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Teaching early modern English prose / edited by Susannah Brietz Monta and Margaret W. Ferguson.
| Other author | Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948- |
| Other author | Monta, Susannah Brietz. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Modern Language Association of America, ©2010. |
| Description | x, 385 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Modern Language Association of America options for teaching Options for teaching. ^A638248 |
| Contents | Introduction / Margaret W. Ferguson and Susannah Brietz Monta -- Part I: Perspectives on Prose -- What is early modern nonfictional prose? / Ronald Corthell -- Cultivating the commons: early modern rhetoric, pamphlet writing, and the undergraduate reader / Lauryn S. Mayer -- Desiring styles: Renaissance prose styles and teaching by imitation / Mary Moore -- Part II: Kinds of Prose -- Religious persuasions: teaching the early modern sermon / Lori Anne Ferrell -- Early modern prose and the uses of the New World / Peter C. Herman -- Teaching with passions; or, bringing martyrologies into the classroom / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Dedicated thought: Montaigne, Bacon, and the English Renaissance essay / Kate Lilley -- Teaching early modern autobiographies and life writings / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Reading Tudor chronicles / Christopher Ivic -- Quaker writing in the seventeenth century / Roger E. Moore -- A Voyage on a dangerous sea: marriage as heroism in early modern English prose / Mary Beth Rose -- Teaching early modern letters / Gary Schneider -- Teaching Gascoigne, Deloney, and the emergence of the English novel / Eric Sterling -- Part III: Teaching Selected Authors -- Reforming the Greek tragic hero: narrative trickery and gender reversal in Sidney's old Arcadia / Donald Stump -- Speech made visible: the writings of Queen Elizabeth I / Leah S. Marcus -- Thomas Nashe: Cornucopias and gallimaufries of prose / Margaret W. Ferguson -- Community and context in Richard Hooker's prose / P. G. Stanwood -- "Amorous metaphors": John Donne's prose / Elizabeth Hodgson -- The long and winding road: teaching Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Sheila T. Cavanagh -- Francis Bacon's experimental writing /Deborah E.Harkness -- Discovering Milton in his prose / Stephen M. Fallon -- Stand-up Brown: Religio Medici in the classroom / Claire Preston -- Mastering the monster text: teaching Hobbes's Leviathan / Robert E. Stillman -- "On Thursday giant despair beats his prisoners": teaching Bunyan in an unsympathetic age / Thomas Corns -- Part IV: Crossings and Pairings -- Teaching Lyly's euphuism through William Harrison's The Description of England: history, parody, and dialogic form / Terry Reilly -- Literary figures: Lodge's Rosalynd in the undergraduate classroom / Catherine R. Eskin -- Infectious knowledge: teaching the educational tracts of John Milton and Mary Astell / Erin Murphy -- Translation, nationalism, and imperialism: teaching Aphra Behn's "Essay on Translated Prose" and A Discovery of New Worlds / Deborah Uman -- Teaching the early modern Bible, fully and perfectly / Gregory Kneidel -- Part V: Resources-- Selected resources for teachers / Margaret W. Ferguson, ... [et al.] -- Print resources: anthologies including substantial selections of prose writings -- Electronic resources. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2009035179 |
| ISBN | 9781603290524 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1603290524 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781603290531 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1603290532 (pbk. : alk. paper) |