The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook

Robert C. Evans, Eric J. Sterling, Robert C. Evans, Eric J. Sterling

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780826498502
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441155443
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• General Editors’ Introduction
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Seventeenth-Century Timeline
• 3 Historical Contexts
• 4 Literary and Cultural Contexts
• 5 Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts
• 6 Case Studies in Reading Critical Texts: Four Classics of Scholarship
• 7 Key Critical Concepts and Topics
• 8 Fourteen Ways of Looking at Literature: A Survey of Current Approaches
• 9 Changes in the Canon
• 10 Issues of Sexuality, Gender, and Ethnicity
• 11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape: Seventeenth-Century English Literature
• Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terminology
• Appendix: Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning
• Notes on Contributors
• Notes
• Annotated Bibliography
• Index