Guides: ENG 342: Renaissance English Literature: Renaissance Literature & Context

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The English Renaissance, 1500-1620 by Andrew Hadfield
ISBN: 9780631220237
Publication Date: 2000-12-27
This lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature.
Humanism and the Renaissance by Zachary S. Schiffman
Publication Date: 2001-09-17
A volume in the Problems in European Civilization series, this book features a collection of secondary source essays focusing on aspects of the Renaissance and humanist beliefs. The proven PEC format features key scholarship, chapter and essay introductions, and extensive, up-to-date suggestions for further reading. All selections in the text are edited for both content and length.
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 by Arthur F. Kinney (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521587587
Publication Date: 1999-12-02
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery.
A Companion to the Global Renaissance : English literature and culture in the era of expansion by Jyotsna G. Singh
ISBN: 9781118438800
Publication Date: 2013-03-25
Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature: reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton by James S. Baumlin
Publication Date: 2012-05-30
James S. Baumlin’s Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature offers a revisionist history of discourse, taking Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton as its touchstones. Their works mark stages in dieEntzauberung or “disenchantment,” as Max Weber has termed it: that is, in the “elimination of magic from the world.”
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 by Andrew Hadfield
Publication Date: 2007-11-24
What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of representation inpublic institutions.
Medusa's Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the metamorphosis of the female self by Julia M. Walker
Publication Date: 1998-08-01
What common ground in the imaginations of these three very different writers produces such paradigms of disempowerment? The author has foregrounded three attempts both to construct and to control the female self; the common ground of the transformative mirror will tell the reader something about the poetic imaginations of the three canonical authors and provide insight into the problems of gender and power and representation in the English Renaissance.

Early Modern Communi(Cati)Ons: studies in early modern English literature and culture by Kinga Földváry
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
As suggested by the title Early Modern Communi(cati)ons, the volume demonstrates that the connections and common points of reference within early modern studies bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies and Shakespearean investigations together in an unexpected number of ways, and this diversity of ties has been used as the main theme around which the thirteen essays have been organised.
Archipelagic English : Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 by John Kerrigan
ISBN: 9780191518553
Publication Date: 2008-02-01
Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance literature and Elizabethan imperial expansion by Patricia Palmer
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
In Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland, Patricia Palmer uses their writings, as well as material from the State Papers, to explore the part which language played in shaping colonial ideology and English national identity. Palmer shows how manoeuvres of linguistic expansion rehearsed in Ireland shaped Englishmen's encounters with the languages of the New World, and frames that analysis within a comparison between English linguistic colonisation and Spanish practice in the New World.