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The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook by Marshall Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK

Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman's elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.

Thomas Corns, Bangor University

The 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 Hamlet, Paradise Lost and The Pilgrim's Progress, 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, The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is essential reading for anyone interested in British Literature across the civil war and restoration periods.

The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook Reviews

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. (Milton Quarterly, 16 October 2014)

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. The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook will be of particular interest to teachers of seventeenth-century literature courses, as the text would be appropriate to assign at the undergraduate level. (The Year's Work in English Studies, 2013)

About Marshall Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)

Marshall Grossman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry (1998) and 'Authors to Themselves': Milton and the Revelation of History (1987); he is editor of two collections of essays, Reading Renaissance Ethics (2007) and Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (1998). He is currently completing a book on Milton and rational religion.

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9780631220916

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0631220917

Title

The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook by Marshall Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)

Author

Marshall Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)

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Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks

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John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Year published

2011-01-14

Number of pages

432

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The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook Marshall Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)

The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook by Marshall Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)

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The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook by Marshall Grossman (University of Maryland, USA)

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