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This is a sturdy tome, expansive and comprehensive given the period it covers is one of no little interest. There is a 46 page bibliography as befits the width of the subject matter and a twelve page index. Without doubt an academic tome, it will sit well on any academic, public or specialist library's shelves and should be expected to meet a good cross-section of borrowers' needs. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (Oxford University Press, 1998); Sand Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge, 1994). He has also edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (Palgrave, 2008); with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford, 2006); with Paul Hammond, Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe (Cengage, Arden Critical Companions, 2004); and Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2001). He is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement. The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only available overview of early modern English prose writing. It considers the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, and also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only available overview of early modern English prose writing. It considers the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, and also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Translation, Education, and Literary Criticism 1: Catherine Nicholson: Englishing Eloquence: Sixteenth-Century Arts of Rhetoric and Poetics 2: Cathy Shrank: All talk and no action? Early modern political dialogue 3: Jennifer Richards: Commonplacing and Prose Writing: William Baldwin and Robert Burton 4: Helen Moore: Romance: Amadis de Gaul and William Barclay's Argenis 5: Peter Mack: Montaigne and Florio 6: Neil Rhodes: Italianate Tales: William Painter and George Peele 7: Gordon Braden: Classical translation 8: Alex Samson: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque in Early Modern England Part 2: Prose Fiction 9: Tom Betteridge: William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and Other Foolish Writing 10: Gillian Austen: The Adventures Passed by Master George Gascoigne: Experiments in Prose 11: Katharine Wilson: 'Turne Your Library to a Wardrobe': John Lyly and Euphuism 12: Robert Maslen: Robert Greene 13: Jason Scott-Warren: Thomas Nashe 14: Gavin Alexander: Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia 15: Mary Ellen Lamb: Topicality in Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania: Prose, Romance, Masque, and Lyric Part 3: Varieties of Early Modern Prose 1: Public Prose 16: Robert Appelbaum: Utopia and Utopianism 17: Claire Preston: English Scientific Prose: Bacon, Browne, Boyle 18: Nandini Das: Richard Hakluyt and travel writing 19: Bart Van Es: Raphael Holinshed and historical Writing 20: Peter Maxwell-Stuart: Astrology, magic, and witchcraft 21: Anne Lake Prescott and Ian Munro: Jest books 22: Nicolas McDowell: Political Prose 23: Dermot Cavanagh: Polemic/Satire 24: Joad Raymond: News Writing Part 4: Varieties of Early Modern Prose 2: Private Prose 25: Alan Stewart: Letters 26: Ad...
