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Combines a central narrative account of "texts and contexts" with a selection of brief essays on key texts and topics.
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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK "Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman's elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience."
Thomas Corns, Bangor University
The seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This easy-to-use Handbook offers readers a succinct overview of this complex period, guiding them through the principal literary works, figures and innovations of the time. Focusing on studying texts in context, Marshall Grossman explores the ways in which major works, including Hamlet, Paradise Lost and The Pilgrim's Progress, both reflected and helped to shape the history of the time, while concise sections on topics such as the Gunpowder Plot and the Pamphlet Wars allow the reader to engage more fully with the central themes and preoccupations of the period. Concluding with a series of brief biographical profiles describing the life and works of the century's most significant and influential writers, The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is essential reading for anyone interested in British Literature across the civil war and restoration periods.
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.
