The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook

The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century. It provides a one-stop resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes: - introductions to authors, texts and contexts - guides to key critics, concepts and topics - an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research - case studies in reading literary and critical texts - an annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for students beginning their study of seventeenth-century literature.

Product details

• Authors: Robert C Evans, Eric J Sterling
• Assisted by: Robert C. Evans (Editor), Eric J. Sterling (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780826498496
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9849-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Literature and Culture Handboo; Literature and Culture Handbooks; Literature and Culture Handboo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800