A Companion to Tudor Literature

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Tudor Literature

Editor(s): Kent Cartwright

Published Online: 18 JAN 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405154772

Online ISBN: 9781444317213

DOI: 10.1002/9781444317213

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A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.

  • Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the period
  • Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women's writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seeing and reading

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxxi)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–11)

      Kent Cartwright

  3. Part I: Historical and Cultural Contexts

    1. Chapter 1

      The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism (pages 13–30)

      Peter Marshall

    2. Chapter 2

      Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland (pages 31–48)

      Kathryn A. Edwards

    3. Chapter 3

      The Tudor Experience of Islam (pages 49–62)

      Matthew Dimmock

    4. Chapter 4

      Protestantism, Profit, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World (pages 63–78)

      Nancy Bradley Warren

    5. Chapter 5

      International Influences and Tudor Music (pages 79–94)

      Ross W. Duffin

    6. Chapter 6

      Tudor Technology in Transition (pages 95–110)

      Adam Max Cohen

    7. Chapter 7

      Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin (pages 111–122)

      Tanya Pollard

  4. Part II: Manuscript, Print, and Letters

    1. Chapter 8

      Manuscripts in Tudor England (pages 123–139)

      Steven W. May and Dr Heather Wolfe

    2. Chapter 9

      John Skelton and the State of Letters (pages 140–150)

      Seth Lerer

    3. Chapter 10

      The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print: Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others (pages 151–177)

      David R. Carlson

    4. Chapter 11

      Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology (pages 178–191)

      Helen Smith

    5. Chapter 12

      Printers of Interludes (pages 192–210)

      Peter Happé

  5. Part III: Literary Origins, Presences, Absences

    1. Chapter 13

      Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature (pages 211–227)

      Deanne Williams

    2. Chapter 14

      The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama (pages 228–245)

      Theresa Coletti and Gail McMurray Gibson

    3. Chapter 15

      French Presences in Tudor England (pages 246–260)

      A. E. B. Coldiron

    4. Chapter 16

      Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn't a Woman Be More Like a Man? (pages 261–275)

      Pamela J. Benson

  6. Part IV: Authors, Works, and Modes

    1. Chapter 17

      More's Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism (pages 277–294)

      Anne Lake Prescott

    2. Chapter 18

      The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew (pages 295–308)

      Joan Pong Linton

    3. Chapter 19

      Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gamme Gurton's Needle (pages 309–323)

      Robert Hornback

    4. Chapter 20

      Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter (pages 324–338)

      Pamela Allen Brown

    5. Chapter 21

      Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance (pages 339–349)

      Alastair Fowler

    6. Chapter 22

      Seeing through Words in Theories of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge (pages 350–363)

      Gavin Alexander

    7. Chapter 23

      Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter (pages 364–380)

      Jeff Dolven

    8. Chapter 24

      John Lyly's Galatea: Politics and Literary Allusion (pages 381–394)

      Mike Pincombe

    9. Chapter 25

      Sidney's Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader (pages 395–411)

      Clare R. Kinney

    10. Chapter 26

      Nature and Technê in Spenser's Faerie Queene (pages 412–427)

      Jessica Wolfe

    11. Chapter 27

      “In Poesie the mirrois of our Age”: The Countess of Pembroke's “Sydnean” Poetics (pages 428–443)

      Suzanne Trill

    12. Chapter 28

      “Conceived of young Horatio his son”: The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge (pages 444–458)

      Heather Hirschfeld

    13. Chapter 29

      West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine (pages 459–474)

      Kimberly Anne Coles

    14. Chapter 30

      The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing (pages 475–488)

      Mary C. Fuller

    15. Chapter 31

      Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History (pages 489–503)

      Steve Mentz

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      Index (pages 504–536)

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