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The Oxford handbook of English prose, 1500-1640, edited by Andrew Hadfield

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The Oxford handbook of English prose, 1500-1640, edited by Andrew Hadfield
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Oxford handbook of English prose, 1500-1640
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
857547467
Responsibility statement
edited by Andrew Hadfield
Series statement
Oxford handbooks of literature
Table Of 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
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