The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature

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The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature

Edited by:
David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller

Online Publication Date:
March 2008

Print Publication Year:
2003

Hardback ISBN:
9780521631563

Online ISBN:
9781139053495

This is a comprehensive history of English literature written in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While it focuses on England, literary effort in Scotland and Ireland is also covered, with occasional references to Wales and Ireland. This literary history by an international team of scholars is essential reading for students and scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, culture, and history.

Reviews:

"For advanced researchers in the field...this book certainly provides an overview of the current state of literary scholarship in early modern English literature." -Seiwoong Oh, Rider University, Sixteenth Century Journal
"This book is a major accomplishment, and will alter the very landscape for which it provides such an effective map." -Studies in English Literature
"Astonishingly comprehensive and coherently unified [...]This extraordinarily useful reference work [is] at once authoritative, pioneering and inclusive..." -Renaissance Quarterly
"The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature offers riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, too many to be counted or told here. Others will find different glimmers of gold." -Seventeenth Century News
"The book provides a valuable synopsis of recent scholarship by a selection of leading scholars. Students will find short, readable, reliable accounts in this landmark volume. The whole set will be necessary for all academic and large public libraries. Essential." -Choice
"Addresses religious, political, and ethnic discourses and their relation to elite, confessional, and national identities in fairly straightforward terms. Ultimately, one garners a good sense of the state of play on these issues and many of the relevant principal texts from the chosen period." -H-ALBION
"[T]his is a book that all serious libraries will want and need to own; it is a book of which its editors, contributors and publisher can all be proud." -Editor's Choices
"Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature will likely exert substantial influence on the study of the period." -MLA: Literary Research Guide