The Cambridge History Of Early Modern English Literature (the New Cambridge History Of English Literature)

This page intentionally left blank the cambridge history of EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE This is the first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century. It offers new perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While providing the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history, its twentysix chapters address recent methodological and interpretive developments in English literary studies. The book has five sections: ‘Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation and Reception’, ‘The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I’, ‘The Era of Elizabeth and James VI’, ‘The Earlier Stuart Era’ and ‘The Civil War and Commonwealth Era’. While England is the principal focus, literary production in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less frequently examined in previous histories, including women’s writings and the literature of the English Reformation and Revolution. This innovatively designed history is an essential resource for specialists and students. david loewenstein is Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism (Cambridge, 2001), Milton: Paradise Lost (Cambridge, 1993) and Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, 1990). He has also co-edited Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton’s Prose (Cambridge, 1990). janel mueller is William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of English and the College, at the University of Chicago, where she is currently Dean of the Division of the Humanities. She is the author of Donne’s Prebend Sermons (1971) and The Native Tongue and the Word: Developments in English Prose Style, 1380–1580 (1984). More recently she has published on topics in religion and literature and on earlier English women authors. the new cambridge history of ENGLISH LITERATURE The New Cambridge History of English Literature is a programme of reference works designed to offer a broad synthesis and contextual survey of the history of English literature through the major periods of its development. The organisation of each volume reflects the particular characteristics of the period covered, within a general commitment to providing an accessible narrative history through a linked sequence of essays by internationally renowned scholars. The History is designed to accommodate the range of insights and fresh perspectives brought by new approaches to the subject, without losing sight of the need for essential exposition and information. The volumes include valuable reference features, in the form of a chronology of literary and political events, extensive primary and secondary bibliographies and a full index. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature edited by david wallace The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature edited by david loewenstein and janel mueller Also in preparation The Cambridge History of English Literature 1660–1780 edited by john richetti The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature edited by james chandler The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature edited by laura marcus and peter nicholls