A History of Seventeenth-Century English LiteratureJohn Wiley & Sons, 16 dec 2013 - 480 pagina's A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690.
Thomas Corns is a major international authority on Milton, the Caroline Court, and the political literature of the English Civil War and the Interregnum. |
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... social echelon the issue was less pressing. Once those factors are allowed for, it emerges that literacy rates in London were generally higher than elsewhere. Ratesimprove overthe century, although, based on a simple test of whether ...
... social echelon the issue was less pressing. Once those factors are allowed for, it emerges that literacy rates in London were generally higher than elsewhere. Ratesimprove overthe century, although, based on a simple test of whether ...
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... social superiors. Indeed, among the moststriking features ofearly modern literary cultureis how profoundly fragmented itis.Apart froma pervasive interest inballad ephemera, the only texts thatall English menand women would have been ...
... social superiors. Indeed, among the moststriking features ofearly modern literary cultureis how profoundly fragmented itis.Apart froma pervasive interest inballad ephemera, the only texts thatall English menand women would have been ...
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... social cluster of monarch and aristocrats supported a court culture, of which literature was a fairly important component, made up a highly literate and prosperous readership and acted as the principal source ofpatronage and protection ...
... social cluster of monarch and aristocrats supported a court culture, of which literature was a fairly important component, made up a highly literate and prosperous readership and acted as the principal source ofpatronage and protection ...
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... social elite, through familiarity with Cicero (especially his letters), with Terence and with Virgil. NeoLatinstyle was conceived asperfectible through imitationofsuchmodels, andthepractice of Latincomposition –that is,of literary ...
... social elite, through familiarity with Cicero (especially his letters), with Terence and with Virgil. NeoLatinstyle was conceived asperfectible through imitationofsuchmodels, andthepractice of Latincomposition –that is,of literary ...
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... social exclusion, necessarily contracts further the demand for highculture vernacular literature. But the sharpness of the division may be questioned. NeoLatin writing maynot allude to vernacular literature, butamong the most ...
... social exclusion, necessarily contracts further the demand for highculture vernacular literature. But the sharpness of the division may be questioned. NeoLatin writing maynot allude to vernacular literature, butamong the most ...
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March 1629 to April | |
The Making of the Caroline Court | |
Poetry andProseRomance NonFictional Prose | |
From Manuscript to Print Plays and Players | |
April 1640 | |
May 1660 | |
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Index | |
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