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Title:

English Renaissance prose : history, language, and politics / edited by Neil Rhodes.

Publisher:

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

vi, 303 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Style.
Literature and history--Great Britain--History.
Renaissance--England.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--16th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century

Other Authors:

Rhodes, Neil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-297) and index.

Contents:

Sidney's Arcadian poetics: a medicine of cherries and the philosophy of cavaliers / Claire Preston. Sore and strong prose of the English Bible / Gerald Hammond -- Tyrant being slain: afterlives of More's History of King Richard III / Daniel Kinney -- "Take away preaching, and take away salvation": Hugh Latimer, Protestantism, and prose style / N.H. Keeble -- Richard Hooker's discourse and the deception of posterity / P. G. Stanwood -- Sidney's Arcadian poetics: a medicine of cherries and the philosophy of cavaliers / Claire Preston.
Milton and the limits of Ciceronian rhetoric / Martin Dzelzainis. Virgins of the world and feasts of the family: sex and the social order in two renaissance utopias / Susan Bruce -- "A Knowledge Broken": Francis Bacon's aphoristic style and the crisis of scholastic and humanist knowledge-systems / Stephen Clucas -- Shapeless elegance: Robert Burton's anatomy of knowledge / Jonathan Sawday -- Milton and the limits of Ciceronian rhetoric / Martin Dzelzainis.
Bunyan's Grace Abounding and the dynamics of restoration nonconformity / Thomas N. Corns. In the land of moles and pismires: Thomas Browne's antiquarian writings / Graham Parry -- Bunyan's Grace Abounding and the dynamics of restoration nonconformity / Thomas N. Corns.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies ; v. 164

ISBN:

9780866982054 (alk. paper)
0866982051 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36865536

LCCN:

97015525

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)