The Oxford Handbook of John Donne
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 February 2011
- ISBN 9780199218608
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages896 pages
- Size 250x174x53 mm
- Weight 1656 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 black-and-white halftones and 7 maps 0
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Short description:
With over fifty newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of John Donne links past scholarship with current and future re-definitions to provide a distinctive response to Donne and the significance of his work, and forms an essential contribution to early modern studies.
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The Oxford Handbook of John Donne presents scholars with the history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship in this field in the twenty-first century and beyond. Though profoundly historical in its orientation, the Handbook is not a summary of existing knowledge but a resource that reveals patterns of literary and historical attention and the new directions that these patterns enable or obstruct. Part I - Research resources in Donne Studies and why they matter - emphasizes the heuristic and practical orientation of the Handbook, examining prevailing assumptions and reviewing the specialized scholarly tools available. This section provides a brief evaluation and description of the scholarly strengths, shortcomings, and significance of each resource, focusing on a balanced evaluation of the opportunities and the hazards each offers. Part II - Donne's genres - begins with an introduction that explores the significance and differentiation of the numerous genres in which Donne wrote, including discussion of the problems posed by his overlapping and bending of genres. Essays trace the conventions and histories of the genres concered and study the ways in which Donne's works confirm how and why his 'fresh invention' illustrates his responses to the literary and non-literary contexts of their composition. Part III - Biographical and historical contexts - creates perspective on what is known about Donne's life; shows how his life and writings epitomized and affected important controversial issues of his day; and brings to bear on Donne studies some of the most stimulating and creative ideas developed in recent decades by historians of early modern England. Part IV - Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne Studies - introduces students and researchers to major critical debates affecting the reception of Donne from the 17th through to the 21st centuries.
a fine resource.
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations and maps
Note to Readers
General introduction
Part 1: Research resources in Donne studies and why they matter
Introduction
The composition and dissemination of Donne's writings
John Donne's seventeenth-century readers
Archival research
Editing Donne's poetry: part 1: From John Marriot to the Donne Variorum
Editing Donne's poetry: part 2: The DonneVariorum and beyond
Modern scholarly editions of the prose of John Donne
Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies
Collaboration and the international scholarly community
Part 2: Donne's genres
Introduction
The epigram
The formal verse satire
The elegy
The paradox
The paradox: Biathanatos
Menippean Donne
The love lyric
The verse letter
The religious sonnet
Liturgical poetry
The problem
The controversial treatise
The essay
The anniversary poem
The epicede and obsequy
The epithalamion
The devotion
The sermon
The prose letter
Part 3: Biographical and historical contexts
Introduction
The English Reformation in the mid-Elizabethan period
Donne's family background, birth, and early years
Education as a courtier
Donne's education
Donne's military career
The Earl of Essex and English expeditionary forces
Donne and Egerton: the Court and courtship
On late-Elizabethan courtship and politics
Donne's wedding and the Pyrford years
New horizons in the early Jacobean period
The death of Robert Cecil: end of an era
Donne's travel and earliest publications
Donne's decision to take orders
The rise of the Howards at court
The hazards of the Jacobean court
Donne's readership at Lincoln's Inn and the Doncaster embassy
International politics and Jacobean statecraft
Donne: the final period
Donne, the patriot cause, and war, 1620-29
The English nation in 1631
The death of Donne
Part 4: Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne studies
Introduction
Donne and apostasy
Donne, women, and the spectre of misogyny
Donne's absolutism
Style, wit, prosody in the poetry of John Donne
Do Donne's writings express his desperate ambition?
"By parting have joyn'd here ": the story of the two (or more) Donnes
Danger and discourse
Bibliography
Index
