The Renaissance Literature Handbook - Paperback

by Susan Bruce (Editor), Rebecca Steinberger (Editor)

The Renaissance Literature Handbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the 'English Renaissance' or 'Early modern' period. It provides a one-stop resource for students with the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes: - introductions to authors, texts and contexts - guides to key critics, concepts and topics - an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research - case studies in reading literary and theoretical and critical texts. Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for anyone beginning their study of English Renaissance literature.

Author Biography

Susan Bruce is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University, UK. Rebecca Steinberger is Associate Professor of English Literature at Misericordia University, USA.