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Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350 1547: Reform and - Cultural Revolutio

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext A vigorous and rejuvenating study of the period. Informationen zum Autor Jon Bate (General Editor):FBA, Professor of English Literature, Warwick University, well known as a scholar of Shakespeare and the Renaissance, and of the Romantic period. The UK s leading exponent of ecocriticism . Most recent books: Shakespeare and Ovid, the Arden Titus Andronicus, The Genius of Shakespeare, a novel about William Hazlitt called The Cure for Love and The Song of the Earth. General editor of the Oxford English Literary History, for which he is writing the volume on the Elizabethans, and he is also engaged in a major biography of John Clare. Zusammenfassung Breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon. This book covers both high medieval and Tudor writing, showing how the coming of the Renaissance and Reformation displaced the earlier, hospitably diverse literary culture. It continues into the mid-sixteenth century, and registers the impact of Henry VIII's cultural revolution. General Editor's Preface; List of Illustrations; Note on Presentation of Texts; Introduction; 1. The Melancholy of John Leland and the Beginnings of English Literary History; 2. The Energies of John Lydgate; 3. The Tragic; 4. The Elegiac; 5. The Political; 6. The Comic; 7. Edifying the Church; 8. Moving Images; 9. The Biblical; 10. The Dramatic; Envoi; Author Bibliographies; Suggestions for Further Reading; Works Cited; Index

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