1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature

Edited By Catherine Bates Copyright 2027
856 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The study of early modern literature has expanded exponentially in recent years, opening exciting new directions and ever-evolving areas of interest, including religion, economics, animals, the environment, gender, sexuality, post-colonialism, race, and material history, to name only a few. The Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature harnesses the energy of this burgeoning field by... Read more

Introduction

Catherine Bates

 

Part I: The Literary Renaissance

 

Chapter 1        Francis Petrarch

William J. Kennedy

 

Chapter 2        The Reformation

Beth Quitslund

 

Chapter 3        Education

Andrew Wallace

 

Chapter 4        History

Andrew Hadfield and Kirsty Rolfe

 

Chapter 5        Geography

Chris Barrett

 

Chapter 6        Mimesis and Invention

Andrew Mattison

 

Chapter 7        Otherness

Ambereen Dadabhoy

 

Chapter 8        Society and Sexuality

James M. Bromley

 

Chapter 9        Money

Julianne Werlin

 

Chapter 10      Wit

Catherine Bates

 

Chapter 11      Art and Artist, Poetry and Poetics

Patrick Cheney

 

Chapter 12      Translation and Imitation

Syrithe Pugh

 

Chapter 13      A National Language

Chris Stamatakis

 

Chapter 14      A National Literature

Catherine Nicholson

 

Chapter 15      Literacy and Orality

Rachel Willie

 

Chapter 16      Literacy and Visual Culture

Rachel Eisendrath

Chapter 17      Law

Stephanie Elsky

 

Chapter 18      Nature

Charlotte Scott

 

 

Part II: Renaissance Literature

 

Chapter 19      Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

William T. Rossiter

 

Chapter 20      The 1550s and 1560s

Jessica Winston

 

Chapter 21      Isabella Whitney

Michelle O’Callaghan

 

Chapter 22      George Gascoigne

Matthew Zarnowiecki

 

Chapter 23      Philip Sidney: Poems

Catherine Bates

 

Chapter 24      Philip Sidney: Prose

Alex Davis

 

Chapter 25      Samuel Daniel

Gillian Wright

 

Chapter 26      Michael Drayton

Angus Vine

 

Chapter 27      Mary Sidney Herbert

Suzanne Trill

 

Chapter 28      Fulke Greville

Joel B. Davis

 

Chapter 29      Edmund Spenser: Shorter Poems

Tamsin Badcoe

Chapter 30      Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene

Richard Danson Brown

 

Chapter 31      Thomas Nashe

Corey McEleney

 

Chapter 32      Christopher Marlowe

Andrew Duxfield

 

Chapter 33      George Chapman

Katharine Cleland

 

Chapter 34      William Shakespeare: Poems

Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann 

 

Chapter 35      William Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories

Julia Reinhard Lupton

 

Chapter 36      William Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances

Christopher Pye

 

Chapter 37      Aemilia Lanyer

Danielle Clarke

 

Chapter 38      John Donne

David Marno

 

Chapter 39      George Herbert

Kimberly Johnson

 

Chapter 40      Mary Wroth

Clare R. Kinney

 

Chapter 41      Ben Jonson: Poems and Prose

Jane Rickard

 

Chapter 42      Ben Jonson: Plays and Masques

James Loxley

 

Chapter 43      Caroline Drama

Lauren Shohet

 

Chapter 44      Hester Pulter

Wendy Wall

 

Chapter 45      Katherine Philips

James Kuzner

 

Chapter 46      Andrew Marvell

Gary Kuchar

 

Chapter 47      Margaret Cavendish

Lara Dodds

 

Chapter 48      Lucy Hutchinson

Anna Wall

 

Chapter 49      John Milton: Shorter Poems

Ryan Netzley

 

Chapter 50      John Milton: Paradise Lost

David Loewenstein

Biography

Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the University of Warwick. She has a DPhil in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, and edited numerous essay-collections on the subject. She was awarded the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015 and the Elizabeth Dietz Prize in 2019, and has held a Solmsen Research Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Mellon Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library.