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A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1358-8
Paperback
288 pages
September 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.

* 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.

* Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.

* Entices students to explore the subject further.

* Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.

* All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.