The Oxford handbook of John Donne / edited by Jeanne Shami, Dennis Flynn, and M. Thomas Hester.

Other author Shami, Jeanne.
Other author Flynn, Dennis.
Other author Hester, M. Thomas.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxxxv, 845 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Donne, John, 1572-1631--Criticism and interpretation.

Contents General introduction / Jeanne Shami, M. Thomas Hester, and Dennis Flynn -- Introduction / Jeanne Shami -- The composition and dissemination of Donne's writings / Gary A. Stringer -- John Donne's seventeenth-century readers / Ernest W. Sullivan -- Archival research / Lara M. Crowley -- Editing Donne's poetry : from John Marriot to the Donne Variorum / Gary A. Stringer -- Editing Donne's poetry : the Donne Variorum and beyond / Richard Todd -- Modern scholarly editions of the prose of John Donne / Ernest W. Sullivan -- Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies / Donald R. Dickson -- Collaboration and the international scholarly community / Hugh Adlington -- Introduction / Heather Dubrow and M. Thomas Hester -- The epigram / M. Thomas Hester -- The formal verse satire / Gregory Kneidel -- The elegy / R.V. Young -- The paradox / Michael W. Price -- The paradox : Biathanatos / Ernest W. Sullivan -- Menippean Donne / Anne Lake Prescott -- The love lyric / Dayton Haskin -- The verse letter / Margaret Maurer -- The religious sonnet / R.V. Young -- Liturgical poetry / Kirsten Stirling -- The problem / Michael W. Price -- The controversial treatise / Graham Roebuck -- The essay / Jeffrey Johnson -- The anniversary poem / Graham Roebuck -- The epicede and obsequy / Claude J. Summers -- The epithalamion / Camille Wells Slights -- The devotion / Kate Narveson -- The sermon / Jeanne Shami -- The prose letter / Margaret Maurer -- Introduction / Dennis Flynn and Jeanne Shami -- The English Reformation in the mid-Elizabethan period / Patrick Collinson -- Donne's family background, birth, and early years / Dennis Flynn -- Education as a courtier / Alexandra Gajda -- Donne's education / Dennis Flynn -- Donne's military career / Albert C. Labriola -- The Earl of Essex and English expeditionary forces / Paul E.J. Hammer -- Donne and Egerton : the court and courtship / Steven W. May -- Donne and late Elizabethan court politics / Andrew Gordon -- Donne's wedding and the Pyrford years / Dennis Flynn -- New horizons in the early Jacobean period / Anthony Milton -- The death of Robert Cecil : end of an era / Johann Sommerville -- Donne's travels and earliest publications / Dennis Flynn -- Donne's decision to take orders / Jeanne Shami -- The rise of the Howards at court / Alastair Bellany -- Donne and court chaplaincy / Peter McCullough -- The hazards of the Jacobean court / Kenneth Fincham -- Donne's readership at Lincoln's Inn and the Doncaster embassy / Emma Rhatigan -- International politics and Jacobean statecraft / Malcolm Smuts -- Donne : the final period / Clayton D. Lein -- Donne, the patriot cause, and war, 1620-1629 / Simon Healy -- The English nation in 1631 / Arnold Hunt -- The death of Donne / Alison Shell -- Introduction / Dennis Flynn -- Donne and apostasy / Achsah Guibbory -- Donne, women, and the spectre of misogyny / Theresa M. DiPasquale -- Donne's absolutism / Debora Shuger -- Style, wit, prosody in the poetry of John Donne / Albert C. Labriola -- Do Donne's writings express his desperate ambition? / Hugh Adlington -- "By parting have joyn'd here" : the story of the two (or more) Donnes / Judith Scherer Herz -- Danger and discourse / Lynne Magnusson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [756]-812) and indexes.
LCCN 2010284734
ISBN9780199218608 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0199218609