{"product_id":"the-seventeenth-century-literature-handbook-isbn-9780631220916","title":"The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook","description":"THE \u003cb\u003eSEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003eHANDBOOK \u003cp\u003e“Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Corns, Bangor University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This easy-to-use Handbook offers readers a succinct overview of this complex period, guiding them through the principal literary works, figures and innovations of the time. Focusing on studying texts in context, Marshall Grossman explores the ways in which major works, including \u003ci\u003eHamlet, Paradise Lost and The Pilgrim’s Progress,\u003c\/i\u003e both reflected and helped to shape the history of the time, while concise sections on topics such as the Gunpowder Plot and the Pamphlet Wars allow the reader to engage more fully with the central themes and preoccupations of the period. Concluding with a series of brief biographical profiles describing the life and works of the century’s most significant and influential writers, \u003ci\u003eThe Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in British Literature across the civil war and restoration periods. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Texts and Contexts: An Overview 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading the Historical Landscape 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRenaissance and\/or Reformation: From Elizabeth to James 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Science Leaves All in Doubt 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBusiness and Trade 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreaking the State 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Restoration 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Short Reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Production of Culture in the Seventeenth Century 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAemilia Lanyer and the Gendering of Genre 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Conventions: \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Alchemist\u003c\/i\u003e 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePamphlet Wars: To Kill a King! 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEverything Happens Twice 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Some Key Texts 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Winter’s Tale 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAreopagitica 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParadise Lost 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pilgrim’s Progress 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Writers of the Seventeenth Century 225\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAstell, Mary (1666–1731) 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBacon, Francis (1561–1626) 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBaxter, Richard (1615–1691) 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeaumont, Francis (1584–1616) 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBehn, Aphra (1640?–1689) 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoyle, Robert (1627–1691) 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrowne, Sir Thomas (1605–1682) 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBunyan, John (1628–1688) 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBurton, Robert (1577–1640) 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarew, Thomas (1594\/5–1640) 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673) 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCowley, Abraham (1618–1667) 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrashaw, Richard (1613–1648) 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavenant, Sir William (1606–1668) 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonne, John (1572–1631) 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDryden, John (1631–1700) 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilmer, Sir Robert (1588–1653) 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFletcher, John (1579–1625) 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFox, George (1624–1691) 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHartlib, Samuel (1600–1662) 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerbert, George (1593–1633) 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerrick, Robert (1591–1674) 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHobbes, Thomas (1588–1679) 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHutchinson, Lucy (1620–1681) 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHyde, Edward, First Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonson, Ben (1572–1637) 309\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanyer, Aemilia (1569–1645) 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocke, John (1632–1704) 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLovelace, Richard (1617–1657) 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarvell, Andrew (1621–1678) 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiddleton, Thomas (1580–1627) 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMilton, John (1608–1674) 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOtway, Thomas (1652–1685) 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePepys, Samuel (1633–1703) 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilips, Katherine (1632–1664) 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShadwell, Thomas (1640–1692) 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShakespeare, William (1564–1616) 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuckling, Sir John (1609–1641) 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraherne, Thomas (1637–1674) 360\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVaughan, Henry (1621–1695) 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWebster, John (1578?–1638?) 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWroth, Lady Mary (1587–1653?) 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 387\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“This project captures the generosity and elegance of Marshall Grossman’s teaching and scholarship and reminds us of why he will continue to be so much missed.”  (\u003ci\u003eMilton Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, 16 October 2014)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Written with a beginner audience in mind. Grossman provides an overview of seventeenth-century historical, literary, and cultural shifts, along with short essays on notable early seventeenth-century texts. \u003ci\u003eThe Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to teachers of seventeenth-century literature courses, as the text would be appropriate to assign at the undergraduate level.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarshall Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003e‘Authors to Themselves’: Milton and the Revelation of History\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); he is editor of two collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eReading Renaissance Ethic\u003c\/i\u003es (2007) and \u003ci\u003eAemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon \u003c\/i\u003e(1998). He is currently completing a book on Milton and rational religion.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Corns, Bangor University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This easy-to-use Handbook offers readers a succinct overview of this complex period, guiding them through the principal literary works, figures and innovations of the time. Focusing on studying texts in context, Marshall Grossman explores the ways in which major works, including \u003ci\u003eHamlet, Paradise Lost and The Pilgrim’s Progress,\u003c\/i\u003e both reflected and helped to shape the history of the time, while concise sections on topics such as the Gunpowder Plot and the Pamphlet Wars allow the reader to engage more fully with the central themes and preoccupations of the period. 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