The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook [Hardcover]

The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century.? It provides a one-stop resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of more advanced knowledge and skills.
It includes:
- introductions to authors, texts and contexts
- guides to key critics, concepts and topics
- an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research
- case studies in reading literary and critical texts
- an annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms.
Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for students beginning their study of seventeenth-century literature.

Series Introduction1. Introduction: overview with timeline - Eric J. Sterling, Auburn University Montgomery, USATimeline - Deborah Cosier Solomon, Auburn University Montgomery, USA2. Historical Context - Richard Harp, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA3. Literary and Cultural Contexts - Brian Blackley, North Carolina State University and Lara M. Crowley, Texas Tech University, USA4. Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts - Matthew Steggle, Sheffield-Hallam University, UK5. Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts - James Hirsch, Georgia State University, USA6. Key Critical Concepts and Topics - Nancy Mohrlock Bunker, Macon State University, USA and James S. Baumlin, Missouri State University, USA 7. Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches - Robert C. Evans, Auburn University Montgomery, USA8. Changes in the Canon - Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University, USA9. Issues of Sexuality, Gender and Ethnicity - Robert C. Evans and Eric Sterling10. Mapping the Current Critical Landscape - Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University, USAGlossary lc¡