English Literature Advancing Through History 2

ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 2

Renaissance Literature

With Theoretical Introduction and Preliminaries

By Tatiana Golban
Published: 24 December 2021 [Literature Series: 02]

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The present book is second in a series of works which aim to expose the complexity and essence, power and extent of the major periods, movements, trends, genres, authors, and literary texts in the history of English literature. Following this aim, the series will consist of monographs which cover the most important ages and experiences of English literary history, including Anglo-Saxon or Old English period, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Restoration, neoclassicism, romanticism, Victorian Age, and the twentieth-century and contemporary literary backgrounds. The reader of these volumes will acquire the knowledge of literary terminology along with the theoretical and critical perspectives on certain texts and textual typology belonging to different periods, movements, trends, and genres. The reader will also learn about the characteristics and conventions of these literary periods and movements, trends and genres, main writers and major works, and the literary interaction and continuity of the given periods. Apart from an important amount of reference to literary practice, some chapters on these periods include information on their philosophy, criticism, worldview, values, or episteme, in the Foucauldian sense, which means that even though the condition of the creative writing remains as the main concern, it is balanced by a focus on the condition of thought as well as theoretical and critical writing during a particular period.

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction: Approaching Literary Practice and Studying British Literature in History
• Preliminaries: Learning Literary Heritage through Critical Tradition or Back to Tynyanov
• 1. Genre Theory for Drama
  • 1. The Social and Cultural Scene
  • 1.1 The Intellectual Background
  • 1.1.1 Humanism
  • 1.1.2 Thomas More and Utopia
  • 1.2 The Idea of Literature as a Critical Concern in the Renaissance Period
  • 1.2.1 Philip Sidney and The Defence of Poesie: The Rise of the English Literary Criticism
• 2. The Period and Its Literary Practice
  • 2.1 Poetry
  • 2.1.1 Sonnet
  • 2.1.2 The Native Tradition
  • 2.1.2.1 John Skelton
  • 2.1.3 The Petrarchan Tradition
  • 2.1.3.1 Philip Sidney
  • 2.1.3.2 Edmund Spenser
  • 2.1.4 The Major Tradition
  • 2.1.4.1 William Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet
  • 2.2 Prose Fiction
  • 2.2.1 The Rise of the Picaresque Novel and Its Alternatives
  • 2.2.2 Thomas Nashe
  • 2.3 The Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
  • 2.3.1 Origins, Features, and Typology
  • 2.3.2 The Pre-Shakespearean Dramatists
  • 2.3.2.1 Thomas Kyd
  • 2.3.2.2 Christopher Marlowe
  • 2.3.2.3 Robert Greene
  • 2.3.2.4 John Lyly
  • 2.3.3 William Shakespeare
  • 2.3.3.1 The Poet
  • 2.3.3.2 The Playwright
  • 2.3.3.2.1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • 2.3.3.2.2 Macbeth
  • 2.3.3.2.3 Richard II
  • 2.3.4 The Post-Shakespearean Dramatists
  • 2.3.4.1 John Fletcher
  • 2.3.4.2 Francis Beaumont
  • 2.3.4.3 Ben Jonson
• Conclusion: The “Profitable Pleasure” of the Literature of English Renaissance
• References and Suggestions for Further Reading
• Index

About the author:

Tatiana Golban is licensed in philology and holds a PhD in comparative literature. She is currently a Professor teaching English and comparative literature courses at Namik Kemal University of Tekirdag, Turkey. She is the author of three books, among which Rewriting the Hero and the Quest: Myth and Monomyth in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, and some thirty studies on different aspects of world and English literature with special focus on the subject of mythical writings from Antiques to modern times. Her main research interests include literary mythRemove product image, ancient and modern drama, Renaissance literature, and contemporary fiction.

Product Details:

ISBN: 978-1-80135-104-1 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-80135-105-8 (digital)
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Published: 24 December 2021
Language: English
Pages: 229
Binding: Paperback
Interior Ink: Black & white
Weight (approx.): 0.4 kg
Dimensions (approx.): 15cm wide x 23cm tall