Book description
The Seventeenth Century Handbook
provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's
events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected
and helped shape the history of the time.
- Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literary
history as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literary
works and figures
- Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and
helped shape the history of the time
- Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this
century of civil war and reformation
- Combines a central narrative account of “texts and contexts” with
a selection of brief essays on key texts and topics
- Includes an alphabetical selection of capsule descriptions of
important writers
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.
