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Informationen zum Autor Marshall Grossman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland! College Park! USA. He is the author of The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry (1998) and 'Authors to Themselves': Milton and the Revelation of History (1987); he is editor of two collections of essays! Reading Renaissance Ethics (2007) and Aemilia Lanyer: Gender! Genre! and the Canon (1998). He is currently completing a book on Milton and rational religion. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChronologyPart I: Texts and Contexts: An OverviewPart II: Topics in Seventeenth-Century LiteraturePart III: Some Key TextsPart IV: Writers of the Seventeenth CenturyWorks CitedIndex...
