ISBN:
9780191750311
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 744 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
1. edition
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Alford, Stephen [Rezension von: Hadfield, Andrew, The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500–1640] 2014
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Series Statement:
Literature
Series Statement:
[Oxford handbooks of literature]
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of English prose 1500 - 1640
DDC:
820.9003
Keywords:
English prose literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700
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English prose literature ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; History and criticism
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Englisch
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Prosa
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Geschichte 1500-1640
Abstract:
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, anddomestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's 'Beware the Cat', probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, 'The Book of Common Prayer' and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, 'The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199580682.001.0001
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