A history of seventeenth-century English literature /
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| Author / Creator: | Corns, Thomas N. |
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007. |
| Description: | xi, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell histories of literature |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6230909 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1. The Last Years of Elizabeth I: Before March 1603
- Literary Consumption and Production
- Latin, Neo-Latin and English
- Manuscript, Performance, Print
- The Press and its Controls
- The Final Years of Elizabethan Theatre
- Patronage and Court Culture
- 2. From the Accession of James I to the Defenestration of Prague: March 1603 to May 1618
- Changes and Continuities
- The Making of the Royal Courts
- Masques and Other Court Entertainments
- Early Jacobean Theatre
- Jacobean Shakespeare
- Other Drama
- Non-Dramatic Poetry
- Non-Fictional Prose
- 3. From the Defenestration of Prague to the Personal Rule: May 1618 to March 1629
- Continental Wars
- Three Funerals and a Wedding
- Masques and Pageants
- Plays and Players
- Poetry and Prose Romance
- Non-Fictional Prose
- News
- 4. The Literature of the Personal Rule: March 1629 to April 1640
- The Making of the Caroline Court
- Masques of the Personal Rule
- Other Entertainments
- Music and Literature at the Caroline Court
- Themes, Occasions and Conversations
- From Manuscript to Print.Plays and Players
- Literature and Laudianism.George Herbert
- The Emblem Books of Quarles and Wither
- Early Milton
- 5. From the Short Parliament to the Restoration: April 1640 to May 1660
- Events and Consequences
- Royalist Poetry
- Crashaw and Vaughan
- Mid-Century Drama
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Poetry for Parliament and Protectorate
- Pamphlet Wars
- Newspapers
- 6. The Literature of the Rule of Charles II: May 1660 to February 1685
- Dissent, Popery, and Arbitrary Government
- Theatre of the Rule of Charles II
- Rochesterism
- The Poetry of Dryden and Butler
- Marvell after 1660
- Bunyan, Pepys, and Sprat
- Milton, St Nicholas, and Hutchinson
- Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish
- 7. From the succession of James II: After February 1685
- James II and the Williamite Revolution
- Aphra Behn: The Late Works
- Dryden and James II
- After 1690
- Bibliography
- Index
