The Oxford handbook of English prose, 1500-1640 / edited by Andrew Hadfield.
| Other author | Hadfield, Andrew. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. |
| Description | 744 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Literature |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online 2013 Literature |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | English prose, 1500-1640 |
| Series | [Oxford handbooks of literature] Oxford handbooks of literature. ^A1058292 |
| Contents | Part I. Translation, education, and literary criticism. Englishing Eloquence: Sixteenth-Century Arts of Rhetoric and Poetics -- All Talk and No Action? Early Modern Political Dialogue -- Commonplacing and Prose Writing: William Baldwin and Robert Burton -- Romance: Amadis de Gaule and John Barclay's Argenis -- Montaigne and Florio -- Italianate Tales: William Painter and George Pettie -- Classical Translation -- Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque in Early Modern England -- Part II. Prose fiction. William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and Other Foolish Writing -- The Adventures Passed by Master George Gascoigne: Experiments in Prose -- 'Turne Your Library to a Wardrope': John Lyly and Euphuism -- Robert Greene -- Nashe's Stuff -- Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia -- Topicality in Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania: Prose Romance, Masque, and Lyric -- Part III. Varieties of early modern prose 1: Public prose. Utopia and Utopianism -- English Scientific Prose: Bacon, Browne, Boyle -- Richard Hakluyt -- Raphael Holinshed and Historical Writing -- Astrology, Magic, and Witchcraft -- Jest Books -- Political Prose -- Modes of Satire -- News Writing -- Part IV. Varieties of early modern prose 2: private prose. Letters -- Diaries -- Life Writing -- Essays -- Domestic Manuals and the Power of Prose -- Part V. Religious Prose. Immethodical, Incoherent, Unadorned: Style and the Early Modern Bible -- The Style of Authorship in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments -- The Marprelate Controversy -- Sermons -- The Book of Common Prayer -- Richard Hooker's of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie -- Part VI. Major prose writers. Gabriel Harvey -- John Knox, George Buchanan, and Scots Prose -- Robert Burton and The Anatomy of Melancholy -- 'When all Things shall confesse their ashes': Science and Soul in Thomas Browne. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012277743 |
| ISBN | 9780199580682 |
| ISBN | 0199580685 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |