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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history, stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of the last Stuart monarch.
List of contents
- Introduction: An Age of Prose
- Part I: Contexts
- 1: Thomas Keymer: Circulation
- 2: Cynthia Wall: Reception
- 3: Freyja Cox Jensen: Classical Inheritance
- 4: Alexis Tadié: Continental Influences
- Part II: Categories
- 5: Melissa E. Sanchez: Amatory Fiction
- 6: Thomas Roebuck: Antiquarian Writing
- 7: Julie A. Eckerle: Biography and Autobiography
- 8: John McTague: Bites and Shams
- 9: Kate Bennett: Brief Lives and Characters
- 10: Andrea Haslanger: Circulation Narratives and Spy Literature
- 11: Pat Rogers: Criminal Literature
- 12: Adam Smyth: Diaries
- 13: Nicholas Seager: Dissenting Writing
- 14: Matthew Dimmock: Encounters with the East
- 15: Kathryn Murphy: Essays
- 16: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis: Fables and Fairy Tales
- 17: Paddy Bullard: Handbooks
- 18: Nicholas McDowell: Heresiography and Religious Controversy
- 19: Niall Allsopp: Histories
- 20: Nicholas McDowell: Keys
- 21: Henry Power: Learned Wit and Mock Scholarship
- 22: Diana G. Barnes: Letters
- 23: Nick Hardy: Literary History
- 24: Greg Lynall: Mock-Scientific Literature
- 25: Catherine Armstrong: New World Writing and Captivity Narratives
- 26: Brian Cowan: Periodical Literature
- 27: Mark Knights: Political Debate
- 28: Nigel Smith: Political Speculations
- 29: Hal Gladfelder: Pornography
- 30: Nicholas McDowell and Giovanni Tarantino: Radical and Deist Writing
- 31: Henry Power: Recipe Books
- 32: Brooke Conti: Religious Autobiography
- 33: Felicity Henderson: Scientific Transactions
- 34: Rebecca Bullard: Secret Histories
- 35: Warren Johnston: Sermons
- 36: Sophie Gee: True Accounts
About the author
Nicholas McDowell was born and grew up in Belfast and then studied at Cambridge and Oxford. He was a Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before joining the Department of English at the University of Exeter, where he is now Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought. His visiting positions have included Membership of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is a former winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled 'The Poetry of Civil War'.
Henry Power studied Classics and English at Brasenose College Oxford, and then read for a PhD in English at Cambridge. Since 2007, he has taught at the University of Exeter, where he is now Professor of English Literature. He is the author of
Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature (2015), and has edited Joseph Addison's miscellaneous prose writings for Oxford University Press. He has held visiting positions at All Souls College, Oxford and at the Beinecke Library in Yale.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history, stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of the last Stuart monarch.
