English prose of the seventeenth century, 1590-1700
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English prose of the seventeenth century, 1590-1700
（Longman literature in English series）
Longman, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780582016583
Description
The multi-volume Longman Literature in English Series provides students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. Each volume gives a coherent account of a clearly defined area, and the series, when complete will offer a practical and comprehensive guide to literature written in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The aim of the series as whole is to show that the most valuable and stimulating approach to the study of literature is that based upon an awareness of the relations between literary forms and their historical contexts. Thus the areas covered by most of the separate volumes are defined by period and genre. Each volume offers new and informed ways of reading literary works, and provides guidance for further reading in an extensive reference section. As well as studies on all periods of English and American literature, the series includes books on criticism and literary theory, and on the intellectual and cultural context.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Narrative: Elizabethan fiction - Sidney, Lyly, Greene, Nashe, Delaney
- restoration, fiction - Bunyan, Behn
- history - Raleigh, Clarendon
- biography - Greville, Walton, Aubrey
- autobiography - Bunyan, Foxe, Pepys, Evelyn, Cavendish. Part 2 religious prose: the English bible
- sermons - Donne, Andrewes, puritanism, restoration
- inward religion - meditation, Donne, Traherne
- politicized religion - Marprelate, Hooker, Milton, radical religion. Part 3 Essay collections and Cornucopian texts: the essay - Florio's Montaigne, Bacon, Cowley and Temple
- the Cornucopian text - Nashe, Burton, Browne. Part 4 The discourse of modernity - new idioms in science and politics: the great instauration and the Royal Society - Bacon, Sprat, Wilkins, Harvey, Boyle, Evelyn, Newton
- power and idiom in politics - Hobbes, Filmer, Locke, Harrington, Marwell and Halifax.
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ISBN 9780582016590
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This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures as diverse as Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Marvell, cornucopian texts and the writings of the new scientists from Bacon to Newton. At a time when the boundaries of the `canon' are being increasingly revised, this is not only a major survey of a series of great works of literature, but also a fascinating social history and a guide to understanding the literature of the period as a whole.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: the character of Jacobean kingship, 1603-25. Part 2: the scientific milieu
- biography - Sir Kenelm Digby. Postscript Chronology General bibliographies Individual authors. Notes on biography, major works and criticism. Index.
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