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Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0044-1
Hardcover
264 pages
January 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.

* An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.

* Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.

* Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.

* Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.