The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-874684-3 (ISBN)
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, the volume is unprecedented in the breadth of its coverage of an age in which prose moved from the margins of cultural life in Britain to its centre.
The volume also breaks new ground in the diversity of the prose writing it covers: its thirty-six chapters by an array of established literary critics and historians capture the excitingly multiple forms that prose took in what was a golden age for non-fictional writing, but which also saw the emergence of modes of prose fiction that became part of the origin story of the eighteenth-century novel. This Handbook reflects that multiplicity and diversity in its structure. Four longer introductory chapters map the changing contexts of the publication and reception of prose in the period, as well as the influence of the classical heritage and the role of relations with continental Europe. The subsequent thirty-two chapters are organized by different categories of prose writing. The contributors approach key authors and texts from various and often unconventional perspectives. The volume offers coverage of well-known writers and texts while also capturing the assortment of prose writing in a time of rapid political and social change: there are chapters on, for example, 'Bites and Shams'; 'Circulation Narratives'; 'Keys'; 'Pornography'; 'Recipe Books'; 'True Accounts', and even 'Handbooks'.
Nicholas McDowell was born and grew up in Belfast and then studied at Cambridge and Oxford. He was a Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before joining the Department of English at the University of Exeter, where he is now Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought. His visiting positions have included Membership of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is a former winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled 'The Poetry of Civil War'. Henry Power studied Classics and English at Brasenose College Oxford, and then read for a PhD in English at Cambridge. Since 2007, he has taught at the University of Exeter, where he is now Professor of English Literature. He is the author of Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature (2015), and has edited Joseph Addison's miscellaneous prose writings for Oxford University Press. He has held visiting positions at All Souls College, Oxford and at the Beinecke Library in Yale.
Nicholas McDowell and Henry Power: Introduction: An Age of Prose
Part I: Contexts
1: Thomas Keymer: Circulation
2: Cynthia Wall: Reception
3: Freyja Cox Jensen: Classical Inheritance
4: Alexis Tadié: Continental Influences
Part II: Categories
5: Melissa E. Sanchez: Amatory Fiction
6: Thomas Roebuck: Antiquarian Writing
7: Julie A. Eckerle: Biography and Autobiography
8: John McTague: Bites and Shams
9: Kate Bennett: Brief Lives and Characters
10: Andrea Haslanger: Circulation Narratives and Spy Literature
11: Pat Rogers: Criminal Literature
12: Adam Smyth: Diaries
13: Nicholas Seager: Dissenting Writing
14: Matthew Dimmock: Encounters with the East
15: Kathryn Murphy: Essays
16: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis: Fables and Fairy Tales
17: Paddy Bullard: Handbooks
18: Nicholas McDowell: Heresiography and Religious Controversy
19: Niall Allsopp: Histories
20: Nicholas McDowell: Keys
21: Henry Power: Learned Wit and Mock Scholarship
22: Diana G. Barnes: Letters
23: Nick Hardy: Literary History
24: Greg Lynall: Mock-Scientific Literature
25: Catherine Armstrong: New World Writing and Captivity Narratives
26: Brian Cowan: Periodical Literature
27: Mark Knights: Political Debate
28: Nigel Smith: Political Speculations
29: Hal Gladfelder: Pornography
30: Nicholas McDowell and Giovanni Tarantino: Radical and Deist Writing
31: Henry Power: Recipe Books
32: Brooke Conti: Religious Autobiography
33: Felicity Henderson: Scientific Transactions
34: Rebecca Bullard: Secret Histories
35: Warren Johnston: Sermons
36: Sophie Gee: True Accounts
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Handbooks |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 180 x 253 mm |
| Gewicht | 1358 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-874684-9 / 0198746849 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-874684-3 / 9780198746843 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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