A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
This <i>Concise Companion</i> launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.<br /> <ul class="noindent"> <li>Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; “others” in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.<br /> </li> <li>Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.<br /> </li> <li>Entices students to explore the subject further.<br /> </li> <li>Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.<br /> </li> <li>All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.</li> </ul>
