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The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 4. 1603-1660: Literary Cultures of the Early Seventeenth Century

The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 4. 1603-1660: Literary Cultures of the Early Seventeenth Century

Eisaman Maus, Katharine

Hardcover

Series: Oxford English Literary History

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0198943326
ISBN13: 9780198943327
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 27 2025
Pages: 492
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.

Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers.

This volume surveys the rich English literary tradition, 1603-1660, in the context of the eventful decades between the accession of James I and the restoration of Charles II. The first Part describes the 'social rules of writing.' Who could become a writer in the early seventeenth century? How could a literary career be pursued? How was literary work disseminated? And how did those practices change between 1603 and 1660? The second Part discusses the period's most innovative and important literary genres including satiric city comedy, country house poetry, chorography, masque, tragedy, tragicomedy, religious poetry, epic, the poetry of love and friendship, and a variety of prose.

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