among the social and political events of their time. And so they come freshly alive. This is not the only story that could be told about literature, but it is one not to be ignored.--Alastair Fowler, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Thomas Corns has written an exceptionally fine and remarkably ambitious history of seventeenth-century English literary culture. One of its great virtues is that this history begins with the late Elizabethan period and extends its account to the very end of the seventeenth century, thereby crossing and reexamining traditional boundaries of literary historical periodisation. Corns deftly illuminates the distinctive aesthetic achievements of seventeenth-century English writers, while precisely situating their works in their social, political, and religious contexts, as well as in relation to the other arts. Students and scholars alike will find this new, wide-ranging literary history of the period invaluable. It is an outstanding achievement. --David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison